Li Yuqin was only 15 years old when Puyi summoned her into the palace, studying in the sixth grade of Changchun Nanling National High School for Girls. Changchun was called Xinjing by some people at that time, and it was the capital of the puppet Manchukuo.
Later, Li Yuqin's mother recalled the scene and said:
"I remember that day was Qingming, and Yuqin went to school without even having a good lunch. I asked her and she said that she wanted to take pictures at school. There were not many days, it seemed that On Sunday, two Japanese people suddenly came to the house, one is her female teacher and the other is the principal, whose name is Xiaolin..."
"Yes. One is Fujii and the other is Xiaolin." Li Yuqin said in a low voice.
"...At that time, I was washing clothes in the yard, and there was a big pot of clothes to wash. As soon as they entered the door, they asked: 'Is there a Li Yuqin here?' Misfortune, the teacher came to the door. This kid usually doesn't let people talk, and he always has to argue a reason. But I didn't dare not admit it, so I agreed and washed my clothes. They I didn't say anything, so I walked into the room and sat down. After a while, I walked in and didn't entertain them. I just heard them say: 'The palace wants to choose female students to study, Li Yuqin has chosen it, hurry up Get her here!'
"Yuqin, I happened to be picking up rations and buying sugar. The neighbors on the left and right said: 'This is a good thing, this is a good thing!' Fujii doesn't speak Chinese words very well, but they all understand what I say. She even said and gestured, pointing here and there. , which means that from now on, we can live in a good house and have money. And she made a lot of wishes, saying that her family could go to the palace to see her, and she could also come home. I'm just afraid they don't have a good idea.... After an hour, Yuqin was found.They grabbed her for a couple of photos and didn't let go. After she was stunned for a while, she packed up her schoolbag and went with them with her daily necessities. "
To tell the truth, she was a poor girl. Ever since she can remember, she knew that her father worked as a clerk in the Tianjia Hotel (formerly known as "running hall"), and the income of the clerk was to support her mother, Her three older sisters, two older brothers, one younger sister and herself.
She said: In our family, older sisters were all elders, and they were a burden at that time; younger brother was too young to help. We envy rich people My child is studying, but the family is poor and has no money. I have attended several free schools. When I get home from school, I will mend my socks and make some money to buy stationery. I worked in the factory. I worked for a summer vacation and then went to school again. My favorite was to study. At that time, my family lived in Erdaohezi.
"Photography is such a thing. At that time, we had about 60 students in each class. One day, the school suddenly notified us that each class would select three or four girls with good homework and good looks. In fact, I'm not pretty, but after I was selected, I was taken to a Japanese-run photo studio to take pictures. Everyone is scared, but it's not okay not to go. At that time, , Japan, and were already at war with Britain and the United States, and we were afraid of sending them to the Japanese army to do bad things. "
Li Yuqin didn't understand the real motives for taking pictures of them at the time, nor did she realize how much turbulence she would make in her life after being picked.
All of this was designed by Pu Yi, the depressed emperor who looked up to others and snorted. arrangement.
It turns out that the emperor of Xuantong Puyi abdicated for 13 years, that is, the year he was 16 years old, in Beijing grandly " set up ", " queen " Wanrong, " concubine " text Embroidered ; After being forced out of the palace, she spent seven years in an apartment in Tianjin. During this period, "Concubine Shu" suffered some grievances in front of the queen, and finally asked for divorce, and the relationship between the queen and the last emperor has been very strong since then. Indifferent, indifferent. Tan Yuling, who was once a favorite of Puyi, spent five summers and colds in the Jixi Building of the Puppet Manchurian Palace and died. In this way, by 1942, at least in the relationship between husband and wife, the emperor was effectively alone.
In those days, the evil forces of the Japanese Kwantung Army were not only a sharp sword hanging over the emperor's throne, but also on the side of Puyi's "bedroom" in the Jixi Lou .
The Kwantung Army smugly imagined the issue of the succession to the throne, and directly interfered with the marriage of the emperor of the puppet Manchukuo. The staff of the lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army and the "Hang of the Imperial Family", Yoshioka Anzhi, seems to be deliberately serving as a matchmaker, persuading Puyi to marry a Japanese wife. This was the case before Tan Yuling was canonized as a Qing nobleman, and it was still the case after she was posthumously named " Mingxian noble concubine ".
