Puyi and Du Yuming
There have been many emperors in Chinese history because the standard is difficult to unify, so there have been many opinions, but Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor, Puyi was the last emperor, basically reached a consensus.
Puyi's life can be described as ups and downs, he ascended the throne at the age of three, abdicated due to the establishment of the Republic of China within a few years, and then restored the throne twice with the support of the warlord Zhang Xun and the Japanese invaders with ulterior motives.
Puyi's three ascensions to the throne, four weddings, and five wives in his lifetime, from some points of view, can be described as enjoying the wealth of the world, which is the life dreamed of countless people.
However, Leng Nuan knew that Puyi himself only felt that the days of the first half of his life could not look back.
The left two Du Yuming and the right one Puyi
When Puyi was introspecting and reforming in prison, he once had a conversation with his fellow prisoner Du Yuming that made people cry and laugh.
Puyi: Every time I get married, I don't want to marry voluntarily, and Wanrong and Wenxiu have left me with memories, it is noisy every day, and there is no feeling at all. I have been officially married 3 times and have taken four wives, but none of them are happy.
Du Yuming: Are you a nuisance (meaning to "wife") and a wife, see how many women you have killed in a row?
Puyi: My life is not good, my luck has always been very bad, this cannot be changed.
Du Yuming: For the first time, I heard that people who became emperors said that they were unlucky, what luck should they be?
Puyi: It was only when you became emperor that you were unlucky! I became emperor when I was 3 years old, what did I know then? If you don't understand things, you will be played by people, just like everyone in wood, and you will be played everywhere, how bitter do you see?
Puyi's complaint is like the line in "The Biography of Zhen Huan": Do you want this blessing to give you?
Du Yuming really had difficulty understanding Puyi's words about marriage and women, after all, his marriage was exemplary.
Du Yuming's wife Cao Xiuqing
Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing's marriage, a young couple, a door-to-door pair, Qin Ser and Ming, children and daughters, never abandoned, from one end to the other.
In this regard, Puyi is the opposite of Du Yuming: wife and concubine are discordant, childless and childless, red apricots out of the wall, involuntarily.
The two men represent the ultimate happiness and unhappiness of the republic of China's marriage, both are blind marriages and dumb marriages formed by their respective backgrounds, and they have also withstood the impact and changes of the times, but the process and the ending are completely different.
Du Yuming and his wife Cao Xiuqing can be described as the most typical combination of the middle class in the Republic of China era, and the parents' fate is that the door is not familiar with the teenager before marriage.
Cao Xiuqing is 2 years older than Du Yuming, and both of their families are local gentry and hao, Cao's father is in business, Du's father is studying, and both sides are the best in the local gentry class, so they form a family of children.
As the saying goes, a happy family is always the same, and it seems that the first half of Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing's lives can also be regarded as a phrase.
Because of their age, although there is no emotional basis, after marriage, Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing also quickly cultivated feelings.
Du Yuming supported Cao Xiuqing to go to school, and Cao Xiuqing supported Du Yuming in pursuing his dreams and broad world.
What is particularly interesting is that Du Yuming chose to join the Kuomintang at the Whampoa Military Academy, while Cao Xiuqing chose to join the Communist Party while studying in his hometown.
Both husband and wife are patriotic, so different choices not only do not affect their feelings, but the common overall view actually makes their feelings have a higher sublimation.
Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing in their later years
It is also because of this kind of love with a broad pattern and deep roots that Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing have walked hand in hand for nearly sixty years, even if they are less and more separated because of the war, they will not change for more than ten years.
Although Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing have experienced many twists and turns because of the times, as far as the relationship between the two is concerned, they have been stable and intimate for a lifetime, which is the most standard love and happiness.
Puyi vividly explained what is called an unhappy marriage, he was married four times in his life, five women, the unfortunate way is really strange.
Puyi met his first wife Wanrong and his first concubine Wenxiu on the same day, although he did not see himself, but only their photos.
Although he has abdicated for more than ten years, because Puyi still lives in the Forbidden City and retains the title of Xuantong Emperor, when he chooses his wife, the Manchu Qing widows are still full of pomp and circumstance.
Photos of girls of the right age in the Eight Banners of Beijing were sent to the Forbidden City, where 15-year-old Puyi looked at her and chose her wife.
Embroidery
Therefore, the first woman Puyi himself chose was Wen Xiu.
Although Wen Xiu looks ordinary and her birth is not prominent, she has a pair of agile girly eyes, attracting Puyi, who lacks peers in the palace at an early age.
However, Puyi only had the nominal right to choose at that time, and the real dominance was in the hands of the Manchu Qing nobles around him, and looking at the photo selection was just a form of coaxing Puyi to play.
