Puyi abdicated
On February 12, 1912, under the dual pressure of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary party and Yuan Shikai's Beiyang clan, Empress Longyu was forced to issue the Edict of abdication of the Qing Emperor, marking the end of China's last feudal dynasty.
Forbidden city
Although the Manchu Qing Empire was destroyed, according to the "Preferential Conditions for the Resignation of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty", the deposed emperor Puyi could still continue to live in the Forbidden City. Moreover, the rest of the princes and nobles and royal relatives could still enjoy their wealth and nobility, and they were not counted by the counterattack of the Beiyang government.
In 1913, a baby girl fell to the ground in the courtyard of a deep mansion in Beijing's East 43-three Hutong, and she was the protagonist of this article, Wanyan Tongji. In order to resist plagiarism, Wenshi can only attach a watermark logo to the pictures from the Network, if there is infringement, please contact to delete.
Born in Manchuria under the yellow banner of the "Three Banners of the Upper Three Banners", his father Yan Lixian was the grandson of the military chancellor, and his mother, Xinjue luo Henghui, was the direct granddaughter of the Fifth Emperor of Qianlong. Moreover, the Guanyan family is also a direct descendant of the Jinguo royal family, her status is extremely noble, and she has two royal bloodlines flowing in her body, and is known as "the most beautiful character in the Manchu Qing".
Comparison table of Manchu surnames
As the First Royal Family, Ai Xinjue Luo, took the lead in changing the surname "Jin", other Manchu Nobles also followed suit. For example, the Yehenara clan changed its surname to "Na", the Hersheli clan changed its surname to "Ying", the Tong Jia clan changed its surname to "Tong", the Guarjia clan changed its surname to "Guan"... and the Guanyan clan changed its surname to "Wang". Since then, the complete Yan Tong Ji has officially changed its name to "Wang Mintong".
Wang Mintong was an infant
Judging from the photos circulating, most of the clan women and harem concubines in the late Manchu Qing Dynasty were short and stout, and there was even no shortage of ugly-looking "crooked melon crackers". However, Wang Mintong is an outlier among them, not only white and tender, slender and long, but also clever, gentle and well-behaved. According to the sister Yan Bilin's later recollection:
The family is too polite to ask children, especially girls. The sister was spoiled by all the elders, and she always followed her mother and ate at the same table as the adults. Because she is both docile and white and beautiful, but I am a yellow haired girl, eating alone in the backyard, usually not calling out to meet guests, for fear of making jokes about the wrong etiquette.
Wang Mintong and Wanrong, Wen Xiu and others
On the surface, Wang Mintong does appear to be "harmless to people and animals" and gentle and docile, belonging to the typical "well-behaved woman", but this is only the appearance. Deep down, she is an arrogant and stubborn girl, even with a little extreme.
In 1922, Puyi had reached the age of sixteen, and as usual, he had reached the age of marriage and pro-government. Obviously, the widows and widows could not help him achieve pro-government, but in order to save some face, everyone still decided to hold a grand draft and wedding ceremony.
Grace
As a result, hundreds of Eight Banner Nobles and old and new warlords sent photos of their daughters to the Forbidden City for election. In line with the principle of "fairness and justice", after an intensive "draft competition", Guo Buluo Wanrong finally became the empress candidate, and she was Wang Mintong's cousin.
On November 30, 1922, the empress's wedding, which had been preparing for many days, finally arrived, and the magnificent royal honor guard came to the residence of Guo Bro Rongyuan, and Wanrong was dressed in accordance with royal etiquette. After that, the "Fengyu" passed through the city of Beijing and was carried from the Donghua Gate into the Forbidden City.
Graceful marriage
At that time, Wang Mintong was only 9 years old, and he followed the sending team into the Forbidden City, saw the prestige and pomp of the royal family, and left a deep mark in his heart. Perhaps, she has been infatuated with the Forbidden City, the dragon robe, the dragon chair since then, and the owner of these is the polite and polite last emperor Puyi.