However, Lieutenant General Yoshioka failed to get his usual victory from Puyi this time around. Pu Yi said to me privately: "I thought about it, and finally made up my mind: 'I'll manage it for you like this, there can't be another person in the family who can manage me! I have to find someone who can manage me. '" Therefore, he took the initiative to choose a "concubine". As for the procedure of censoring photos, it is thought to be a fashionable method adopted by the emperor after the introduction of photography into China.Wan Rongzhi became the "Queen", Wen Xiuzhi became the "concubine", and Tan Yuling became the "Qing nobleman".
When Li Yuqin walked down this road unconsciously, who knew that Yoshioka still played a role.
That night, she was placed at the house of Fujii, a Japanese female teacher. After cutting her hair, taking a bath, and changing her clothes, Yoshioka suddenly appeared and took her home to interview her father, in order to get another A promise that must be promised.
When her father expressed that he had no certain ideas, Yoshioka stepped up to make a big wish and said all kinds of nice things, so that it was too hype. However, as long as her mother asked a few rhetorical questions on the side, the general would "uh? pharyn! uh? pharyn?", pretending that nothing was intelligible to him.
"What? Yoshioka is sloppy!" The old woman scolded severely in northern colloquial language.
"Jun Yoshioka knows about entering the palace," she added, "not necessarily Fujii. Because she told me to have my hair cut short, it was a student dress. I was a little unhappy at the time. !"
"Why?" I asked.
"There is such a mentality: children want everyone to say she is an adult; but after getting older, they are afraid that people will say she is old."
More than a month later, Yoshioka came again. This time, it was not the fifteen-year-old girl who accompanied him, but a pen note that he carried with him.
Li Feng said in a low tone: "There are several conditions on the paper, the text is in a crepe, the sentences are long and awkward, I can't understand many places, anyway, it means that after my sister enters the palace, we will meet each other. You can't ask for officials, you can't ask for money, and you can't use your power to oppress people.... I will sign and sign on behalf of all my brothers and sisters.I was only 20 years old that year, I only read elementary school for four years, what do you know?"
In the eyes of Puyi and some people, this was probably a piece of paper. Then, the palace sent 10,000 yuan. Money (pseudo-manchu currency).
Li Yuqin later recalled: "My eldest brother spent six or seven thousand to get married, and the rest was deposited in the bank, and then three coins were worthless. Besides, my father lost his job because of this!"
"Speaking of which, I have entered the palace, and it is of course inappropriate for him to wait for others in the restaurant. "
When did she know that she entered the palace just to "serve" Puyi?
What is the life of her and Puyi's couple?
How did she feel in the palace?
Li Yuqin said: "From Tengjing When I came out of the house, I first lived in Ergege's house. The furnishings in their home are very luxurious, and some of the candy I ate there is said to be specially made in the palace. "
" I know, Ergege refers to Puyi's second sister, whose name is 銫媖. Her husband, Zheng Hao (Guangyuan), is the grandson of Zheng Xiaoxu . "The last two sentences, we almost said it in unison.
"You and Puyi met for the first time in..."
"Jixilou. It was Er Gege who introduced me to see him. That day, when I was washing my hands in the house, Er Gege said: 'I will take you to see the emperor !' She also asked me if I would kowtow, and I said: 'According to the customs of our people, women do not kowtow . ' Er Gege said: 'But everyone has to kowtow when they see the emperor. Since you can't, then kowtow three times instead of kneeling three times and nine times. '
"Puyi was wearing a suit. He was 37 years old at the time, and he was very good-looking and looked very friendly."
After entering the palace, Li Yuqin lived in Tongde Hall . The Hall of Tongde was built in the late period of the Puppet Manchukuo, and its style and equipment are novel.
Li Yuqin said: In terms of appearance, all buildings are almost the same as before. As for the interior furnishings, I know that when Puyi rushed out of the palace on the eve of Japan's surrender in 1945, he was already ransacked. Come to think of it, the Kuomintang government didn't "receive" much at that time, and just let it go to waste. Li Yuqin lived upstairs in the Tongde Hall. The row of rooms is: reception room, bathroom, bedroom, study, powder room, scripture collection room and Buddhist hall. Next to the Buddhist hall, there is a staircase leading to Qinmin Building, the place where the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo handles "government affairs".
