[Western building blocks]
Western building blocks, clear, the wooden box is 29 cm long, 8.8 cm wide, and 7 cm high
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was “the beginning of intellectual education” for children to play with building blocks, which can “develop their thinking and wisdom, and imply the principles of geometry”. The Qing court has purchased several kinds of foreign building blocks made in Britain and France. Simple building blocks roughly have geometric shapes such as “long, square, blunt, sharp, round, and semicircle”, which are decorated with colored paintings. In addition, there are iron ones, which need to be fixed with screws when playing with the building. The combined graphics include buildings, geometry, cars, ships, etc
![图片[1]-Western building block-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qing dynasty/Household appliances/23660[1024].jpg)
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![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)