When it comes to the Qing Dynasty, it seems that it is already an ancient dynasty stranded in the years, existing in history books and film and television dramas, but it is not easily associated with current life. But if you look at the time node when the Empress Dowager Longyu announced her abdication on behalf of Pu Yi, it is only 109 years away from today, and according to the statistics of the number of centenarians in China in 2020, there are a total of 40,592 centenarians.
Among them, the number of people under 109 years old is about 20,000 or 30,000, and from the average life expectancy of people, it can also be seen that the number of centenarians is not too small. For example, the average life expectancy in China in 2021 is 761 year old, but where the word average comes out, it means that it is a middle number in addition to the high and low, among which there are many young deaths, middle-aged sudden illness deaths and many accidental deaths, just like the average life expectancy before the founding of the People's Republic of China was 35 years old, not that people were not in good health at that time, but that many people died at a young age due to years of war, so it was 35 years old.
So the average life expectancy is 761 year old inevitably means that there is a considerable number of centenarians to increase the average life expectancy, just like the average salary, it is an average of the income of the new employees who have just joined the company and the monthly salary of the boss, so as to get a seemingly high amount. It can be seen that there are actually many people born in the Qing Dynasty, but they are distributed all over the country, and most of them still live in the beautiful mountains and rivers, and the air is pleasant, and everyone can not easily see it.
However, the Empress Dowager Longyu announced her abdication on behalf of Pu Yi, which can only be said to be a formal division of the time point of the end of the Qing Dynasty, just like Emperor Han Xian gave way to Cao Pi, in fact, Emperor Han Xian was controlled by Cao Cao more than ten years ago, and the whole country only knew that the King of Wei did not know the king, and the Han Dynasty regime had already died spiritually.
Back to the Qing Dynasty system, the time of their spiritual demise should be calculated by the time of the death of the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, that is, 1908, which is 113 years from now, which is only about a few hundred people. After all, the oldest recorded old man in China is 128 years old, born in the Guangxu period, China's vast territory, and hundreds of people are distributed among them, which is more like looking for a needle in a haystack.
In addition, in addition to the formal end and spiritual extinction of the Qing Dynasty, there was also a regime that was not recognized by later generations, but existed for 13 years, that is, Pu Yi went to the three eastern provinces and was supported by Japan to establish the puppet Manchukuo. From the perspective of the mainstream population, this is the puppet Manchukuo, but in the eyes of Pu Yi himself and even the widows who still remember the Qing Dynasty at that time, this is the continuation of the Qing Dynasty, and his survival time is from 1932 to 1945.
According to this timetable, the people who were born in the 13 years and are still alive have gone to the sea, which is equivalent to saying that the old people over 76 years old are among them, which is equivalent to the old people who are energetic, can dance square dances, and can roar at their children and grandchildren are actually born in the Qing Dynasty and have a rich history.
It can be seen that the Qing Dynasty, which represents the most centralized feudal system, is not simple to really disappear, even if the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu died of illness, the Qing Dynasty has no actual ruler, and it still exists for nearly half a century. So why do people wonder if people born in the Qing Dynasty are still alive? Maybe it has nothing to do with the actual time, but in people's cognition, they always feel that the Qing Dynasty is a long time ago.
The emergence of this understanding is related to the unprecedented changes that have taken place in China in the past hundred years. In the past 100 years, clothing, food, housing, transportation, work methods and living habits have been completely different, and there are many patterns in clothing, such as cool and spicy style, street style and other trends change every year, making it impossible to imagine that only a hundred years ago, men were still wearing robes and horse coats with money rat tails, and women were still wearing skirts that could not even show their necks.
During the Qing Dynasty, people had to rely on themselves to eat, or hire someone to cook in order to have hot soup and hot rice, and the restaurant was a high-end consumption for ordinary people who did not have it once in many years, but a hundred years later, not only was it convenient to take out to the door at any time, but eating out was also one of the ordinary choices that were so routine that people ignored it. A hundred years ago, the residences were all large or small bungalows, and the people who lived in the sky at that time did not seem to live on top of the Star Picking Pavilion, but now the 30-story residential buildings are all over the street.
Not to mention that with the development of science and technology, the trains, airplanes, and computers have turned the legendary "clairvoyance", "tailwind ear", and "scud" into ordinary existence, and the information that people are worried about at the moment is a valuable connection that is unattainable in the Qing Dynasty.
Because of this, whether people born in the Qing Dynasty are still alive arouse everyone's curiosity. When the times did not change so rapidly, the centenarians of all dynasties and generations did not actually have too many differences in their lifestyles, such as Su Malagu, who was born in the Nurhachi period and lived until the end of Kangxi, the history books say that her life expectancy is 93 years old, but even if she spans the entire former Qing Dynasty, she is not an "antique" in people's hearts.
This can't help but remind people of the theory in the movie "Dream Chaser", in which death is divided into two types, one is physical death, and the other is that no one in the world remembers it anymore and really disappears.
The same is true for the Qing Dynasty, the openness and growth of the mind in the past hundred years have made the Qing Dynasty after only 109 years be equated with the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and become the chapters in textbooks and the material for Qing court dramas.
Just like those centenarians who were born in the Guangxu period, they will only sigh when they ask about their age, and they feel that they were born in the Qing Dynasty, but there is basically no memory of the Qing Dynasty left.
To sum up, there are still old people in China who were born in the Qing Dynasty and are still alive, based on the ranking of the top ten birthday stars, all of whom were born before 1912, and there are many old people who were born in the Guangxu period and are now about one hundred and twenty-three. And the average life expectancy from China is 76At the age of 1, most of the elderly who raised the average were over 100 years old, and their birth years were also in the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, if the puppet Manchukuo, which is not recognized, is also counted as a continuation of the Qing Dynasty, then there are more old people born during this period who are still alive, so the rapid development of modern medicine is also included, and it is estimated that within a few decades, there will be old people in China who were born in the Qing Dynasty and are still alive, and it will be about 2050 years before all those born in the Qing Dynasty will die.