phonograph

[Phonograph]

Phonograph, Republic of China, height 80 cm, length 70 cm, width 50 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace< "The phonograph is a new type of phonograph used to play records, consisting of a rotating mechanism, a phonograph head, and a loudspeaker.". At the beginning of the 20th century, new phonographs entered China. Soon, this fashion item appeared in the palaces of the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty. Playing records of Peking Opera and foreign songs on a phonograph has become one of Pu Yi's pastimes. Pu Yi's younger brother, Pu Jie, also described the use of phonographs in the palace during the small imperial court period in "Meeting Relatives in the Qing Palace". Pu Jie recalled that around 1916, his grandmother took him to the palace many times. After lunch, the adults chatted, and he and his sister followed the eunuch behind the screen in the palace, listening to the eunuch play them records