As the last eunuch in Chinese history, Sun Yaoting personally experienced the demise of Qing Dynasty , also witnessed the royal life in Forbidden City , and was also a participant in court politics. It can be called a "living history". However, Sun Yaoting's life is full of too much humiliation and pain, and it was not until his later years that he enjoyed the dignity of being a human being, which was considered dead without regrets.
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But his father said, "The Qing died"
The last eunuch in China, Sun Yaoting, was born in a poor peasant family in Xishuangtang Village, Jinghai County, Tianjin. Ranked second among the four brothers.
Sun Yaoting was born into a poor peasant family. When he was born, his family was only seventy percent of the land, which was not enough to support his family. His father had to work as a tenant farmer at the teacher's house of a private school to make a living, so as to barely make a living.
So Sun Yaoting read for four years for free. This makes me quite able to read the words, but the good times don't last long. As the old boss went bankrupt, the Sun family's situation plummeted and soon fell to the point of begging.
Forced to make a living, Sun's father decided to send Sun Yaoting to the palace to be a eunuch. However, the Sun family is too poor and they cannot make enough money to respect the worship rooms in the palace.
Therefore, they were unable to perform formal surgery on their son and could only castrate themselves at home. Sun Yaoting's father decided to do it himself. As a result, he fell into a coma after being stabbed, and he didn't wake up until three days later. But his father told him that the Qing Dynasty had died and he was unemployed before he could even work. Sun Yaoting is really unlucky.
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Palace career
After Sun Yaoting woke up, his father began to plan to send him into the palace, but what he never expected was that during the coma of Sun Yaoting, the Qing Dynasty was destroyed! This news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue and immediately threw the Sun family into despair.
Fortunately, during the Republic of China, the Qing Dynasty gave preferential treatment, and eunuchs were still used in the Forbidden City and the residences of princes. Therefore, through various relationships, the eunuch He Deyuan, who was dependent on the palace, sent Sun Yaoting to the palace to do odd jobs through his own relationships. It was in the fifth year of the Republic of China (1916).
Shortly after serving, Sun was transferred to Taobeile Mansion and changed his name to Shunshou. At this time, although Sun Yaoting was only in his teenage years, he was smart and had a good mouth. He is good at socializing and making friends.
After a long time, he got involved with Xin Hengru, the eunuch leader of the Northern Garden of the Palace, and entered the Forbidden City as a listener. Sun Yaoting When he first entered the palace, he became a servant of Xinhengru . He serves food every day, throws shit and pee, and doesn't see any chance of promotion.
Fortunately, when fate is good, Duankang Imperial Concubine once went to the show, and she accidentally heard Xinheng Ru talk about Sun Yaoting's intelligence. In addition to being happy, she invited this little eunuch to join the troupe.
For a humble eunuch who does rough work and has no name, it is tantamount to the top of the sky. In October of the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), Sun Yaoting officially joined the opera troupe and spent 60 taels of silver to buy the title of "Wang Chengxiang". Due to the outstanding performance of Sun Yaoting in , he was promoted to and entered the troupe's room after a period of transition.
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Later years
1924, Feng Yuxiang defected to Beijing and drove the last emperor Puyi out of the Forbidden City. Puyi hid at his aunt Rongshou Gulun's house and then entered the Japanese Embassy in China. After leaving the palace, Sun Yaoting continued to serve the regent Wanrong at the home of the regent Zaifeng . More than a month later, Wanrong went to find Puyi. From then on, his eunuch career ended.
After Sun Yaoting returned to his hometown, he had neither land nor farm work, so he could only rely on his brothers to help. However, this is not a long-term solution, so after living in Jinghai for two years, Sun Yaoting went to the capital to find a way out.At that time, more than 40 eunuchs from the former Qing Dynasty lived in Xinglong Temple on Beichang Street.
They all have some money, bought some houses and land, lived on rent, and lived pretty well. Sun Yaoting had nowhere to go, so he had to go to Xinglong Temple to live with these people.
After the liberation, Sun Yaoting became a worker, participated in the management of temple affairs in Beijing, and worked as an accounting part-time, with a maximum monthly salary of 35 yuan.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Sun Yaoting moved into Guanghua Temple until he died in 1996 at the age of 94. As the last eunuch in Chinese history, Sun experienced the demise of the Qing Dynasty, witnessed the royal life in the Forbidden City, and was also a participant in court politics. It can be called a "living history".
And Sun's life was full of too much humiliation and pain. It was not until his later years that he enjoyed the dignity of being a human being, which was considered dead without regrets.
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