Feng Yuxiang
In October 1924, Feng Yuxiang took the opportunity to launch a "Beijing coup" to take control of power. After that, he immediately overthrew a series of domestic and foreign policies of Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang government, and also abolished the "Preferential Conditions for Treatment After the Resignation of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty", and expelled all the small imperial courts headed by Puyi from the Forbidden City and moved to Zhang Yuan in Tianjin.
Puyi and Wanrong
Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty perished, and although Puyi was also driven to Tianjin, the habits of the aristocratic class did not change, and they still paid attention to the door to the door, especially the marriage event. According to the Eight Banners Chronicle:
For those who are eligible for the fourteenth year of the flag woman's year, the eight banners will make a book and send it to the household department for reference, in preparation for the selection of concubines, or assign the near branch of the clan room, called "show girl".
As the "Three Banners", the Yan family's heart is to hope to intermarry with the royal family, and "there are girls in the family who have just grown up", so they also moved to Tianjin. However, Puyi, who lives here, already has the latter concubine of Wanrong and Wenxiu, and moreover, she is ill and has no intention of being a woman, and she is not ready to draft a woman again.
Gradually, the Manchu Nobles and the widows of the Old and the Young dismissed the attempt to marry into the royal family and began to intermarry with each other to form a family. When Wang Mintong was 17 years old, the family chose a marriage for her, and the man was a son of the clan who loved Xinjue Luo and was ready to choose an auspicious day to complete the marriage.
Tianjin has always been a prosperous place, especially the entertainment industry is the first in the country, and all kinds of music and art types are dazzling, and naturally it has become a land of rich men and women. In fact, Wang Mintong had heard about her fiancé's affair before she got engaged, but she reluctantly agreed at the insistence of the elders in the family.
Wang Mintong
Just when Wang Mintong was preparing to marry, her fiancé did not restrain at all, and openly wrapped up the drama and went out of the pair, which was simply "playing out of the sky". Is it tolerable or intolerable? She pressed the family to death, and finally succeeded in retiring the affair.
In 1931, the Japanese army brazenly launched the "918 Incident" to invade and occupy northeast China, thus opening the curtain of the war of aggression against China. However, because it was not yet ready for a comprehensive invasion of China, when Japan faced with the frequent pressure exerted by the "League of Nations" controlled by the British and American powers, it had no choice but to adopt the method of supporting agents to indirectly rule the northeast region, and finally selected the deposed emperor Puyi who lived idly in Tianjin.
Puyi established a pseudo-manchu
On March 1, 1934, after a long period of planning and secret talks, Puyi finally held a grand enthronement ceremony in Xinjing and established the so-called "Great Manchuria Empire". From then on, he joined forces with the Japanese invaders to bully the people of Northeast China.
Due to his own physical reasons, Puyi has been unable to produce offspring, and naturally there is no "pseudo-Manchukuo" crown prince. Soon, the Japanese set their sights on his younger brother Pujie, hoping that he would marry a Japanese woman to promote so-called "Sino-Japanese goodwill."
Puyi stills
Puyi saw through the Japanese's treacherous schemes and decided that they hoped to replace themselves with the help of Pujie and the descendants of Japanese women. Therefore, he began to actively find a new princess for his brother, and finally chose Wang Mintong.
For this "joy of heavenly descent", the yan family was ecstatic, and Pu Jie was the "imperial brother" of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er. Therefore, the whole family immediately became a seller, pieced together a dowry that matched the princess's dignity, and prepared to pack up and go to Changchun to complete the marriage.
However, in the face of Japan's resolute opposition, Puyi had no choice but to stop the marriage. It turned out that Japan had already chosen a noble woman Saga Hao as his wife for Pu Jie, hoping that she would give birth to a future successor to the "puppet state of Manchukuo".
Pu Jie and Saga Hao
At this point, Wang Mintong's dream of being a princess was shattered, and the Wang family became depressed because of the dowry, so they had to return to their old residence in Beijing in ashes. More than ten years ago, the people who lived here were all descendants of the Eight Flags, one by one, who were either rich or expensive, but now they are already human.
Next door to Wang Mintong's house lived a new family with fresh faces, headed by a young woman with no one in the house except a few servants. After occasionally meeting a few times, she also became acquainted with this woman of similar age, and learned that the other party was the famous Peking Opera celebrity, Meng Xiaodong, who was known as the "Winter Emperor".