Downstairs, there is a "Japanese room" with all Japanese-style furnishings, a Chinese room; a piano, a ping-pong table, and a silk portrait of Puyi, Yoshioka Yasuo and Kwantung Army Commander Meijin Mijiro is often seen here; there is also a room for ceremonies. There is also a house in a symmetrical position with the telephone room to the east, where the seekers wait, or where people rest.
Under the earth mountain in front of the Tongde Hall, there is a royal air defense room. She remembered that there was also an emperor's throne in the Tongde Hall.
Fu Guiren Li Yuqin must have been a naive girl in Puyi's eyes at that time. She said that when she entered the palace, she did not know that she was going to be the emperor's concubine. Even when Puyi said to her "you will serve me in the future" for the first time, she was still at a loss. The beginning of the bride's life is a matter of ten or twenty days after she enters the palace.
Because of Puyi's "excursion" and Anton's relationship, the " canonization " method to determine Li Yuqin's court status was delayed until more than a month later. She is called "Fuguiren".
She said: "What is the canonization type? I think it's just kowtow everywhere. Kow upstairs, kowtow downstairs, and kowtow with three knees and nine kowtows on one head. I was really exhausted that day."
This is obviously following the ceremonial system of the Qing Dynasty: the establishment of the queen; for imperial concubines, noble concubines, concubines are called canonization, but the ceremony is similar to the establishment of the queen.
"Qing Palace History" records the ceremony of the establishment of the queen: "On a regular basis, one scholar is appointed to be the official historian, and the other is to be a deputy historian. The Ministry of Rites of the Cabinet placed the emperor's throne in the Hall of Chen Taihe, and announced the system: a certain year, month, day, and a certain family are listed as queens. The chief and deputy envoys, holding the book treasure, went to the Queen's Palace, and the Queen welcomed them in. The female officials in the pamphlet knelt down, and the queen knelt down to accept them. The next day, the queen went to the emperor to bow. "
It is not too strange that Wan has received similar treatment. When Tan Yuling was posthumously named "Ming Xian Concubine" in 1942, who knew that there were also funeral ministers, filial piety personnel, deputy envoys, and silk albums and silk treasures. There is a set of red tape, and it is stipulated that the main and deputy ambassadors must wear blue robes and green jackets. The pseudo-Manchukuo archival material "Mingxian noble concubine funeral relationship documents" can be overwritten. What's even more ridiculous is that the funeral ceremony is based on the "Great Qing Conference" while on the other hand. There must be other names of oriental organizations such as "Executive Headquarters", "Execution Department", "Expense Department", etc. It is really nondescript.
The first gift Puyi gave her was a big doll. She and Puyi performed in the palace. Hide and seek.
She sings children's songs and "era songs", and Puyi is her piano accompaniment. They often write notes to amuse, Puyi always likes to start with the word "Xiaoyuqin". He encouraged her to believe in Buddhism, She was vegetarian and read scriptures. She did all of them. Later, she was asked to read medical books, but she did not comply. He meditated, and she meditated. After an hour of meditation, Puyi left. I thought, according to the common saying, meditating is probably about seeing the nose, In fact, there is a set of strict rules for the practice of observing the mind through the nose.The Buddhist meditation method is as follows: sit cross-legged, with the tongue on the upper jaw, with the eyes down, look down two or three feet away from the side, and focus on the Buddha. She said that Puyi always liked to put his hands on his knees when he was meditating. I recalled what I saw in Fushun not long ago, and it was true. He put his hands on his knees, giving him a sense of solemnity. Puyi's habit is probably due to the fact that there are few people who are emperors and benefit from the meditation method more? I also thought that she was still a naughty girl at that time, can she really have this kind of self-discipline? Therefore, I asked her and Puyi to meditate separately, and she would Don't burst out laughing? She said no.
They sometimes listen to radio broadcast . Whenever the radio station tells romance novels, Puyi always says nervously: "Don't come to a third party!" He seems to have a great deal of love for love triangles His vigilance, coupled with his feudal patriarchal ideology, made it unavoidable that he sometimes showed bizarre suspicion in the relationship between men and women.
