An Imagined Past

Here was an interesting picture that I found when trawling some other blogs on Tumblr. Although I believe the uniform on the left is Manchu, the movie promotional picture is definitely from a Korean movie or drama, and I have yet to be able to determine which one. Any help on the matter would be great. But it is a good indication of the romanticization we have of the past, when in actuality the past was gritty, dirty and most people had trouble obtaining adequate nutrition so they were probably much shorter than we are now. To paraphase Hobbes - life was "nasty, brutish and short."

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