Wen | Late Tang Dynasty
On October 17, 1967, Puyi looked at his second brother who rushed to the hospital and finally swallowed his last breath, at the age of 61.
As the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, after his death, he was crowned the title of "Emperor of the Qing Dynasty" by posterity.
Puyi's life, from the day of his birth, was destined to be a tragedy.
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In 1906, Puyi was born in the Palace of alcohol.
His father was the younger brother of the Guangxu Emperor, the regent Ai Xinjueluo. Loaded.
Since the Guangxu Emperor was childless, Puyi was passed on to the emperor as an heir as soon as he was born.
In 1908, the Guangxu Emperor died, and Empress Dowager Cixi ordered puyi to inherit the throne.
At this time, he was only 2 years old, crying and making noise and unwilling to leave his parents and enter the palace.
However, the fate of the royal heirs was never decided by themselves.
After Puyi succeeded to the throne, due to his young age, he was actually put in power by Empress Longyu of the Guangxu Emperor.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out.
Yuan Shikai, the commander of the Qing army, reached an agreement with Sun Yat-sen to force Puyi to abdicate.
In 1912, Empress Longyu issued the "Edict of Abdication", and puyi, 6 years old, officially abdicated.
However, due to the "Preferential Conditions for the Qing Dynasty" of the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China, he still lived in the Forbidden City as an emperor.
In 1913, Empress Longyu died.
Puyi's childhood life is like a canary in a cage, at the mercy of others.
Although there are special teachers who teach him to read, they are basically formalized.
Puyi, who has not had his parents to accompany and teach since he was a child, prefers to do pranks when he is young.
He said in "The First Half of My Life": "I had many eccentric hobbies in my childhood, and the greater pleasure was pranks besides playing with camels, feeding ants, raising earthworms, and watching dogs fight.
He also wanted to give the eunuchs an oil cake with iron sand and hit the eunuch's window with a lead bullet.
The only principle of being a human being was taught to him by the poor nursing mother Wang Jiaoshi.
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There were often some undead former Qing dynasty remnants around him, talking about the restoration in his ears every day.
In 1917, Zhang Xun used the name of "Courtyard Dispute" to lead his "Braid Army" into Beijing and support Puyi's restoration.
As a result, it ended in failure.
The 12-year-old Puyi only took the dragon throne for the second time for 10 days before announcing his abdication.
For a 12-year-old child, he doesn't know what it means to be emperor?
He read private school and knew history, but he knew nothing about the outside world.
It was not until 1919, when the Englishman Johnston began to serve as Puyi's teacher, that he opened his eyes.
At that time, 13-year-old Puyi cut off his braids and put on a suit.
Influenced by the English teacher, Puyi had the idea of studying abroad.
He was well aware of the dangers of his situation and was desperate to leave the Forbidden City.
In the end, the escape plan did not succeed, and he lost his rights as a man.
In order to prevent him from escaping, the palace concubines, ministers, and eunuchs came up with a method.
First he sent him a palace maid to teach him about men and women.
After Puyi first tasted it, the internal prisoners sent countless days to different palace women to serve him.
What is even more excessive is that in order to keep him physically strong, he is constantly fed the soup medicine for aphrodisiac.
This lasted for 3 years.
The young Puyi did not know that his indulgence and ignorance would ruin the happiness of a lifetime.
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(Grace on the left, embroidery on the right)
In 1922, the royal family decided to take a concubine for the 16-year-old Puyi.
After thousands of selections, 16-year-old Guo Bro. Wan Rong was elected Empress, 13-year-old Erdette. Wen Xiu was chosen as the Imperial Concubine.
In fact, at the beginning, Puyi's favorite empress candidate was Wen Xiu.
However, because of Wanrong's prominent family, his father was the Minister of the Interior Rongyuan, and his mother was the granddaughter of king Dingjun, known as "Si Ge Ge".
The Erdet family of Wen embroidery had already declined at that time.
Therefore, at the insistence of Emperor Duankang's concubines, Puyi reluctantly chose Wanrong as empress.
However, Wen Xiu had already married into the palace one day.
On the wedding night, Wen Xiu saw Puyi for the first time in the Yangxin Hall, and after performing the three-hundred-and-nine kowtowing ceremony, Puyi coldly said: "Go down and rest."
On the first night, the husband did not sleep with him. Wen Xiu thought that he was not happy with her husband.
The second day was the day that empress dowager entered the palace.
As a result, Puyi still did not sleep with him, but rested alone in the Yangxin Hall.
At that time, Wen Xiu and WanRong did not know that her husband, the famous Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, could not do the things of men and women.
This incident is also a major event in Puyi's tragic life.
If he is not physically responsible, perhaps it is not bad to choose to live the life of an ordinary person.
The Qing Dynasty was ruined in his generation.
Even his own personal life is not in control.
How sad is that!
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(Fu Yi together with Wanrong and Wenxiu)
After marriage, Puyi did not treat Wen Xiu and Wan Rong badly.
He knew that Wen Xiu liked to read and learn, so he hired a female teacher to teach her English.
Occasionally, he would go to the Changchun Palace where Wen Xiu lived, and join her in chanting poems, reading and painting, and playing the piano.
The tranquility and elegance of wen embroidery is his favorite.
Of course, Puyi was also very fond of Empress Wanrong.
WanRong was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting before entering the palace, and also studied English, understood Western culture, and especially liked new things.
Whenever Puyi got Western-style things, he would always go to the Wanrong Palace to share with them, pinch mud people, raise dogs, raise deer, and sometimes go to the palace to take a car and walk the streets.
There are not too many contradictions in the lives of three people.
Wen Xiu's personality is not contentious, and he likes to live alone in the palace and do his own thing.
