The last emperor Puyi, in addition to a beautiful empress Wanrong, also has a very ordinary-looking concubine Wenxiu. Moreover, Wenxiu was the queen Puyi liked at first glance. Finally, because of Cixi's intervention, she established Wanrong. Today we will talk about this woman who made Puyi fall in love at first sight.
Although Wenxiu looks ordinary, but her family life is not ambiguous at all. Her ancestors are Manchu nobles, and Dorgon entered the Central Plains with generations of people in the family. In the Qing court as an official. Wenxiu was born in 1909. When she was 11 years old, Puyi had already abdicated at the time, but she still retained the emperor's title, and she was planning to choose a woman from various girls to be the queen. Wenxiu's fifth uncle worked as an official book in the court, and upon hearing the news, he asked for a photo of Wenxiu and handed it up.
Everyone knows the love of beauty. In fact, to choose a queen, from a certain point of view, it is a beauty pageant. In addition, it also requires both ability and political integrity. A person with such an ordinary appearance like Wenxiu has very little chance of being selected. However, in addition to the face, love at first sight may also be the feeling. When Puyi looked through the photos, many of the more beautiful photos than Wenxiu were turned over. When I saw Wenxiu's photos, although the appearance was not very attractive at first glance, it gave Puyi a pleasing to the eye. The feeling, perhaps because the person in the photo has a unique temperament that attracted him. Pu Yi immediately circled Wenxiu's photo, planning to make her a queen.
Originally, if Wenxiu were to become a queen, maybe her second half of her life would not be so miserable, but it was God’s will, and Cixi felt that Wenxiu was too ordinary. Not suitable to be a queen, so Pu Yi made her a concubine Shu, and the queen established Wanrong. Wenxiu was less than 13 years old when she entered the palace and lived in the beautiful Changchun Palace, but she always felt very depressed. It turned out that although Puyi had matched Wenxiu at a glance, but after Wenxiu entered the palace, due to her introverted personality and not talkative, Puyi seldom talked to her anymore. As a queen, Wanrong also crowded out Wenxiu everywhere, making her very depressed, so she had to live in Changchun. In the palace, he stayed with the book all day long, speaking and doing things carefully.
In 1924, Puyi was driven out of the palace, Wenxiu and Wanrong also went out of the palace together, and the three lived in Tianjin. At that time, Puyi was willing to take refuge in the enemy's country, Wenxiu tried to persuade him more, but instead caused Puyi's disgust, let alone Wenxiu's heart. When she went to the street for dinner, she only took Wanrong and ignored Wenxiu. When Wanrong celebrated her birthday, she received countless gifts, and Wenxiu’s birthday was never remembered. Wenxiu, who was the only one sitting alone and reading many books, felt that such a day was true. Unfortunately, the idea of divorce gradually emerged.
In 1931, Wenxiu ran away from home, moved into a hotel, and filed a divorce with Puyi through a lawyer. She was probably the first in Chinese history to propose a settlement to the emperor. Relationship with the woman. After Pu Yi paid her more than 50,000 alimony, the two parted ways, and Wenxiu's identity changed from the last imperial concubine to a commoner. After Wenxiu returned to Beiping, she taught in a school for a living, and gradually realized the joy of ordinary life, but her identity as a concubine was discovered and attracted people's onlookers, which made her very distressed, so she had to reluctantly leave After leaving school, he lived in seclusion in the alley. Although it was clean, but there was no source of livelihood, and life gradually became difficult.
After four miserable years, Wenxiu finally received a proofreading job under the introduction of relatives. At this time, she also ushered in the second marriage in her life, that is Liu Zhendong, an officer of the National Army. When Wenxiu divorced Puyi, she said that she would not marry anymore. She was probably heartbroken, but Liu Zhendong's care and consideration gradually moved her. After five months of getting along with her, they got married in Beiping. The days after marriage were peaceful and happy. Liu Zhendong ran a small business. Wenxiu quit her job and hired a servant at home. She reads and paints every day. The past in the palace is never mentioned again.
After two years of such a harmonious and happy life, the current situation was turbulent, Liu Zhendong’s business went bankrupt, and his new home was gone. Peking was besieged, and two people lived Suddenly fell into a dilemma. Due to Liu Zhendong’s good performance, he explained the historical issues to the governmentQuestion, I got a cleaning job with relatively little income and barely support my family. Wenxiu has always been to Liu Zhendong, living in a ten-square-meter hut, cleaning the house, washing and cooking, and has always been emotionally good. Perhaps because of the depression and turbulence in his early life, coupled with the hard work in recent years, Wenxiu's physical condition is getting worse and worse. One day two years later, Wenxiu was working at home and suddenly fell down like this. He never woke up and died of myocardial infarction at the age of 43. After his death, Wenxiu had only her husband Liu Zhendong and no one else. The two of them had never had children. The funeral was very simple. There was only a coffin nailed into four wooden boards, and there was no tombstone. A generation of last-day imperial concubines just returned to the dust and deserted.
