One day in December 1959, an interesting thing happened at the Changqiao Police Station in Xicheng District, Beijing.
A middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses, accompanied by his brother-in-law, went to the police station to register his household registration, but was dumbfounded when the staff asked for basic information such as his name and home address.
He never expected that the person in front of him was actually the emperor who was once high!
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The only emperor who has ever been registered
Aixin Jueluo Puyi was the last emperor of the Chinese feudal dynasty, and the only emperor with a household registration book.
This situation makes people clearly feel the drastic changes in the vicissitudes of life and the sense of separation of the times.
However, unlike others, Pu Yi's process of handling the household registration book can be said to be "twists and turns".
On the same day, Pu Yi, accompanied by his sister, went to the Changqiao Police Station in Xicheng District, Beijing to apply for household registration, and the staff who received the two of them was named Wu Jingshen.
After taking the amnesty certificate handed over by Pu Yi, after taking a look, Wu Jingshen began to ask the other party for some basic information as usual.
"Comrade, what is your name?"
"Aixin Jueluo Puyi".
After hearing Pu Yi report his name, Wu Jing said with a deep smile: "Aixin Jueluo Puyi, why is this name so familiar? Oh! It turns out that you are the former emperor!"
"Well, that's all in the past. I'm just an ordinary citizen now!" After listening to Wu Jingshen's words, Pu Yi said with a smile.
"Then where is your residential address?" Wu Jingshen continued to ask.
Pu Yi thought for a while and replied, "Originally, I lived in the Forbidden City, and then I lived in Tianjin for a while, and then I went to Fushun...... But I'm living with my fifth sister now. ”
After listening to Pu Yi's words, Wu Jingshen was a little embarrassed, because the Forbidden City had become a Forbidden City Museum at this time, and it was impossible to write the address here, right?
Seeing that Wu Jingshen was a little hesitant, her brother-in-law Wan Jiaxi on the side said: "My brother has just returned to Beijing, and the organization has not had time to assign him a place to live, and now he is living in my house. Otherwise, write my home address!"
In this way, the address on Puyi's household registration book was filled in with "No. 6 Qianjing Hutong".
I thought that after solving the problem of residential address, there would be no big problem, but I didn't expect the next two contents to make Wu Jingshen a little overwhelmed.
"Okay, so what is your education?"
"Education?"
Seeing that Pu Yi was a little unclear, Wu Jingshen continued: "It's elementary school, junior high school or high school, and wherever you study, you have any academic qualifications." ”
Pu Yi's second-generation household registration book, education level changed to "junior high school"
"I used to study with a few university scholars, and then I studied English with Johnston for a while, and I went to a private school, and I didn't take classes in school. ”
Pu Yi said embarrassedly, and Wu Jingshen on the side was in trouble again.
You must know that the bachelors of the Qing Dynasty were all talents who read poetry and books, but although they were knowledgeable, they could not be equated with the academic qualifications of the new era.
In desperation, Wu Jingshen could only write the word "private school" on the column of Puyi's academic qualifications. Maybe he was too nervous, Wu Jingshen actually wrote "private school" as a "private book".
Then, Wu Jingshen continued to ask about Pu Yi's marital status, and Pu Yi said helplessly, "The dead are dead, and the left is gone." ”
So, Wu Jingshen had no choice but to fill in the word "divorce" in the marriage column.
Although Pu Yi had some "twists and turns" when handling the household registration book, in the end, he still got his own household registration book as he wished.
With the household registration book, it also means that he has finally become a legal citizen. At the same time, he was also the first and only emperor in Chinese history to have a household registration book.
The first divorced emperor in history
In addition to being the first emperor in history to have a household registration book, Pu Yi was also the first emperor to divorce!
You must know that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although Pu Yi is no longer the emperor, his material life is still good.
The woman who can be by his side is also living a life of fine clothes and food, how can she still think about divorce? And this has to be said to Pu Yi's marriage.
