1 The life of the last empress Wanrong, simply summarized, is the first half of her life brilliant and beautiful, the second half of her life is crazy, the only child was just born by the last emperor Puyi thrown into the burning boiler.
Grace
WanRong's mother is a member of the royal family, so is her stepmother, and her father, Rongyuan, is the minister of the Interior Ministry, and the family has both power and wealth. Coupled with her delicate appearance, there is only one daughter like her in the family, so Rongyuan specially hired a tutor to teach her to read and write, play the piano and paint, and let her learn English.
The turning point of Wanrong's fate is that her photo is drawn a circle by Puyi.
At the beginning of 1921, the last emperor Puyi, who had just turned 15 years old, although he had abdicated, was still the "true dragon tianzi" in the eyes of countless people. According to the royal rules, he reached the age when he could get married, so the Ministry of the Interior actively prepared for the draft.
Since it has entered the Republic of China era, the selection method is also different from before, and the show girls do not need to be present in person, and take photos for the emperor and the princess to see.
The competition was extremely fierce, and even the warlord Zhang Zuolin and Xu Shichang, who was the president of the Republic of China at the time, sent their daughters of the right age to participate, but they were reluctantly rejected by a "Manchu-Han marriage". Finally, after layers of screening, a total of 4 photos were sent to Puyi.
Puyi
At that time, the photography technology was very poor, and he could only barely see a silhouette, and Puyi looked at the west and casually drew a circle on a photo. Princess Jingyi smiled, because this girl was the embroidery she had picked, and Princess Duankang (the former Concubine Jin, Sister Zhenfei) stopped doing it and made a fuss about Puyi's re-election.
Puyi, who originally had no interest in choosing a daughter-in-law, listened to the advice of Duan Kang's concubine, re-drew a circle on the photo of "Bai Fumei" Wanrong, and chose her as an empress.
On December 1, 1922, Puyi married Wanrong, who was the same age as himself. During the big wedding, the palace sang for three consecutive days, and the singing alone cost more than 30,000 yuan, and also specially invited Mei Lanfang and Yang Xiaolou to perform the play "Farewell to the Overlord".
Mei Lanfang
When the play reached the emotional place, the concubines and the princess's female relatives all shed tears. After the play, some of the princes and ministers were very worried, thinking that this was an ominous omen. Two years later, Puyi and Wanrong were expelled from the palace, and more than ten years later, Wanrong was beaten into the cold palace by Puyi, and some people attributed it to the fact that they played "Farewell to the Overlord" during the big wedding and caused trouble.
Since the day Wanrong entered the palace, she has not lived a normal married life with Puyi. Puyi often "played" with the palace women since childhood, leaving a lifelong impotence, and began to inject male hormones from his youth. His brother Pu jie, in an interview, also euphemistically admitted that Puyi "cannot reproduce from a biological point of view."
On the day of the big wedding, Puyi left the bride alone in the new room and turned back to his bedroom. Although he can't satisfy Grace in some ways, the two still have a lot of common hobbies. WanRong is lively and active, Puyi accompanies her all day to play tennis, ride a bicycle, learn English, and the emotional life of the little couple is still relatively happy.
In 1924, Puyi was driven out of the Forbidden City by Feng Yuxiang's army and fled to Tianjin, and at first his life was pleasant, and in 1931, Lady Wenxiu divorced Puyi under the influence of her sister Wen shan and her cousin Yufen.
In the end, Puyi paid a high alimony of 55,000 yuan to calm the matter. The emperor was divorced by a concubine, which was a great shame. The reason for the divorce given by Wen Xiu is Wanrong's tit-for-tat confrontation with her and Puyi's unequal treatment of her, but Puyi automatically ignores the second half of the sentence and pours all his anger on Wanrong.
