Perhaps in the eyes of most people, being born royal may mean the taste of mountains and seas, the silk of Ayaluo, the clothes to reach out, the food to open the mouth, the slaves to the crowd, and enjoy peace. But there is always an exception, there is that life, there is no such blessing. That's right, I'm talking about Pujie.
born
Speaking of Pu Jie, most people may not have heard of it, but when it comes to Puyi, everyone is familiar with it, he is the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and Pu Jie is his brother, both of them are from the Prince of Alcohol Palace, and their mother is the daughter of the Qing Dynasty minister Rong Lu, whose status is noble and his status is respected.
childhood
Pu Jie was born in 1907, when the feudal forces were still surviving, and he also spent a period of aristocratic time. During that time, Pujie and Puyi were studying in the imperial study together, but Puyi was not attentive and coveted fun. Pu Jie, on the other hand, was earnest and learned a good hand, which also laid the foundation for his later calligraphy career.
In 1912, Yuan Shikai forced Emperor Puyi to issue an edict of abdication, and his aristocratic life came to an abrupt end. As Voltaire said: "When a snowy mountain collapses, no snowflake is innocent". After all, he was still affected by the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, and his fate gears were quietly changing.
Emotional life
Pu Jie had two marriages in his life, the first of which was with Tang Yiying. Tang Yiying is the niece of Zhenfei and Concubine Jin, the daughter of everyone who is proper. At that time, Pu Jie was only 17 years old, and Tang Yiying was already in her 20s.
Perhaps both people are young and crazy, and they treat feelings less and more, or this is an arranged marriage, which is not the independent will of the two people, so that after the marriage, the two husbands and wives are not harmonious, this marriage is not long, and even Tang Yiying has taken away a large amount of property in the Prince Of Alcohol Palace.
The second paragraph is with Japan's Saga Hiroshi. Saga Hiroshi was the daughter of a Japanese marquis who was about to establish a puppet Manchurian Empire in China, and Pujie was a member of the Qing dynasty royal family, so this was another political marriage.
During that time, Saga Hiroshi wrote in his diary: "How I wish it could be an ordinary marriage", "Originally I wanted to die, but I had to get married for the sake of the country", etc., which shows that at that time, Saga Hao was also suspicious of this marriage and stopped moving forward.
They married on April 3, 1937, and on February 26, 1939, they had their first daughter, named "Hui Sheng", which means wisdom and profoundness. From this, it can be seen that their lives may not be as unsustainable as they first thought. On March 13, 1940, the second daughter was born, and his life seemed to be on the right track, and perhaps he could live the life of an ordinary person.
Changes
Maybe life can always give you a merciless blow when you are plain and complete, and your happiness will be hit in an instant, and then push you into the boundless sea of suffering.
On August 22, 1945, Puyi and Pujie fled Japan from the plane taking off from Tonghua, but were arrested by the Soviet Red Army at Fengtian Airport, and the prince and emperor were instantly imprisoned and lived in the Boli shelter for 5 years. The doom did not stop, and on July 28, 1950, he spent another 11 years from the shelter to the Fushun War Criminals Management Center.
No one knows how they spent their time, but maybe they were always in pain, waiting, taking care of them. But whether they're hungry, frozen, bullied, we don't know.
In the past, they were royal nobles, dignified and noble, and now they are no more than prisoners of the ranks, and their lives are like ants. But they didn't do anything, and that's right, they were born into the royal family, so that someone always wanted to borrow them as a model, and when they were a fig leaf, they made people deeply understand what a fallen phoenix is not like a chicken, which is really sad.
Turn
Heaven is cruel and merciful, and fate has not always been harsh on him. In 1955, Pu Jie's 17-year-old daughter Hui Sheng wrote to Premier Zhou, telling him about his fatherly feelings, after all, from small to large, they had only been together for 6 years, so Hui Sheng's request to correspond with his father who was detained at the time was approved by Premier Zhou. Since then, detained war criminals have begun to communicate with the outside world.
I think Pu Jie is lucky, from the birth of his daughter to his arrest, the middle is only 6 years, but his daughter is still deeply in love with his father and daughter, compared to Puyi childless, alone, he is really lucky.
But that luck did not always favor him, and on December 4, 1957, Huisheng fell in love with the Japanese, but was opposed by his mother, Saga Hiroshi. Saga Hiroshi believed that she was Chinese and how could she marry someone else, so she firmly opposed it. HuiSheng was in a dilemma of filial piety, so he committed suicide in despair, at the age of 19.
This incident then became an eternal pain in the hearts of Pu Jie and Saga Hao, and the deep love between a generation of father and daughter finally ended here, and fate did not even give him a chance to meet again, and he was forever separated.
The real turnaround came in 1960, when Pu Jie finally returned to Beijing, to the motherland he had been thinking about day and night, to the homeland where he had been born and raised, and no one knew how excited and mixed his feelings were when he returned.
old age
Perhaps the first half of his life was too bumpy, and Pu Jie's life in his later years finally got the preferential treatment of fate.
On May 12, 1961, under the care of Premier Zhou, Saga Hao returned to China to reunite with her husband, who had been separated for many years. In the same year, Saga Hao became a Chinese citizen, and their family was finally completed. In 1975, he also witnessed the wedding of his daughter Yansheng, but he had a heart of his own.
splendor
In May 1983, Pujie slowly entered politics. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Ritsumeikan University in November 1991 and remained on a smooth day until his peaceful death in 1994.
summary
He was the emperor's royal brother, had a golden childhood, went through the restoration of exile, stayed in the prisoners of war war prison, and finally had a happy reunion with his beloved Japanese wife.
His life had ups and downs, a good start, a good ending, but no good course. Yes, he was born in the royal family, but he was a declining dynasty, and he wanted to live a plain life, but he couldn't live because of historical factors. It was hard to have a peaceful home, but he experienced the separation of his husband and wife, and judging by his life, it was not smooth, but in the end he was still safe.
As ordinary people, we should cherish ordinary life, even if it is such an indifferent life, it will be a wound that many people can't ask for in their whole lives, so we should be more filial to our parents, be kind to our friends, cherish our lovers, and ordinary life will also have an extraordinary light, enough to illuminate people's lives.