In 1922, it was already the eleventh year of the Republic of China, and although Pu Yi had abdicated, he still lived in the Forbidden City.
There is an emperor in the Forbidden City, how can there be no queen and concubines? In addition, people at that time were relatively young when they got married, so although Pu Yi was only 16 years old, he was still arranged for a draft.
In the end, he chose Wanrong, who has a cheerful personality and has experience in studying abroad, to be the queen, and at the same time chose another woman named Wenxiu to be the concubine.
After marrying a queen and a concubine, Pu Yi's life began to become interesting, he no longer appreciated calligraphy and painting every day, but played the piano and sang with Wanrong, and sometimes the two took a car outside the palace together.
Wanrong can speak Western, wear Western clothes, and eat Western food, and all this is the experience that Pu Yi does not have but desires, so Pu Yi also favors Wanrong.
The women in the deep palace are always so pitiful, looking at the two of them in pairs, Wen Xiu, who is a concubine but has been neglected, can't help but feel a little sad in her heart.
Especially when the three of them were eating together, watching Pu Yi and Wanrong skillfully use knives and forks to eat half-cooked steak, and they didn't know where to start, Wenxiu's heart was even more sad.
On November 5, 1924, Feng Yuxiang forced the palace and forced Pu Yi and others to move out of the palace, and in February of the following year, Pu Yi and a concubine moved to Zhang Yuan and Jingyuan, which were then Japanese concessions, under the conspiracy of Luo Zhenyu and Fang Ze Qianji.
After being a concubine in the palace for two years, she was kicked out with the emperor, and finally settled in Tianjin, but Pu Yi didn't care about himself!
Pu Yi lived with Wanrong, but left Wenxiu aside. Pu Yi's attitude towards herself had already made Wenxiu feel disheartened, but she didn't think of leaving at this time.
It wasn't until later that Pu Yi began to kiss himself recently, Wenxiu knew that the Japanese wolf ambition persuaded Pu Yi many times not to get close to the Japanese, but what responded to him was "the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics"!
Gradually, Wenxiu was completely disappointed in Pu Yi, and the relationship between the two faded, and Wenxiu did not want to be trapped in Tianjin.
One day in August 1931, Wenxiu took advantage of Pu Yi to go out to a party with Wanrong, quietly escaped from Jingyuan and left Tianjin.
Subsequently, Wenxiu made a shocking decision, that is, he publicly stated in the newspaper that he wanted to divorce Pu Yi! For a while, the divorce between Wenxiu and Pu Yi became the news of Tianzi!
In order to reduce the popularity of the news and protect Pu Yi's face, some old Qing officials also coerced and lured Wen Xiu many times, but Wen Xiu had made up his mind and finally officially divorced Pu Yi two months later.
And Pu Yi also became the first emperor in Chinese history to have a divorce experience.
The first half of the life of the last emperor
Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, his life was full of drama, and at the same time his life experienced too many twists and turns.
On February 7, 1906, the fourteenth day of the first month of the thirty-second year of Guangxu, a baby's cry appeared in the sky above the Alcohol Wangfu on the shore of Shicha in Beijing.
Prince Alcohol Fujin Guerjia gave birth to a baby boy safely, and Prince Alcohol Zaifeng named him Puyi, and the birth of a new life immersed the entire palace in joy.
Then, at this time, no one would have thought that this infant baby would leave a strong mark in Chinese history.
Two years later, Emperor Guangxu Guang and Empress Dowager Cixi were critically ill at the same time, and the Qing Dynasty at this time was troubled internally and externally, and no one knew what would happen next.
On this day, after Zaifeng returned to the palace with the edict of the Empress Dowager Cixi, he asked people to pack Puyi's things and prepare to send him to the palace to raise him.
After Pu Yi's grandmother Liu Jiashi learned of this, she fainted directly, looking at her fainting grandmother Pu Yi a little overwhelmed.
He even punched and kicked the inner prison who came to carry him away, crying for a while, and fell down.
