Puyi
The tide of history is mighty, flowing through the prosperous kangqian of Kangxi and Qianlong, and also flowing through the last dynasty of Xuantong.
In 1906, Prince Zaifeng's concubine Su Jin Guarjia Youlan gave birth to a baby boy named Ai XinJue Luo Puyi.
According to the rules of the Qing court, the throne was basically incompatible with this boy, but as long as he did not do too much, it was completely fine to be a rich and idle person.
But because the Guangxu Emperor had no heirs, the throne fell to him.
When Puyi ascended the throne, he was only a 3-year-old child.
However, this is not a big deal, after all, the Kangxi Emperor was only a six-year-old child when he ascended the throne, and as long as there are reliable people to assist him, he can become a generation of Ming Emperors.
However, the times were different, Cixi was not filial piety, and Puyi failed to replicate the glory of his predecessors after all, but was deposed at the age of 6 and became the last emperor.
Empress Dowager Cixi
In the late Qing Dynasty, the power of the Qing government was greatly reduced, and the last emperor Puyi was just a puppet, so his harem naturally could not be compared with other emperors.
The other emperors were the seventy-two concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards, the three thousand beautiful ladies, and Puyi could not be compared, but the skinny camel was bigger than the horse, and the good villain was also an emperor, and there were always several wives to not lose the face of Daqing.
Puyi (right)
Puyi has a total of five wives, one concubine and three nobles. The empress is Wanrong, the noble concubine is Wenxiu, and the three nobles are Tan Yuling, Li Yuqin, and Li Shuxian.
The auspicious nobleman Tan Yuling did not accompany Puyi for a long time, but he occupied the deepest miss in his heart.
In 1937, at this time, Puyi was almost like a lonely person, Empress Wanrong was beaten into the cold palace for having an affair with the guards, Wen Xiu divorced him, and the emperor was quite miserable when he came to this position.
At this time, there was a girl who illuminated the Forbidden City like sunlight, illuminated the ancient yellow tile red wall, and also illuminated the gloomy heart of the last emperor Ai Xinjue luo Puyi.
Tan Yuling
This girl is Puyi's later xianggui, Tatara Yuling.
They were also Manchu nobles, but after the Xinhai Revolution, when everyone shouted equality and freedom, their aristocratic status was not only "not popular", but like a street rat, everyone shouted and beat.
Therefore, her family also changed her surname to Tan according to the "sound transfer" relationship, so everyone called her Tan Yuling.
When Mrs. Li, the daughter of Belle Yulang, introduced them to each other, Puyi was already 31 years old, and Tan Yuling was only 17 years old.
Tan Yuling, who is in her prime, studied in beijing's middle school and received a new-style education.
The day the two first met, the sky was clear, it was the early summer when the grass and trees were fragrant.
Only to see her fresh and refreshing short hair, a short-sleeved long skirt with white flowers on a black background, and her eyebrows are full of purity and delicacy.
That kind of vitality and vitality was something that Puyi had never seen in the Forbidden City with red walls and yellow tiles, and because of this, Puyi fell in love with this girl at a glance and was determined to marry her back to the Forbidden City. But at this time, the Forbidden City was no longer his home.
At this time Puyi was placed under house arrest by the Japanese in Changchun as his puppet emperor.
Tan Yuling, who has received a new education, certainly understands the legitimacy of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, but is also sympathetic to the last emperor who was placed under house arrest in Japan.
Seeing the lonely and thin figure of this thin young man, thinking about the storm of history he had endured, Tan Yuling's heart was also full of pity.
So the two concubines of Lang's love affair became married in a low-key manner.
Although Tan Yuling was young, he was considerate of Puyi, which made the puppet emperor under the control of the Japanese Kwantung Army particularly happy.
Sometimes, after Puyi was angry with his Japanese masters, he was upset and irritable when he returned to the palace, and often lost his temper with Tan Yuling for no reason, and once even tore the cheongsam worn by the "Xiang guiren" to pieces.