Li Yuqin later recalled: "One year during the New Year's Eve, I took a few apples from the fruit bowl and asked the old lady to give them to the 'waiter'. They were all teenage orphans, taking the place of the eunuch in the past. This incident It turned out to be nothing, but when Puyi found out, he asked me sternly and sternly: 'What does this mean? What does it mean?' I was very unhappy when I heard it. Happy. Playing the promotion map during the New Year, playing and playing, we all clapped our hands in unison and shouted: 'The emperor is the champion! , which is a kind of thing that "columns the big officials on the paper, rolls the dice to count the color, and decides the rise and fall". It has been rare in the past two decades.I recently got a copy of a "Huidian Tu" in Beijing by a trustee (his grandfather was the champion of the Tongzhi period in the former Qing Dynasty). What you see is more complicated. A total of 61 columns are listed: official titles (including Taishi, Taifu, Taibao...), grade, retirement, career, seal, special, Personnel , Household , Rites, Military , Punishment Department , Ministry of Industry, Inner Court, concurrent title, Zongren Mansion , Nei Ke, Hanlin Academy, Zhan Shifu, Qin Tianjian, Tai Hospital, Luan Yiwei, Internal Affairs Office , Imperial Envoy, Taipu Temple , Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple, Guozijian, Lifanyuan, Duchayuan, Tongzheng Secretary, Dali Temple, Taichang Temple, various departments, Cangchang, Jingfu, Military and Horse Division, various ministries, small Beijing officials, selection , various roads, prefectures, Zhili halls, Zhili prefectures, prefectures, counties, palace examinations, meeting examinations, township examinations, colleges, transcripts of various museums, various donations, origins, military merit, Jingcha, Daji, Youxu, Governor's Academy, Caoyuan, Heyuan, Yanyuan, Chief Secretary, Justice Department.
"The palace test is divided into six categories: first-scholar, second-place, third-best, biography, second-class, and third-class. In , there are congratulatory gifts (200 each for the editor and the editor). I don't know if Puyi and Li Yuqin played in those years. Is this the kind of promotion picture? I don't know if Puyi received a congratulatory gift when he was in the top spot? - Author.) He didn't express any opinion, but said calmly on the side: 'I got it, I got it'
" I remember one time, I put the peeled peanut shells back together, and then I trumpeted the eaten grapes and put them in the fruit bowl to deceive him. After he found out, he just smiled and didn't punish me. This was considered a 'crime of bullying' at the time!
"He has a strange habit of wearing glasses when he sleeps. I asked him to take them off, but he refused; he said it would not look good. As for me, some hair covers my ears. , do not like to show.Sometimes, when I insisted on taking off his glasses, he had to lift his short hair and look at my ears. When I mentioned glasses, I remembered. Did you notice Puyi's glasses last time in Fushun? The frames are tied with wires.
"He said that his glasses frame was accidentally broken, and the management office bought a new pair for him, but he was reluctant to wear it, he was afraid that it would break again.
"He didn't pay attention to my clothes. In the palace, he never gave me a dollar. Fortunately, there is no shortage of
for daily use. If you want to add anything, just take care of it. During the canonization, he gave me a jade Ruyi, which is said to be not good, and later gave me a few pieces of jewelry.
"I was eating rice and white noodles in the palace. I often thought of my mother and the others. They still ate sorghum rice, so I secretly ate it in the evening for a while. After Puyi found out, he asked someone to bring some rice and noodles to my house. Once.
"He had a good relationship with me, and one day he said: 'I don't get likes all day long, I'm happier only when I come to you. '"
How can a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl understand the distress of the puppet emperor?
"However, I heard that his feelings for Yuling are even better. Not only did she live in Jixi Building, but she also heard that Puyi was often with her. It is also a coincidence. When I was studying in elementary school, I wanted to change my name to Yuling for a while. Because my baby name is Linger. However, I didn't think it sounded good later on, so I didn't change it.
"I also heard that before I entered the palace, there was a female student surnamed Miao. Puyi picked a photo for him, and she also entered the palace, but Puyi didn't want it after meeting him. That person surnamed Miao really wanted to enter the palace, and later I asked Puyi's valet for help, but it didn't work. After I found out about this, one day I said to Puyi: 'Bring her here too, let's play together!' He ignored it. At that time, I was really a child, and everything don't know.
"You can't walk around in the palace, just in the Tongde Hall and the courtyard. Life is very boring, except for writing, embroidering, chanting scriptures, cleaning up the house, and taking a walk. I have raised many chickens, laid eggs, and made The dishes are for Puyi. He said that he likes to eat the dishes I cook, but they are not very tasty.