Grace
Wen Xiu's father died early, and he was also a Mongolian flag himself, which was not in the scope of choice at all, and the candidate for Puyi's wife had long been determined, that is, Guo Buluo Wanrong, who was born in the three banners.
Guo Buluo's family not only had the surname of Zhengbaiqi, but also intermarried with Ai Xinjueluo for generations, wanrong's mother was a descendant of the Qianlong Emperor, and her brother and brother were the husbands of Puyi's sisters.
Not to mention that Wanrong herself is the most outstanding girl in the Eight Flags, this marriage was fixed early in the morning, which Rong Puyi made his own decision.
Therefore, under the auspices of The Noble Concubine Duankang of the Guangxu Emperor's harem, Wanrong became the right wife.
However, because of feudal etiquette, the women selected by the "emperor" could no longer marry others, so Wen Xiu entered the palace and became a concubine, giving a worthless title of lady concubine.
Two women appear at the same time, this way is doomed to the process and the end will inevitably not be smooth and happy, because marriage is a matter of two people, and a third person cannot be allowed to step in.
Grace and embroidery
At first, because Wen Xiu was still young (only 13 years old when he entered the palace), the three people did not look like men and wives and concubines, but more like students who lived on campus.
Also because in the first few years, Puyi Wanrong Wenxiu lived in a place where the Forbidden City lived in such a branch, so they not only had peace with each other, but even cultivated some feelings.
But after Feng Yuxiang expelled them from the Forbidden City in 1924, the squalor between the three began.
Although Puyi Wanrong Wenxiu's life is not yet "poor", because of the gradual adulthood, the "life" between the husband and wife has really begun to be stretched.
When she married Puyi, Wanrong had just turned 16 years old, and Wenxiu was only 13 years old, so the two girls and Puyi, who were also 16 years old, did not live a married life, but more like playmates.
The lively and naïve Wenxiu admired Puyi as a big brother, so when they were expelled from the Forbidden City, Wenxiu even carried a sharp blade and planned to be loyal and martyred.
At that time, the relationship between the two was excellent, otherwise Wen Xiu would not have expressed his love and loyalty to Puyi in such an extreme way.
This matter became famous for a while, and Wen Xiu got the name of "Sword Concubine" in the media and the people, and became famous for a while.
After leaving the Forbidden City, Puyi moved to Tianjin with Wanrong and Wenxiu, where he spent seven years.
Seven years is often seen as a watershed in marriage, because time dilutes sweetness, blurs care, lowers temperature, and amplifies the pain of friction.
Wan Rong and Pu Yi
The "pain" between Puyi, Wanrong and Wenxiu has also become more intense because of time.
Wanrong is older than Wen Xiu, and her status is more noble, plus she is dignified and beautiful, and her literary style is outstanding, so although Puyi did not have an eye contact with her at the beginning, after many years of getting along, she was also more intimate.
Coupled with the fact that Wanrong's family has many powerful people, she contributed a lot to the "great cause" of restoration that Puyi had in mind at that time, so Wanrong was packaged by Puyi as a propaganda weapon, and was in the limelight in the social arena.
In order to create a "western style" that conforms to the flavor of the Republic of China, Puyi and Wanrong imitated the British aristocratic lifestyle and lived in a suite on the same floor on the second floor when they were in Tianjin Jingyuan.
The person in the middle of the sunglasses is Puyi, and he is surrounded by Wanrong
Wen Xiu, as the representative concubine of the feudal remnants who should not see the light, lived downstairs like a poor relative of the British noble family.
Even eating every day, shopping on the street, social leisure, Puyi is only with Wanrong, using wen embroidery as air.
Wanrong's superficial scenery stung Wen Xiu's eyes, she had been married to Puyi for nearly ten years but had never had a round house, thinking that these unequal treatment were caused by Wanrong's "exclusive favor".
Wen Xiu couldn't think straight, and even wanted to attract Puyi's attention through self-harm, but Puyi hated those strong women who coerced her in her bones, so she knew that Wen Xiu's reaction was extreme, and she was even more retreating.
Therefore, Wen Xiu ran away from home and took the family conflict to the media and the court.
Puyi
Although the banner of "divorce" was played at the beginning, in fact, according to the later lawyer negotiations, Wenxiu did not really want to leave Puyi, but wanted to get the love of her husband.
Unfortunately, because Wen Xiu directly exposed the fact that Puyi and she had never rounded the house, it really violated Puyi's reverse scales.
Because he lived in the Forbidden City at the age of three, surrounded by only eunuchs to serve, Puyi's various abnormal living habits from childhood led to his body suffering from hidden diseases after he became an adult.
Therefore, Puyi's relationship with women is mostly platonic, and he is not enough for the gift of Dunlun.
Playing a loving couple with the beautiful and dignified Wanrong satisfies Puyi's fantasies and covers up his inferiority and uneasiness, which is also one of the main reasons why he is far away from the enthusiasm like fire embroidery.