However, Tan Yuling was not only able to tolerate and understand his distress, but also to comfort her husband and make him feel at ease.
Puyi also repaid the peach, in order to show his love for Tan Yuling for her to ask for teachers to teach her, her bedroom was arranged elegantly and generously, Puyi often came here during the day to talk with her, and the laughter continued.
Puyi likes photography very much, taking many people and things he loves, and the photos are as many as thousands.
Among these photos, there are only eight pictures of the empress's grace, while there are as many as thirty of the "auspicious and noble" Tan Yuling. This shows that Puyi is truly in love with Tan Yuling.
As a woman in the new era, Tan Yuling's dress is not the flag dress of the concubines in our common Qing Palace dramas, she is also a girl who pursues fashion and fashion.
Sometimes she wears suits, dresses, and more casual clothing.
She is also an athleticist, and among the photos Puyi took for her is a tennis racket.
However, as a Manchu nobleman, sometimes Tan Yuling would still wear a flag suit, step on thick flower pot bottom shoes, and smile with a dignified atmosphere.
After marriage, Puyi was very fond of Tan Yuling. Compared with Wen Xiu and Wan Rong, Puyi and Tan Yuling are more like a couple.
Puyi gave her the privilege of entering Puyi's palace without notification. Sometimes they would grab a few pieces of pastries or fruits there at will, and these privileges were not enjoyed by Wanrong and Wenxiu.
Just like many girls now knit scarves for their boyfriends, Tan Yuling will also knit sweaters for Puyi.
AiWu and Wu, Tan Yuling is also very good to Puyi's family. You are a princess, but she also cooks for Puyi's sisters by herself, and she does whatever they like.
Puyi's family
Her clothes are also made according to what they say, and when they are done, they are worn for Puyi to see, and they playfully have to ask Puyi if they look good.
Therefore, everyone likes Tan Yuling very much, and everyone gets along with each other harmoniously.
Tan Yuling's knitting of sweaters was also learned through Puyi's sister Erge Ge.
The Gege who had returned from staying in the West also felt kind when he saw Tan Yuling, holding an English book on knitting sweaters brought back from London and telling her some of the techniques mentioned in the book.
Tan Yuling was very clever and his hands were also very clever, and he knitted it while listening to the lecture. She can weave a lot of patterns using techniques such as flat or pin needles.
Tan Yuling knitted a lot of sweaters for Puyi, and Puyi also cherished them, even during the escape, the luggage was inconvenient to carry, and he carried a large wooden box containing the sweater she knitted for him.
Puyi is a typical tyrannical prince inside the door of the house, but can often listen to Tan Yuling's persuasion.
Once, when Puyi was walking in the West Garden, he told Tan Yuling, "Today I can catch the thief who stole the fruit!"
Originally, a banana tree was specially cultivated in the garden of the palace, but the banana was stolen when it was almost ripe.
Puyi was particularly angry, strictly ordered to investigate, and finally found that it was a guard who did it, Puyi punished the guard, and planned to take him away.
Tan Yuling was very kind, interceding for the defenders in front of Puyi: "I don't think I can get rid of it, right?" Puyi really dispelled the idea of taking away the escort army.
Shengong is boring, and Tan Yuling also likes to play mahjong to live. Once, everyone was happily playing mahjong, and the card friends all patted their backs to flatter Tan Yuling for being blessed.
Tan Yuling, on the other hand, put away his smiling face, raised his face, and half-sighed and said, "I'm not a widow yet."
It turned out that Puyi's bedroom was downstairs in Ji Xi, talking and laughing together during the day, and still going back to their rooms at night.
Seeing that others have given birth to children, she is also very envious, but she can only lament that she has no chance of having children in this life, because Puyi has no fertility.
But she did not blame Puyi for this, she pitied him, but also felt sorry for him, sad that he was under house arrest and coercion by the Japanese government, could understand his situation, and was willing to endure the bitter wind and rain with him.
