Some say that his life is a miracle,
It is a microcosm of China's great changes in the past century.
Some people also call him he
A living modern history of China.
At the age of three, he became a "prisoner" of the Forbidden City,
abdicated at the age of six, and since then his life has been more tossed and turned,
半生傀儡,半生蝉蜕,
has been an emperor, a consul, a prisoner,
I haven't enjoyed it in my life
The love of parents, the joy of family;
Married several times,
But they don't know what love is;
Faced with countless life and death junctures in life,
In the end, it became
A good citizen who keeps to himself.
I believe that when it comes to this,
Everyone guessed who the hero of the tragedy was.
That's right, he was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty,
It is also in the history of China's feudal monarchy
The Last Emperor,
Emperor Xuantong - Pu Yi
The last emperor of the most tragic
He ascended the throne three times in his life, and each time he became worse than the other
The days of being the emperor of the Qing Dynasty
starved all day long, and was often locked up in a small dark house
In 1906, on the 14th day of the first month of spring, the palace of Prince Alcohol in Beijing ushered in a new life. He is the great-grandson of Emperor Daoguang of Qing Xuanzong, the grandson of Prince Yixun of Melxian, and the son of the regent Zaifeng - Puyi.
He could have lived a carefree life, but Cixi's words before her death in 1908 changed Pu Yi's life......
Two-year-old Pu Yi snuggled up to his father Zaifeng, who was holding his younger brother Pu Jie, who was a year younger than him. The relationship between the two brothers is very good
When he was a child, Pu Yi and his biological mother Guerjia
A photo of the Puyi brothers with their mother
On October 20, 1908, the 3-year-old little Puyi was carried into the Forbidden City by a group of strangers, and in front of a gloomy curtain, he bumped into a skinny, old and ugly face, the owner of this face was the old woman who listened to the government and held the supreme power of the Qing government for more than 40 years.
Little Puyi was so frightened that he trembled, and Cixi ordered his subordinates to bring him sugar gourds to eat, but he threw them on the ground and cried, "I want to be a concubine!"
Empress
At that time, Cixi's health was already very bad, and the old man felt bad luck when he heard the child crying, and said very disappointmently: "This child is really awkward, where to play!"
Although the Empress Dowager Cixi felt that this little hairy child was unpleasant in every way, but thinking about Yuan Shikai's bad idea of plotting to establish Prince Qing's son Zai Zhen as the emperor and his own Qing Empire to be at the mercy of others, she was even more distressed when she had always been arbitrary, and on the day she summoned Pu Yi into the palace, Cixi issued a decree to make Pu Yi the heir to the throne.
Pu Yi succeeded to the throne
The day after Pu Yi left the palace and entered the palace, Emperor Guangxu died. Pu Yi is a three-year-old child, who will kowtow and cry in front of Guangxu Ling, and kowtow to Cixi's sickbed for a while to pray for blessings. Pu Yi faced Guangxu's body and Cixi's body that was about to enter the wood, and was tortured in horror, strangeness, coldness and sorrow.
On the third day, the Empress Dowager Cixi died, the coffin of Guangxu stopped in the Qianqing Palace, and the coffin of Cixi stopped in the Huangji Palace. Two mournings and sacrifices, a piece of sorrow. On December 2, Pu Yi, the son of Prince Zaifeng, who was only three years old, ascended the throne and was called Xuantong.
Zaifeng (back seat) took a group photo with his children. Note: Zaifeng is the younger brother of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty and the father of Emperor Xuantong Aixin Jueluo Puyi
On the day of the enthronement of the Taihe Palace, the weather was extremely cold, Pu Yi was placed on the throne, looking at the civil and military officials kneeling at his feet, he was frightened, struggling and crying: "I don't love here, I want to go home! I don't go here, I want to go home!"
"The Last Emperor" movie stills Xiao Puyi dresses up
It is said that his father's regent Zaifeng was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, so he had to coax him to say: "Don't cry, don't cry, it's almost over, it's almost over!" Unexpectedly, this sentence "almost over" was meaningful in other people's ears, and it was regarded as a bad omen for the Qing Emperor, and the ominous haze has since shrouded the sky over the Forbidden City......
