Introduction Kun Yuanbu Qi is selfless, and the material skills are deeply unknown. The spring in the sky returns to the pepper hall, and the spring wind enters the branches of the ten thousand years. - "Kasuga Empress Pavilion Kunyuan Buqi Ben Selfless"
If we mention the ancient times of the feudal period, the first thing that people think of is the proud son of heaven above ten thousand people, the emperor. And the most exciting thing is the court that is the center of the vortex of power and ambition. It is the bright and moving beauty in the harem, all kinds of colors. Everyone is eager to get the emperor's love, just like Yang Guifei in the prosperous tang dynasty, the three thousand beautiful ladies only take one person, set thousands of pets in one, and become a well-known favorite concubine.
But not every woman can get such a special honor, most women in the deep palace can only sigh in the middle of the night, sighing that everything is fate, half a point is not up to people. And the last empress of China, Wanrong. Her life is even more so, even if she has sat in the position of the lord of the harem, but the desolate situation of her life can only make people sigh, red face and thin life, life is not timely. Even after her death, the whereabouts were spent by father and son, spending 50 years searching for Wanrong's whereabouts, and finally relying on a book to find clues.
Wan Rong was born in 1906, the Guo Bu Luo clan belongs to the Daur clan, Manchuria is the white flag. His father was Rong Yuan, minister of the Interior Ministry, and he could be said to be a nobleman. If she can marry a mingjun, she may also be able to achieve a good story that has been famous for thousands of years. Unfortunately, she was married to a puppet emperor who had no real power, Puyi. Even the entire court was not thriving, when the entire Qing Dynasty was already like a decaying and dilapidated wooden house, making a creaking and rattling sound in the cold wind.
When she married Puyi, she was only 16 years old. Because of his dignified beauty, proficiency in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, his life is very prominent. Therefore, she was hand-picked into the palace by The Noble Concubine of The Duankang Emperor, and such an ignorant and fancy girl stepped into this cold Forbidden City with the desire for love and the yearning for marriage. In fact, the beginning of the story of Wanrong and Puyi is beautiful and happy. Because her father advocated equality between men and women, Wanrong began to receive education from an early age. Not only the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting stipulated in the feudal society, but also let her read and write, and even hired an American teacher for her to teach her to learn English. The living environment is rich and superior, and he has received some Western education. This makes Wanrong very lively and cheerful, and her mind is relatively open, like the flowers in the greenhouse.
No man can resist the charm of such a simple and cheerful little girl, and Puyi is the same. The two ride, photograph, and play together. Write poems and convey feelings in English. In this way, Wanrong actually spent a beautiful and happy little time in the Forbidden City. And the good life was broken by the "Beijing Coup" of 1924. Puyi fled Beijing in a hurry with Wanrong, and the war and chaos hit the already vulnerable Qing Dynasty again and again. In this context, Puyi, under the persuasion of his pro-Japanese courtiers around him, chose to defect to the Japanese despite Wanrong's obstruction.
By 1932, Puyi had become a puppet of the Japanese, and Wanrong's relationship with Puyi was gradually consumed in daily quarrels. It is worth mentioning here that due to puyi's childhood sexual abuse, his body was abnormal. Under all the various causes and effects, Wan Rong eventually committed adultery with the guards. This also stepped on the tail of the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who had little self-esteem and pride left, and he beat Wanrong into the cold palace.
The depressed grace, like most Chinese at that time, fell into the dream created by the smoke. In 1945, WanRong, who was already in a trance, was used as a "negative teaching material" for the common people to visit. A generation of queens, but like monkeys, were watched by people, which stomped the last trace of pride of the once confident and sunny girl on the ground. In the end, Wanrong's whereabouts are unknown, knowing that many years after liberation, the descendants of the royal family are still searching for her whereabouts. Sun Dechong's father and son have been pursuing for several years, spanning more than 7,000 kilometers and spending a lot of money. Only in a book called "Red Family" did I find the ending of Wanrong.
It turned out that Wanrong was eventually imprisoned in Yanji Prison. Fortunately, with the two brothers of the Li family taking care of her, Wanrong's second half of life showed a little warmth. At that time, her mental state was already good and bad, and when she fell ill, she was shouting words that some people could not understand. When he was well, he looked out the window of the prison in a daze. Perhaps in the memory of those sweet pasts with Puyi, but the most missed is still Cheng Huan's knees, that all kinds of tolerant parents.
epilogue
In June 1946, Wan Rong died of a poison attack. The last generation of Chinese empresses, after their deaths, had to be cared for by the Li brothers, so that a coffin changed from a desk was buried on a nameless river, and it ended miserably. WanRong's miserable life was the tragedy of that era, a victim of the impact of the old and new societies. Even with that yearning for freedom, there is already an enlightened family. But she still became a puppet of the feudal arranged marriage, married to a man who finally abandoned her in prison. Even in Puyi's book "The First Half of My Life", it was said that if Wanrong could divorce me like Wen Xiu when she was in Tianjin, it was likely that there would be no such ending. The so-called red face and thin life, from childhood to the family's love, confident girls finally ended up in such a fate, how can people not sigh.
bibliography:
"The First Half of My Life"
"Kasuga Empress Pavilion Kunyuan Buqi Is Selfless"