So even if they look loving, they still can't get her out of loneliness. In order to relieve Tan Yuling's boredom, Puyi allowed the wives of several "palace students" to enter the palace to accompany her.
Tan Yuling never served the imperial concubine's shelf, was polite and courteous, and was very kind to the palace maid and the subordinates, so both the eunuch palace maid liked her very much.
She often told them: "This time I am going back to Beijing, so be careful on the way!" ”
It turned out that she had seen the Japanese bullying Chinese on her way from Beijing to Changchun. Japanese soldiers beat a woman with a child who was pleading with him with a leather whip.
Tan Yuling, who is full of happiness on the surface, still has indescribable pain buried in his heart. This suffering is not only because individuals do not have children, but also because the nation is not independent.
Tan Yuling and Puyi's inscriptions after the photo
The country was devastated under the iron hooves of Japan, and the people had no dignity. She saw all this in her eyes and hurt in her heart.
Because of this, she often reminded Puyi not to listen to the Japanese lie of so-called "coexistence and common prosperity" and not to become a puppet of the Japanese to control China.
Puyi was very grateful for his wife's understanding, and this concern in the depths of his soul made him glad that although he was now like a dog that had lost his family, he had gained the happiness of transcending power.
Puyi and Tan Yuling are not much different in age, they both hope to be able to accompany each other, but the accident quietly comes.
In 1942, Tan Yuling fell ill with a serious cold.
Puyi was very worried, asked the inner house doctor Xu Siyun to see her, the doctor also felt that the problem was not big, take a few pairs of chinese medicine is no problem.
A few days later, Tan Yuling's cold was almost better, and Puyi gradually relaxed his heart.
The news of Tan Yuling's illness also reached the ears of the Japanese.
Soon, Yoshioka Yasuyoshi Yoshioka said, "Chinese medicine is not useful!" He also brought a Japanese doctor to see Tan Yuling, and Yoshioka also moved into the "Qinmin Hall" to take care of Tan Yuling.
Annada Yoshioka
Yoshioka was very concerned about Tan Yuling's condition, and ordered his "shrimp soldier crab general", a Japanese gendarme living in the puppet miyachi province, to call the Japanese nurse who was nursing the patients.
Tan Yuling hated Yoshioka and did not want the doctor he brought over to see a doctor, but Yoshioka ordered the doctor to force the injection and forced Tan Yuling to take medicine.
Watching the Japanese doctor take care of Tan Yuling very "seriously", Puyi was originally a little worried, but looking at Tan Yuling's pale face also became rosy, Puyi finally let go of his inner uneasiness.
I thought that Tan Yuling had seen both Traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and his condition was not serious, and he should be able to get better soon, but Puyi still believed in the Japanese too much.
Puyi thought that Yoshioka had brought the doctor over to save Tan Yuling, but seeing that his condition had improved, Yoshioka called the doctor to his house, not knowing what to say.
The next morning, Tan Yuling died.
Puyi testified in court
Yoshioka, who had just received the news, also came to mourn on behalf of the Japanese Kwantung Army Command, let people carry a large wreath, and pretended to wipe away tears.
Yoshioka's intentions are as well known as Sima Zhao's heart, and his tears are nothing more than crocodile tears.
Puyi coldly watched this person acting in front of him, and his heart was disgusted.
Kind, intelligent, lively, and young Tan Yuling, who had only lived in the Pseudo-Manchu Deep Palace for a short period of five years, suddenly left, which made people sigh.
Thinking that Tan Yuling was only twenty-two years old, they also promised to spend many days together in the future, but they left Puyi in only five years.
Puyi understood that his dearest Yuling had passed away, and the world knew him well—his soul mate was no longer alive.
Puyi was heartbroken, posthumously named Tan Yuling a noble concubine of Mingxian, scattered his family wealth to hold a grand funeral for her, gave her a wooden coffin, and set up the funeral palace in Banruo Temple.
