From the establishment of the Post-Jin regime by Nurhaci to the change of the name of the country to qing by emperor Taiji, the Qing Dynasty began its own rule. Ai Xinjue Luoshi also became the Manchu Qing imperial family, in a high position in the Qing Dynasty. In the past 300 years, the Aisin Kyora family, due to being in a privileged period, the speed of reproduction of descendants is very fast.
However, with the fall of the Qing Dynasty, after the last Qing Emperor Puyi announced his automatic abdication, the members of the Ai xinjue Luo clan gradually disappeared. So, among the descendants of Aisin Kyora, who are the specifics? As former members of the royal family, how are their lives like?
Born in 1918 in the regent's mansion in Beijing, Ai Xin Jueluo Puren was the son of Zaifeng the Prince of Alcohol and the younger brother of Puyi.
Ai Xin Jueluo Yu Ling, born in 1923, his father succeeded to prince Gong during the Guangxu period, and Yu Yue also belonged to the "Yu" character recognized by the Qianlong Emperor in the imperial family, in 1939, Yu Ling also inherited the title of Prince Heshuo Gong, and he was also the last person in the Qing Dynasty to inherit the title of Prince Gong.
Born in Shenyang in 1954, Ai Xin Jue luo Hengshan once served as a researcher of a Chinese calligraphy and painting research association and the director of the corporate celebrity committee of the China Celebrity Art Research Association. Hengshan signed a contract with Beijing New Era International Media advertising Company and became a painter.
Born in Beijing in 1954, Ai Xin Jueluo Hengti also studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts after graduating from the Normal College in Inner Mongolia.
Born in Manchuria in 1931, Ai Xin Jue luo Qixiang was the son of Prince Huan, the sixteenth son of the Kangxi Emperor, the fourth grandson of Fuguo Gong Zaixun, and the ninth grandson of Prince Heshuo Gong, who served as a professor of fine arts at the Sino-Korean Culture and Arts Center.
Ai Xin Jue Luo Qi Jun, born in 1935, is a librarian of a cultural and historical research museum in Beijing and a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the ninth grandson of the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Born in Beijing in 1956, Ai Xin Jue Luo Yu Zhen Feng was the fifth grandson of the Daoguang Emperor and the son of the calligrapher ai Xin Jue Luo Pu Zuo.
Ai Xin Jue Luo Qixin, born in 1942, was a member of the Beijing Calligraphers Association and a painter of the well-known calligraphy and painting academy in Beijing, because Qixin's calligraphy is free and natural and powerful, so it is widely sought after by people in the industry. His works have also been exhibited at the national and provincial levels and collected by relevant art institutions.
In the eighty years after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the former royal family were gradually scattered throughout the country, and their noble royal status became a thing of the past. Genealogy cultivation at the government level has become impossible, so their so-called "pure" bloodlines are difficult to guarantee. Moreover, the marital situation of these descendants is becoming more and more complicated, and no one has come forward to revise the family tree, and it is obviously very difficult to count the population of the Aisin Kyora lineage.
The genealogy of Ai Xin Jueluo was not revised after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and it was not until 1937 that the pseudo-emperor Kant revised the genealogy. At that time, he included all the clan rooms that could be studied in the genealogy, and the revised genealogy of that year was stored in the National Library. Later, on the basis of the remaining butterfly genealogy, the Aixinjue Luoyana clan repaired the family tree with reference to the actual situation in the Xinmin area of central Liaoning, and at this point, the "AixinJueluo Genealogy Miyana Branch" was formed, which was revised every ten years.
The Yana tribe, with the permission of the Liaoning Provincial Nationalities Committee, restored its former family temple, and its clan members made regular sacrifices.
However, the family population of Aisin Kyora is still growing, and this trend is becoming more and more obvious.
From the near to the far blood relationship, Ai XinJue Luo also gradually formed a huge branch. According to statistics, there are about 300,000 or 400,000 descendants left behind by Aisin Kyora. Because the four emperors of the late Qing Dynasty were all close relatives and almost no heirs were left. Even if they had, they had all died prematurely, so the descendants of the four emperors were relatively few.
