In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the situation was turbulent, the old and the new alternated, and many former royal relatives were knocked out of the clouds in the change of history. Some are still reluctant to wake up in the dreams of the powerful, while others accept reality indifferently and no longer ask about the political situation. The last prince Pu Ren was one of them, he was Puyi's half-brother, the son of Zaifeng the Prince of Alcohol, after the collapse of the dynasty, he chose to become a people's teacher, and devoted most of his life to the great post of teaching and educating people.
Ai Xin Jue Luo Puren, also known as Jin Yourzhi, was born in September 1918 in the Prince of Shichahai Alcohol Palace in Beijing. This palace once produced the Guangxu Emperor Zaixiang and the Xuantong Emperor Puyi, and Puren's father Zaifeng was the regent of the Xuantong Dynasty. If the Qing Dynasty had not perished in 1912, the prominent position of Pu Ren, who was born in this royal palace, can be imagined.
However, at the time of Pu Ren's birth, the former royal family no longer existed, the powerful regent Zaifeng abdicated as an ordinary person, and the eldest brother Puyi was no longer the emperor above ten thousand people. In addition to the calligraphy, painting and literature that he should learn from childhood, Zaifeng never taught Pu Ren more political things, but always taught him to be a low-key person and forget his identity as a royal family.
In 1931, Pu Ren accompanied his father to the northeast to visit Puyi and Pujie, and after the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Puyi wanted to take the Zaifeng family to the northeast, but zaifeng, who had forethought ahead, refused. At this time, seeing that they were subject to the Japanese everywhere, Zaifeng could only sigh, and he said to Pu Ren bitterly: What is the advantage of being the son of the emperor? Even Shi Jingyao was not as good.
In 1947, with zaifeng's support, Puren took advantage of the many empty rooms in the palace to start a primary school, relying on selling things to maintain his expenses, taking in more than 200 students, and thus began his life of teaching and educating people. After liberation, Pu Ren sold the palace to the government, and the family moved to Weijia Hutong in Dongcheng, where he served as an ordinary teacher.
Later, Puren had been working diligently as a people's teacher, teaching knowledge to children like a most ordinary gardener until his retirement in 1968. In 1951, with zaifeng's consent, Puren also donated more than 40 cultural relics and more than 7,000 books such as the golden seal and silver album of the royal palace to the Cultural Relics Bureau, and donated a large number of books collected by the government to Peking University and other units, making outstanding contributions to the construction of national spiritual civilization.
After retirement, Puren's life was very uneventful, he was willing to be poor, and he did not care about his former royal status. Compared with those who do not know the truth or falsehood and go around to proclaim that they are "descendants of Ai Xinjueluo", Pu Ren obviously has more heavenly and noble temperament. He calmly accepted the alternation of history and dedicated what he had to the country, just in response to the family motto left by the first generation of princes: the name of the mirror is useless, and it is appropriate for us to respect ourselves.
In his later years, Mr. Puren devoted himself to the study of Qing history, and he published articles such as "Memories of prince's palace", "Late Qing Prince's Life and Reading and Learning Martial Arts", and "Qing Ji Wangfu's Prejudice against Diet and Medical Treatment", and also sorted out his father Zaifeng's "Diary of Envoys". But he also only immersed himself in recording history, never liked to think of himself as a descendant of the royal family, and when people visited him, he often closed the door to thank guests.
Although he had such prominent relatives as "Grandma Cixi, the Emperor's eldest brother and uncle, and the father of the regent", Puren's life was extremely indifferent. He has donated to public welfare several times, but his food and clothing are all spent on the most frugal expenses, and he donates all the proceeds from his calligraphy and painting to the Hope Project and Hope Primary Schools in various places, relying only on a meager pension to survive.
In 2015, the 96-year-old Pu Ren died peacefully in the afternoon of April 10, and many people rushed to mourn. The Slovaks are gone, but their noble style, integrity and simple character, and various contributions to the country will always be remembered