One day in 1953, a woman named Fu Yufang revealed a shocking secret to her husband on her deathbed.
She had hidden this secret for the rest of her life, and now that her limit was approaching, she decided not to hide it anymore.
Fu Yufang told her husband: "In fact, my real name is Wen Xiu, and I was once the Imperial Concubine of the Qing Dynasty. ”
After hearing this secret, if the husband was bombarded by five thunderbolts, he did not expect that his wife, who had lived with him for half a lifetime, had such an amazing life!
So which imperial concubine is this embroidery? Since she was an imperial concubine, how could she marry an ordinary person?
Pictured: Erdet Wen embroidery
The road to the Royal Princess is bumpy
Wen Xiu was only 14 years old when she entered the palace, her real name was Erdete Wen Xiu, and she was the Shangsan Banner of the Eight Classics of the Qing Dynasty, which is our legendary "Gege".
Wen Xiu's grandfather once worshiped Shangshu, and the family status was like the sun in the sky, but by the time Wen Xiu's generation was born, the family had long since lost its former glory, but there was still a surname that supported the façade.
At that time, her family life was actually very simple, after the death of her father, her mother raised several sisters alone, but although life became more and more difficult, as a "nobleman", her integrity could not be left behind.
So the 8-year-old Wenxiu changed her name to Fu Yufang, was sent to primary school by her mother, Wenxiu is a very smart little girl, she is not only proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also very good at Chinese language, arithmetic and other homework.
Usually the mother is to do some embroidery for money, after all, the women of large families, can support their own craftsmanship is probably a female worker, at night after the embroidery class will take the initiative to help the mother to do female work, although the mother and daughter have a difficult life, but also very rushed.
When Wen Xiu was 14 years old, their lives finally ushered in an improvement, which stemmed from the beginning of the draft in the imperial palace.
Pictured: Left text embroidery
Wen Xiu's fifth uncle took matters into his own hands and sent her photo to the palace to participate in the draft, but he did not expect that Wen Xiu was immediately designated as an imperial concubine, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs bought a large courtyard for the Wen Xiu family directly at the foot of the imperial city of Beijing.
Not only that, but also a number of valuable items, including a complete set of rosewood furniture.
After that, Wen Xiu's fate was not allowed to be mastered by herself, and after she dropped out of school, she changed back to her Manchurian surname, and the three words "Fu Yufang" were not allowed to be mentioned again.
After that, in order to enter the palace, Wen Xiu began to study the Four Books and Five Classics, the precepts of the palace, and so on.
In November 1922, Wen Xiu entered the palace, but because she was an imperial concubine, she needed to enter the palace a day earlier, because she was ready to meet the empress of the main palace.
After entering the palace, Wen Xiu was given the title of Lady Concubine, and her daily task was to first go to the emperor to ask for peace, and then to ask the empress for peace, and there were still many concubines waiting for her after the empress was invited.
People familiar with palace fighting dramas must be very aware of this process, perhaps everyone thinks that the life of the imperial princess is to invite peace, compete for favors, and have children.
However, Wen Xiu's life was somewhat different from that of an ordinary concubine, that is, she was not favored by the emperor.
On the first day of Wen Xiu's entry into the palace, Emperor Puyi slept in the study, and on the second day, after Empress Wanrong entered the palace, the emperor slept in the study again, and at that time, Wen Xiu was still speculating about the emperor's thoughts.
Pictured: Puyi and Wanrong
How long did this life last, less than two years after she entered the palace, Feng Yuxiang broke into the Forbidden City and forced the palace, Puyi and his harem were all driven out, and the name of "emperor" also became a joke.
However, the world is full of variables, Puyi people were driven out of the palace a few days, Zhang Zuolin led troops into Beijing again, and Puyi began to reinvigorate his might.
In order to "restore the Qing" cause, Puyi and the Japanese reached a consensus, wanting the Japanese to help themselves, after learning of Puyi's idea, Wenxiu strongly discouraged, she knew that puyi was cruel, so she told Puyi: "The Japanese have killed countless Chinese, and must not lead wolves into the house!" ”
However, Puyi was willing to listen to Wen Xiu's advice, and under the planning of the traitorous courtiers, Puyi secretly sneaked into the Japanese mansion in China.
At this time, Wen Xiu was preoccupied with Puyi, and when she found that Puyi was gone, she was anxious, thinking that her husband had been kidnapped, and was planning to organize the rescue of Puyi.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, Puyi entrusted someone to carry out a message and asked Wenxiu to come to the mansion to reunite with him.
Wen Xiu was anxious about Puyi's safety, so he dragged his family into the mansion with his mouth, but Wen Xiu did not come in to eat and drink like others, and she advised Puyi every day not to be obsessed with it, but at this time, Puyi, who was full of "great ambition", was willing to listen to the advice, and he slowly hated Wen Xiu.
Pictured: Wen embroidery
The concubine published a newspaper "Divorce from the Emperor", which shocked the jaws of everyone
After Wen Xiu fell out of favor, her life was completely darkened, not only did the empress insult her, but the palace eunuchs also fought with the people, ridiculed her recklessly, and even abused her.
Wen Xiu, who suffered all this, once washed her face with tears, and finally one day she could no longer bear it, took out the scissors and was going to cut herself, Puyi did not have any reaction after knowing it, but said coldly: "She is used to using this set of tricks, don't care about her."
After Wen Xiu's attempted self-cutting, she witnessed Puyi's attitude towards herself, and she was completely cold. At this time, Wen Xiu walked away from the ghost door, and somehow, her mood suddenly opened up.
