Old Photos of Lushunkou in Dalian in the Late Qing Dynasty: Lushun Street Scenery and Famous Buildings 120 Years ago

Today, we share a group of old photos of Lushunkou, Dalian from 1898 to 2003. The photographer of this group is Pavlovna/Russia

Westerners used to call Lushunkou Port Arthur, namely Port Auther in Dalian, which is now under the jurisdiction of Dalian City, Liaoning Province

The reason why the West used to call Lushun“ Port Arthur&rdquo& ldquo; Gibraltar in the East;. Because of its large scale of military projects, its strategic location is extremely important for China, North Korea, Japan, Russia and other countries. It was once the most important military port in East Asia

Lushun belonged to the county of Tashi in the Han Dynasty. Names in Eastern Jin Dynasty“ Ma Shijin”. In Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was called“ Duli Town”. It was called“ in the Yuan Dynasty; Shizikou”. In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1371), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, sent two generals, Ma Yun and Ye Wang, to land across the sea from Penglai and recover Liaodong. Because the sea journey was smooth, Shizikou was renamed Lushunkou, which has been used until today

In the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1880), Li Hongzhang operated here for many years and built the main base of the Beiyang Naval Fleet. In the Sino Japanese Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895, Lushun was captured by Japanese troops, and on November 22, 1894, Lushun was massacred on a large scale. On March 27, the 24th year of Guangxu’s reign in the Qing Dynasty (1898), the Tsarist Russia paid tribute to Liao by interfering, forcing the Qing government to sign the Luda Land Lease Treaty with it, stipulating that the Tsarist Russia leased the military port Lushunkou and the commercial port Dalian Bay for 25 years. On May 7, the Qing government was again forced to sign the Luda Land Lease Renewal Contract with it

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