Looking at the life of the last emperor Puyi, it is enough to describe the ups and downs of the four words, he ascended the throne at the age of three, was forced to abdicate at the age of six, and has since retired to the Yangxin Hall of the Forbidden City, which also announced the demise of the Qing Dynasty and the end of the feudal imperial system for more than two thousand years, in June 1917, Zhang Xun entered Beijing with a braid army, and together with Kang Youwei and other royalists, announced Puyi's restoration on July 1, but did not expect that after the country was denounced, Puyi announced his abdication again.
On November 5, 1924, Feng Yuxiang began to force the palace again, Puyi was driven out of the Forbidden City, he later went to the northeast to ascend the throne as a puppet emperor, became a prisoner of war in 1945, and also entered the Soviet prison, after returning to China Puyi stayed in the prison of new China for a long time.
After being released by amnesty, Puyi became a legal ordinary citizen, he wanted to go back to his home to see, but also had to buy tickets, such a huge contrast in life is really lamentable, so that his experience was later filmed into a film and television work.
If you really want to be fair, although Puyi is the king of the subjugated country, all this has little to do with him, in the face of a crippled mess, what can a six-year-old child do, and what does he understand? What can an orphan and widow do except abdicate to save the life of the whole family?
Although he has always been able to live in the Forbidden City, for Puyi, all this is just a gorgeous cage, he is a caged bird tricked by fate, can only silently accept the cruel reality, the Republic of China twenty-one years, the Japanese established a puppet Manchukuo in the northeast, they under the banner of peaceful co-construction, in a vain attempt to achieve the conspiracy to rule China.
In order to make it easier for the people to accept this regime, the Japanese also deliberately tried their best to take Puyi who lived in Tianjin, in fact, at that time, there were indeed many people still thinking about the original imperial court and emperor, and the Japanese thought that if Puyi was allowed to be the lord of this country, it would undoubtedly be more reasonable, so the Japanese side successfully brought Puyi and Wanrong to the northeast.
Probably because the environment of growth was too monotonous, Puyi's mind was too simple, he really thought that he could return to the supreme throne, after all, the northeast was the land of Longxing in the ancestral court of the Qing Dynasty, but soon Puyi found that in the eyes of the Japanese, he was not an emperor at all, but a complete puppet.
At that time, the fuse of the conflict between the two sides was what kind of clothing Puyi should wear when he ascended the throne, and the puppet state of Manchukuo was established on March 9, but it was not until October that the Japanese officially recognized Puyi as the head of state and informed him that he could perform the inauguration ceremony.
In the traditional thinking of Chinese, when the emperor must wear a dragon robe, only in this way can he be regarded as an emperor, just in his hand there is a dragon robe that has been treasured for 20 years, which is still left by the Guangxu Emperor, although after many relocations, this dragon robe he has been carefully keeping.
But before Puyi was finished, the Japanese sent news that they had specially prepared for him the army, navy and air force marshal suit to wear when he ascended the throne, and Puyi was not happy when he heard it, so why didn't he let himself wear the dragon robe, wasn't he the emperor? Before he could finish his temper, the Japanese officials laughed out loud, and they pointed at Puyi and said: You still think that you are the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and everything is decided by the Empire of Japan.
In this way, the two sides fell into a stalemate, or the prime minister Zheng Xiaoxu mediated from it, and the two sides finally reached an agreement, Puyi must wear a marshal suit when he ascends the throne, but he can wear a dragon robe once when he sacrifices the heavens, although there are thousands of reluctances, but it can only be so, and it is precisely because of this incident that Puyi deeply realized that he was gone early in the morning, and he was no longer an emperor, just a puppet with no dignity and at the mercy of others.
Unfortunately, he did not have the determination to commit suicide, and could only continue to be the emperor in name only, and after the defeat of Japan, Puyi also became a war criminal, which was also regarded as paying the due price for his previous behavior.