The demise of the Qing Dynasty changed the fate of many people, among whom the Manchu nobles were the most affected, and the last emperor was a witness to the demise of the Qing Dynasty.
In 1912, when Empress Longyu signed the edict of abdication of the Qing Emperor, Puyi was only 6 years old. As a quid pro quo for the abdication of the Qing Emperor, the Republic of China government also proposed that Puyi could continue to live in the Forbidden City, so Puyi could also be regarded as growing up in the Forbidden City. In the Forbidden City, Puyi still followed the old system of the Qing Dynasty, and also successively studied many Confucian classics and Manchu characters. In 1922, a wedding ceremony was also held, marrying the Empress and the Lady Concubine. Until 1924, Puyi lived in the Forbidden City. Therefore, his feelings for the Forbidden City are very deep.
After leaving the Forbidden City, Puyi lived in Tianjin, Fengtian, Changchun and other places, and after the fall of the puppet Manchu regime, he was imprisoned in the Soviet Union, then handed over to China, and accepted 10 years of reform in Fushun until he received a pardon in 1959. Subsequently, the state assigned Puyi the job of a gardener, and Puyi finally changed from the last emperor to an ordinary laborer who was self-reliant.
In his later years, Puyi once returned to the place where he grew up, that is, the Forbidden City. After entering the Forbidden City, Puyi had a lot of thoughts. What he wanted to go to most was the Golden Ruan Hall of that year. Due to the need to protect cultural relics, ordinary tourists cannot enter the Golden Ruan Hall, but after the management learned of Puyi's special status, they made an exception to allow him to enter and visit. Puyi often played on the dragon chair of the Golden Ruan Hall when he was young, and in his later years, Puyi also came to the dragon chair of the Golden Ruan Hall to sit again. The staff suggested that he could take a photo here as a souvenir, but Puyi shook his head and refused, and said a heartfelt word: This dragon chair is not so easy to sit on, and then left. This sentence is also a portrayal of Puyi's life, and since then Puyi has never been to the Forbidden City until his death.