The former royal family name Ofsin Jueluo also underwent a certain evolution after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, some changed to "Zhao", and some were called "Luo". Their descendants are basically distributed throughout the country, and their lives are very different, and their views on the surname "Aisin Kyora" are also different.
So, what about the recent situation of the descendants of Aisin Kyora?
Ai Xin Jue Luo was the surname of the Manchu Emperor, which was very noble in the Qing Dynasty. However, with Puyi's abdication, many descendants of Ai Xinjueluo changed their surnames. After a long period of historical change, how did the situation of these Manchu Qing royal descendants change?
In 1911, Emperor Puyi announced his abdication, marking the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for more than 200 years, and Ushered in an era of warlord chaos in China. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial relatives and nobles were scattered, and this once prominent clan fell off the altar and walked into the crowd. If someone claims to be a descendant of the Aisin Kyora family, you have to be careful.
Because, not all descendants of aisin Kyora are once orthodox royals.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, where did these descendants of Ai Xinjue Luo go? Why wouldn't anyone want to recognize the surname?
Why it is said that some people whose surname is Ai Xinjueluo are not orthodox royalty has a lot to do with the strict hierarchy of the Qing Dynasty. The rulers stipulated that the red belt and the yellow belt should be used as specific distinguishing signs, and nurhaci's descendants belonged to the yellow belt, and they were classified as the near branch, called the clan; the descendants of Nurhaci's father and brother belonged to the red belt and were classified as the far branch, called Kyaw Lo.
The yellow belt is the orthodox royal family, and the yellow belt is tied to the clothes, and the red belt is tied to the clothes. However, the clan relatives who are born with yellow belts are not necessarily owned for life, because there are many members of the royal family who make mistakes and are stripped of their yellow belt status. In Manchu, "aixin" means gold, so after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, many royal relatives changed their surnames to "Jin" and "Zhao" in order to avoid discrimination from others.
Because emperors such as Tongzhi, Guangxu, and Xuantong had no heirs after their deaths, the current descendants of Ai Xin Jueluo should be descendants of the Daoguang Emperor. However, a more special phenomenon appeared among these descendants, that is, these descendants of Aisin Kyora were basically calligraphers and painters, and their artistic achievements were remarkable.
According to exact statistics, there are nearly 100 calligraphers and painters in the descendants of Aisin Kyora, such as the calligrapher Qi Gong is a typical representative.
Qi Gong was the ninth grandson of the Yongzheng Emperor, and his great-grandfather was hongzhi, the brother of the Qianlong Emperor, so Qi Gong was also a member of the Prince He. However, he himself was not keen to brag to others about his royal status, and once, when others sent a letter, he wrote "Ai Xin Jue Luo Qi Gong" to receive it, and he directly refused to accept it.
The old man once said that he was unwilling to make money by showing off the name of his ancestors, so he left behind the harsh words of "do not eat the ancestors' meals and do not do the children of the Eight Banners".
In fact, in the history of China, there are many such people, such as the shusheng Wang Xizhi, who never mentioned the identity of the queen of Langya, because he hoped to rely on his own efforts to win a place in the calligraphy world.
However, with the evolution of history, the Aisin Kyora family has ceased to be the supreme glory of the past. Nowadays, although there are hundreds of thousands of descendants in the family, it is difficult to ensure the purity of the bloodline, and there is gradually no difference between them and ordinary people, and there are many self-reliant people like Qi Gong, who have given up their royal status and relied on their own efforts to achieve their own success, which is really worthy of admiration.
In the vast river of history, in addition to Aisin Kyora, there are many descendants of the royal family, they all live an unknown life with the change of dynasties, but they have not slackened off because of their royal status, and with their own efforts, they have lived the life they want. So, no matter what the identity is, no matter what it was, it is now the most important thing to support oneself.
Resources:
["Aishin Kyora Genealogy", "Aisin Kyora Genealogy Miyana branch", "Manchurian Records"]