The people who come and go are also female relatives: Er Ge Ge, San Ge Ge, Wu Ge Ge, Grandma Jian Liu (Pu Jian's mother), Yuqi 's mother, Jing Lan (Yu Yan's wife)... I am about the same age as Jing Lan, and we can talk very well. But there are some people who flatter me on the surface and laugh at me in their hearts. They laugh at me for three things: first, I am not from Beijing; second, my ancestors did not have any kind of official title for three generations (my grandfather was a farmer); third, said that I could not ride a horse and got married without knowing the rules and etiquette.
I am a rough child, this rule, I'm really annoyed by the etiquette. For example, once the old mother who was doing laundry in the palace was ill, she had few staff and too many clothes, so she couldn't ask for leave. I said that I would do the laundry. I used to do it at home when I was young, but others laughed at me: 'Blessed will not be enjoyed!'
"I am more self-willed. For example, when I play a ball, I also let Pu Jian's mother play it. They have small feet. Puyi knew it and told me a few words. But I've never hit anyone, and I've never even scolded anyone. She said seriously, "I remember one time I casually said something to my mother: ' is wicked and !' She then asked me: 'Where is the servant's wickedness? Where is the wickedness? Not a word could be said. In fact, those were the words we used to say when we were students: 'bad morals', 'disgusting', these are not cursing words. Later, I told my mother, my mother said, 'Don't say this next time!'
"Puyi has some characteristics in personality, he is impatient and irritable. Whatever he wants, he has to get it, otherwise he will be in a hurry. The room was not well kept.He likes to say that things are for people, not to look good. Also, he is timid. He didn't dare to learn swimming and skating, that's why. The most ridiculous thing is that the days before Japan surrendered in early August, and there were always air raid warnings at night. The air-raid room is right in front of the Tongde Hall where I live, and it is a long way from the Jixi Building. But often when the alarm goes off, before I get dressed, he has already run downstairs to the Hall of Tongde and shouted loudly: 'Yuqin, Yuqin!' I don't know how he could be so fast. "
Li Yuqin and the others left the palace in a hurry at night on the third day after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan (August 11, 1945). She and Queen Wanrong had never seen each other in the palace, and only became acquainted during their escape. ——Acquaintances kept a certain distance.
Li Yuqin recalled: Dozens of us left the palace to go to the station at 10:00 p.m. on August 11, and waited there for two hours. Until two hours before departure, Yoshioka Only willing to tell us where to go. I remember that it took a full two and a half days on the train to get to Dalizigou in Tonghua .
"In those two days, the palace was very chaotic, and Puyi himself packed his bags. He mainly brought Buddhist scriptures, books, medicines and some rice noodles. The valuable things in the palace were not transported away in time. I brought five boxes, including the quilt. Downstairs in the Hall of Tongde is a large piece of jadeite. When she said that, she compared it with her hands, and thought it should be about a foot long. I heard that an 11-pound jadeite stone was dug in South Africa last year, and the estimated value was more than 10 million US dollars. The Qianlong piece must be of fine quality. It's not bad, I just don't know where it's gone now.
"There was a false alarm that day.There were only two men left in the palace, Pu Yi and Pu Jian, and the rest were female dependents: the queen, the sixth grandmother of Jian, Yu Chang's mother (usually called the fourth wife), ... and me. For some reason, the Japanese military police stationed in the palace suddenly rushed into the inner court and went up to the Jixi Building, looking ugly. Puyi called Yoshioka, but no one answered; called Hu Jun, but no one answered. What is their purpose? I still don't understand. I just remember that Puyi rushed to the Tongde Hall from the Jixi Building and said to me: 'Someone has come in!'"
Li Yuqin lived in Dalizigou for about three months. According to the original idea, they also wanted to He and Puyi fled to Japan. However, the Japanese imperialists had to accelerate their defeat on the battlefield in Northeast my country. Puyi was captured, and all fantasies came to nothing. In the eight-year Anti-Japanese War , China was the victor.
They later moved to Linjiang , where they met Eighth Route Army ; lived in Linjiang for about a month, then moved to Tonghua, where they lived in the army; they lived for more than three months before being sent back to Changchun by the Eighth Route Army , it was the late spring of 1946.
