美国驻华公使田贝在1885年11月5日写给美国国务卿贝雅的信中提议,美国可以造一套美国铁路的模型,送给中国皇帝和权贵,用实物来启发他们的头脑,让他们意识到铁路的优越性。清朝当家的满人皇族和他们背后的满人亲贵们,是一群相当保守的人。相对于他们的前朝,这些人比较讲规矩,内部的礼数大,讲究多,但轻易不言变革。祖宗成法那点事儿,对他们来说,有时候 In a letter dated 5 November 1885 addressed to U.S. Secretary of State Tony Bey, the United States ambassador to China Tian Bei proposed that the United States should create a model of the U.S. railroad to be given to the Chinese emperor and elite by using their own kind to inspire their minds They realized the superiority of the railway. The Manchu royal family, the masters of the Qing dynasty, and the noble people behind them are a group of fairly conservative people. Relative to their former dynasty, these people are more rules and regulations, the internal etiquette, pay attention to more, but not easily change. Ancestral law that thing, for them, sometimes