Since ancient times, the "royal palace" has been the most chaotic place, this kind of chaos is not the chaos of "turmoil", but the scattering of people's hearts, although this is the most magnificent place in the world, but because of the struggle for power, and the various constraints of the rules, it is more like a filthy prison. I believe that many people have already understood one or two from the modern "Qing Palace Drama". However, compared with the real history, the Qing Palace drama is nothing, which can be seen from the last empress Wanrong.
Wanrong was born in 1906, her full name is Guo Buluo Wanrong, the family is the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner, the father is the Minister of the Interior Guo Buluo Rongyuan, Wanrong's father is a very discerning person, although Wanrong is a woman, but let him receive an equal education, teach her to read. She painted, played the piano, and even hired an American to teach her English.
Wanrong grew up in such a carefree environment, and grew into a learned, temperamental, good-looking everyone's bridesmaids, before entering the palace, Wanrong's absolute can be called "Clear Water Out of The Hibiscus" This adjective, but fate, in 1922, 16-year-old Wanrong was elected to the palace and became the last imperial concubine in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
In fact, as early as 1912, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown under the fire of the Xinhai Revolution, but before Empress Longyu promulgated the "Abdication Edict" in the name of Puyi, she signed the "Preferential Conditions for the Qing Dynasty" with Yuan Shikai, which stipulated that the Qing imperial family could still live in the palace after abdication. Therefore, Wanrong married Puyi was also a wedding held in the palace, and lived in the palace for several years. Wanrong received a certain new-style education and was a very fashionable person. All novelties were brought to the palace, including cigarettes.
Cigarettes were imported into China in 1890 through foreign businessmen, but soon became a widely sought after product, such as Wanrong's mother Ai Xinjue Luo Zhongxin was a woman with a great addiction to smoking, and perhaps for this reason, Wanrong also loved to smoke. The Ministry of Internal Affairs once made a record, in the year when Wanrong smoked the most, Wanrong smoked thirty-four hundred and thirty cigarettes, which means that Wanrong smoked an average of more than eighty cigarettes a day, which is a terrible number, it is no wonder that Wanrong died at the age of 40, so why does Wanrong love to smoke so much?
There is once a famous saying on the Internet called: "Brother smokes not cigarettes, it is loneliness." In fact, cigarettes can indeed paralyze a person to a certain extent, and even become a kind of sad emotion, and from the perspective of Wanrong's growth experience, she is a more emotional person, so cigarettes have become something she does not leave her hand.
And Wanrong's life after marrying Puyi is not happy, first of all, Wanrong married into the palace with Wen xiu, which is another concubine of Puyi. WanRong is an eccentric monster, every time Puyi is angry, Puyi will go to find Wenxiu, especially after they were expelled from the palace by Feng Yuxiang in 1924, Puyi spent a lot of time on Tan Yuling.
Wanrong, who lost her favor, was even more lonely, and even contracted the habit of smoking opium, Puyi wrote in "The First Half of My Life" that Wanrong also had an affair with the guards around her to alleviate her loneliness. What Wanrong hopes for is Puyi's single-minded love, an emotional need that is easily obtained among ordinary people, but it has become a distant dream in the court, and cigarettes have become a way for her to pin her emotions, or a way to "destroy" herself.