Speaking of the last emperor Puyi, I believe everyone is very familiar with it. He was the son of the regent Zaifeng, who should have had a good childhood, but when he was three years old, he was ordered by Empress Dowager Cixi to be brought back to the palace to be raised, when he heard the news, Puyi's grandmother directly fainted in the past, but according to Puyi's later recollection, his body was hollowed out by the palace maid in his childhood, and when he was hungry, he could only eat the eunuch's leftover fish steamed buns, why is this?
All this has to start from Puyi's childhood, Puyi succeeded to the throne in the Taihe Hall on December 2, 1909, because he was the emperor of the child, he could not personally govern, so he was listened to by The Empress Longyu of Guangxu. In fact, he was only a puppet emperor, and in his infancy, he only fluctuated with the turbulent society of the late Qing Dynasty.
Although Puyi was only 3 years old when he ascended the throne, he was an emperor, and every morning in the morning he had to be on time on the dragon chair to listen to hundreds of officials discuss state affairs. Sitting behind her was Empress Longyu, who controlled the fate of the late Qing Dynasty, and sometimes the minister spoke for a long time, and the child's active personality was revealed.
The more times, the more empress dowager Longyu will be angry, and moreover, he will be punished for not being able to eat, and after a long time, Puyi's cowardly and fearful character will appear, and his personality will become more and more withdrawn. According to the history of Ye, once Puyi was punished again, this time he was punished by Empress Longyu for kneeling and not having food to eat, Puyi was too hungry, so he ran to the eunuch's room to steal the steamed buns to feed the fish.
But Puyi was still seen by the eunuch, he ran forward desperately, ran to a tree and stopped, crouched there for half a day without moving, the eunuchs did not dare to come forward, and after a while, Puyi turned around and returned the unfinished steamed bun to the eunuch. Such a scene made everyone present move, as the emperor, eating a fish-fed steamed bun had to be secretly.
And such things often happened to this little emperor of Xuantong, and the palace maid who took care of him saw that the young Puyi did not like Empress Longyu and began to bully him, according to Puyi's recollection in his later years, he did not leave any heirs, and the close palace maid hollowed out her body.
In February 1912, Empress Longyu, in the name of the empress dowager, issued the "Edict of abdication of the Qing Emperor", which ended China's more than 2,000 years of feudal imperialism and entered the republican era, opening a new historical era. Before abdicating, Empress Longyu still won the preferential treatment of 4 million taels of silver per year from the Beiyang government, and she could continue to live in the imperial palace.
Although Puyi abdicated, his life was still very good, and when Puyi was six years old, Empress Longyu also hired a teacher for Puyi to learn Manchu and ancient poetry. In order to focus on cultivating Puyi, Empress Longyu also invited the famous ministers chen baochen, Zhu Yifan and Liang Dingfen to teach Chinese and Yiktan to teach Manchu.
According to the teacher who taught Puyi, Puyi did not like to read, although after six or seven years of systematic study, Puyi even the basic "Zhuzi Family Training" can not be completely memorized, but he likes to treasure, the antique jade calligraphy and painting in his hand, he can know the true and false at a glance. But unfortunately, Puyi did not study geography, arithmetic, and history books.
Although he lived in the deep palace for a long time, he was no stranger to the outside world, and under the influence of foreign missionaries, Puyi liked Western cameras, bicycles, and even rode a bicycle to run two laps in the Forbidden City every day. Puyi's empress Wanrong has also been in contact with Western education, and the two often communicate in English, which is very sweet.
In Puyi's "The First Half of My Life" memories, it was recorded that he and Wanrong studied English together, wrote English love poems, and went shopping together in a small car, and that day was the happiest. But the good times did not last long, Feng Yuxiang launched a coup d'état, driving all of Puyi's family out of the Forbidden City, and such a happy life was soon disrupted by the war of the Japanese.
In 1931, after the Japanese launched the "918 Incident", Puyi resolutely chose to go to the northeast to become a puppet emperor of puppet Manchuria in order to "restore" the Qing Dynasty, and if he had studied history and recognized the true face of the Japanese, he would not have been reduced to a war criminal.
Puyi recalled that his childhood was grief-stricken, his body was hollowed out by the palace maid, and he was extremely hungry to eat fish and steamed buns