Puyi sat on the dragon chair when he was three years old, but only sat for three years, because of the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution and yuan shikai's persecution, he finally had to announce his abdication, but he has lived in the imperial palace since then, until he was 18 years old because Feng Yuxiang launched the Beijing coup d'état before he was expelled from the Forbidden City, and it was these twelve years of time that Puyi practiced two skills, the first skill was unmatched by the emperors of the past, and the second skill would make experts feel embarrassed.
After Puyi abdicated, Empress Longyu invited Puyi to invite many master-level figures to teach him to read, and the study was set up in the Zhongnanhai Yingtai Tong Bookstore. Among the many masters, Lu Runyu, Xu Fang, Chen Baochen, Liang Dingfen and others successively taught Puyi Chinese and Iktan taught Manchu. In the first six or seven years, Puyi mainly studied the Thirteen Classics, ancient poems and ancient texts, as well as the Zhu Zi Family Training and the Aphorisms of the Court Training, and did not learn arithmetic, nor did he study geographical history.
In 1919, the foreigner Johnston came to the Forbidden City in Beijing, served as Puyi's emperor, taught Puyi English, mathematics, world history and geography, the two had a very deep relationship, for a time was rumored to be a good story, Puyi also opened his eyes, began to wear suits, cut braids, learn to ride a bicycle, but was opposed by some conservatives.
From November 16, 1922, Puyi had a daily work that had to be carried out, that is, in the name of appreciation, he read the calligraphy and paintings and antique treasures collected in the palace, so he developed a high level of appreciation, so the general antique treasures, he only needed to look at a few glances, a little touch can probably judge the true and false.
This Puyi's first skill, under the guidance of Teacher Yang, learned English very well, and was able to skillfully translate the Four Books and Five Classics in English, a skill that was unmatched by successive emperors, after all, due to the environment and the times, few emperors in history could speak English, let alone translate the Four Books and Five Classics.
This second skill is Puyi's extremely high level of identification and the "golden eye of fire" to distinguish the authenticity of antiquities, it is said that the master of traditional Chinese studies Wang Guowei once collected several antique cultural relics flowing from the palace on the street, once Puyi went to his home as a guest, he took it out to show off, who knew that Puyi looked at it a few times and said it was fake, Wang Guowei did not believe it at first, and later after identification, it was found that it was really fake, so in terms of identification, the master of traditional Chinese studies was still inferior to him, and the general experts were in front of him, not to mention.