At this time, Meng Xiaodong was emotionally entangled with Mei Lanfang, living alone in Dongsi San tiao Hutong "want to be quiet". The two girls are five years apart, and although they come from very different backgrounds and backgrounds, they have a common annoyance at this time - marriage.
Wang Mintong and Meng Xiaodong
Under the mutual comfort, Wang Mintong and Meng Xiaodong have gradually come out of the haze of life. When they got along, she was no longer the aristocratic girl with a prominent family, and began to try the singing and sitting and stage appearance of Peking Opera; and she was no longer the superstar of the pear garden, and began to try the "big pulling wings" and "flower pot bottom" of the Eight Flags Noble Girl.
Wang Mintong costume
Other children have left home because of their studies, or because of marriage, or because of their careers, only the eldest daughter Wang Mintong, who was the most optimistic at the beginning, has not been able to marry. Now, seeing that she finally showed a little smile, her mother did not care about her friendship with the people, and chose to turn a blind eye.
During this period, although the mother and daughter did not produce and had no financial resources, they could still live by relying on the sale of their property, and their lives were still passable.
By August 15, 1945, with Emperor Hirohito announcing his unconditional surrender, Japan finally lowered its guilty head. In the face of the powerful Soviet army, the so-called "pseudo-Manchukuo" naturally destroyed gula decay and fell apart in an instant, Puyi prepared to fly from Shenyang Dongta Airport to Japan for refuge, but was arrested by the Soviet airborne troops before boarding the plane.
Puyi was arrested by the Soviet army
After the founding of New China, the Soviet Union handed over Puyi and more than 260 other war criminals to the Chinese government, and since then transferred them to the fushun war criminals management center.
After 10 years, Puyi's thinking has made great progress and has been completely transformed. Finally, he became one of the first prisoners to be pardoned by the party and the government, and became a free Chinese citizen.
Puyi was pardoned
Soon after being pardoned, Puyi returned to Beijing, back to the place where the dream began. Hearing of the "Holy Driving Back to Luang", the mother and daughter of the Wang family were very happy, and they rushed to ask Puyi's third sister Jin Ruixiu to invite "His Majesty" to their home for dinner.
From 1959 to 1961, it was a "three-year difficult period", and Puyi suffered a lot in the war criminals management center, of course, "gladly went". It was rare to have a sumptuous banquet, and the "emperor" ate very happily, and constantly praised the superb cooking skills, which made the mother and daughter of the Royal family flattered.
At that time, Puyi was 53 years old and still alone; while Wang Mintong was 46 years old and had never been married. This pleasant family banquet once again ignited the fire of her love, hoping to realize her dream in the second half of her life.
Unfortunately, the falling flowers are intentional, and the flowing water is merciless! Puyi politely refused Wang Mintong's show of love, but instead chose an ordinary nurse Li Shuxian to communicate and fall in love.
In order to fight for the end, Wang Mintong actually went to the hospital for a comprehensive examination to prove that he was still a "complete body". But even so, she could not persuade Puyi to change her mind, or married Li Shuxian, who was married for the second time.
Puyi and Li Shuxian
Wang Mintong, who had fallen into infatuation, could not imagine that he would be defeated by Li Shuxian, and still continued to pursue it. Even during Puyi's hospitalization, he continued to "harass" until he finally gave up after his death in 1967.
After Puyi's death, Wang Mintong finally woke up like a dream, and gradually restored the "high coldness" of his aristocratic descendants, rarely communicating with people. She lived in a modest little house in Beijing, cleaned the streets for a meager salary, and never interacted with other aristocratic descendants.
In 2003, At the age of 90, Wang Mintong lost her ability to work and was sent to live in a nursing home by the government. During the Spring Festival, she ate dumplings with other elderly people, but suddenly stuck in her throat and passed away, which was an accident.
Wang Mintong's life can be described as a lot of regrets, she was born noble but fell silent in her old age, she longed for love but was alone. It is not so much the "most beautiful grid" as it is the "most tragic grid", and the ending is really lamentable. @Wenshi is not false