"May I be born in the world, and I will not be born in the house of the emperor." This is the thirteen-year-old Southern Song Emperor Liu Zhun, who said a sentence that expressed his inner despair and endless sadness.
In our country, the royal family and nobles have always been a symbol of power and status, they have a noble status, but also have the supreme right.
When people were worried about their livelihood, they could live carefree in the palace.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Pu Ren, who was born into an imperial aristocratic family and came from a prominent background, Empress Dowager Cixi was his grandmother, the Guangxu Emperor was the great uncle, and Puyi was his brother.
Compared with these three people, Puren was not conspicuous, and when he was born, it was also the most depressed era of the Qing Dynasty, and he failed to live a royal life like other family members. His life has also been very low-key.
The fallen prince buried by the times
China in 1918 was undergoing great changes and experiencing a revolution that had never been seen in thousands of years.
In this special era, there is another son in the aisin Kyora royal family, he is Puren.
Unfortunately, the Qing Dynasty has reached the end of its life, everything is not what it used to be, if he was born decades in advance, his identity and status will definitely bring him a richer life.
However, in that era, the impact of social changes and revolutions deeply affected the royal family. They are no longer the only one, but they are insulted by many people.
Pu Ren's home was in prince's palace, and the Guangxu Emperor and Puyi came from here. We can imagine how high the status of the people in the Prince of Alcohol's Palace really is.
With the collapse and collapse of the Qing Dynasty, The countdown to Pu Ren's days in the palace began.
Although he was young, he also understood the current situation.
After the collapse of the Qing government, there was a brief "return to the light", but the general trend has gone, and no amount of struggle can change the status quo.
He can only accept reality and change his mind to adapt to the new society.
With the abdication of the last emperor, the surname Aisin Kyora no longer exists, and most of them have changed their name to "Jin".
Pu Ren was a very low-key person, and after the collapse of the Qing government, he changed his name to "Jin Youzhi" and began his own civilian life.
As a former royal aristocrat, he was educated and learned a lot from an early age.
Although most of them are old histories of the past and relatively backward education, because of the influence of the times, his thinking has gradually become enlightened.
When Puyi went to the "puppet state of Manchukuo" to carry out the so-called restoration, he invited Pu Ren to go with him.
In the face of the general situation, Pu Ren had already seen the situation clearly, and he rejected this proposal. Later, he also went to the northeast with his father to visit Puyi and his brother Pujie.
Seeing the two of them, all kinds of absurd things they had done under the guidance of the Japanese army, and how they had been bowing down in front of the Japanese, he left even more firmly and returned to Beijing to live his own civilian life.
Since then, Puren has no desire for these imperial life, he only wants to live a stable life and be a low-key person.
Since then, he has been more cautious in his words and deeds, and he has occupied most of his daily life and reading books.
He no longer cared about current politics or what the so-called "pseudo-Manchukuo" was like, he had lived a low-key and uneventful life as if he had never lived in the palace.
Ordinary people who are committed to education
In 1947, When Puren came to the year of establishment, he had the idea of becoming a teacher and teaching and educating people.
After telling his father about the idea, the father agreed to his son's suggestion and sold some valuable items in the family as start-up funds for starting the school.
The location of the school was selected in an old house in the former Qing Dynasty Palace, and after being cleaned and cleaned, it can be used as a classroom, which is Beijing Jingye Primary School.
He and his sister were teachers at the school, and some teachers were hired, and the number of students gradually increased, reaching a maximum of more than two hundred.
He was very satisfied with this uneventful life, which was also what he pursued.
After the founding of New China, the family feared that the school would be confiscated by the government, but the government did not choose this, but was willing to pay for the acquisition of the school.
They allowed Pu Ren to open and run the school, and after some thought, Pu Ren donated the school to the government.
Since then, Beijing Jingye Primary School has become a public school, and Puren has officially become a people's teacher.
Until his retirement, Puren had been working in the education industry, and in his lifetime, he had never handled government affairs and had been teaching and educating people.
With his salary, he was enough to feed his family, and although he did not have the luxury of being in the palace before, his life was much more stable.
With his father's consent, he sold the Prince of Alcohol Mansion to a school, and the whole family moved and lived in the hutong.
Many of the royal relics treasured by the family were also donated to the state.
Keep to yourself but don't forget to dedicate yourself to the country
He devoted himself to education and dedicated half of his life.
After retirement, he did not enjoy his old age in peace, he devoted himself to the study of Qing history, he was a member of the former Qing Dynasty royal family, and had a direct relationship with the emperor, allowing him to study Qing history, no doubt more authoritative.
Soon after the founding of New China, he followed his father's wishes and donated the golden seal of the royal palace and precious cultural relics to the state free of charge, which was praised by many people.
Later, he donated the "Twenty-Four Histories" and other books to institutions of higher learning and cultural institutions.
Puren has a deep study of the history of the Qing Dynasty, and several years of life in the palace have made him very familiar with the palace.
He has published articles such as "Memories of prince's palace" and "Late Qing Dynasty Prince's Life and Reading and Learning Martial Arts", which is very valuable for future generations to study the past history.
In 2015, Pu Ren died suddenly, and the "Wang Ye", who dedicated half his life to education and cultural undertakings, lived to the age of ninety-six and died.
epilogue
His life was frustrating and brilliant. Being born in the Fallen Dynasty was both his luck and his misfortune.
Because of the special era and identity, he was not as happy as other princes in his youth.
But he was also fortunate not to have touched the affairs of the royal family, not to see the dirtiest side. He was admirable, and in the days that followed he was willing to be a teacher and lived in a low profile.
He devoted half of his life to cultivating talents for the country, and dedicated the last few years of his life to historical research.
We can't choose where we come from, and we can't change the environment we live in.
But the path of life is their own choice, whether it is bland or prosperous, everything is their own choice, everything is their own decision.