There are thousands of empresses in Chinese history, but the most unique is the last empress in history.
In just 40 years, her experience is the most unique life in the History of the Qing Dynasty and even In China, which makes people sympathize and regret.
But when the world looks back on the past, she can't help but sigh why she didn't dare to challenge fate and divorce Puyi like Wenxiu. If not, she would not have made a big mistake and was imprisoned by Puyi for 10 years.
One
In fact, when you open this history, it is not difficult to find that Wanrong's ups and downs in life have a very close relationship with her father.
As we all know, Wanrong's father, Rong Yuan, was a rare enlightened person in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, not only advocating equality between men and women, but also willing to let his daughter receive education.
Note that instead of letting the daughter learn the old-style education such as "three from four virtues" and "three principles and five constants", it is true equality, and it is possible to enroll and learn knowledge like boys. He even spent a lot of money to hire a foreign teacher for his daughter to teach English.
Therefore, before Wanrong got married, her life was rich, her status was noble, and she could also integrate national culture and Western culture, which was very rare among the Manchu qing nobles at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
If she can marry a beloved man in the future, then her life is completely different, and the word "perfect" is not too much to describe.
Unfortunately, however, her father made her so perfect that when she chose Wanrong or Wenxiu as empress, the ministers agreed that Wanrong was the best choice.
In fact, if Rongyuan at this time dares to refuse and always adheres to his enlightened concept of equality between men and women, perhaps the end of Grace will become beautiful.
Unfortunately, after a fierce ideological struggle, his father sent his daughter to the imperial palace in 1922, making her a titular empress.
At this time, WanRong had just turned 16 years old, and Puyi was also 16 years old.
Two
You don't have to say that Wanrong, with her beauty and talent, got all the love of Puyi in the first two years, which can be said to be all kinds of love and responsiveness. The two of them are Qingqing and me every day, like a pair of immortal couples, which makes people envious.
Fast forward to 1924, a year in which the fate of Puyi and all the Manchu nobles took a major turn, when Yuan Shikai's promise to retain the emperor's honorific title and not be abolished was abolished by Feng Yuxiang and drove him out of the Forbidden City.
In an instant, status, money and even dignity are all gone, where Puyi still has the leisure to talk about love and grace.
In the following time, they lived very hard, first staying in the home of a Manchu Qing nobleman in Tianjin, and then being favored by the Japanese and coming to live in the Japanese embassy.
During this time, in order to make her husband happy, Wanrong thought of many ways, such as she knew that her husband liked new women, so she carefully dressed up, changed into the most fashionable cheongsam at that time, and permed her hair.
But she was wrong, at this time her husband was suffering from the most difficult stage of his life, and his husband wanted not external stimulation, but inner comfort.
Therefore, the more Wanrong wants to please her husband, the more disgusted her husband is, so much so that he turns to favoring Wenxiu.
Things are always like this, once there are signs of bad, then it will definitely spread and develop.
Seeing that her husband did not have the love for her in the past, she became very anxious and depressed, and could only stimulate herself through shopping, and even competed with Wenxiu for favors.
But the next thing surprised her, Wenxiu actually proposed divorce.
After the thunderbolt exploded on a sunny day, her husband Puyi finally broke out, causing her husband to push all the faults on her.
There is nothing wrong with loving someone, but the fault is that the times do not allow it, and the fault is that the person who loves is too special.
After this incident, the two sides have gradually drifted apart, and it seems that they will never return to their former beauty.
The dream was shattered, the heart ached, and Wanrong was disheartened and in tears.
Maybe at that time, she also thought about divorce and left this man who hurt him so much.
But she didn't do it, she stayed, maybe there was still a glimmer of hope in her heart.
Three
Hope is a beautiful thing, without hope, people are different from the walking dead.
In fact, not only wanrong has hope, but also her husband Puyi?
After losing almost everyone, he gradually matured and gradually learned his mission and what to do in the future.
In the time that followed, the husband traveled between the consulates of various countries, just like Murong Fu in the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon, with the hope of restoration.
For those who have no heart, Puyi's attitude is annoying, but for those who have a heart, it is really a charcoal in the snow.
Soon, the husband and the Japanese reached an agreement that the other party was willing to help the husband recover. But the husband did not know that he had become someone else's pawn.
Soon after, the puppet state of Manchukuo was established, and her husband returned to the throne of "emperor", and she became "empress" again.
It is said that the bystander is clear, how can WanRong not know the situation of her husband. Not to mention that the two have become inseparable, even if they can persuade each other, but the authorities are confused, can she be a weak woman to change?
Her depression had nowhere to tell, and eventually she began smoking opium.
Needless to say, the dangers of opium really don't need to be said, since she started smoking, she has no longer had the same radiance as before.
Four
It is said that "the years are fast", under the result of long-term opium smoking, the graceful appearance of only 20 years old has changed, becoming lazy, becoming haggard, becoming weak and windy, and even the body has begun to deviate.
In fact, as long as her husband can give her a little love at this time, she will not become like this.
Perhaps because the last glimmer of hope she had for her husband was shattered, she ended up walking with one of the guards by her side.
And the husband's daily "daily rational opportunity" was not found at all, until the second child gave birth to a baby girl before the east window incident.
To say that Puyi is really pitiful, he was divorced, his wife had fornicated and other things he had stalled, which made him unacceptable.
In the end, the husband not only executed the guards and burned the baby girl to death, but also beat Wanrong into the cold palace. And WanRong's stay is 10 years.
In the past 10 years, her life has reached a miserable state.
With a dead heart, she never left the opium all day long, making the room full of garbage, full of stench, and ignored it, and it seemed that it was not too much to describe it as "pigsty" and "kennel".
She thought that this life had been spent like this, but after 10 years, her brother finally rescued him.
The moment she saw her brother, Wanrong burst into tears, and she thought back to the misfortune of her life, and her misfortune came from her father's decision.
So she cried and said to her brother, "All my life has been given by my father." ”
And the younger brother couldn't believe that the sister in front of him was like an old woman, where was it like a 39-year-old woman in her prime?
A year later, due to physical reasons, Wanrong passed away with helplessness and resentment, this year she was just 40 years old.
Women are like flowers and need careful care from men. Women are like water and need men's generous tolerance.
Looking back at the love and hate of Wanrong and Puyi's life, it seems that only the four words of fate can explain.