As the last emperor of China, Ai Xin Jueluo Puyi saw the peak and the bottom of the valley, and experienced various winds. How to evaluate his life, is it unfortunate or lucky?
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, he was not shocked and had no desires and no desires, only to protect himself in the new era. It is such a person with an extremely gentle nature, and the sadness of his later years is only understood by himself.
In 1959, after finishing the labor reform, Puyi crossed the noon gate, crossed the Hanbai Jade Bridge, and walked to the Taihe Hall, which was once the place where he grew up and lived for 16 years, but now it has become both familiar and strange.
He stood aside, looking at the group of tourists, a tour guide was explaining the architecture and history of the Forbidden City, Puyi wanted to say something and stopped, maybe he wanted to correct something, and finally he did not say anything, and walked away with a bitter smile.
Later generations have many versions of Puyi's return to the Forbidden City.
Some people say that Puyi pointed out that the portrait of the Guangxu Emperor hanging in the room was wrong, it was his father; some people said that Puyi found the night pot he used in the cultural relics on display; others said that Puyi pointed to the place where he was driven out by Feng Yuxiang and told his wife Li Shuxian that it was there that he was expelled.
No one knows what Puyi's mood was like when he bought a ticket home, nor can he know what he thought at that moment. What he would miss the honor of the emperor, whether he would lament the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and whether he would be glad that he had not been killed like Li Tang, were all speculations made by posterity.
Some people say that Puyi's life is tragic, and some people say that Puyi's life is lucky, the truth is that these two statements are too extreme.
Born in the imperial family of the last dynasty, used by the Japanese as a puppet emperor who invaded China, his flesh and blood relatives were killed, the death of his favorite Wanrong, and he needed to buy tickets to return to his home, which is indeed a very tragic thing that people can imagine, making people feel pitiful.
However, from the perspective of the ending, Puyi is also lucky. Puyi, who received amnesty after many years of labor reform, organized him to work, he was introduced to the Botanical Garden of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and later transferred to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference as a material commissioner, and the salary and writing fee for this job was not low at that time. Even he himself often lamented that the last emperor was so lucky as he was that he did not lose his head.
Puyi's life is full of legends, which is brought to him by that chaotic era and embarrassing identity. He is smart, in these experiences of all sizes, he has long learned to be sleek in the world, he knows that the Qing Dynasty has reached the end of the road, no matter how much he does, he is powerless to return to heaven, it is better to erase the aura of the emperor Mingzhe to protect himself, from the Ninth Five-Year Supreme to honestly be a Chinese citizen, in exchange for a plain old age.
Most of us are plain and ordinary, and we will not have Puyi's life experiences and experiences, but for each of us, every book we have read, every road we have traveled, and everyone we meet have become a part of life.
Be thankful for the experience that has allowed you and me to grow, for better or worse.