Talking about the last emperor Puyi, we must not lament his legendary experience in this life, from the emperor above ten thousand people to a war criminal in prison, and later pardoned to become an ordinary citizen. This is a change of identity for Puyi, and it is also a new washing and reshaping of the mind and soul.
Puyi has been married five times, the first four times married back are concubines in the feudal society period, only the last marriage can be regarded as a new era of husband and wife. In fact, it is not easy for his wife to come, puyi has kissed many times in the second half of his life, but as long as the other party is related to two words, he turns his head and leaves, which two words?
Puyi was born in 1906 in the palace of Prince Shuo, because the Guangxu Emperor had no heirs, in 1909, the three-year-old Puyi was accepted into the palace by Cixi to ascend the throne, but was forced to abdicate after only three years. The "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty" records: "Great changes have arisen, the regime is thanked, the world is just, and preferential treatment will always exist, so as to open up the wonders that have never been seen in the ages." After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial family retained privileges and preferential treatment, and it was not until 1924 that Feng Yuxiang led troops into the Forbidden City puyi and began his own life of escape.
Later, after thirteen years of rule and ten years of transformation during the puppet Manchu period, in 1959, Puyi began to live in a new identity, and he was assigned to work in the Beijing Botanical Garden. At this time, Puyi's four wives before him were either divorced or died, all of them left him, and his solitary state quickly attracted people's attention, and everyone was busy introducing him to Zhang Luo.
The first to act was Puyi's seventh uncle, who told Puyi that he knew a big miss Zhang, who was not only diligent and handsome. Puyi also felt good when he heard it, but later when he inquired about it, he learned that this Elder Miss Zhang's father had worked in the Prince of Alcohol's palace, which was not the person he was looking for, so he gave up.
Later, there was a Hanlin scholar at the end of the Qing Dynasty, who had a daughter in the family, who was 15 years old, and he wanted to marry his daughter to Puyi. As soon as Puyi heard about this person's identity, he knew that he still wanted to have something to do with the former "emperor", otherwise how could he marry such a young daughter to himself, and he resolutely refused.
In addition to these two, some people introduced puyi to the descendants of the aristocratic family in the old days, and they were also rejected by him one by one. Even his cousin, Wang Mintong, who was known as the most beautiful and most qualified in the late Qing Dynasty, Puyi ignored it. At this time, people could see that if he wanted to find his wife, he could only be an ordinary citizen, as long as it was related to the word "royalty", he resolutely did not want it.
In 1962, Puyi was introduced to Li Shuxian, a nurse at Guanxiang Hospital in Chaoyang District, Beijing, who was 19 years younger than Puyi and had a simple and kind personality, and Puyi felt very fond of her as soon as she saw her. Later, I learned about her profession in communication, and I was even more satisfied, and the two people looked at each other very pleasantly. The following year, Puyi and Li Shuxian married in Beijing.
After marriage, Puyi changed the old style of male superiority and female inferiority in marriage, and his care for Li Shuxian was meticulous. Once he said to his wife that he did not know what an equal relationship should be when a husband and wife were together, until he met her, he realized that it was so sweet to be with the person he loved.
Puyi and Li Shuxian lived happily together, but the two did not have any children, and in the fifth year after marriage, Puyi's body deteriorated rapidly and suffered from uremia. In 1967, Puyi was sent to the Capital Hospital for treatment, invited many traditional Chinese and Western medicine experts to come to consult, and finally died of ineffective treatment.
Puyi's life was full of loneliness and helplessness, but fortunately, in the last few years before his death, he found his true love and lived a plain and warm life for ordinary people. He has an autobiography " The First Half of My Life " edited and published , which detailed his psychological journey along the way , from which you can glimpse the bittersweet and bittersweet life of the last emperor.