Seeing that Pu Yi was unwilling to let the inner supervisor hug her, the nurse Wang Shi carried Pu Yi over anxiously, and then followed the inner supervisor into the palace.
On November 14, Emperor Guangxu died, and the Empress Dowager Cixi immediately ordered the two-year-old Puyi to succeed to the throne, and Cixi also died the next day.
After handling the aftermath of Guangxu and Cixi, it was not until December 2 that Pu Yi ascended the throne and became emperor in the Taihe Palace, assisted by the Empress Dowager Longyu and the regent Zaifeng.
In the following year, the name of the country was changed to "Xuantong", so Pu Yi was also known as "Emperor Xuantong".
However, due to Pu Yi's young age, the actual power was in the hands of the Empress Dowager Longyu and the regent Zaifeng.
During this period, the Qing Dynasty experienced serious political corruption, the suffering of the people, and the intensification of various social contradictions.
Pu Yi spent his childhood and adolescence in the palace, and his knowledge of the outside world was very limited.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out and the Qing Dynasty fell. In this year, Pu Yi was only six years old, and under the influence of the Xinhai Revolution, the Qing imperial family was forced to abdicate, and Pu Yi became a commoner.
However, the remnants of the Qing Dynasty were not willing to lose power, and they tried to restore the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
In this context, Pu Yi was put on the throne by some widows and became the puppet emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo.
The puppet state of Manchukuo was founded in 1932 as a puppet regime established by Japanese invaders in northeastern China. Pu Yi assumed the role of emperor in this regime, but in reality his power was very limited.
The Japanese invaders colonized Northeast China by taking control of Puyi. During this period, Pu Yi's life was full of humiliation and pain.
He not only had to endure the oppression of the Japanese invaders, but also had to face the hatred of the Chinese people. He tried to resist the Japanese invaders, but in the end they all failed.
In 1945, World War II ended and Japan surrendered. The puppet state of Manchukuo then fell, and Pu Yi was captured by the Soviet Red Army.
In a Soviet prisoner of war camp, Pu Yi spent five years. During this time, he began to reflect on his life and deeply reflect on his mistakes.
He realized that everything he had done was used by the Japanese invaders and the elders, and that he had never really contributed to the country and the nation.
epilogue
On December 4, 1959, Pu Yi had been imprisoned for ten years, and just when he thought his release from prison was imminent, an amnesty decree came.
"The prisoner has been in custody for 10 years...... Released in accordance with the amnesty order. Finally, Pu Yi waited for this day, and after receiving the amnesty order, he returned to Beijing, waiting for his relatives who he had not seen for many years.
After handling the household registration book, Pu Yi's work was also assigned, and he was assigned to work at the Beijing Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After getting a job, Pu Yi went to the police station again and changed his work information and residential address.
Two years later, he was introduced to marry nurse Li Shuxian, who was also Pu Yi's last wife, and the two did not have children.
Two years later, Pu Yi was transferred to the Cultural and Historical Materials Research Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) as a member of the information committee.
During this period, Pu Yi wrote an autobiography called "The First Half of My Life", which was extremely dramatic and was later adapted into film and television works many times.
In 1967, Pu Yi was seriously ill, and Premier Zhou personally called to instruct him to be cured of his illness after learning about it!
The Western doctor did not say anything, and arranged for a famous old Chinese medicine doctor to see him, but his condition was serious, and finally because the treatment was ineffective, Pu Yi died, ending his bumpy and dramatic life.
After Pu Yi's death, what to do with his funeral also became a problem. In the end, it was his widow who came forward and decided to be cremated according to the relevant regulations at the time.
After cremation, Pu Yi's ashes were placed in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, becoming the first emperor in the history of the Qing Dynasty to be cremated and not entered the imperial tomb.
In 1995, under the arrangement of his widow Li Shuxian, Pu Yi's ashes were moved to the Hualong Royal Cemetery near Chongling in the Qingxi Mausoleum, which can be regarded as fulfilling Pu Yi's wish to be buried in peace.
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