China experienced a long period of feudal society, during which many emperors appeared. Among them, some of them lived their lives in a mediocre manner and lived their lives like horses and flowers; some of them worked hard to govern and could be called the labor models of the emperor's profession; some of them spent their lives and created a prosperous dynasty.
Today, we want to say that this person is neither a cruel tyrant, nor a Ming emperor who has opened up territory and loves the people like a son. But he is well known to all today and often speaks of him. Regarding his evaluation, there have always been many different views in history, and this person is the last emperor of China, Puyi.
As the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the last emperor of China, Puyi's life can be described as turbulent and displaced, even more miserable than any previous king of the country. Therefore, later after liberation, When Puyi and a friend came to the Forbidden City and prepared to go in to visit, when the staff stopped Puyi and asked him to buy a ticket to enter, Puyi cried bitterly.
Yes, leaving aside his identity, the Forbidden City was the place where he lived. A person returns to his own home, wants to go in to see, but needs to buy a ticket to enter, and then think of when he followed the Japanese to the northeast, as a puppet of the Japanese, want to come to Puyi's heart must be mixed.
When Puyi's uncle, the regent, issued the "Edict of Abdication" on his behalf, according to the record that "the special emperor declared the right to rule the whole country, designated it as a constitutional republic, close to the heart of the sea of disgust and hope for governance, and far from the ancient holy world as a righteous righteousness", it already meant the end of China's feudal society and the demise of the last feudal dynasty. Since then, the course of China's history has finally come out of feudal society.
Although there are no great achievements, not even a qualified emperor, but among the many emperors in China, Puyi's popularity is not small. The reason for this is that he was the last emperor of feudal society. Puyi's life experience was very bumpy, and the emperor alone did it three times.
Although some of them were unwilling to do so, some of them were not up to him, and some of them were even unimpressed at all, he had been emperor three times after all. In the past, in the concept of Chinese, the emperor was supreme and holy, and he was the ninth and fifth. And when it comes to Puyi, it seems that this is not the case.
When he first became emperor, Puyi was still a child who didn't understand anything. The second time, although Puyi had already understood some truths and became a teenager, although his ancestor Kangxi Emperor had already had considerable courage and done a lot of great things in his youth, Puyi had neither such courage nor such a background.
At that time, he still had no autonomy, and he only sat on the throne for ten days, and then hurriedly stepped down; as for the third time, it was the experience that he should be scolded by future generations, that is, as a puppet emperor of the Japanese, he became the emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo. As an emperor, he ceded his country to a foreign nation, how undignified!
When the Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast was driven away by the autumn wind of the Soviet army, Puyi was also very embarrassed to be exposed. No matter how many Soviets there are, in their opinion, since Puyi has made a puppet emperor to the Japanese and obeyed the orders of the Japanese, he is an accomplice of Japan and should also be punished. The Soviets took Puyi back to soviet prisons and kept them strictly. It was not until the founding of New China that Puyi was sent back to China.
After returning to China, Puyi naturally needs to undergo labor reform. However, as a former emperor, his transformation should be highly valued and very complicated. However, after a long decade, just when Puyi was ready to completely give up his freedom and prepare to be transformed into a lifetime, things took a turn for the better.
Because of Puyi's good performance in the transformation process, he got the best news of his life on December 4, 1959. On this day, the Supreme People's Court of China announced that Puyi had been pardoned, and it was as No. 001. When he heard this news, he immediately burst into tears, and he had unspeakable gratitude for the new China.
In Puyi's memoir "The First Half of My Life", Puyi recorded his emotions at that time. He said, "Before I could finish listening, I was crying out of tears. Motherland, my motherland, you made me a man! Since then, Puyi has become a free and independent person. In order to make him like a normal person, the government also arranged a job for him.
What work is arranged for Puyi? This matter is actually a headache. Because his previous identity experience is too special, many jobs are very sensitive for him.
When the government asked Puyi's own opinion, he first said that he wanted to become a doctor. This is obviously unrealistic, because he has neither a qualification certificate nor TCM skills, so it is obviously inappropriate to be a doctor who treats patients and saves people. Later, Puyi proposed that he wanted to work in the Forbidden City, but because of his special status, it was difficult to guarantee that there would be some extreme tourists who would verbally stimulate him in the future, so the government did not agree.
Later, combining Puyi's own situation and his personal hobbies, he was arranged to work at the Beijing Botanical Garden. He loves this job and works hard in his ordinary job. The government later introduced him to a woman, and the two were very close and formed a small family.