China's imperial system lasted for more than two thousand years, starting with Qin Shi Huang, and subsequent monarchs called themselves emperors. And the last emperor in Chinese history was the famous Ai Xin Jueluo Puyi, and Puyi's life was destined to be full of waves and extremely extraordinary life from the day he was born.
Puyi's first half of life was turbulent and displaced, once brilliant, beautiful, and lonely, but in any case he was a very legendary figure. Puyi, who has become an ordinary person in his later years, took his wife to visit the Forbidden City where he once lived, and actually met a white-haired old man on the road, Puyi's face suddenly changed dramatically, who is this old man?
Puyi's life can be described as the peak of his debut, after all, even if the history of our country is all moved, Puyi, who ascended the throne at the age of three, is still the first one, but it is a pity that the peak of this young emperor also stops here, and the way down is the downhill road. Why? This is because during Puyi's reign, he did not have any rights and was a complete puppet.
Even the puppet emperor Puyi only served for three years, he sat on the dragon chair with the support of Empress Dowager Cixi at the age of three, and by the age of six he was ousted from the throne and became an ordinary person. And it was no one else who drove him off the dragon chair, it was the white-haired old man that Puyi occasionally met in the Forbidden City, Lu Zhonglin, which was no wonder that Puyi would change his look when he saw the other party.
Lu Zhonglin did this because he was instructed by Feng Yuxiang, who ignored the promise of the Nationalist government at that time and sent Lu Zhonglin to forcibly break into the Forbidden City and force Puyi's family to move out of the Forbidden City.
For the person who drove him out of his home, Puyi still had a grudge. After all, the Forbidden City was the place where he grew up, and Puyi had long been accustomed to living there. When he arrived in Beifu, his original emperor treatment was not only gone, but his personal safety was also restricted, and the travel was watched by the Nationalist Army, which made Puyi feel very inconvenient.
Seeing Lu Zhonglin, the memories of that year suddenly surged into Puyi's heart. The day he was expelled from the palace was originally only a very ordinary day, Puyi was doing what he usually did in the Forbidden City, but suddenly a pair of people who claimed to be Lu Zhonglin broke in and blasted him out without saying a word. Puyi was very shocked, he never thought that he would be treated like this one day.
That day was the beginning of Puyi's wanderings and the beginning of China's end to feudal imperialism. For Puyi, he felt happy on the one hand, and on the other hand, he felt confused. After leaving the Forbidden City, he finally returned to freedom, a feeling he had never received before, on the one hand, he felt lonely because he was homeless, and later temporarily moved to Beifu to stabilize Puyi.
Although the life of Beifu is said to be not short of food and clothing, it is naturally inferior to the life of the emperor before Puyi. Once a person has a good life, then he will no longer want to live a normal life, the world is like this, Puyi is the same, the huge sense of gap makes him very uncomfortable. It was precisely because the Japanese saw the unwillingness in Puyi's heart that they threw an olive branch at him.
Puyi naturally knew that the Japanese were using him, but there was no way he wanted to regain his title of emperor. For others, the absence of the Qing Dynasty is a good thing, but for himself, this is the "pain of national subjugation"! So after receiving the letter from the Japanese, Puyi almost did not think about it and went directly to Tianjin.
The Japanese are really not a thing, after the "918" incident, not only the people think so, but Also puyi thinks so in his heart. At that time, Puyi had become a puppet emperor in the regime again, and he established the puppet state of Manchukuo with the support of the Japanese, and became the "Kant Emperor" among them. But this emperor is still unhappy, because he still has no real power!
The Japanese only used him as a pawn, and he would be discarded at any time if needed. At this time, Puyi understood that what he wanted to be was never an emperor of the Ninety-Five-Year Emperor but an ordinary ordinary person. In the following days, Puyi was still not happy, he was first captured by the Soviet army, then imprisoned by the Soviet army, and was not released back to China until after the founding of New China.
The feet fell back on the land of China, and Puyi's heart was full of emotions. It was too difficult for him to live in this life, and it was only now that he had finally regained his citizenship that the stone in his heart had settled. This time, Puyi no longer wanted to restore the throne and become emperor again. He just wants to be himself in peace and become an ordinary person.
In 1962, Puyi took his newlywed wife back on a tour of the Forbidden City, and happened to run into Lu Zhonglin. The meeting between the two people did not have the imaginary needle tip to Mai Mang, on the contrary, the two talked very happily, and Lu Zhonglin also bought a ticket for Puyi to play in the Forbidden City. And all of this was written by Puyi into his autobiography "The First Half of My Life".
This book is as wonderful as Puyi's life, in the words between the lines, you can see a confucian "last emperor", in the political war situation constantly looking for direction to find a way out for themselves, reading through this book you will have a sense of relief, those who are addicted to the predicament of people reading at this time, may have a different feeling.