After Puyi was released from prison, he went to the barber shop and asked a question that made everyone cry and laugh
China's last emperor Puyi, who ascended the throne three times in his life, became a puppet emperor under the control of the Japanese, was captured by the Soviet army after Japan surrendered, was escorted back to China after the founding of the country, and entered the Fushun War Criminals Management Center for reform, on December 4, 1959, Puyi was released from prison, and a few days later he finally returned to his hometown of Beijing after a 35-year absence.
The feeling of returning to his hometown was beautiful, and he also remembered the mood of leaving here, when he did not know where to go, confused he fled from Beijing to Tianjin, and later turned to the Japanese and became their puppet emperor, although the status was noble but involuntary, but at this time the identity was different, he was a member of the citizens of new China, and he had to adapt to this new identity that made him happy as soon as possible.
He got off the train, looked at the gold watch in his hand, the gold watch was bought in the foreign firm when he lived in the Japanese embassy, when he entered the Fushun War Criminals Management Center, he handed it over, when he was released from prison, the director Sun Mingzhai returned the gold watch to him, he found the clock on the station, and the gold watch in his hand was re-aligned with the time, he felt that this was a new beginning, and from now on he had a new life.
Puyi, who was once the emperor, has always slept and eaten without worry, and does not have to worry about his own food, clothing, housing and transportation, although he has been reformed in the war criminal management center, and now he has become an ordinary citizen, can he adapt to the new life, of course, he will make some jokes.
Puyi in his memoirs recorded an interesting incident that happened during a haircut, Puyi entered the barbershop, immediately attracted by a strange thing, it was pitch black, and made a buzzing sound, he had not seen it, and did not know what it was used for, he asked the barber curiously what it was? The hairdresser told him that it was a hair dryer, which was nothing, but Puyi then asked, "Blow the wind first or cut your hair first?" Everyone listened to the laughter, the barber cried and laughed and told him about it, and after a while it was Puyi's turn to get a haircut, and he understood it all after he cut his hair and blew the wind.
In fact, think about Puyi's reaction is no wonder, he was born in the imperial family, from childhood someone to help him take care of everything, in the puppet Manchukuo, there are Japanese people to manage his food and clothing, after the founding of the country, although he carried out transformation, but after all, isolated from the outside world, many things he does not understand, so there will be jokes, but Puyi slowly adapted to and liked the new life, and contributed his own meager efforts to the construction of new China.