6-year-old horseback riding photo
The days when he became the emperor were not easy for Xiao Puyi, from the palm treasure of the family, to the poor baby who was bullied everywhere, it was really a heaven and an earth. There are regulations in the palace that the emperor should be restricted from eating, and people are afraid that the little emperor will die of too much, so he often only gives him a little clear soup and rice.
Every time Pu Yi was disobedient, these eunuchs complained, and it was the eunuchs who arrested him and went to the small black room to lock him up, and every time he went to the small black house, he was released after crying and falling asleep tired. So Pu Yi hated eunuchs all his life. During the Qing Emperor, when he was in a bad mood, he often let his wolf dogs bully them, and ordered people to give these eunuchs who had "abused" themselves the punishment of "fighting naked".
Pu Yi and Uncle Guo and their own German wolf dog
And the little emperor's days of playing around did not last long, on October 10, 1911, the "Xinhai Revolution" broke out, and the Qing court was in a panic. Under the coercion and inducement of Yuan Shikai, the Qing Dynasty issued an edict of Emperor Xuantong's abdication. China's more than 2,000 years of feudal imperial era also came to an end, and the six-year-old Puyi's first imperial career came to an end.
The last Qing court abdication edict
At the age of twelve, he became the emperor of the Restoration
took the whole Beijing people to have a dream of Qingren
On July 1, 1917, Puyi restored the statue of the imperial costume
In June 1917, the year of "Zhang Xun's restoration", Zhang Xun led the "pigtail soldiers" into Beijing with great momentum, shouting everywhere to "return the great government". On July 1, Pu Yi re-ascended the throne of the emperor with the support of royalists such as Zhang Xun and Kang Youwei.
Edict of the Restoration
It is said that on the day of the restoration, the twelve-year-old Pu Yi happily issued nine "edicts" in one breath, announcing the recovery of state power, the adoption of a constitutional monarchy, the prohibition of the royal family and nobles from interfering in government affairs, the implementation of the ethnic policy of Manchu and Han integration, the pardon of political prisoners, and the abolition of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes......
Braided handsome Zhang Xun
At that time, the streets of Beijing were full of clamors of "Qing Dynasty restoration", and the old and young relics of the former Qing Dynasty wearing Qing Dynasty robes and gowns were swaggering on the streets, and the Forbidden City, which was once deserted, suddenly became lively:
The value of the old robes and gowns that no one has worn for many years has suddenly risen sharply, and after the real court clothes have been snapped up, even the costumes used for singing have become treasures; even the business of the barber shop has suddenly boomed, and they are all customers clamoring for "addition" hair, and the braids that have disappeared for several years have "grown" back to the back of their heads -- this period of time is like a dream for all the people in Beijing, who are busy in the dream, and the days are still shining when they wake up.
On the 12th of that month, in the midst of a nationwide condemnation, Pu Yi announced his abdication again, and Pu Yi's second dream of being an emperor ended after only twelve days. It's really a hurry up and down!
In the end, he became the puppet Manchu emperor
became the "toilet emperor" in the eyes of the Japanese
Puppet Manchu Emperor - Pu Yi
After Pu Yi was forced into the palace, all major Japanese newspapers published articles sympathizing with Pu Yi to build momentum for the establishment of the puppet Manchukuo in the future.
On March 1, 1932, Japan supported Pu Yi as the ruler of the Japanese puppet regime "Manchukuo", and the founding year was named "Datong". In 1934, the country was renamed "Manchurian Empire", renamed emperor, and changed its name to "Kant".
So, Pu Yi became emperor for the third time and lived in the puppet palace of the puppet state of Manchukuo in Changchun, Jilin Province. It is said that this "palace" can be described as magnificent, with gardens, rockeries, fish ponds, swimming pools, tennis courts, golf courses, racetracks, calligraphy and painting libraries, and so on!