Wanrong's personality is more lively, and she likes to have someone to play with her.
In 1924, the warlord Feng Yuxiang staged a coup d'état in Beijing.
Ignoring the "Royal Preferential Conditions", Puyi was expelled from the palace.
He finally left this and "imprisoned" himself in the Forbidden City for 18 years.
Those who left with him, in addition to a large amount of treasure, were Wen Xiu and Wan Rong.
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In 1925, Puyi moved to Tianjin and plotted with the Qing Dynasty to "restore the number to the palace".
At this time, with the support of the Japanese, consuls and garrison commanders of various countries honored him as emperor.
Many places that are only open to foreigners are specially open to him, so that he can enjoy the special reputation and glory of non-ordinary Chinese.
Puyi seems to have regained the feeling of being an emperor in the Qing Dynasty.
He dressed himself up with a lot of money and brought a wife and a concubine in and out of various places.
Wanrong is very happy to play with Puyi, while Wenxiu is walking on thin ice, and she is worried that all this is a conspiracy.
Afraid of what's coming.
At this time, someone offered advice to Puyi: "If you want to restore the qing imperial industry, you must rely on Japan as foreign aid."
Wen Xiu immediately dissuaded him after learning: "The Japanese are extremely brutal, during the Russo-Japanese War, countless Chinese were slaughtered, you must not listen to other people's plans, attract wolves into the house, the consequences will be very tragic." ”
But Puyi couldn't listen to a word of Wen Xiu's words.
Under the planning of the pro-Japanese activist Zheng Xiaoxu, he sneaked into the Japanese legation in China, and later sneaked into a villa in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin.
Subsequently, Wen Xiu and Wan Rong also went to the villa to reunite with Puyi.
After arriving at the villa, Puyi asked Wanrong to live with him on the second floor, leaving Wenxiu alone downstairs.
However, Wen Xiu did not care about these, and she found every opportunity to dissuade Puyi from believing in the Japanese.
Therefore, Puyi gradually developed a dislike for her, believing that Wen Xiu was blocking his restoration plan.
Therefore, he left her out in the cold, did not eat at a table with her, traveled and received only WanRong to accompany, and the rewards for the New Year's Festival did not have a share of embroidery.
Eunuchs and maids fell out of favor when they saw Wenxiu, and from time to time they discriminated against and abused them.
Wen Xiu often washed her face with tears, and she was also getting colder and colder for Puyi, and she began to prepare to leave.
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One day, her sister Wen Shan came to visit her sister, learned of Wen Xiu's suffering, and told her: "Now that it is the era of the Republic of China, there is equality between men and women in law, you should hire a lawyer and divorce him..." ”
So, with the help of his sister, Wen Xiu escaped and hired three lawyers to file a lawsuit with the court: "Living with Puyi for nine years, I did not get a luck, and decided to divorce."
When Puyi learned of this, he first panicked, and then became angry, believing that Wen Xiu's behavior was on the face of the imperial family and his identity as "emperor".
Later, he also hired two lawyers to mediate with Wenxiu.
However, Wen Xiu has made up his mind.
Later, the two parties signed a divorce agreement, Puyi paid Wenxiu 55,000 yuan for living expenses, and Wenxiu could not remarry for life.
After the divorce, Wen Xiu worked as a teacher and pasted paper boxes in order to live.
The life of upheaval and displacement is miserable compared with the extravagance and wealth of Grace.
But it turns out that Wen Xiu is the one with the greatest wisdom.
On September 18, 1931, "IX. The 18th Incident "broke out, and the Japanese Kwantung Army occupied all of Northeast China.
In 1932, with the support of Japan, Puyi became the emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo.
Officially began his life as a "puppet emperor".
In his days in the northeast, Puyi did not have any real power, but was just a puppet used and controlled by the Japanese.
Empress Wanrong's every move was also under the watchful eye of the Japanese, and she could not even take a step out of the gate alone.
At this moment, WanRong knew how correct Wen Xiu's decision was.
During this time, she also planned two escapes, but both ended in failure.
Originally, because of the Wenxiu incident, Puyi had a different heart for Wanrong, because she had the heart to escape, and she became more and more cold to her.
So much so that Wanrong simply gave up on herself, first committing adultery with the guards, and then giving birth to a daughter and being disposed of by Puyi.
He then contracted opium smoking himself.
She was locked in a house and isolated from the outside world, and her eyes, which had not been able to see the light for a long time, suffered from eye disease.
Because of opium smoking, the whole person was extremely emaciated, and his spirit was also problematic.
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In 1945, japan was defeated, and Puyi was captured by Soviet troops in Shenyang and imprisoned in a Soviet prison.
Wanrong was captured by communist guerrillas occupying the area and was eventually imprisoned in a prison in Yanji, Jilin Province.
A year later, Wanrong fell ill and died in prison at the age of 40.
In 1950, Puyi was returned to China by India and accepted labor reform.
In 1959, he was pardoned by Chairman Mao as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 1960, Puyi officially went to the Botanical Garden of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to report, which was the first time in his life that he went to work.
In 1962, he married nurse Lee Sook-hyun.
At that time, Puyi, who was 56 years old, said: "This is the first time I feel the warmth of home."
After marriage, Puyi treated Li Shuxian very considerately and told his wife about his physical defects.
It's just that this happiness didn't last long.
In 1967, Puyi was hospitalized with uremia.
He died of ineffective medical treatment.
In this life, as he himself once said: "I have been emperor 4 times in this life, which is the shame of my generation."
In this life, people are like clouds of smoke in the end, whether you have been brilliant or failed, in the end you have turned into a bunch of sand, from where you come from, and then return there.
Source: "The First Half of My Life"
"My Husband Puyi"
Twilight in the Forbidden City
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