Life is like sailing against the current: if you don’t advance, you will retreat . The rapid development of society and the rapid update and iteration of knowledge are far beyond people’s imagination. If you do not keep learning and cannot keep up with the times, will easily be abandoned by the times and eliminated by the society. Even the emperor is above the top.
is like the last emperor Puyi , which is a typical representative of being abandoned by the new era. After the Nine Five Lord was driven out of the palace, at least there was a place to go, but the palace maids who served others ended up much worse: wants to get married but no one wants to marry him. Why? Puyi in his later years revealed the truth.
Puyi abdicated and a large number of palace maids were dismissed.
On February 12, 1912, Empress Dowager Yulong reported to the dynasty and promulgated the "Edict of Abdication" in the name of the Empress Dowager. The abdication edict said: Today, the country's psychological tendency is mostly republic, and the will of the people is known, so how can I bear to be honored by the honor of a surname and dislike the people.
As we all know, who wins the hearts of the people win the world . Now the hearts of the people are more inclined to the republic. Qing Dynasty has lost the hearts of the people and the foundation of existence, and cannot continue to rule the people at all. To this end, the Empress Dowager issued an edict of abdication, allowing Puyi to abdicate .
Puyi abdicated and was only 6 years old this year. Fortunately, the government of the Republic of China was still kind to . After Puyi abdicated, retained many preferential conditions for the royal family and promised to give the royal family 4 million taels of silver each year. For this reason, after abdicating, Puyi still lived in the palace and still lived a life of luxury.
However, the good times did not last long. When he was 19 years old, Feng Yuxiang turned against him and launched a coup. The first thing he did after he took power was to drive Puyi out of the palace . After the master was driven out of the palace, a large number of palace maids were sent out of the palace: was scattered among the people and made a living by themselves.
In society at that time, women could do very little work, and , and the social atmosphere at that time did not recognize women who came out to show up in public, let alone make a living. For this reason, for those palace maids who were dismissed from the palace, the best way to make a living in is to marry , but no one is willing to marry these palace maids. Why is this?
Why is no one willing to marry the palace maid who was dismissed?
Logically speaking, the palace maids who can enter the palace to serve princes and nobles are all beautiful women selected through , . Why are these palace maids unwilling to marry after being sent out of the palace?
First of all, some palace maids are old and when they were dismissed from the palace, they are 20 or 30 years old, and they are considered older single women. You should know that women at that time generally got married at 5 or 16 years old. Secondly, men outside the palace always feel that the palace maids have been in the palace for a long time, and is no longer innocent.
But none of these are the main reasons, so what is the root cause of the problem? Puyi, in his later years, once revealed the truth in his autobiography "My First Half of Life": Most of the palace maids in the Qing palace suffered from "blood depression", which would make the palace maids weak and become less likely to conceive.
In that era, People married their wives just to pass on the family line and to continue the incense for their families. If they marry a palace maid who cannot give birth to their children, wouldn’t they stop the incense? Wouldn’t they be ashamed of their ancestors and ancestors? How could they raise their heads and be human?
Since there is no way to get married, where have all these dismissed palace maids gone? Some people rejoin their old careers, sell themselves to wealthy families, and continue to serve their masters; some have fallen into the dust and go to brothels to sell their bodies and arts and laugh; some have no way to survive, so they have settled themselves...
Life wisdom
In comparison, as contemporary women, how lucky are we? We should thank the reform and opening up, and the new era. We should thank the times for letting us no longer need " to live from father at home, to marry from husband, and to die from son ". We should thank the times for letting us no longer need to live independently by relying on men.
As the saying goes: people have no long-term plans, they must have immediate worries . Although equality between men and women has been achieved , although women can compete with men, we still cannot take it lightly. We still need to be vigilant in times of peace and . We still need to keep learning for life. Only in this way can we not be abandoned by the times.
