People who study history should all know Puyi. Puyi, known as the last emperor. In the movie "The Last Emperor", it tells the story of Ai Xinjue Luo Puyi's life from becoming emperor to finally becoming an ordinary person.
The film eventually won an Academy Award. When Puyi was eighteen years old, Feng Yuxiang led soldiers to force him to move out of the palace, and Puyi was forced to agree. When Puyi escaped from the palace, he had to pick up some treasures to take away.
In 1950, during the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, in order to help the country, many people spontaneously donated money to support the army. Among the people who donated money was Puyi.
After careful consideration, Puyi donated the treasure he brought out when he left the palace, a treasure that had been sewn into a cotton coat for 26 years, and is now a "national treasure among national treasures".
This piece is known as "the national treasure of the national treasure", what kind of treasure is it?
Escape from the palace to take the treasure
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, because of the agreement between Yuan Shikai and the imperial family, Puyi was no longer an emperor, but still lived an emperor-like life. In the following ten years, Puyi lived a carefree adolescent time.
Until Puyi was eighteen years old, the appearance of a person broke his beautiful life, and this person was Feng Yuxiang. Feng Yuxiang led his troops to force Puyi to move out of the palace, and Puyi had no escort army to fight him, and could only flee with treasures.
After more than ten years of eating in the imperial palace, Puyi naturally knew that if he wanted the quality of life in the future not to decline, he would have to take away enough treasures.
Therefore, the number of treasures that Puyi took away was enough to use more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages to load. But in addition to the treasures transported by the carriage, Puyi also secretly hid a treasure sewn in a cotton coat and took it away.
The preciousness of this treasure made Puyi hide around for 26 years, so that in the later turbulent days, he did not sell it, and even during the five years of captivity, he was not found, and this treasure was Tian Huang SanlianXi. And what is so special about this Tian Huang Triptych?
Qianlong treasure - Tian Huang Triple Seal
This TianHuang Triple Seal was the qianlong emperor's most cherished object. As we all know, the Qianlong Emperor was known as the "Seal Demon", and there were countless seals stamped on the name paintings.
This Tian Huang Triple Seal is carved from Tian Huang Stone. As the saying goes, "gold is easy to get, Tian Huang is hard to find", and the preciousness of Tian Huang has been considered the "King of Printing Stones" since the Ming and Qing dynasties. Tian Huangshi is a treasure in the Shoushan stone system, its texture is warm and delicate, it is the best material for carving seals, and has been loved by seal collectors for hundreds of years.
The Tian Huang Triple Seal, as the name suggests, is made of three seals made of Tian Huangshi, and then three chains made of Tian Huang stone are connected into one.
The most exquisite of the TianHuang Triple Seal is the Tian Huangshi Chain, which uses a special technique to carve the Tian Huangshi skeleton into a chain without gaps. The soft texture of Tian Huangshi carved into a chain, the difficulty of which can be imagined, so this Tian Huang Triple Seal is particularly precious.
Tian Huang Sanlian Seal is the personal seal engraved by the Qianlong Emperor, and the words engraved on it are "only the only essence" and "Lotte" from the Confucian classics, "only the essence is the only one" means that only by calming down the mind and concentrating on doing one thing can things be done perfectly, while "Lotte" is to conform to the mandate of heaven and not have to worry about your own situation.
The tianhuang triple seal is precious, and even the Qianlong Emperor, who collects it, has a special fondness for it, and even when he sleeps, he must put it on his pillow. Because of its hard-won, the TianHuang Sanlian Seal not only loved it, but even the later emperors cherished it very much in their lives, including Puyi.
Puyi, who knows the preciousness of Tian Huang SanlianXi, has not sold it in the face of many difficult situations. Originally, I thought that this Tian Huang Triple Seal would spend his life with Puyi in anonymity, but in the end Puyi handed it over.
Turn over to the country
Puyi, who was expelled from the imperial palace, lived in the Zhang Garden and Jing Garden in Tianjin. Puyi, who was no longer the emperor, still could not change the habit of eating and drinking, spending money like flowing water, and the treasures he brought out of the palace were also sold one by one.
In 1934, Puyi became the emperor of puppet Manchuria, a puppet of the Japanese, and was reviled by the world. On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union launched an offensive against the puppet state of Manchukuo. Not long after, Puyi fled in a hurry and promulgated the Edict of Abdication on August 15. On the 19th, Puyi was arrested by the Soviet Union on his way to Japan and became a prisoner.
During his captivity, Puyi was treated differently from ordinary people, so Puyi wrote to the Soviet Union many times to express his willingness to stay in the Soviet Union forever. On August 1, 1950, Puyi was transferred back to China and received about ten years of ideological education and labor reform in the management office.
After Puyi was pardoned, he returned to society as an ordinary person. After the rise of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Puyi, who had successfully transformed at that time, abandoned his previous ideas and handed over the Tian Huang Sanlian Seal, which he had carried for 26 years, to the state, and then handed it over to the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Puyi's life can be described as ups and downs. In just sixty-one years of life, Puyi has experienced too many unusual things. It was a big mistake, and it also paid a price.
In the process of transformation, Puyi wrote his autobiography "The First Half of My Life", which described his process from ascending the throne to accepting New China. In this book, you can feel Puyi's sadness and joy and the changes of the times.
In the author's opinion, Puyi's life has mixed joys and sorrows, and his reputation has been mixed. In the Tian Huang Sanlian Seal, which the country has cherished for 26 years, it can be known that Puyi is no longer the emperor who did not take responsibility in the past, but truly stood on the stand of the state and provided help to the country.
brief summary
Cultural relics are relics and relics of historical, artistic and scientific value left by human beings in social activities, and are valuable historical and cultural heritage of mankind.
Just like the Tian Huang Triple Seal, this small seal contains too much history, reflecting the beginning to the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the turmoil in it is expressed in this seal, which has long exceeded its original value, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "national treasure among national treasures".
You know, the reason why cultural relics are very precious is not only because of their good looks, but also because the history and culture contained in them have a highly condensed historical significance.
It is the so-called one heart and one mind to protect cultural heritage, and to work together to guard the spiritual homeland. We must not only know the importance of cultural relics, but also protect them.
The protection management and scientific research of cultural relics are of great significance to the world's understanding of history and creative power, to revealing the objective laws of human social development, and to understanding and promoting the development of contemporary and future societies.
If you have the opportunity in the future, you must go to the Palace Museum to see the Tian Huang Sanlian Seal, feel the cultural connotation hidden in it, and you can learn why the Qianlong Emperor favored it so much, and why the emperors and Puyi loved it.