The last emperors in Chinese history were generally very miserable, either dying in the rebellion or being killed by the emperors of the new dynasty, compared with the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, who was luckier. He ascended the throne three times in his lifetime, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he became the emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo, so after the founding of New China, he was sent to the Fushun War Criminals Management Institute for ideological reform. Puyi's attitude of admitting his mistakes was very positive, and in 1959 he became one of the first war criminals to be pardoned.
Puyi was ecstatic after learning that he had been pardoned, and he should know that both himself and others thought that his sins were unforgivable, after all, he had been a traitor, and his sins were very serious! After Puyi was released, he immediately packed up his bags and returned to his hometown of Beijing, where he had been separated for a long time. However, at that time, Beijing did not have his residence - the Forbidden City had long been the Palace Museum, and Puyi could only live in his sister's house at first. Later, the government felt that this was somewhat inappropriate, and it also arranged a hotel for Puyi.
Puyi was already an ordinary citizen at this time, naturally needed to work, make money to support himself, the premier considered his special status, let him go to the Botanical Garden of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to work, where the work is relatively relaxed, and the contact with people is relatively small. In 1960, Puyi began his first job as a botanical garden in charge of watering, cleaning and seedlings. In 1962, Puyi also married Li Shuxian, a nurse of 100 million yuan, which was already Puyi's fifth wife.
In 1964, Puyi was already 58 years old, and after a life of ups and downs, his health was not as good as before, and the government also took this into account, so it arranged for him to do civilian work in the Cultural and Historical Materials Research Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1967, Puyi suffered from uremia, and Premier Zhou attached great importance to it, and specially instructed him to be sent to the Capital Hospital for consultation with traditional Chinese and Western medicine. However, Puyi was already terminally ill, and in the end he could not be rescued, and Puyi died on October 17, 1967. According to the law at that time, people were cremated after death, but Puyi's was very, very special. Ask puyi's relatives, they all agreed to be cremated, and finally Puyi's body was cremated and buried in Babaoshan.
As we all know, there were 12 emperors in the Qing Dynasty, but the Forbidden City only had 11 emperors' tablets, and after Puyi's death, some Manchu Qing relics wanted to send Puyi's tablets to the Forbidden City, but they were resolutely opposed by the Forbidden City and the Puyi people. According to ancient regulations, the emperor had a nickname and a temple number after his death, but When Puyi died, he was already a commoner, and naturally there was no nickname. However, the descendants of Taiwan's Ai Xin Jue Luo family were not reconciled, and they gave Puyi the temple name "Xianzong", the nickname "With Heaven and Heaven With Luck Fa Gu Shao Tong Wen Jing Fu Kuan Rui Zheng Mu Ti Ren Li Xiao Xiang Emperor", but this was only their own doing, and they were not officially recognized.