The 12-hectare two-storey western-style building at No. 5 Guangfu Road, in the northeast corner of Changchun City, was the palace of the puppet Manchukuo emperor Aixin Jueluo Puyi, who lived here from 1932 to 1945.
Puyi's private swimming pool
Buddha Hall
Puppet Manchurian Qinmin Palace
Meeting room
Puyi's bedroom
The bedroom of Li Yuqin, a noble man
Puppet Manchu Buddha Hall
Decoration of the palace
It has not only the old Chinese style of tiled houses with corridors, but also the palace of "Chinese and Japanese", as well as European-style buildings. It can be said that this is a typical colonial feature, and every move of people in the puppet Manchu palace is under the surveillance of the Japanese military police.
When Pu Yi first became the puppet emperor of Manchukuo, he was still ambitious and full of the "political ideal" of "restoring the ancestral industry". For Emperor Puyi, the Japanese respect him very much in public, but respect is respect, and they don't give him any real power, such as the important decrees of the puppet Manchukuo, major and minor affairs, and the emperor must be asked to cut it.
Puppet Manchukuo Imperial Palace baths
Because Pu Yi had constipation, he sat on the toilet every morning, and then the official handed over the documents to be passed unconditionally, so Pu Yi was given the name of "Toilet Emperor".
On August 15, 1945, Japan was defeated and surrendered. Without the protection of the Japanese, Pu Yi could not even be the "child emperor", and on August 17, Pu Yi was captured by the Soviet Red Army and taken to the Soviet Union when he was preparing to flee from Shenyang. He was escorted back to China in early August 1950. As a result, Pu Yi's lifelong dream of being an emperor ended forever.
In 1956, the Special Military Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court tried 36 Japanese war criminals in Shenyang and sentenced them to 12 to 20 years in prison. Pu Yi appeared in court as a witness.
On that day, Pu Yi entered through the southwest gate of the courtroom, and the eyes of the audience and the lens of the photographer were focused on him.
Pu Yi testified at the Shenyang Special Military Court
He was tall and slender, wore black-rimmed glasses, and wore a dark blue prison uniform. Pu Yi's first words after standing firmly on the witness stand were: "I am the biggest traitor in the People's Republic of China, Aixin Jueluo Puyi." After introducing himself, he took out written materials from his pocket to expose and accuse the crimes of the General Affairs Office, the highest authority of the puppet Manchukuo, and the heinous crimes of Furumi Tadashiyuki.
A generation of emperors, from the court to the court, this former monarch of a country, has now become an ordinary citizen of society that everyone focuses on.
The last emperor who was most lacking in love
My wife changed five, but I never felt the love of husband and wife
Pu Yi's life can be described as turbulent and up-and-down, as is the emotional path.
Wanrong and Wenxiu are legitimate and famous queens and princesses, and they enter the palace at the same time, and their life content is intersecting. Tan Yuling and Li Yuqin were pseudo-nobles canonized by Pu Yi during the puppet Manchurian period when he was the "Emperor Kant". and Pu Yi's wife Li Shuxian, who fell in love and got married after the amnesty. These ladies have experienced the earth-shaking historical changes in Pu Yi's life together.
In the picture, the left is graceful, and the right is embroidery
When Pu Yi was fifteen years old, Pu Yi, the last emperor who had abdicated, married two women, Wanrong and Wenxiu. Wanrong is as bright as a peach blossom, Wenxiu is as quiet as autumn water, and the two complement each other. In the constant disputes between the concubines, Pu Yi first chose Duangong's daughter Wenxiu, and then chose Guo Buluo's daughter Wanrong. Under the compromise of all parties, Wanrong was finally decided to be the queen and Wenxiu was the concubine.
Graceful wedding photos
In the first two years after Pu Yi's marriage, the relationship between the three was quite harmonious. Wanrong is a famous lady, she has received an enlightened Western-style education, coupled with the noble status of the main palace lady, she is inevitably a little arrogant and domineering. Wenxiu was born in a dilapidated Manchurian aristocracy, received a traditional education of three obedience and four virtues, and was very clear about the difference between concubines and concubines, so he could tolerate the queen's domineering.
