Presumably, in the costume TV series, you can often see the queen and concubine walking in the imperial garden. Because they are the emperor's concubines, they usually have nothing to do. They ate, drank, played, and slept happily every day. But he went to great lengths to fight for the emperor's favor. It’s just that the relationship between the real queen and the concubine in history is not as bad as everyone thinks. The picture shows the picture of the last queen Wanrong and Concubine Shu Wenxiu, and Duan Kang Duan's niece Tang Shixia.
and pictures of Concubine Shu Wenxiu and Empress Wanrong holding hands in the sun in front of the palace gate. This scene looks very harmonious, and it is also a rare scene in a century. At this time, they are still simple girls who are not well-versed in the world, so they have a good relationship in the early stage, but when they grow up, they will also have a gap in order to be jealous. When Puyi was in the Puppet Manchukuo period, their friendship had changed.
Wanrong and Wenxiu will often get awkward because of Puyi's favor. For example, if Puyi buys something for Wenxiu, Wanrong will be angry if he doesn't buy it for Wenxiu; while if you buy it for Wanrong, Wenxiu will be angry if you don't buy it for Wenxiu. Two people buy it, and these two people will be angry because their things are not unique. So this is also a problem that Pu Yi has a particularly big head. Later, Wenxiu grew up and matured and learned about Puyi’s illness. He felt that Puyi never spoiled her since he accepted her as a concubine, so she divorced Puyi and was the first woman in history to dare to divorce the emperor. People call it the "sword concubine revolution".
But they both ended up miserably. Although Wenxiu became a teacher, but when people knew that she was the emperor's concubine, they objected to her. Wenxiu had to seek another career, and in the end it was a miserable life, and his life was very embarrassing. And Pu Yi imposed the main reason for Wenxiu's divorce with him on Wanrong, thinking that Wenxiu would leave Wenxiu when she was jealous of Wenxiu. In fact, Puyi was not sorry for Wenxiu's departure, but Wenxiu's independent divorce made him feel shame. At this point, the relationship between Puyi and Wanrong has also seemed to be divorced and drifting away.
and Queen Wan Rong was unfortunately caught in heavy smoke in the later period, and she was depressed all day long. In Puyi’s "The First Half of My Life", it was also mentioned: "I didn’t know until very late that as early as when she (Wan Rong) left Tianjin on the way to Dalian (1932), her brother was in exchange for some kind of benefit. She sold her sister to a fellow Japanese officer.” Wan Rong therefore gave up on herself and gave birth to a child with the guard. According to legend, the child was later thrown into the fire by Pu Yi. Since then, Wan Rong was unconscious. After the Japanese were defeated and escaped, he was put in prison again and died soon afterwards. In the end, the jailer wrapped it in a straw mat and threw it to the back mountain, and a generation of queens fell. And as the two most important concubines in Puyi's life, Wanrong and Wenxiu ended up in such a miserable situation, which is really embarrassing.