But Wen Xiu could not bear the exposure after the cold, and outsiders only thought that he hated the concubine room, and did not know that puyi's hidden scars were exposed.
Puyi finally ended the divorce lawsuit with 50,000 silver dollars, and the first woman in his life resolutely left him, leaving the second woman to bear his anger gracefully.
The main root cause of Puyi's snub of Wenxiu is his hidden disease, so although Wanrong bears the reputation of being a special pet of the pepper room, her situation is actually not much stronger than That of Wenxiu.
Because of the bitterness and depression in her heart, no one could talk about it, wanrong came to Tianjin not long ago and became addicted to smoking.
During her seven years in Tianjin, Wanrong relied on the anesthesia of "Aphrodite" and vanity to play her role as a "modern queen".
It's just that every time the prosperity fades, Wanrong returns to her cold bedroom, never waiting for her husband who is still performing with her tenderness and sweetness a moment ago.
Such a cruel married life finally completely crushed Wanrong after Puyi became the puppet emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo.
Wanrong has always distrusted the Japanese's rhetoric toward Puyi, and has long recognized Japan's wolf ambitions toward China, but Puyi was carried away by the "dream of restoration" and never listened to advice.
Wanrong's weakness also made her dare not rebel too much against her husband, and after several unsuccessful attempts to persuade her to escape, Wanrong could only hide back in the fog created by opium.
During this period, two men with special intentions approached Wanrong, lured her red apricot out of the wall, and even beaded the secret knot.
After Puyi discovered that Wanrong had cheated, the already precarious marriage was completely broken, because of face and vanity, Puyi could not divorce Wanrong, so she imprisoned Wanrong, who had fallen into madness.
In this way, the second woman in her life was put in a cage.
The third woman in Puyi's life, Tan Yuling, was regarded by him as the light in his life.
Tan Yuling
Tan Yuling was only 17 years old when she first arrived at Puyi's side, similar in age to Wanrong when she entered the palace, and she was also from the Eight Banners surname of Tatara, a family that loved the marriage of Xinjue Luo.
Therefore, although he was born in the Republic of China, the reverence for the "emperor" in his bones made Tan Yuling respect and love Puyi very much, and he was willing to give up the modern life in Beijing to become Puyi's "auspicious nobleman".
Puyi was over thirty years old at the time, although he was a puppet, he was still nominally the "emperor" of the puppet State of Manchukuo, so the shelf was full, and the manners were not ordinary, enough to confuse a girl who had never seen the world.
Puyi in the puppet Manchukuo era
The marriage achieved under this information asymmetry has strangely reached a subtle harmony, and Tan Yuling's obedience and gentleness are the most needed medicine for puyi, who is sensitive and inferior.
Tan Yuling was both a young girl and only a "nobleman" (the sixth rank among the concubines of the Manchu harem, a low-level title), so in a short period of time, there would be no dissatisfaction with the "emperor" and her boudoir.
Because of all the unexpected and reasonable factors, Puyi and Tan Yuling actually lived a relatively stable life for four or five years, and Tan Yuling became a cinnabar mole in Puyi's heart.
Puyi carried a photo of Tan Yuling for decades
In puyi's ups and downs in the coming decades, Tan Yuling has always been the harbor that represents "stability" and "comfort" in his heart, and he also carries her photos with him for decades.
However, this sweet comfort is also a void, just when Tan Yuling has not yet been dissatisfied with the abnormal married life, another "black hand" took her young life first.
Five years after Tan Yuling came to Puyi's side, he suddenly fell ill, although Puyi's Chinese and Japanese "imperial doctors" were in battle, they were still lacking in return to heaven, and Tan Yuling died violently in Changchun at the age of only 22.
Puyi has always believed that the Japanese deliberately killed Tan Yuling, and even complained in court in the post-war trial court, but because of the lack of evidence, it was eventually dismissed.
Puyi testified in court
Tan Yuling's death directly sent Puyi's fourth woman to his side.
One of the goals of the Japanese in putting Puyi on the throne of puppet Manchukuo was to legitimize the invasion by having Puyi, like the Korean royal family, give birth to an heir of Japanese descent.
Therefore, the Japanese frequently played ideas in Puyi's harem, and although Puyi was willing to become a puppet under the manipulation of the Japanese, he did not dare to lose the bottom line of the bloodline.
Moreover, Puyi was afraid that once the Japanese found out that he was infertile, he would immediately abolish his "throne" and let his own brother, Pu Jie, who was already married to the Japanese, ascend to the throne.
Therefore, Puyi hurriedly selected a childish 15-year-old girl Li Yuqin from the middle school in Changchun to "enter the palace" and became Puyi's "fugui person".
