On New Year's Day 1955, ** was busy working in Zhongnanhai. Even though today is the first day of the new year, his work is still heavy, and the papers on his desk are piling up waiting for him to deal with.
While he was flipping through the materials handed over by various ministries, a ** suddenly slipped out of the pile of documents. He picked it up and took a look at it, and found that it was a beautiful and moving woman.
* Attached to it are a letter, a copy of "The Remnants of the Palace", and a self-report letter of dozens of pages written by the woman herself. The letter records the woman's personal experience and is full of traces of history.
**Seeing this special document for the first time, the sender**Zhang Shizhao, the director of the Museum of Culture and History, made him curious. The content of the letter revealed that the late Qing Gege Ai Xinjueluo Yunying is now living a difficult life and wandering on the streets, hoping that *** will approve the improvement of her living conditions.
After reading it, he nodded with a smile and replied with only two words: "Agreed." ”
Let's explore the story between Zhang Shizhao and Aixin Jueluo Yunying, and why she became a street wanderer. At the same time, we will also pay attention to how Zhang Shizhao learned about her current situation and what measures the state has taken in this regard.
In Pu Yi's memoirs, he mentioned that his father had two Fujin and had a total of seven children, the second of whom was joined after the Xinhai Revolution.
Next, we will introduce Aixin Jueluo Yunying, who has the same father and mother as Pu Yi, both born to the Guerjia clan, and is also the last child of Pu Yi's mother.
In 1913, the year after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Pu Yi's sister Yun Ying was born in the Forbidden City. As the third daughter in the family and Pu Yi's third sister, she is called "Sangege".
Although the Qing Dynasty has fallen, the lives of the Pu Yi family have not been greatly affected. Every month, the widows of the late Qing Dynasty, including Yuan Shikai, would give the royal family more than 300,000 taels of silver to show respect and concern for the emperor's family.
For Yun Ying, her childhood was spent in this vast and mysterious palace.
In the political arena, Pu Yi and his younger siblings used the Pu Yi family as a tool to symbolize imperial power. In this family, the most pampered is Yun Yinggege.
She enjoyed the standards of the royal family of the past, with three wet nurses in charge of her daily daily life, including combing her hair, dressing, trimming her nails, teaching etiquette, embroidery, as well as breastfeeding and laundry.
Yun Ying Yun Ying has been held in the palm of her parents since she was a child, and her life is extremely luxurious. As soon as she asked, someone would do it. However, she has never experienced the wind and rain of the outside world, and only lives in the comfort of the Forbidden City.
Her father, Aisin Jueluo Zaifeng, had strict table rules that required eight dishes and one soup for each meal. The family's food money is an astronomical amount for the poor people.
More importantly, Zaifeng also taught his daughter that money is not a good thing, and as a royal noble, she cannot be polluted by the smell of copper, so the family is forbidden to talk about money.
The more Zaifeng forbade discussion, the more it stimulated her heart. Once, Yun Ying, who was only ten years old, innocently asked her subordinates: "What is silver?"Why do you need silver to buy things?”
The subordinates all looked at each other after hearing this, and this huge gap in identity made Yun Ying a stark contrast to them. Maybe when she was a child, she seemed to have the world at her fingertips as long as she stretched out her hand to what she wanted, but this made her unable to learn to cherish it.
It wasn't until she became an adult that she gradually understood the importance of living hard. In addition, in the palace, her father disciplined her very strictly, and there were strict rules for her steps.
If she runs around like any other child, instead of being praised for being lively, she will be reprimanded and considered to lack the demeanor of a princess.
Although living in the palace is full of luxury and comfort, the life of the royal family is full of too many rules to breathe. However, Yun Ying longs for freedom and yearns for the outside world.
It wasn't until 1924 that life in the Forbidden City was shattered, and the arrival of Feng Yuxiang changed all that. His clear goal was to drive Pu Yi, the "last emperor" who represented the feudal forces, out of the Forbidden City, so that Yun Ying could experience the suffering of the world.
Under the persecution of Feng Yuxiang, Pu Yi reluctantly left the palace and moved to Tianjin, and his sister Yun Ying also went. Although she didn't know what the future would hold, she was in a good mood on the way to Tianjin, as if she had been on a pleasant trip.
In February of the same year, Pu Yi bought a car imported from the United States, and after learning to drive in the palace, he secretly took his sister Yun Ying to visit Xiangshan, Beijing.
New copywriting: Although Pu Yi Yunying had also been out of the palace gate before, this time they sneaked out, which undoubtedly added a bit of freedom and happiness. When the subordinates in the palace learned that they were traveling by car, Emperor Zaifeng was very anxious and immediately led the guards to Xiangshan.
