History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
We all know that the Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history and a very important turning point in history. So what happened on the last day of the Qing Dynasty?
The Qing Dynasty, which had originally taken the road of decay, signed a series of treaties of humiliation and humiliation under the dictatorship of Cixi for more than forty years, and after Cixi's death, Puyi succeeded to the throne, and the Qing Dynasty at that time could be said to be exhausted, and announced its abdication on the day of the three years of succession, that is, February 12, 1912. And in the early morning of this day, it was a little different from the past, the ministers came to the porch of the Qianqing Palace early in the morning to wait, the ministers were silent with different thoughts, with the eunuch's voice, the empress dowager had arrived, the minister invited the palace, the empress dowager led the six-year-old Puyi into the palace, and Empress Longyu did not sit behind the dragon chair and listen to the government as before. Instead, it was the first time to sit with Puyi, waiting for the seal to abdicate. Although she had been mentally prepared, but in the face of this situation, Empress Longyu was still very sad, did not hold back the edict and cried, and later the foreign minister Hu Weide threatened that if the seal was not stamped again, the preferential treatment promised by the revolutionary army to the Qing Dynasty royal family would be gone, and Empress Longyu had to stamp and announce her abdication. And the ministers? Nor did he perform the ritual of three prayers and nine prostrations to the emperor as before. Instead, they bowed three times together.
On the surface, it is a salute to the emperor, but in fact, we can also understand it as a farewell to the Qing Dynasty. The change of dynasties is a historical inevitability, but the use of new etiquette to bid farewell to the old dynasty, this scene, or people can't help but sigh.
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