Li Yuqin recalled: "The first time I met the Queen was in Dalizigou. Saga Hiroshi also escaped from Changchun with us. At that time, we had a big pot of rice, because I had a briquettes stove in my house, and one day I made a vegetarian dish and asked someone to give it to the queen. After a while, she came over, I asked her to be safe, and she also saluted, she kept saying: 'It's good! It's good!' Yan, be lazy, she is still very beautiful. She has a noble demeanor. She wears a cheongsam, which is not elegant. Her legs can no longer walk, and two servants support her. She is beside her. There are three eunuchs and two old mothers.
"I can't remember the surname of the eunuch, but there were other names at that time, one surnamed Liu, one surnamed Wang, and another young man who seemed to be surnamed Wang."
At the end of 1945, Li Yuqin lived in the rear headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Tonghua; Wanrong, Hiroko Saga and the others live in the Public Security Bureau opposite the door, and the bottom floor is the prison.
She remembered clearly that on the second day of the Lunar New Year, there was a riot, and the prisoners colluded with the bad guys from the outside world.
"I heard the sound of gunfire, and asked in a confused way: 'Why can't I see the person who fired the gun?' Then, I heard the sound of gunfire again. I was very worried, and I didn't know how Mu Hong and the others were, so I stood by the window. I looked over to see what was going on on the other side, I didn't expect a stray bullet suddenly flew over, and the right face was bleeding; the old girl (respectfully) gave me a towel and pressed the wound, but after a while the towel was all red. She was in a hurry When she was about to open the door, someone shouted to stop her: 'Don't open the door!' She shouted: 'Someone is injured!' After it was calm outside, they hired a local surgeon for me, a Japanese, who changed the dressings every day. If they didn't care, or didn't manage it well, I might have died long ago.
"I felt that everyone in the Eighth Route Army was brave. The female comrades in the army treated me very well, and they often told me the truth."
Li Yuqin did not deny that when she lived in Linjiang and Tonghua, Someone advised her to remarry. It is not surprising that Hiroko Saga heard such a statement.
Later, after Li Yuqin expressed her willingness to go home, the troops responsibly sent her back to her hometown of Changchun. Saga Hiroko did the same, returning from Changchun to her native Japan. The three eunuchs were also sent back to Changchun.As for the queen, the troops could not find her family members in Changchun, nor could they make any contact. Therefore, when the troops were deployed, they took great pains to bring her to Harbin.
And Wanrong ended her tragic life in Harbin in 1946 due to her long-term opium addiction. The last "Queen" in Chinese history, Guo Boluo Wanrong, the daughter of Rongyuan, the Minister of Internal Affairs in the late Qing Dynasty, died at the age of 40.
In 1937, not long after Pu Yi "canonized" Tan Yuling, a nobleman in Changchun, Pu Jie and Saga Haozi got married in Tokyo. The coordinator is Yasuo Yoshioka, who carries out the complicated intentions of the Honjo. Benzhuang Fan was the first Kwantung Army commander to deal with Puyi.
In a very secret letter that Yoshioka sent to Puyi in that year, there were a few knotty words: "His Majesty the Emperor: I will go to Tokyo on January 10 and meet with Lieutenant Pu Jie at the Tokyo Station. On the same day, Lieutenant Pu Jie is the same. , General Honzhuang will meet to discuss marriage matters. Regarding the maids of Saga Hou, Zhongyumenhou, Maori Nan, Gao Cangzi, etc., it is recommended that Lieutenant Pujie should be the candidate for Saga Hou Fangyi." There are still many people. Legend has it that Puyi had a Japanese wife, and the misunderstanding probably stemmed from this. As for Pu Jie's marriage, the motive is not to be questioned.
What did Li Yuqin, who walked out of the puppet Manchukuo court and lived in the People's Liberation Army, think? Her eldest brother-in-law Xue Keming went to Linjiang to take her back to Changchun. What is she praying for to live in a poor home in Erdaohezi again?
What she haunts is actually the residence of Chen Miaochang in the classical drama, or it can be said that it is Dibona, Jia in the British film " The kind of living atmosphere in Sifan ".
in Tianjin, Pu Yi has a cousin Pu Xiu.When Puyi was the emperor of the puppet Manchukuo, he held an odd position in the occupied area of Tianjin - "Head of the Qing Dynasty Office in Tianjin". In fact, he was only managing some real estate for Puyi, or was ordered to buy some tonic Polygonum multiflorum , Gulingyu toothpaste, and Zhongyong shoe polish in four colors of black, purple, white and yellow were brought to Changchun.
