I believe that most readers should have heard of the surname Aisin Kyora, right? In the 1580s, the Aisin Kyaw Lo clan was still a very small family, a distant branch of the Aisin clan, with a population of less than thirty people.
According to information found on the Internet, it was composed of six uncles and grandfathers of Nurhaci at that time: Changzu Deshiku, Second Ancestor Liu Xian, Sanzu So Chang'a, Nurhaci's grandfather Jue Chang'an, Wuzu Baolang'a, Liuzu Baoshi, and their twenty-two sons.
However, from the period after the establishment of Nurhaci to the complete destruction of the Qing Dynasty, the Aixin Jueluo family gradually reached their peak. The main reason for this is that the throne has always been in the hands of their family.
Even those who know nothing about history know that the ancient feudal society allowed men to have three wives and four concubines. People with a little capital are still like this, let alone the emperor who holds the power of the world?
Moreover, under the influence of China's traditional custom of advocating multiple children and grandchildren, it is difficult to think about the children of the Ai XinJue Luo family. The Later Jin and Qing dynasties coexisted for a total of 296 years, almost three centuries. This was the heyday of the Aisin Kyora family, and then experienced a century of war and reform, according to incomplete statistics, there are as many as 300,000 to 400,000 people with the blood of the Aisin Kyora family. That's a very large number.
Not all descendants of the Aisin Kyora family know their ancestral status, and a small number of descendants have never heard of the relationship between the Aishin Kyora family and them during their upbringing.
This is because their parents believe that they have died early in the morning, and it is very inappropriate to talk about their former status in this democratic society, so they choose to avoid talking about it. But there are also some descendants who are so proud of their former royal status that they even want to restore their ancestral glory, and the protagonist of this article, Aisin Kyora Zhoudi, is one of them.
Impact of the home environment
Zhou Di was born in Guangzhou, China, his father has a total of 10 children, and he is the seventh oldest in the family. From an early age, his father taught these children: "You are descendants of the Aisin Kyora family, descendants of the former royal family, so you were born different from other children." You must not forget your ancestors..."
It is said that parents are the first teachers of children, and if parents do not give their children a good start, then children will also learn from them. Don't say why children are good and don't learn all the bad. When children are young, they do not have a correct cognition, they cannot distinguish between good and evil or good and bad on their own, and it is time to reflect the role of parents.
It was clear that Zhou Di's father did not set a good example for him. His mind is still the same as the One of the Qing Dynasty, and these things have long been behind the times and outdated.
Zhou Di wants to call his father Amma in front of his family, but in front of outsiders, he does not need to call him Uncle. This is because his father taught him that his current era has changed, that the Manchus should move closer to the Han, and that their lives need to be low-key, so as not to cause exclusion and hostility from the Han.
Therefore, they do not casually reveal their true identity to the royal family in front of outsiders, and even the way they use their names is Han Chinese.
However, their way of life in their own homes is to try to get as close as possible to the former royal family. But due to the extreme material scarcity of the time, they could not afford to use much luxury. For example, their clothes are to wear yellow, and the materials are not exquisite, as long as they are related to yellow.
To this day, Zhou Di told the interviewees: "Even if I take the initiative to tell people now that I am a descendant of Aisin Kyora, it is difficult for others to believe me." Moreover, even if others believe it, there will be no reaction. Who's still interested in that now? ”
Therefore, Zhou Di himself only wants to do things and live in his own determined way, no matter what people think about his identity.
Noisy train station
It is very good that Zhou Di can have this kind of ideological awareness, and it is not a very beautiful thing to live in his own way without affecting other people.
But The idea that Zhou Di can have such an open-minded idea does not pop out of his head at once. He once made a ridiculous thing, and it was written into local news at that time.
As we all know, train tickets during the Spring Festival in China are often difficult to find. When we open the mobile app to grab tickets, those tickets will only fall into the hands of some lucky ones. This is still in the case of ticketing software now.
Zhou Di was preparing to go to the train station to buy tickets, but when he arrived at the train station, he found that it was already overcrowded. When the conductor informed Zhou Di of the tickets for the train he wanted to take and sold out, Zhou Di couldn't help it.
He thought that the descendants of his own noble family had queued up for a ticket for so long, and in the end they couldn't buy it. He told the conductor that he was a member of the Aisin Kyora family, a descendant of the royal family, that he must be given preferential treatment, and that he would have to get a train ticket today by any means.
In the face of Zhou Di's unreasonable teasing, the conductor still kept smiling to persuade him. Tell him that there are other ways to solve it, such as changing trains, changing trains, or changing vehicles. But Zhou Di was in the head of anger, and could not listen to anything, so he clamored for this train.
Some onlookers next to them couldn't stand it anymore and accused Zhou Di of being unreasonable. But Zhou Di did not feel embarrassed at all, but pointed at the crowd and scolded: "You slaves! ”
Seeing that things were getting bigger and bigger, the police finally arrived in time to resolve the dispute. This incident also gave Zhou Di a big lesson in the end, so there was the last words of the above paragraph.
He was persuaded to be an ordinary person
When someone asked about some customs of the Manchus, he became particularly able to speak. He told the inquirer that in ancient times, the reason why people did not cut their hair was because people at that time believed that "the skin of the body, the parents, do not dare to destroy, the beginning of filial piety."
However, because of the environment, the Manchus were born by riding horses and hunting, and their hair that was too long would affect the hunting action, so they tied their hair into braids.
In 2007, Zhou Di stopped by Beijing to visit Puyi's younger brother Puren while returning to Fushun, Liaoning, to pay homage to his ancestors. At that time, Zhou Di's grooming was particularly clean, and his braids were given to Daiza by his wife. As soon as they walked outside, passers-by thought that the actors of the crew had run out without changing their clothes.
After seeing Pu Ren, he did not expect that the first sentence of Pu Ren when he saw Zhou Di dressed in the Qing Dynasty era was to persuade him: "Don't be attached to the Qing Dynasty, don't engage in specialization, change to Qing costumes, and be an ordinary person." ”
Zhou Di should be reconciled on the surface, but in his heart he was not at all moved. From an early age, he was indoctrinated with the idea of abiding by the rules of his ancestors, and wanting to really change his thinking was not something that could be done in a sentence or two sentences or a moment and a half.
brief summary:
For this way of life of Zhoudi, the author believes that we can still give a certain amount of respect under the premise of not causing trouble to others. Like many places now popular to wear traditional ethnic costumes such as Hanfu and qipao, Zhou Di is only a little more niche than them.
Everyone has the right to choose his own way of life, which is his freedom. But if you let others live according to your wishes, it is selfishness.