Wen Xiu (left) and Wanrong (middle) pose for a photo with Tang Shixia, the wife of Pu Yi's younger brother Pu Jie, and the niece of Emperor Guangxu Jin, who later became the concubine of Emperor Duankang.
Pu Yizhi can also have a bowl of water for the two, he and Wanrong have a common language, husband and wife, affection and love, and Wenxiu is also okay: Wenxiu does not know English, Pu Yi specially hired a teacher for her to teach, and sometimes went to her palace to sit, chat, and care about her learning progress. Pu Yi often took the queen and concubine with him when he left the palace.
The picture shows the emperor and the empress gracefully
The two daughters serve a husband together, and they are inevitably jealous, but Wanrong and Wenxiu have trouble for this, and sometimes they even make trouble in front of Pu Yi and ask the saint to "break the lawsuit" for them, which has never happened in the previous court. Pu Yi was able to make a fair decision at first, but gradually in order to reduce the verbosity of Hewanrong, he rarely went to Wenxiu's palace.
After the wedding, Pu Yi and Wanrong took pictures in the palace
One day, Wenxiu went out alone, and when she came back, she spat in the yard, and happened to be sitting next to Wanrong, mistakenly thinking that Wenxiu was insulting her. So Wanrong reported the incident to Pu Yi and asked him to send his men to reprimand Wenxiu. Wenxiu was wronged by this, so she came to Pu Yi's room to explain the situation to him, but Pu Yi turned her away.
The queen is graceful
The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a beautiful day for the Queqiao to meet. At night, Pu Yi and Wanrong were talking and laughing in the courtyard, Wenxiu was alone in the house, feeling that there was no hope in this life, so he picked up scissors and stabbed himself in the stomach, intending to commit suicide, but fortunately was stopped by the eunuch. The eunuch told Pu Yi about the matter, but Pu Yi said angrily: "Don't pay attention to her! She is used to using this trick to scare people, and no one should pay attention to her!"
Although Concubine Wenxiu's appearance is not handsome, she is tall, big-eyed, fair-faced, fat and decent, and has a rich appearance. The picture shows Wen Xiu, Wanrong and Pu Yi's younger siblings.
After Wanrong's exclusion and Pu Yi's ruthlessness, Wenxiu finally chose to divorce.
After Pu Yi's divorce, he felt a big loss of face, he did not reflect on his mistakes in this matter, but pushed the responsibility to Wanrong. In his opinion, it was Wanrong's jealousy that squeezed out Wenxiu. Therefore, after Wenxiu left, Pu Yi also became disgusted with Wanrong, and the once loving couple became farther and farther away.
The emperor and empress are graceful
After Wanrong lost Pu Yi's favor, she could only rely on smoking opium to pass the lonely time, and even began to have trysts with others. In 1935, Wanrong was sent to the cold palace after giving birth to someone else's child, and the love between the two completely disappeared.
Following Wanrong and Wenxiu, Pu Yi married another nobleman, she is Tan Yuling. Tan Yuling also died of illness after getting along with Pu Yi for 5 years. This made Pu Yi feel very sad, Pu Yi took Tan Yuling's nails to her body before she died, which shows Pu Yi's deep feelings for Tan Yuling.
Puyi's auspicious nobleman Tan Yuling. Married to Pu Yi at the age of 17, he died at the age of 24, and the cause of death has always been a mystery. The picture shows the text inscribed to Tan Yuling by Tan Yuling and Pu Yi
Look at the clouds from the west window, and listen to the summer rain under the tent. Not only did the morning glory sentence open, but the flowers were speechless. I sighed that I had a bad morning dream, and I never said goodbye. The clear rain in the heavenly court turned into tears, and the wind and dust rolled forever.
- Pu Yi "Mourning Jade Age"
After Tan Yuling's death, under the calculation of the Japanese, Pu Yi took his fourth wife Li Yuqin in 1943.
At the beginning of their married life, Pu Yi and Li Yuqin still had a sweet time, and as they got along day and night, Li Yuqin's impression of him slowly deteriorated.