https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu Please create a visual timeline for important events in your family history project from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. In creating this timeline, attention should be paid to the intersections between macro-level events and the micro-level personal stories. en-us 2022-02-26 22:59:18 UTC 2022-03-03 04:51:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f550.png yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074956938 In 1655, Wei's family stopped trading with Britain and other foreign countries due to Qing's policy, which prevent people from trading goods by themselves, and which closed the communications with other countries by port and ban any tradings. Therefore, their family just focused on planting tea trees and supporting tea to people who had enough power and money to afford it in the empire.]]> 2022-03-03 03:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074956938 yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074973365 Around 1724, Qingyi Wei's grandfather developed oolong tea and started to trade it and more kinds of tea with people who lived in other provinces or even people around the world. Their family gained an amount of silver and valuable goods from trading. ]]> 2022-03-03 03:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074973365 yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074990647 Around 1840, Britain stopped paying silver for tea, they gave us opium. Some family members smoked opium and spent an amount of silver and money. In addition, they can not work and cultivate tea trees effectively. Qingyi Wei did not fall in love with smoking opium, he sold opium to someone who was addicted to opium to acquire silver or some valuable goods.]]> 2022-03-03 03:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074990647 yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074995938 Some day in 1842(the end of the Opium War I), foreigners immigrated to Fujian, they traded with them for tea. After several years, some people who escaped from the south of Fujian told them that Taiping killed their whole family. Qingyi Wei gave them jobs and homes. Some relatives, like Qingyi Wei's uncle, followed Taiping and started to rebel against Qing, and they never came back. ]]> 2022-03-03 03:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074995938 yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074999245 Around 1858(after the Treaty of Tianjin), an increasing number of foreigners moved in, to continue trading with them, Qingyi Wei learned to speak English and let my daughter marry a foreigner for a stable trade relationship. ]]> 2022-03-03 03:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2074999245 yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2075056577 In the 1890s, Wei's family business of tea trading keeps working, although many battles and wars happened last ten years ago. After an increasing number of foreigners immigrate to China, they brought a number of new goods and stuff to trade with Wei's family. There were a number of revolutions around the country. Luckily, most of the revolutions and reforms were held in the middle area of China, Wei's family was not affected so much. ]]> 2022-03-03 04:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2075056577 yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2075064765 In 1919, some young people, the third generation of Wei's family, joined the May Fourth Movement. They have obtained education from school because Wei's family had enough money to support their children to obtain knowledge. Although they were hard to get some information from the outside world because of strict family rules, they heard what happened from someone who worked in their family. ]]> 2022-03-03 04:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2075064765 yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2075077628 In the 1920s-1930s, most of the young family members left their hometown Fujian and acquired education in different areas, someone went to Japan, someone went to Beiping. People who stayed in Fujian and managed the family business joined the Nationalist Party because the Nationalist Party was strong at that time and looked like they were able to protect the trading business. However, some teenagers or young adults who studied outside and some people who were expelled by the family were preparing to be a member of the Communist Party. ]]> 2022-03-03 04:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/ytu/wish/2075077628