In the last year of the Qing Dynasty, after the death of the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi, Puyi, who was only 3 years old, sat on the throne and became the new master of the Qing Dynasty. On February 12, 1912, Puyi, who was only 6 years old, announced his abdication under the replacement of Empress Longyu, and after Puyi's abdication, the republic of China government gave the "Regulations on Preferential Treatment for the Abdication of the Qing Emperor", which means that although the Qing government perished, Puyi could still live in the Forbidden City. But at this time, the Forbidden City was just a cage, and Puyi was a bird in a cage. Until he was expelled from the Forbidden City by Feng Yuxiang in 1924, Puyi left a lot of memories in this palace.
Recently, netizens on the Internet exposed several color photos of Puyi, which has become a hot topic of discussion among many netizens, many people said that there were no color photos in that era at that time, so these photos must be fake. After a series of comparisons and studies, it was finally concluded that the old photographs had been post-processed. Due to the current technological progress, many black and white old photos will become color after some technical processing, so that we can understand the late Qing Dynasty more realistically.
Puyi on the photo has no long braids, the hair should be fixed with hairspray, combed neatly, although Puyi at that time was no longer the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, but still looked very serious. At that time, the harem concubines of the Qing Dynasty used hair gel to fix their hair every day, and everyone knew that Manchu women had to coil their hair up, otherwise there was no way to go out.
The hair in this photo is obviously using hairspray, but it is not as serious as in the Qing Palace drama, because at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many foreign products introduced to China, and the concubines of the harem gradually began to use some Western things, and the traditional things were gradually eliminated, and what was replaced was the Western hairspray containing modern technology. The small grids in the photo are more natural. Wanrong's costume gives people a very gentle feeling, very gorgeous, a look is a lady of a large family, but from Wanrong's eyes, we can see that Empress Wanrong is a cold beauty.
This photo is the last emperor Puyi and his brothers, and the foreigner standing next to him is Puyi's foreign teacher Johnston, and there is a child holding a badminton racket in the photo, at that time, the badminton racket was a solid foreign thing, which shows that the late Qing Dynasty at that time was already in the front of fashion.