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Puyi in 1908. Puyi was born on 7 February 1906 in Beijing, then called Beiping.His father was Zaifeng, the Prince Chun. [1] Zaifeng was a Manchu prince [2] His great-grandfather was the Daoguang Emperor, his great-uncle was the Xianfeng Emperor, and his grandfather was Yixuan, the first person to hold the title of Prince Chun.
Li's memoirs were published posthumously under the title Modai Huangdi Puyi yu wo (末代皇帝溥仪与我; 'Last Emperor Puyi and I'). The author, Wang Qingxiang (王慶祥), compiled oral interviews with Li Shuxian, along with those of others close to Puyi in his later years, to retell their marriage and family life. Li is sometimes credited ...
Wenxiu (20 December 1909 – 17 September 1953), also known as Consort Shu (淑妃) and Ailian (愛蓮), was a consort of Puyi, the last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Qing dynasty. She was from the Mongol Erdet (額爾德特) clan and her family was under the Bordered Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners .
Wang Lianshou was born in 1887 in Renqiu county (now Jiaoyuanzhuang, Dacheng County, Hebei Province).At the age of 13, she fled to Beijing due to floods in her hometown. . Born with the surname Jiao (焦), she married a servant surnamed Wang (王), who died of illness after she gave birth to a daug
Puyi, 16 years old at the time, was shown a selection of photographs of young females for him to choose his spouse from. [19] Puyi later claimed the faces were too small to distinguish between. [20] He selected Wenxiu, a 12-year-old girl, but the decision was opposed by the former concubine dowager Consort Jin based on her status and appearance ...
Puyi had a younger full brother, Pujie (1907–1994), who married a cousin of Emperor Hirohito, Lady Hiro Saga. The rules of succession were changed to allow Pujie to succeed Puyi, who had no children. [9] [10] Puyi's last surviving younger half-brother Puren (b. 1918) adopted the Chinese name Jin Youzhi and lived in China until his death in ...
People were outraged. China's dethroned last emperor Puyi, who had dismissed Sun from his post, sent telegrams to Chiang Kai-shek; Yan Xishan, Commander of Garrison Force in Beijing; the Central Committee of Kuomintang and local newspapers asking them to punish Sun Dianying severely. Many others also called for punishment.
Puyi was "adopted" as the Guangxu Emperor's son; like the Guangxu Emperor before him, he was no longer nominally his biological father's son. Prince Chun was appointed Prince-Regent to assist the new emperor. Cixi died the following day, ending her 47-year-long control over China, while Prince Chun ruled as regent for the next three years.