Editor 丨 Fengqiao
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How foreign was China's last empress?
She not only had her own English teacher, but also communicated with Puyi in English letters, and had her own English name, called Elizabeth. Her life after becoming empress was extremely luxurious, and she could be said to be the last noblewoman of the Qing Dynasty.
It is a pity that this noblewoman, who is worshipped by the women of the world, has a miserable end.
Let's take a look at Wanrong's story.
Many people know that Puyi's empress is called Wanrong, but they don't know what her full name is!
Her name is Guo Buluo Wanrong, and she is Puyi's wife, a Manchurian White Bannerman.
Guo Buluo Rongyuan is a very enlightened little old man, so he sent his eldest daughter Wanrong to receive education early.
In addition to reading and learning in the culture class, Rongyuan also found someone to teach her to play the piano and draw, and she also knew everything in art.
There is also an English teacher from the United States, so Wanrong received Chinese and Western education at a very young age.
This is not much different from the childhood of the little emperor in the Forbidden City, Puyi also studied Chinese and Western culture since childhood, and also had foreign teachers from Britain.
At this moment, this pair of handsome men and women do not know that in a few years, they will have a confused and complex intersection.
Although Wanrong enjoyed Rongyuan's fatherly love, she lacked a very important spiritual sustenance in her life, that is, "maternal love".
She was the granddaughter of Puxu, the king of Dingjun, the fourth daughter of Qianlong's sixth grandson Yu Chang, known as "Si Ge Ge", who was born with a postpartum fever and a high fever that did not recede, and soon left Wanrong.
In order to establish a beautiful childhood for his daughter, Lao Guo married a lady Hengxin, known as "Ergege", she was infertile all her life, so she was not bad for Lao Guo's children, and Wanrong and her stepmother got along very harmoniously.
As a rich lady in the new era, Wanrong's reputation is very loud in the capital. However, what this big lady never expected was that it was too good, but it became a stumbling block.
In 1922, the 16-year-old wanrong, who was very beautiful, entered the shortlist of empresses and was finally elected to the palace, becoming the last empress in the history of the Qing Dynasty, but do you know? Wanrong actually became Puyi's empress very reluctantly, and almost lost the election at that time! What's going on?
At that time, Puyi's daughter-in-law candidate was Wen Xiu, Wen Xiu, well, how to describe it ~ she belongs to a very ordinary appearance, and WanRong is even more incomparable, we don't know what Puyi's vision is.
At that time, the 16-year-old Wanrong had already come out of nobility and beauty, plus she had a more bullish plus, that is, the family lineage was prominent, and the insistence of Emperor Jin's noble concubine, that is, Zhenfei's sister "Jin Concubine", Puyi finally chose Wanrong as empress.
And Wen Xiu, who was almost elected to be an empress, because he was favored by Puyi, according to the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, he could no longer marry, so he naturally became an imperial concubine.
Puyi's big marriage is very rare, he belongs to shunzhi and Kangxi, inherited the throne at a young age, and has not been married before. So this wedding ceremony is very solemn. But Puyi is different from Shunzhi Kangxi.
Because strictly speaking, he is no longer an emperor.
As early as 1912, more than 2,000 years of feudal rule ended, and Puyi was forced to abdicate after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
However, the royal family received preferential treatment, that is, the honorific title was not abolished.
With this premise, Puyi, who automatically abdicated, his wedding must also be handled according to the specifications of the emperor's big wedding.
Then it was also approved that Empress Wanrong's phoenix could be carried from the "Donghua Gate" into the second half of the Forbidden City.
This means that the wedding of Wanrong and Puyi can be held in the Forbidden City like a normal emperor and empress wedding!
This wedding of the century at the end of the Qing Dynasty is also the beginning of a huge nightmare, and the story continues!
On November 30, 1922, the Forbidden City ushered in the last rare wedding of the empress, and Wanrong became the empress of the last emperor Puyi.
This is the happiest and most glorious moment for a woman, and Wanrong is also immersed in joy, but she never thought that this was the beginning of her life's nightmare.
Puyi could spoil her when she first entered the palace. However, due to Puyi's special physical reasons, they have not had children since they got married.
Not long after, Puyi was driven out of the Forbidden City, and his daughter-in-law Wanrong also left.
Due to the boring and boring life in the palace, WanRong, who left the palace, immediately began to let go of herself, took off her flag suit and changed into new clothes and new styles, put on hourly small high heels, and permed small curls, and suddenly became a modern girl in the new era.
After Wan Rong left the Forbidden City, you would never expect the biggest attraction to her, that is, buy, buy, buy!
She loves to go to major department stores to shopping, anyway, there is a husband Puyi to pay for all kinds of squandering!
Useful useless, anyway, it must be bought, which has become a symbol of favor, and eventually developed into a means of wanrong and wenxiu to compete for Puyi's favor, but the extravagant waste of babies do not follow the learning!
Later, Puyi took Wanrong and Wenxiu to the Japanese and became a puppet at the mercy of others, although they had a "backer", but they spent their days in surveillance.
Under the oppression of many years, Puyi's shortcomings in personality were exposed, his temper was very poor, coupled with physical defects, resulting in the little daughter-in-law Wenxiu can no longer stand it, and after careful consideration, she proposed a divorce, which is the famous "knife concubine revolution".
Wen Xiu successfully divorced, but Wanrong was still trapped in the trap of the Japanese conspiracy and could not get out.
Their every word and deed is closely monitored. Wanrong couldn't live such a life for a day, and she wanted to escape.
Wanrong escaped twice in total, and was discovered again when she was about to escape successfully the second time.
Since then, Wanrong has embarked on the road of "self-destruction". The first amazing deed she did was to betray Puyi!
Why did the last empress Dowager Wanrong dare to betray Puyi?
On March 1, 1934, Wanrong was crowned Empress of the Manchurian Empire, and at this time she began to have many bad habits.
First of all, her first plan was to monopolize the harem.
All kinds of competition for favors, against the Imperial Princess Wen embroidery, and finally squeezed her away.
Puyi, who saw the two people fighting openly and secretly, began to hate Wanrong, and even blamed Wanrong for Wenxiu's divorce.
She thought that from now on, there would be more pampering, but she did not expect that what was waiting was Puyi's cold violence.
The next thing was the craziest thing Wanrong did, betraying Puyi.
On the one hand, Wanrong enjoyed the glory brought by the empress's honorific title, on the other hand, she allowed herself to degenerate.
In addition to the daily Xi Shi Ya tablets, she also had an ambiguous act with two guards.
At first, Puyi did not find out, until Wanrong was about to give birth to a baby, this matter could not be hidden.
Wanrong then gave birth to a daughter, who died in name only.
In Puyi's view, this green hat behavior is unforgivable, Puyi put Wanrong in a small black room, sent four people to take care of her eating and drinking Lasa, and it was also at this time that Wanrong began to become mentally abnormal.
At the worst of her illness, she could hardly walk on the ground, but she also had waking times, the only time she was sober, and she still remembered to scold her father and blame him for selling his daughter for glory and wealth.
In August 1945, Wanrong was captured and put in prison, and the woman whose life was ruined by her father and the last emperor Puyi died in the prison in Jilin without bones.
To say why Wanrong dared to betray Puyi, there are only two reasons, one is Puyi's physical defects, which cannot be repaired.
The second is Wanrong's disappointment in the world. Even love is gone, what is the strength to live.
Maybe when she and the guards had transgressions, she had already thought about the end of the little black house, but she was not afraid, and the last deposed emperor was also drunk.