At this time, it is the Republic of China period, many people's minds have been opened, gender equality is already the thinking of a new generation, and now that the emperor is long gone, he can write a complaint accusing Puyi of abusing his wife, asking for divorce, and even asking for fees!
On this day, the whole street suddenly went into an uproar.
Because the newspapers in Beijing and Tianjin are scrambling to publish the same big news: the concubine wants to divorce the emperor!
The newspaper wrote very clearly that the imperial concubine entered the palace for 9 years, because Puyi had a pathological problem, she had never been favored, and now decided to divorce and demand compensation of 500,000 yuan!
As soon as this extraordinarily big news came out, people talked about it in an instant, Puyi once became people's talking points, and Puyi, who lost his face, was angry and panicked, and he invited a lawyer to mediate with Wenxiu overnight.
Later, Wenxiu still successfully divorced Puyi, Puyi gave her 50,000 silver yuan in living expenses, and let her take away her own clothes and supplies, Wenxiu finally got her wish and got free.
After this incident, people began to spread the "knife concubine revolution", many people heard the news and ran to Wenxiu to see the hilarity, and the reporter who interviewed her also stepped on her threshold, and Wenxiu once suffered great embarrassment.
Of course, in fact, these are not nothing, what is more unbearable is that because of WenXiu's status as an imperial princess, many people speculate that she must have a lot of treasures and silver dollars, so some people in the name of marriage proposals, repeatedly visited the door to harass.
Seeing that she could not live in this place anymore, Wen Xiu could only buy a bungalow in Beiping and live in seclusion, and she no longer used the name Wen Xiu, but used Fu Yufang, who used it in elementary school.
With her excellent drawing and Chinese skills, she found a job as a teacher in a primary school, and it can be said that the embroidery at this time was unprecedentedly easy.
But how can people in a troubled world look forward to peace? After the fall of Peiping, people's lives were already miserable, and based on their former special status, Wenxiu was once blackmailed.
She couldn't go to school either, and her life became more and more difficult, and she had to make a living selling cigarettes on the street.
Married to a cleaner and living in a small house of 10 square meters
It was not until after the victory of the War of Resistance that Wenxiu ended the difficult life of daily harassment, at this time Wenxiu once returned to the old house where she used to live with her mother, and how eager she was to be reunited with her family.
But when she arrived at the old house, she realized that her mother had long since passed away and that she had no relatives around her, and Wen Xiu cried when she learned of all this, and then she returned to the small house she rented.
After being introduced by a friend, Wen Xiu entered a daily newspaper to work, and his life finally came to a steady pace.
In 1947, Wen Xiu was introduced by a friend and met a man named Liu Zhendong.
This Liu Zhendong's identity is also not ordinary, he was originally a major general of the Kuomintang, but he did not have the style of the Kuomintang, and when he was in the army, Liu Zhendong was proud and resolutely did not collude with people.
After Wenxiu and Liu Zhendong understood each other and fell in love, they got married under the witness of friends, and the life of the two after marriage was very harmonious, and Wenxiu also enjoyed the sweetness of marriage for the first time in his life.
However, at that time, new China had already arrived, people were already living in a new era, and Wenxiu did not reveal to her husband what had happened during the Qing Dynasty.
In 1949, Peiping was liberated, and New China registered Kuomintang personnel everywhere. Under wen xiu's admonition, Liu Zhendong took the initiative to confess his historical problems.
Our party did not detain him, but let him leave after registration, not only that, the state also assigned Liu Zhendong a job as a cleaner, and the couple moved to the chopping wood alley in Xicheng and lived in a small house of only 10 square meters.
Although the house is a bit crowded, the couple has a stable income and a very happy life.
However, unfortunately, Wen Xiu, who had never been stable in his life, did not live long, and in 1953, Wen Xiu died of a sudden myocardial infarction.
Before her death, she was always ashamed of her hidden identity, so when she died, she finally confided the truth to her husband.
She told her husband: "I'm sorry, I deceived you, my real name is not Fu Yufang, my name is Erdete Wenxiu, I am the imperial concubine of the Qing Dynasty." ”
After Liu Zhendong heard his wife's heartfelt words for a long time, he replied to Wen Xiu: "In fact, I already knew that your identity is not ordinary, you are not like an ordinary woman, and you did not expect to be an imperial princess."
Despite this, Liu Zhendong's love for Wenxiu has not diminished because her identity is unusual, Liu Zhendong said that no matter what Wenxiu's identity is, in his heart, Wenxiu will always be his wife.
Wen Xiu's life did not leave a son and a half daughter, after her death, Liu Zhendong's cleaning team paid for her to nail a thin-skinned coffin, and since then Wen Xiu has been sleeping forever in the righteous land outside the Anding Gate.
Liu Zhendong did not remarry for the rest of his life, his feelings with Wenxiu were very deep, and after Wenxiu's death, he did not get out of grief all his life, and eventually died alone.
Wen Xiu's life can be said to be very legendary, in the era of male superiority and female inferiority, Wen Xiu dared to publish a newspaper to divorce the emperor, this bravery is unprecedented, when Puyi wants to go to the Japanese, Wen Xiu can see the situation repeatedly advised, her vision is longer than many men.
If Wen Xiu of that era had been a man, it is unknown whether she could have become a general in the conquest of the country.
Although the fate of her life is tortuous and turbulent, I have to say that she is very lucky, because of her strong character of daring to love and dare to hate, so she avoided taking the road of grace.