After 1900, China experienced many vicissitudes and great changes, and the decline and demise of the Qing Dynasty was also a major event that shocked the world. The fall of the Qing court, which ruled China for more than 200 years, also meant that the feudal monarchy disappeared from China, and China no longer had an emperor. Although the Qing Dynasty had perished, the Republic of China government did not use bullying tactics against these royal families, so a large number of imperial heirs lived in Beijing.
Among Puyi's brothers and sisters, there is a Gege who was born in the last Qing Dynasty, and her situation is different from that of ordinary people, and her father is also different, which is very intriguing.
This gee is Ai Shin Kyora. Yun Huan, whose Chinese name is Jin Zhijian, was the last child born in prince's mansion, also known as the Seven Grids. The year she was born was 1921, which was already the tenth year of the Republic of China, 15 years younger than Puyi. Yun Huan is the youngest child in the family, but she is very sensible, and when she was very young, two relatives died around her, that is, her grandmother and eldest sister.
At the age of seven, she moved to Tianjin with her family. Here she entered a British-built school known as the "Yew Wah School". Under the education of the new school, she was baptized with Western-style teaching ideas, which made her have an open Western-style mind, which was much more advanced than many corrupt and backward royal descendants.
However, the school was opened not long after Yun Huan was 15 years old, and the school was closed. Two years later, the family moved back to the palace in Beijing. After returning to Beijing, she studied classical poetry and song in the palace, and gradually became a very knowledgeable and thoughtful new woman.
Although Gege grew up in the royal palace, he had a broad vision and had his own ideas about education and schooling. She first learned from a school to help her fourth brother work, and then at the age of 27, she opened a girls' school with her female friends. Among the royal family, the Seven Grids are definitely new youths with advanced ideas. She is also very supportive of the founding of New China. In 1949, when the Liberation Parade was held, she also took her own students to participate in the parade with joy. The subsequent founding ceremony, she did not miss.
She is absolutely supportive of New China and has advanced experience in running schools, so after the founding of New China, she was also absorbed as a teacher in the national public primary school. In addition, her marriage to Qiao Hongzhi was also famous, and Qigege became the first imperial heir to "marry" a Han commoner. This Gege, whose life's work revolves around education, was the deputy director of beijing 227 middle school before her retirement.
This Gege has a special identity and was born in a more special era. She was a Manchu Qing royal, a people's teacher of New China, and a member of the Standing Committee who had attended CPPCC meetings. In her lifetime, she has had a rich life in the royal palace, and she has also been called "Gege" by the royal family, but she clearly understands the times, knows what role she can play in society, and is a new woman with vitality and goals.
Although she is Puyi's new sister, she has very little direct contact with this brother. In 1960, Yun Huan, who was already 39 years old, met Puyi with the help of Premier Zhou and shouted "big brother" for the first time in his life. Seven years later, Puyi died in Beijing at the age of 61.
Yun Huan is a long-lived woman, who passed away in 2004 at the age of 83. As a teacher, she deserves the respect of future generations, and she herself also said about her status as a teacher: I know that my family is ashamed of China, in a sense, a sinner of the country. And it is my blessing to be able to become a teacher and serve the people.
After the death of this virtuous Gege, people held a solemn farewell ceremony for her at the Babaoshan Cemetery.