As an empress, WanRong often put up a high shelf. In addition to dressing up all day long, she is eating, drinking and having fun, people are idle, watching Wenxiu and Puyi talk about poetry or go out to play, she is jealous, and from time to time she writes several yin and yang strange letters to satirize Wenxiu, such as "Ms. Ailian (Wenxiu) is auspicious, Ms. Ailian plays the piano well, Ms. Ailian sings well, and Ms. Eileen's petite illness is better." Did Ms. Eileen take the medicine? Ms. Eileen entered well and pulled incense. ”
In fact, Wen Xiu is not a weak woman who is bullied by Wanrong in everyone's imagination, she often regards Wanrong as air, and when she sees Wanrong buying good things, she must also make a fuss, anyway, the fight between the empress and the concubine makes Puyi a headache.
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After Wen Xiu left, Puyi was left with only one Wanrong by his side. But due to his previous anger, he looked at Wanrong more and more unpleasantly, coupled with Wanrong's addiction to smoking more and more, full of smoke and smoke, he was even more indifferent to Wanrong.
Wanrong's smoking addiction was contracted during the Forbidden City period, and it was said that it was addictive because of the treatment of dysmenorrhea, but in fact, it was also extremely boring, plus the palace princesses smoked twice without a problem, she felt that this was a very fashionable thing. Moreover, Puyi did not object to this, and often lit cigarettes for her with great interest.
On November 10, 1931, Puyi left Wanrong behind and fled to the northeast alone. WanRong hates him for abandoning himself mercilessly, suffering from severe neurasthenia, and relies on smoking to relieve anxiety all day long.
A month later, the female secret agent Yoshiko Kawashima picked up Wanrong from tianjin Jingyuan, and after meeting with Puyi, she transferred her to Nantanggangzi Hot Spring for recuperation, with the intention of preventing Wanrong from preventing Puyi from defecting to the Japanese and sabotaging the negotiations between the two sides.
Yoshiko Kawashima
On this journey from Tianjin to the northeast, Wanrong's virgin body was handed over to a Japanese officer by her brother, and Puyi also mentioned this in his autobiography, but this was something he learned later.
Since playing Wanrong to the northeast, Puyi has not had a good look for her. WanRong likes to socialize, but is confined to the JiXi Building in her residence and is not allowed to walk out of the gate of the pseudo-palace. She seemed to have nothing to do but smoke.
As the smoke became more and more fierce, Wanrong's sanity gradually became abnormal, she often cursed Puyi with gibberish, and from time to time in front of Puyi, she said that he had been fooled by the Japanese, and she should not have listened to the words of those pro-Japanese ministers.
Seeing that Puyi no longer paid attention to her, Wanrong had the idea of escaping from the clutches of the Japanese. She first asked Gu Weijun, the head of the investigation mission who had come to the northeast (later as an ambassador to the United States), to help her break away from the imperial palace, and later took advantage of the fact that the wife of Zhao Xinbo, a high-ranking Manchu official, went to Japan to discuss several times whether she could take her with her.
Unfortunately, although Wanrong is ambitious, she is still too naïve politically, and her wishful thinking has all failed, and her mood is becoming increasingly sad and depressed.
Wanrong's relationship with Puyi was completely broken, and she became pregnant in 1935 when she had an affair with a bodyguard.
At first, Wan Rong often came into contact with an auditor named Li Tiyu, and developed feelings for each other. In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, the two determined the time of dating by passing a note.
Li Tiyu is a red man in front of Puyi, and there have been servants who have reported the matter of the two, and Puyi still does not believe it. Until one time the two secretly dated and were caught by Puyi, he quietly dismissed Li Sports afterwards.
Not long after, Wanrong was targeted by another guard with special intentions, Qi Jizhong. Qi Jizhong had been closely protected by Puyi on the way from Tianjin to the northeast, and he used his special status to enter the inner court to bribe several eunuch servants around Wanrong to provide convenience for him, and further deceived Wanrong's trust.
Later, Qi Jizhong, as an alternate student of the puppet Manchu general school, was sent by Puyi to study at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School. Puyi trusted him immensely, and only learned about these dirty things after he left. What is even more infuriating is that at this time, Wanrong is pregnant and is about to be in the basin.
