For a moment, the dream was wide. China has experienced many dynasties, all the way to today's new era of new China, and the fate of the emperors of each dynasty is different, and the fate of the corresponding imperial relatives has been rewritten. The Dynasties of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, which are close to the time of New China, especially the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, are the fields of study that contemporary scholars are talking about, and "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty" explains many historical stories.
We also know that the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, hanged himself from the commanding heights of Jingshan Park in Beijing today, and the Qing Dynasty, as the last dynasty in China, was also full of ups and downs, the climax was in the prosperous era of Kangqian, and the last emperor Puyi was also the focus of people's attention, but today we focus on a close relative of Puyi, the emperor Zaitao, a different mortal life.
The last emperor Puyi
There is a video on Douyin revealing Puyi's sitting posture, Puyi sits alone on a crutch, and the handle of the original crutch can be divided into two to form a hollow seat. When it comes to Puyi, everyone knows that he is the last emperor, and he was forcibly pressed on the dragon chair by Empress Dowager Cixi when he was learning to speak, and this emperor was forced to ascend the throne. Puyi lived for 61 years, became emperor three times in his life, the first time was the emperor of the eight books, but he was overthrown by the Republic of China at the age of three and six years old, and after the second Zhang Xun restoration, he became the emperor for 12 days, and later became a puppet Manchu emperor for several years with the support of the Japanese, and now there is a puppet Manchu Palace memorial hall in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Puyi learned traditional Chinese culture when he was a child, and later foreigners trampled on Chinese territory, Johnston became Puyi's teacher, he began to open his eyes to the world, but also hoped to study in the West. After Japan's defeat, Puyi once wanted to flee to Japan, but was arrested and imprisoned by the Soviet Red Army, and later transferred to China and reformed through labor at the Fushun War Criminals Management Center.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the chairman pardoned Puyi, who successively worked in the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Literature and History Research Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and other places, and died of uremia during a special period. After his death, Puyi was buried in Babaoshan, and in the 1990s, his widow was transferred to the Hualong Royal Cemetery near the Qingxi Mausoleum in Hebei Province, and his family was given the temple name "Xianzong" and the nickname "Emperor Xiaoxiang of The Heavenly Tongyun Fa Shao Tong Shu Tu Tu Wen Jing Fu Kuan Rui Zheng Mu Ti Ren Li Xiao Xiang Emperor".
The last emperor Zaitao
During Puyi's labor reform, the state leader once sent a person to visit Puyi, and Puyi met with him without knowing it, and after seeing him, he shouted "Seven Uncles" and hugged his head and cried. This seventh uncle is Ai Xin Jue Luo Zaitao, they have not seen each other for many years, but in the new China as they were, Zaitao specifically advised Puyi to reform and become a new person. Zaitao was about 20 years older than Puyi and was born in the late Qing Dynasty in 1887, and the Prince of Alcohol Palace was his birthplace. He was the half-brother of the Guangxu Emperor and a famous figure in the late Qing Dynasty.
He studied horse riding in France, loved horse painting and Peking Opera, and was versatile throughout his life. As a royal brother, Zaitao once served as a general of Zhenguo and the commander of the Janissaries. In 1902, Zaitao succeeded to King Zhongjun, lived as Baylor, and moved to Theobel Province near the present-day Shichahai Sea, which has now become part of the Beijing No. 13 Middle School. Thinking about it carefully, Puyi and his uncle Zaitao are both products of the times, they just happened to be born in the royal family, and they have personally experienced the decline of the royal family and the rise of new China, from the royal aristocracy to the situation of the common people, and strive to be a good citizen in the new China that pays attention to equality. However, the difference between Zaitao and Puyi is that he refuses to be a puppet, discerns the direction in the face of major rights and wrongs, and takes the initiative to draw a clear line with Puyi's thoughts and actions. Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was reused by the state, and died in his 80s and was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, spending a long and legendary life.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, he set up stalls and refused to be traitors
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi still stayed in the Forbidden City for a while, and received preferential treatment everywhere, but some imperial relatives and nobles were not so lucky, especially Zaitao was unwilling to join Puyi in the same stream, did not agree with Puyi's idea of alliance with Japan, and was even more hungry. Zaitao had no choice but to sell his property and sell the Tao Belle Mansion, and after the family property had nothing to sell, he went to set up a stall near Deshengmen to maintain the family's livelihood. Every morning, Zaitao and his wife rode bicycles, brought the small things they had packed up last night, and grabbed food with small merchants and vendors, at that time, Zaitao was nearly old, giving up his face to run for life, the surrounding people greeted him, from Zaitao's body, we saw the grounding gas and zhengzheng iron bones.
Even now, there are many people who are embarrassed to go out to set up stalls, thinking that stalls are the last class, incompetent occupations, in fact, people and occupations in this world are not high or low, they are artificially distinguished, and they can harvest a different life by putting their posture and mentality at the bottom. Such a hardship was the result of his refusal to do so by the high-ranking official Houlu, Puyi asked him to assist him not to do it, and the Japanese personally invited him not to do it, because he just did not want to be a slave to the country. It is precisely because of this that the relationship between Zaitao and Puyi became more and more distant, until they met again after the founding of the country.
After the founding of the country, what happened to the end?
After the founding of New China, the premier introduced Zaitao to the chairman, who greatly admired the patriotic spirit displayed by Zaitao, because Zaitao loved horses, and the chairman personally signed a letter of responsibility, appointed Zaitao as an adviser to the People's Liberation Army Horse Political Bureau, the same as the minister's position and treatment, and jokingly called Zaitao "Bow Ma Wen". In August 1950, Zaitao held the letter of appointment sent to him by the chairman and burst into tears, saying: "The chairman and prime minister who know me, I will certainly contribute to the military and horse cause of our army and live up to the trust and expectations of the leaders." "Zaitao has a lot of achievements in soma and horse training, and is a famous ma bole in the army.
Zaitao married several wives in his life, and his children were also fateful, two children died just after birth, some children lived to be more than 10 years old, and his son Pujia and Puyi grew up together, and followed Puyi for many years, writing a book "Memories of the Qing Palace". Now Zaitao's living children have changed their surname to "Jin", some work as drivers in transportation companies, some contribute their lives to teachers, and the only daughter is married to Alxa, Mongolia, it can be seen that Zaitao's descendants have long been integrated into the lives of ordinary Chinese citizens. Stumbling, I only wish for a lifetime of well-being. Zaitao's choice at the critical moment is correct, which determines the turn of his life's fate, when he looks back on his life, what words he wants to give to everyone, I am afraid it is "rare and ordinary".