"Milkmaid" is to put it bluntly the product of the feudal class hierarchy, some large families in order to ensure that the newborn offspring in the family have sufficient nutrition, or the birth mother for various reasons can not breastfeed will ask the nurse, and the milk mother milk child at least three to four years, before this will generally have a deep affection with the child.
In history, there are many cases of the emperor's grandmother's extremely prominent status, such as the Han'an Emperor's grandmother Wang Shi, Tang Zhongzong's milk lady Yu Shi, the most famous and prominent of which is the Ming Xi Sect's wet mother Ke clan, who often interferes in the affairs of the dynasty with the emperor, and even with the giant traitor Wei Zhongxian, cholera, the dictatorship is unstoppable.
As a royal family, there will inevitably be a milk lady, the last emperor is no exception, Puyi's milk lady is called Wang Jiao, but he was not surnamed Wang, surnamed Jiao, and later married a person with the surname Wang changed to Wang Jiao.
There were only two old men and one daughter in Wang Jiao's family, and for this reason she was selected to be Puyi's grandmother in the palace, not out of pity, but to prevent the nurse from using her trust with the emperor for personal gain, after all, this situation was not uncommon in the past.
In fact, when Puyi's grandmother was a very painful thing for Wang Jiao's family, but for the sake of the monthly two or two Lu Lu she still persevered, the pain during this period existed in two aspects, one is that Wang Jiao's family in addition to feeding the young Puyi, every day to eat an elbow to promote milk, for people who were not rich at that time, a day can eat an elbow is a very luxurious thing, but for Wang Jiao's family this is definitely an unbearable thing.
In order to better induce milk, the elbows she eats cannot have a little salt and other seasonings, and even the best things will be greasy, not to mention the unsalted elbows that taste the same wax.
In addition, Wang Jiaoshi was not allowed to go home during the feeding of Puyi, and was not allowed to meet with his daughter, so as not to secretly feed her own daughter, and the things that belonged to the royal family were not allowed to be touched by civilians, thinking about the feeling that as a mother could not see her own flesh and blood from childhood, this cruel system was equivalent to killing a woman's power as a mother.
Perhaps for this reason, Wang Jiao has always regarded Puyi as his own, and Puyi also has great respect for this nursing mother, and it should be known that Puyi was very naughty when he was young, and almost no one listened to anyone's words, only listening to his grandmother's words.
Just when Wang Jiao's faction desperately ate elbow milking water, her daughter died of malnutrition, and the Qing royal family, in order not to let this matter affect Wang Jiao's milk production, has been hiding this matter until Puyi grew up Wang Jiao's return home to find that her daughter had died as early as six years ago, Puyi did not mention Wang Jiao's performance in the book "The First Half of My Life", but it can be imagined that kind of hysterical pain.
After Puyi married, he also took Wang Jiao's clan to support him, and even when he became the emperor of pseudo-Manchuria, he took Wang Jiao's clan with him until Wang Jiao's death in 1946, at the age of 59.