The signboard of "Qing Shi Office in Tianjin" was supposed to be revoked after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Master Xiu, the former director, sent someone to take Li Yuqin to Tianjin. On the bright side, she maintained her life, even for seven years, until Li Yuqin left the Xiu Erye family in 1953.
Li Yuqin said that after she was transferred to Tianjin, Pu Xiu changed her name to Pu Weiqing. Afraid that she will reveal her identity and cause trouble under the rule of the Kuomintang government.
Li Yuqin recalled: "Having lived in Tianjin for five years, I never went out of the gate and could not get out of the gate. When I arrived in Tianjin, I took a tricycle from the train station to his house. When I left Tianjin in 1951, I took a tricycle from his house to the train station. Others bought a pair of shoes for me, which were too small, so I had to take them to a shoe store to change them. He objected. I said: 'Why did I hear that the queen could go out in Tianjin?' He said: 'There are The difference.' He scolded me at every turn: 'Rebel! Rebellion!' And for a long time, he did not let me communicate with his family in Changchun.
"The situation in his family was not good either. The children and I live in his house. I often help them build the stove and cook. Once I accidentally scalded my foot and no one took care of me. I still limped downstairs with a basin to fetch water. The neighbors know that my has burned my , so they will get on fire for me. But once Pu Xiu found out, he was not happy. He said this trivial matter should not be publicized. When I got angry, I didn't even take medicine. In the cold weather, there is no stove in the room I live in, and the foot freezes again.
"Their family attaches great importance to the rules. I eat fast, and Pu Xiu also has an opinion. In fact, he was almost blind at that time, but he could hear movements and other people's voices. Sometimes, when I push away When he was about to get a job, he blurted out: 'Hey! This meal is really stable, ruthless, and accurate!'
"I want to knit sweaters for others and make allowances for pocket expenses. But I don't know what's trendy. What should I do? I just stand on the platform and see what new styles the women are wearing.
"I told them that you can abide by the rules, but life is difficult and you have to earn some money to subsidize it. Pu Xiu said: 'It is a last resort, is a last resort, flowers and , ah remarry!' Use the allusions in the Dream of Red Mansions to blame I.
"Pu Xiu's knowledge is very good, no matter what word he is asked, he will write. He taught me to read the 'Four Books of Women' and 'University' and was very patient. He is good at this.
"He has an older sister who is an old girl. She has never been married. She loves cats and calls them sons, girl. I feel very distressed. When I go to bed at night, I would rather hide by the bed than let those cats sleep. It's comfortable. The old girl is busy running errands all day, buying this, buying that; I'm so busy cooking, I can't go out the door at all.
"I remember one thing, in the pile of old papers, I saw Puyi's letters and poems to Concubine Shu Wenxiu, according to the title, seem to be sentimental from watching the moon. "
She has lived in Tianjin for several years, and the small environment where she lives can be said to be lifeless. What about the larger social environment? It can only be said to be turbulent, and the storm of revolution is coming.
What should she do? What can she do? Maybe she has the courage and determination, but she doesn't know what to do. The extremely narrow life circle and the constraints of the old ethics limit her understanding.
She just continues to recite the Buddha, two or three hours a day. Buddha.
In those depressing and suffocating years, she prayed in a low voice for three things every day:
for peace in the world;
for the safety of her parents;
The establishment of of the People's Republic of China has laid the foundation for the peace and happiness of our country. Unfortunately, her poor father died in Changchun the year before, and he didn't have time to see the new life of this city and the motherland. As for Puyi, the news is still vague.
Li Yuqin could probably imagine what would happen to Puyi if he came back in the old China era? Even a little-known young woman like her has to live in incognito, doesn't it explain the same thing!
She recalled: "After liberation, I moved to Beijing with Puxiu's family and lived in Nanguanfangkou near Shichahai. It was the summer of 1951. I really didn't want to stay at home like that all the time. Going out, I want to be independent, I want to be a self-reliant person. After arriving in Beijing, I will learn to sew, learn cross-stitching, be a teacher to eradicate illiteracy, do something for the residents, a health team leader, a cooperative supervisor, etc. Of course. , there were people who objected beforehand, they said: 'Is this? It is unreasonable to go out, you can do it yourself!'