Fugui Li Yuqin
If Tan Yuling, a "Xianggui" from the Eight Banners, has produced a real Qinse and Ming with Puyi because of his same hometown and similar cultural background, then Fugui is the opposite.
Li Yuqin was born in a commoner's home in Changchun, and although she had attended a girls' school, she was still a world apart from wanrong and Tan Yuling, who were born into the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and received a lady's education from an early age.
Wan Rong, Wen Xiu, and Tan Yuling have all been respected by Puyi, but Li Yuqin is a punching bag for Puyi to vent his anger.
Puyi chose Li Yuqin because she was young, her background was simple, she didn't understand anything, she was naïve and naïve, and she would neither divulge his secrets nor challenge his authority.
Puyi created an absurd "21 Articles", the content of which is to require Li Yuqin to strictly abide by the "ancestral system", all words and deeds must be obedient to Puyi, and must faithfully serve Puyi for a lifetime.
He deprived Li Yuqin of his most basic freedom and power, and only regarded Li Yuqin as a plaything that was angry and amusing.
The 15-year-old girl entered the "Tongde Hall" of the Changchun Pseudo-Imperial Palace and was pua by a middle-aged man for two years, until the defeat of Japan in 1945 and the escape with Puyi.
Li Yuqin hid in Tibet for ten months in fear around Puyi, and Puyi left her halfway as a burden.
Divorce application of Li Yuqin and Puyi
Li Yuqin, who had no choice but to return to her mother's house, did not ask how her mother-in-law, who had sent her to the puppet palace, allowed her to come back again and send her directly to the hands of an imperial widow in Tianjin.
18-year-old Li Yuqin lived in the home of this strange old man in such a vacuum, living like a maid, and spent another 6 years in a muddy mood.
The founding of New China finally made this girl who had been confused for ten years wake up, and Li Yuqin broke away from the confinement of the Ai Xin Jue Luo family and the original family, and actively integrated into the new era and new life.
Puyi in the War Criminals Management Center
Not long after Puyi and Du Yuming complained, Li Yuqin found this husband who had left himself in the middle of the road, formally divorced him, and since then the heavens and the earth have lived a happy life.
In 1959, both Puyi and Du Yuming received state amnesty, left the war criminals' camp, and began a new life.
At this time, the choice of the two is once again confirmed by the first half of their lives.
Du Yuming
Du Yuming only wanted to be reunited with Cao Shuqing, and Premier Zhou was very concerned about this matter and provided a lot of help, and finally Cao Shuqing, who had been coerced to Taiwan at that time, broke through many obstacles to beijing.
The reunion with his wife made the last trace of gloom and worry in Du Yuming's heart disappear, and after that, the couple continued to contribute to the country as patriots until the two of them came to the end of their lives.
Puyi is completely tired of the girl who does not understand the world because of ten years of transformation, and only wants to marry a mature professional woman according to his needs at this time.
Puyi was pardoned
Puyi's fifth woman, Li Shuxian, thus entered his last life.
Unlike the first four northern beauties, Li Shuxian, who was originally from Hangzhou, lost her mother at the age of 10 and her father at the age of 16, because her stepmother forced her to marry, and her first husband was a policeman during the Japanese and pseudo-Japanese periods, and was later shot.
Before meeting Puyi, Li Shuxian also married for the second time, although she did not go to school much, but Li Shuxian was very diligent and studious, and eventually became a nurse.
Puyi and Li Shuxian
When puyi and Puyi met, Puyi was 55 years old, Li Shuxian was 37 years old, although there was a certain age difference, but they were all weathered adults, and they felt satisfied with each other, so they quickly got married.
If Puyi does not have a hidden disease, then this marriage may still have some normal sweet memories, but unfortunately Puyi's body determines that he and all women will not have a good ending.
Li Shuxian has been married twice, of course, not as ignorant and ignorant as Puyi's previous women, so not long after marriage, she discovered Puyi's secret.
Li Shuxian knows that the lack of normal gender life between husband and wife is difficult to maintain, so she wants to divorce early and wants to stop the loss early.
Puyi pleaded bitterly: "You want to divorce me, and I will not live." ”
Even tears fell: "You can mention any conditions you want." You're still young, I agree with you to make friends, I don't care about you, I can't bring you a lifetime of pain. ”
Li Shuxian was softened by such a plea, and had to reply: "Now raw rice is cooked into mature rice, and that's it." ”
This nominal couple lasted for five years, and on October 17, 1967, Puyi died of kidney cancer, and both were liberated.
Du Yuming ridiculed Puyi's wife in his jokes, in fact, he did not see through or could not bear to say that Puyi's character determines fate, all of which are self-inflicted, only pity five women who changed their fate because of him.
Planting melons to get melons, planting beans to get beans, all the misfortunes and blessings, self-inflicted.