During the 200 years of Qing government rule, nobles (Eight Banners) enjoyed certain privileges. However, in the late Qing Dynasty, the national power weakened, and the money and food supplied to the nobles became less and less, and eventually disappeared. The nobles sold real estate and antiques in order to survive. In order to get more money, some of them walked in crowded places with a piece of defective porcelain in hand. They deliberately let the carriage or passers-by touch the porcelain and damage it, and threatened pedestrians or the carriage driver to force them to pay compensation. In the beginning of the Republic of China, this behavior often occurred in downtown areas, but the tools of crime were replaced with pens, glasses, music boxes and other small items.