"There are two things that impressed me deeply. One year on "Women's Day", I saw China's first batch of female pilots in Beijing. I thought: Who said women can't do great things? Look at others! Another time, I heard the report of the heroes of Shangganling, and I was very moved. He spoke very truthfully. He was by no means like the Japanese army of the past, who called a defeat a victory.
"The old girl also wanted to learn sewing with me, but at that time, it was very difficult to pay the tuition and materials for the internship.The teacher sometimes gives me some old cloth for my internship. The sewing school is also near Shichahai. When I came home from school one day, I went to the beach to look at the water, and I thought the water was very cute. After standing for a while, I thought again: 'No, I have to go home quickly! Maybe the old girl will tell them.
Later, the school set up a 'sweater production team', and I became a team leader, because I was going to Fu Jen Catholic University to take care of their family's children. I came home late that day, and Pu Xiu scolded me: 'I won't come back now , I will stay in a hotel outside in the future!' He also told me a historical story, saying that there was a concubine in a certain dynasty, and she and the emperor made an appointment to meet by a river in a certain place. Not moving, and finally drowned. You can see how amazing this queen is.
"Learn to cross flowers, right? The place is small; besides, I was afraid that the cats raised by the old girl would get dirty, so I gave up. It is quite interesting to do resident work, and I am very happy to work with everyone. In the old society , 'Who has the money - who has the power!' 'The rich and powerful!' This is not the case now."
Women who demand independence and self-reliance can get opportunities in new China. After Li Yuqin returned to Changchun in 1953, after some twists and turns, he almost always worked in the society. Although people knew that she was the wife of Puyi, the emperor of the puppet Manchukuo. She has been working in Changchun Library. She likes this job very much. She recalled:
"I worked in the library not long ago, but I realized that it is very honorable to be an librarian , and the work of the library is indeed a scientific work, and there is one in the technical school. The major of library science is something I didn't know before.
"Now that the whole country is marching into science, library work should play a certain role.The task of librarians is how to cooperate with the current task to march into science, do a good job in book work, recommend books and publications to readers, so as to promote the progress of science, which requires finding ways to vigorously promote lending every day. Such a decision has been made at the National Library Work Conference held in Beijing in July this year.
"The work of the library is very important. At the same time, to be a librarian, you need to have a certain level of education and scientific knowledge. Although I am a librarian, my own culture is not enough, and I have no foundation for scientific knowledge; The working days are short and I am not familiar with the business, so I have to make up my mind to improve my culture, strengthen my business study, and strive to reach the level that a general librarian should have in a short period of time. In addition to insisting on taking part-time cultural remedial classes for cadres to gradually improve my culture, I also It is necessary to participate in the study of the library training school in order to master the knowledge that librarians should have. More importantly, it is more important to make time to read books on youth cultivation and political theory in order to improve their political and ideological level, so as to make a book worthy of the name Librarian."
Her specific job is to manage the library in the reference department of the library. There are Japanese books piled up densely there.
From August 1956 to late March 1957, she said she had compiled more than 30,000 volumes. Books stacked in the library have to go through the procedures of sorting, arranging, putting on the shelves, writing cards, and sticking labels before they are sorted out. She is quite responsible for her work. Four days a week, she gets up at 4:30 a.m. to study math, literature and Chinese.
5:15, class ends at 7:00, and then I have breakfast and go to work.
Li Yuqin also has several photos in his collection. One is Puyi himself, with a dragon robe on his body, and what he wears on his head is what he calls a "nose bump" and a large pearl inlaid hat. His eyes were bright, and he didn't wear glasses.The bust measures 34 inches in length and 24 inches in width. "Emperor of Manchukuo" written by Japanese journalist Zhongbao Yuzuo (10 years of Showa, Japan Review Office Edition), there is a similar photo in it, which shows that it is the fourth year of Showa (1929) on December 15. Emperor Xuantong in Tianjin commemorative photography. The other two were taken by Puyi, the emperor of the puppet Manchukuo, for Li Yuqin, a lucky man of the year. One is sitting on the sofa; the other is standing in front of the basin, dyed and dressed in cheongsam.
References:
1. "Secrets of the Republic of China"
2. "The Last Emperor Fu Yi"
3. "The Last Emperor"
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