For a long time, historical pictures have become an important way for people to understand the history at that time because of their concrete and intuitive characteristics. Some people try to prove history, but the formation of historical pictures is often complicated, especially the pictures of historical celebrities, which are often mistaken. One is obvious, such as mistaking Li for Left and Yuan Shikai. Previous studies have long been conclusive. The other is more hidden, and the pictures of different times and occasions are often re-edited and combined. The writer is a professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University, an expert on Sun Yat-sen studies, and the former curator of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall at Sun Yat-sen University. She has written works such as Textual Research on Sun Yat-sen's Pictures of Literature and History, and studied Sun Yat-sen's related pictures for many years. This article is a concrete analysis of several common photos taken by Sun Yat-sen..

1. About 1896 photo taken by Kangdeli, Qiao Yisheng and Sun Yat-sen in London.

Kangdeli, Qiao Yisheng and Sun Yat-sen took a group photo in London on 1896, which was widely spread all over the world (see Figure 1, left). But in fact, these three people have never taken photos together. The author took Sun Yat-sen out of the "three-person photo" and roughly restored his upper shoulder position (see figure 1 middle picture). It is found that Sun Yat-sen's portrait at this time should have been taken during an inspection tour in Japan in 19 13 (see figure 1 right), not 1896. Moreover, Sun Yat-sen and Condoleezza never took photos together, so when Sun Yat-sen was imprisoned by the staff of the Qing embassy in Britain, Condoleezza could only find out the photos taken by Sun Yat-sen in the United States for British detectives as a basis for identification. So the photos of Condley, Qiao Yisheng and Sun Yat-sen must have been assembled artificially.

The middle picture and the right picture look like round faces and square faces, but their manners and costumes are exactly the same, which is obviously different from Sun Yat-sen, who is thinner in 1896. If it is not the same photo, it must be another photo taken at the same time. If Sun Yat-sen was really photographed during an inspection tour in Japan, it would be impossible for Condley and Joe to go to Japan to take photos with Sun Yat-sen all their lives, so the photos of Kang, Joe and Sun San 1896 in London must have been pieced together.

2. The photo of Chen Jiageng and Sun Yat-sen in Singapore before the Revolution of 1911.

19 1 1 The photo of Chen Jiageng and Sun Yat-sen in Singapore before the Revolution of 1911 (see Figure 2 above), but now the author has found a photo similar to that of Chen Jiageng above (see the left picture below). The photo of Chen Jiageng above is obviously based on the left picture below, except that Chen Jiageng is wearing a bow tie instead of a tie. Sun Yat-sen on the right is probably a painting, not a photo of Sun Yat-sen himself, because no similar photo of Sun Yat-sen has been found so far. Therefore, the so-called photo taken by Chen Jiageng and Sun Yat-sen in Singapore before the Xinhai Revolution must be patchwork, and Sun Yat-sen is probably a painting. As for letting Chen Jiageng wear a tie instead of a bow tie, it's probably because Sun Yat-sen used a tie in his paintings, which was changed for the sake of unification.

3. About 19 12 American Mary He and Sun Yat-sen's photo.

Fig. 3 The picture above shows an American named He Mali, Sun Yat-sen's military adviser, taking a photo with Sun Yat-sen in 19 12. As can be seen from this picture (Figure 3), Sun Yat-sen's clothes are relatively old, while He Mary's clothes are relatively new, which shows that this picture is composed of two photos with different quality. The picture in the middle is the scene taken by the American Association in Taiwan when the exhibition "Dr. Sun Yat-sen and America" was held at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei in 20 12. The front of this scene is the silhouette of Sun Yat-sen, Mary He and the coffee table, and the back is glass. This glass reflects the scene of the exhibition hall in front of Sun Hehe, making people see that there were still several visitors in the exhibition hall at that time. It can be proved that the above picture and the middle picture come from the front and back of the exhibition respectively. The above picture was taken when the silhouette was not on display, and the focus of the picture was upward, so the upper part of the photo appeared a little deformed. China's photo was taken at the exhibition site, and its focus was in the center of the photo, so the photos taken remained basically unchanged. Moreover, their clothes also show that they are composed of photos of different quality.

But are their photos synthetic? From all the photos of Sun Yat-sen that we have seen so far, we find that Sun Yat-sen has never taken a photo with an American, Mary Ho. The picture on the left is based on the photo of Sun Yat-sen in the Presidential Palace on June 5438+091265438+1October 2 1. It can be seen that Sun Yat-sen's upper body in the above picture and the middle picture comes from this, but his arms and legs are treated differently, and the chair is also painted according to the chair taken by He Mali, not the original. The picture on the right is a photo of Mary He herself. Obviously, Mary Ho was the only one who took the photo. Therefore, this photo from the exhibition "Dr. Sun Yat-sen and America" in Taipei is synthetic.

4. Is the background of Sun Yat-sen's photo taken with you at the victory scene of Huanggang Uprising in Guangdong or in front of Aichun Building in Xiezhai, Songkou, Meixian County?

Fig. 4 is a diagram that only appeared in recent years. If you don't know the photo of Sun Yat-sen and the armed uprising led by Sun Yat-sen, it's hard to know what kind of picture it reflects. People who are familiar with the image and history of Sun Yat-sen can see it at a glance. It reflects the scene photos of the initial victory of Huanggang Uprising in Raoping County, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province in May, 907. However, anyone familiar with the revolutionary history of Sun Yat-sen knows very well that none of the people in the front row, such as Sun Yat-sen, took part in the uprising directly. So this painting directly reflects the scene in which Sun Yat-sen led the Huanggang Uprising and achieved initial victory. There is nothing wrong with artistic creation, but from the point of view of facts, it seems to be very mismatched. As a matter of fact, this picture is a synthetic one, which is composed of photos taken during the victory of the uprising (see the middle picture) and photos taken on May 29th, 2008 when Sun Yat-sen was welcomed by all walks of life in front of Aichun Building in Xiezhai, Songkou, Meixian County (see the picture below). Judging from the shapes of Sun Yat-sen and his party in the front row of the above picture, if the painter carries out artistic processing according to the following picture, it is a pure work of art; If the artist made it according to the original picture, it means that this original picture is another photo of Sun Yat-sen and others in front of Ai Chun Building in Xiezhai, Songkou, which has not been made public or seen by the author, because the position and posture of Sun Yat-sen and others in front of the uprising scene are different from the one below. In addition, 19 18 The Huanggang Uprising in Chaozhou led by Sun Yat-sen won for the first time in May, 2008. When Sun Yat-sen left the Grand Admiral's Office in Guangzhou for Shanghai, he passed through Songkou, Meixian County and was welcomed by the local people and the army. After the change of 10 years, it has long been a "wind".