Tomb of Tan Yuling
When Tan Yuling was buried, Puyi touched her cold cheeks, and she could only cut off a lock of her hair and four nails before covering the coffin, leaving it for thought.
Puyi knew very well in his heart that it was the Japanese who killed Tan Yuling. The situation of a puppet emperor is so sad that as long as he is not in the same heart as the master, even his closest people cannot protect him.
He was determined not to let his wife die so inexplicably, and he wanted to get justice for her.
But he couldn't completely tear his face with the Japanese, so he silently waited for the opportunity.
Finally, at the Tokyo International Court, Puyi directly accused Yoshioka of killing Tan Yuling, but unfortunately, because there was no direct evidence, Yoshioka could not be brought to justice.
It is said that Tan Yuling's death was the poisoning hand of Yoshioka, because as early as after Wanrong's insanity, Yoshioka proposed to Puyi to choose a Japanese woman to enter the palace.
Puyi shirked that it had been selected in Beijing, and would soon be received, this was Tan Yuling, although Yoshioka was dissatisfied at the time, but it was Puyi's private affair, and Yoshioka was not convenient to interfere excessively, it just so happened that Tan Yuling was ill, so he gave this poisonous hand.
As soon as Tan Yuling died, Yoshioka discussed with Puyi in advance, and he found many portraits of Japanese women for Puyi to choose.
However, Puyi shirked and said that in the future, we must choose a Japanese woman, and we should be cautious, because this is the relationship between the two countries, and we will find one in Changchun for the time being. Therefore, Yoshioka chose Li Yuqin into the palace.
At that time, "Nichiman marriage" first appeared in government offices, and later among Puyi's nephews and students, he advised them to marry Japanese women.
From this, it can be imagined that this is a great conspiracy of the Japanese, if Puyi marries a Japanese woman, the children born will undoubtedly inherit the Manchurian Emperor in the future, and the northeast territory of China will not belong to Japan?
The Japanese killed Tan Yuling only to further control Puyi and further encroach on china's territory.
Japan surrendered in 1945. Puyi was captured by the Soviets while fleeing Manchuria and was escorted to the Soviet Union the next day.
Chairman Mao received Puyi
Puyi was worried that he would never come back after this departure, and he did not worry about anything else, but he still could not rest assured that Tan Yuling could not be relieved.
Worried that he could not protect Tan Yuling's body, he had the body cremated and stored in Beijing, where Tan Yuling grew up.
In 1959, Puyi received a pardon from Chairman Mao.
At this time, Puyi still remembered Tan Yuling, and he also took the photo with "My Dearest Yuling" and immediately brought Tan Yuling's urn to his side.
Later, Puyi and Li Shuxian became a family, or reluctant to let Tan Yuling be lonely, he still insisted on leaving the urn around.
Puyi and Li Shuxian
It wasn't until Li Shuxian, Tan Yuling's urn stored at home, that she was scared out of an illness that Puyi had no choice but to send Tan Yuling's ashes to her hometown Rongdian for burial.
In 1967, Puyi, the last emperor who had seen the vicissitudes of history, completed his extraordinary life as an ordinary citizen of the People's Republic of China.
Before Puyi's death, everything was looked down upon, but he still could not give up Tan Yuling, and he asked the organization to agree to bury Tan Yuling's ashes with himself after his death, but did not get permission.
Puyi died with regret.
The tombs of Puyi, Wanrong, and Tan Yuling
In 2006, in order to fulfill Puyi's wishes, Puyi's descendants buried Tan Yuling's urn in the Hualong Royal Cemetery, buried on one side of Puyi's tomb, and on the other side was the tomb of Empress Wanrong.
Tan Yuling's life was short, and she went from a newly educated declining nobleman to the wife of the last emperor.
She loved her husband and loved her country, but in the end she was killed by the Japanese, and although her life was as short as fireworks, it was brilliant enough.
Siren has passed away, and the past has gone with the wind, but her and Puyi's love beyond the door and straight to the soul will still move future generations; a weak woman's deep feelings of home and country are also admirable.