At the end of 1959, the last emperor Puyi received a pardon and restored his freedom.
Because of Puyi's special status, how to settle his life after the amnesty has also become a topic that has attracted much attention.
Prior to this, Puyi had an empress and three concubines, at first, Puyi and Empress Wanrong were also in love, very affectionate, but then the two had a gap, Wanrong was snubbed, and finally went crazy, died in prison in 1946.
Influenced by the new ideas, Shufei Wenxiu also broke off her marriage contract with Puyi and remarried someone else, and died of illness in 1953.
The xianggui Tan Yuling and Puyi were in love with each other, but the two were only together for 5 years, so they unfortunately died of illness in 1942 at the age of 22.
Li Yuqin, a Fugui, married Puyi in 1943 and divorced Puyi in 1957, living until 2001.
After Puyi regained his freedom, some people introduced him to the daughter of the former Hanlin bachelor, and some people introduced Wanrong's cousin to him, but he refused. Because in Puyi's eyes, these are all women of the old society, and he wants to combine with the new women of the new era.
Therefore, under the introduction of Sha Zengxi, the editor of the People's Publishing House, Puyi met Li Shuxian, a nurse at Beijing Guanxiang Hospital.
Li Shuxian is an authentic Han Chinese girl, born in 1924 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, when she was very young, her mother died, her father found a stepmother for her, but within a few years, her father also died, and her stepmother suspected that she was in the way, so she forced her to marry an old man, she could not bear it, she escaped from home and went to Beijing.
Li Shuxian worked as a nurse at the Jingshan Clinic in Beijing, and later went to Guanxiang Hospital as a nurse, during which she married again, but also failed.
In 1962, Sha Zengxi, an editor of the People's Publishing House and a friend of Li Shuxian, introduced her to Puyi.
At that time, Li Shuxian was 38 years old and had two marriages, but in Puyi's eyes, she was a new-age woman who lived by her own hands, so she was very appreciative of her, so the two quickly came together.
Puyi ascended the throne as emperor at the age of two, and from that moment on, everyone, including his biological parents, called themselves slaves when they saw him, which was a loneliness and loneliness that others could not understand for a child. Puyi has longed for family affection, family happiness and natural happiness since he was a child, and all this was not obtained from Li Shuxian until the last few years of his life.
Puyi felt that the home established with Li Shuxian was a warm home and a real home, and he once said openly and honestly to Li Shuxian: "When I was in the palace before, I didn't understand the relationship between husband and wife, my wife was my plaything and decoration, I went to play for a while when I was happy, and I ignored it for a few days when I was unhappy." I never knew what love was, until I met you, I didn't know that there was such a sweet thing in the world. ”
Li Shuxian also recorded some things in "My Husband Puyi", which made people very moved.
One day in the summer of 1963, when beijing was raining heavily and the traffic was paralyzed, Puyi was worried about the safety of his wife on the way to work, so he braved the heavy rain to pick up his wife from work.
After walking to the door of Li Shuxian's unit, I waited for half a day and did not see Li Shuxian, thinking that she might be too busy to leave work. Suddenly, Puyi found that there was an uncovered sewer on the road, and Li Shuxian had to pass through this road every day to and from work, so he walked over and stayed there, afraid that Li Shuxian would accidentally fall when he passed.
Another time, Li Shuxian suddenly launched a high fever at night, Puyi has never served a patient, but that night he has not slept, constantly taking Li Shuxian's temperature, pouring water, and feeding medicine.
Although the two have only been together for 5 years, in these 5 years, Puyi really lived the way he wanted, leaving him with no regrets for life.
In the autumn of 1964, Puyi, who was working at the Beijing Botanical Garden, suddenly had blood urine, and Li Shuxian rushed to accompany him to the hospital for examination. After the doctor's examination, he thought he was just prostatitis, and he went home with a hemostatic injection. But later Puyi's urine and blood symptoms became more and more serious, and he was diagnosed with kidney cancer and had his left kidney removed.
For a long time after that, Puyi's condition has been repeated, up and down, and after Premier Zhou heard the news, he arranged for him to go to the Capital Hospital for consultation with traditional Chinese and Western medicine. When Puyi's condition was at its most critical, Premier Zhou also specially invited the famous Chinese medicine doctor Mr. Pu Fuzhou for him, but it was also to no avail, and finally Puyi passed away on October 17, 1967.
After Puyi's death, Premier Zhou signaled that his final destination should be decided by his wife Li Shuxian and the Aixin Jueluo family, and due to the special circumstances at that time, Puyi's ashes were temporarily placed in the Babaoshan Cemetery.
Until 1995, at the request of Li Shuxian and others, Puyi's ashes were moved out of Babaoshan and buried in the Hualong Royal Cemetery in Beijing. The place where Puyi was buried was chosen in the middle of the cemetery, only a few hundred meters from the Chongling Tomb of his titular father.
In 1997, 30 years after Puyi's death, Li Shuxian died of lung cancer at the age of 73.
But what everyone can't imagine is that Li Shuxian did not choose to sleep with her husband Puyi, but chose to be buried in babaoshan cemetery.
As for why Li Shuxian made such a choice, there are all kinds of speculation in the society, especially Li Shuxian's good friend, Song Bolan, the wife of the former Kuomintang major general Dong Yisan, once introduced that Li Shuxian often went to her to complain, saying that she regretted marrying Puyi, "not even enjoying a day of happiness."
However, it is not excluded that it is Song Bolan's misunderstanding or lies, after all, the topic of celebrities, there are always various statements, look at the current entertainment circle, it is the best friend, will also lie because of various interests.
Look at Li Shuxian's "My Husband Puyi", the words are the love of the two people, although there are some quarrels, but which husband and wife will not quarrel? Saying that Li Shuxian "regretted marrying Puyi and not even enjoying a day of happiness" is actually untenable.
In fact, Li Shuxian also made some explanations before she died, in her opinion, Puyi most wanted to live an ordinary life, and moving his ashes from Babaoshan to Hualong Royal Cemetery was actually against his true wishes, but only out of the wishes of many people in the society, Li Shuxian reluctantly agreed.
Therefore, Li Shuxian hopes that she can go to BabaoShan to continue to accompany her husband and slowly be forgotten, instead of being buried with her husband in some royal cemetery and being visited as an attraction.