Puyi was so angry that he trembled and immediately proposed to divorce Wanrong, but the Kwantung Army did not approve Puyi's request after careful consideration.
Wanrong knelt on the ground and begged Puyi to give her and the child a way to live, Puyi was grinded by her helpless, and finally verbally promised that the child would be sent outside the palace to be raised by Wanrong's brother after birth.
A smoker addict
In fact, half an hour after the birth of the child, Puyi, who had a cold and cruel personality, ordered someone to throw the child into the boiler and burn it. Wanrong did not know about this matter, and foolishly paid her brother monthly alimony for the children.
It is reasonable to say that Wanrong is a new-age woman, and she has also had the opportunity to leave Puyi, but somehow confined herself in a small house. According to Puyi's later analysis, Wanrong was quite greedy for the identity of "empress", preferring to be a nominal wife rather than lose the empress's name. In addition, the reason why Wen Xiu was able to successfully divorce was because her parents had died and there was no family drag, and Wanrong's father and brother would not only not support it, but I was afraid that they would have to be blocked.
By the time Of Japan's surrender in 1945, Wanrong's body had been completely destroyed by the smoke, she could not walk on two legs, and her eyes were almost blind. Even the eunuchs who served her became addicts because they smoked and burned cigarettes endlessly all day.
According to the records of the court at that time, Wanrong smoked an average of 85 cigarettes a day, and her residence was always full of smoke for a long time.
In August 1945, the Kwantung Army abducted Puyi from Changchun to Tonghua Dalizigou, Wanrong had changed from a flower-like beauty to a madman who could not control herself, and the cigarettes brought from the pseudo-imperial palace were not enough for her to smoke, and Puyi also sent his attendant Yan Tongjiang to buy it from the local area at a high price.
Soon, due to the limited seats on the plane, Puyi could only escape with a few people. Puyi looked at his half-human, half-ghost wife, and without hesitation, he took his brother and nephews away, leaving Wanrong and another "fugui person" Li Yunqin and his sisters in the big chestnut ditch.
Wanrong has no ability to take care of herself, but thanks to Li Yunqin and Puyi's Japanese wife Saga Hao, she took good care of her and lived a life of a new person again.
In September, the group was escorted by the Soviet Red Army to Linjiang City, Jilin Province, and handed over to the Northeast Democratic United Army led by He Changgong.
He Changgong
The coalition forces considered Wanrong's identity to be extraordinary, and transferred her to Tonghua Centralized Custody and Management. By the summer of the following year, Li Yuqin was released, and not long after Saga Hao was also allowed to return to Changchun, Wanrong lacked care around her, and her body was dirty and smelly.
There is no supply of big cigarettes in the shelter, and Wanrong's addiction is unbearable once committed. She either cried out for help, sometimes groaning in pain, sometimes lying on the floor and rolling around, so that the other criminals in the cell kept asking the parties concerned to "kill this endless witch!"
At that time, there was an underground party member Li Yanxia in the guards, who often secretly gave Wanrong a little drink, hoping that she could feel better. But can Wanrong's addiction to smoking be saved by smoke and water? Soon, due to the strong withdrawal reaction caused by the cigarette cutting off, Wanrong lay upright on the floor every day and fell asleep, surrounded by vomit, and even the doctor was helpless: "This person has not lived long." ”
Once a magnificent grace
On June 20, 1946, at the age of 40, the last Empress Guo Buluo. WanRong died of malnutrition and adverse reactions caused by smoking cessation, and did not have a single relative around. At first, she was wrapped in a straw straw and buried near the prison, but later the coffin was nailed by the underground party member who had been secretly caring for her, and buried in the Nanshan cemetery in Yanji City, where she was buried with a yellow pipe that Wanrong loved before she died.
The tragic fate of the last empress has reasons for feudal etiquette, family reasons, and her own reasons. In any case, the unique style of her youth has been forever engraved on the wall of history by the camera.