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Wanrong (Chinese: 婉容; 13 November 1906 – 20 June 1946), of the Manchu Plain White Banner Gobulo clan, was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China. She is sometimes anachronistically called the Xuantong Empress , referring to Puyi's era name .
Despite this, Puyi's first choice was Wenxiu, which frustrated Lady Tatara. She held a discussion with other nobles and officials in the imperial court, who persuaded Puyi to select Wanrong as his empress, naming Wenxiu as a consort. [2] Wenxiu was taken to the court before Wanrong and welcomed her when she arrived in 1922.
The title, Empress dowager, could be granted a widow of an Emperor even when she had not been the Empress consort during the reign of her spouse. Therefore, a separate list is given of the Empresses dowager, which, in some cases, equals the list of Empresses consort, and in other cases, not.
As Wanrong, the doomed empress trapped in a loveless marriage who turns to opioids in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-winning biopic about China’s monarch Puyi (John Lone), Chen felt like a “kid ...
Wanrong Puyi's second choice for his wife was Wanrong, a Daur. She married Puyi in 1922 and became his Empress. Her father, Rong Yuan (榮源), was a Minister of Domestic Affairs. She was considered beautiful and came from a wealthy family. By Puyi's own account, he abandoned Wanrong in the bridal chamber and went back to his own room. [16]
The westernised Wanrong loved to go out dancing, play tennis, wear western clothes and make-up, listen to jazz music, and to socialize with her friends, which the more conservative courtiers all objected to. She resented having to play the traditional role of a Chinese empress, but was unwilling to break with Puyi.
She returned to China, was admitted to the Forbidden City and became Wanrong's tutor. [2] Wanrong married Puyi in December 1922 and became the last empress of China. Ingram began teaching Wanrong English in 1922, shortly before the marriage [3] and recalled the yellow satin robe Wanrong wore on her wedding day. Ingram noted: "The boy Emperor ...
The train was unintentionally stopped by Chinese guerrilla forces attempting to intercept the preceding evacuation train of the family of the last Emperor of China , most notably Empress Wanrong. The incident involved children being killed by being thrown from windows, over 100 Japanese women committing suicide by jumping from a nearby cliff ...