In 1943, Li Yuqin, a 15-year-old student at the Nanling Girls' Excellent School in The New Manchurian New Beijing, was concentrating on her studies at the school. Suddenly, the school told her to take pictures the next day, telling her to pack up and get ready.
At that time, the girl who was told to take pictures was not only Li Yuqin. However, most of these girls wear Western-style clothes and skirts. Li Yuqin, who loves beauty, wears a different flower top.
(Li Yuqin stills)
But because she wore this flower top, it changed the fate of her life. What's going on?
In 1928, Li Yuqin was born in a poor peasant family in Changchun City, Jilin Province, with 6 brothers and sisters. His father earned money to feed his family by running for people in small restaurants, and his mother was a peasant woman who worked hard and complained.
The kind father, even though his family was destitute, did his best to provide for his children's education. In 1942, at the age of 14, Li Yuqin was admitted to the Pseudo-Manchurian New Jingnanling Girls' Excellent School.
It is said that in August 1942, Tan Yuling, the concubine of the puppet Manchukuo Emperor Puyi, died suddenly, which made Puyi, who was in the puppet Manchukuo, disheartened. Not only was he under house arrest for a long time, but his favorite concubine also died inexplicably, and he was lonely and could no longer afford to find another wife.
But the Japanese disagreed, they had their own plans, hoping that Puyi could marry a Japanese woman so that he could firmly control him in his own hands and be an obedient and manipulated puppet "emperor".
Puyi was well aware of the Japanese wolf ambitions and insisted on marrying a Chinese woman. In desperation, the Japanese Yasuno Yoshioka had to search around for more than 60 photos of female students in various pseudo-Manchu middle and elementary schools for Puyi to choose.
According to Li Yuqin's brother Li Feng later introduced, it was precisely because Li Yuqin wore a flower top that looked different, and Puyi chose her.
So, what was Li Yuqin's life after "entering the palace"?
The first step of Li Yuqin's entrance to the palace gate was disinfected by the whole body, and it was carefully washed inside and out, this is because Puyi has a cleaning habit, but also because Li Yuqin was born poor.
(Puyi stills)
Subsequently, Li Yuqin was sent to the second floor of the Tongde Palace, where he lived in a special Western-style building built by the Japanese for Puyi and his "empress", and began to learn and accept various etiquette in the puppet Manchu Palace.
Immediately after, Puyi set rules for Li Yuqin that had no freedom and humanity, and these rules were as many as 21. This includes unconditionally abiding by the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, absolutely obeying Puyi, not allowing him to go out of the palace to visit his parents without authorization, not allowing his family to enter the palace to visit his relatives, not allowing him to seek official positions for his mother's family, and not allowing him to interfere in politics. It also made Li Yuqin have to sign these rules.
At the same time, Puyi was always very cold to Li Yuqin, often not saying a word to her for a few days, let alone sharing a bed with her. In Puyi's eyes, Li Yuqin is a rural maid imposed on him by the Japanese, but it is dispensable.
Although Li Yuqin suddenly changed from a hen to a phoenix, lived in a palatial palace, and lived a life of fine clothes and jade food. But this Tongde Temple was a prison cell for her, imprisoning not only her body, but also freezing her spirit.
If it were not for the later victory of the War of Resistance, perhaps Li Yuqin would have died alone in this cage.
In 1945, after the Japanese announced their surrender, Puyi, who was anxious as a dog who had lost his family, prepared to flee to Japan and left his family members in the Dalizigou Coal Mine on the Tonghua River. As a result, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army at Shenyang airport. These more than 100 teams, composed of "imperial concubines", court maids, nursing mothers, and others, hid in the deep mountains and old forests of Da li zigou and feared for dozens of days before they paid for a group of private armed forces and sent them to Linjiang County.
Soon after, Linjiang was liberated, and Li Yuqin was sent back to her mother's house in Changchun. However, due to the deep-rooted feudal ideology of her family, she was sent back to Puyi's brother Puxiu in Tianjin to live. Li Yuqin, who had just gained his freedom, fell into the fire pit again.
Pu Xiu was a typical Qing Dynasty widow, who was very ruthless and harsh on Li Yuqin, almost imprisoning her at home. Not only does she not have the slightest freedom, but she also has to be responsible for all the housework at home, washing and cooking, cleaning, Li Yuqin is like a maid in Puxiu's family.
At the same time, there is no guarantee of life, and he often lacks food and hunger.
Even after the liberation of Tianjin, Li Yuqin asked to go out to work to earn money to support his family, But Puxiu refused on the grounds that he would rather starve to death than lose his temperate. Li Yuqin had to rely on selling her own knitted sweaters to make ends meet.
In 1956, Li Yuqin, under the care of the new Chinese government, found a job at the Changchun City Library.
In 1957, Li Yuqin came to Fushun Prison and negotiated a divorce agreement with Puyi. Since then, he has completely bid farewell to the identity of "Fuguiren" and truly gained freedom.
Later, Li Yuqin and engineer Huang Yugeng married, and the two lived happily together and had a son.
In 1983, Li Yuqin, who had already joined the "MingGe", was honorably elected as a member of the Changchun Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1993, she was elected as a member of the Jilin Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 2001, Li Yuqin, 73 years old, died of illness in Changchun, completing his legendary and bumpy life.
(Reference: Thirty Years of Ups and Downs)