However, by the time they arrived, Pu Yi had already taken his sister on a tour for a long time. These happy moments spent with her brother have become the most precious memories of Yun Ying's life. After all, after moving to Tianjin, the glory of the royal family is long gone, replaced by new challenges and changes.
Yun Ying used to enjoy the treatment of royalty and aristocrats, with ministers paying tribute every month, but since leaving the imperial city, all this has become a thing of the past, and she and her family have lost their former status and dignity.
In order to avoid more trouble, Pu Yi's family decided to change their surname to "Jin", and Yun Ying also became the third grid of the Jin family. At this time, Pu Yi realized that his fate had changed, and he decided to study in Japan, along with Wanrong's younger brother Runqi.
Although Runqi is not Yun Ying's own brother, they have played together in the palace, and Pu Yi's introduction has made the relationship between the two closer. During her study abroad, Yun Ying developed a deep love for Runqi, and Runqi also had a good impression of her, and this relationship also became a beautiful scenery in their study abroad life.
Runqi and Yun Ying's marriage was strongly supported by Zaifeng, who believed that the marriage between the two families would not only be close to each other, but also help his son Puyi improve his strength. Under the mediation of Zaifeng, Runqi and Yun Ying made a marriage contract, and finally tied the knot in Changchun in 1931, when Yun Ying was only 19 years old.
After getting married, Yun Ying planned to follow her husband and brother to study in Japan, her plan was quite thorough, she studied medicine by herself, and her brother and husband studied military theory together, and returned to China together after completing their studies.
The fate of Zaifeng, Pu Yi and Pu Jie's sister, Sangege, was once again changed by his father Zaifeng at a critical moment. He used the status of the eldest lady of the royal family as an excuse to persuade her to stay at home instead of running around, so as not to affect the face of her ancestors, and also considered the risk of studying in Japan.
Soon after, Pu Yi was coerced by the Japanese to go to the Northeast to prepare for the establishment of the puppet Manchukuo, while Runqi and Pu Yi were arranged to study abroad, and only Yun Ying remained in China. At that time, she had just been married to her husband for a month.
Yun Ying's plan to study in Japan did not last long, and the Japanese valued Pu Yi's status as the "last emperor" more and tried to use him to establish a regime to cover up the fact of invasion of China.
In 1932, the Japanese promised her that she could meet her brother and husband and invited her to visit Japan. However, until she arrived in Japan, she still had fantasies about Japanese people and wanted to spend some quality time with her loved ones.
However, after arriving in Japan, Yun Ying was arranged by the Japanese to be the president of the women's association and participated in various drinking parties, in fact, to make her look ugly. In the end, the Japanese asked her to be a Chinese teacher for Emperor Hirohito's younger sister-in-law and let her teach Chinese.
Faced with the teaching work of the emperor's younger brother and daughter-in-law, Zhong Yunying was closely monitored by the Japanese, and her life was like a captivity. For the first time in her life, she felt deeply constrained, and during that time, she wrote many letters to her husband and brother about her life in Japan, full of innocence and naughtiness towards her family.
However, her brother had already been taken back to Changchun by the Japanese to prepare for the puppet state of Manchukuo, and her husband had lost contact with her. However, these letters were treasured and later compiled into a book, which is the "Remnants of the Palace" mentioned at the beginning.
After two years of hard life in Japan, Yun Ying returned to China, but at this time, the country has undergone earth-shaking changes! With the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Pu Yi was manipulated by the Japanese, and his family was also controlled by the Japanese, and Yun Ying lost any freedom.
It wasn't until the defeat of Japan that Yun Ying's family was freed from the shackles, however, the situation did not get worse, but instead jumped from one prison into another!
In 1945, with the defeat and flight of Japan, the land in Northeast China changed hands, and the Soviets took Pu Yi and Runqi away, leaving Yun Ying and three children. Forced by life, the former Gege had to beg on the street, from the deep palace to the world, she no longer avoided talking about money, for a mouthful of food, she began to care about every penny.
Yun Ying, the last Gege, lives a difficult life. She used to own gold and silver jewelry, but in order to survive, she had to sell her property. However, fate was unfair to her, and when her four-month-old child fell ill, she did everything she could to find a doctor**.
Although the child is **, she has little savings left. In desperation, she took to the streets to beg, and even let go of her identity. People don't know that she was once a royal nobleman, the last Gege.
Once, she was a nobleman in the royal family, dressed in splendid clothes. Today, she wears only a coarse cloth shirt and can only rely on cigarettes to make ends meet.
Although she is the eldest lady of the palace, she has always struggled to adapt to this change, and at first she can only stand silently on the street corner and wait for an opportunity. Due to financial constraints, she had a limited number of cigarettes on hand, and in order to survive, she had to sell them by dismantling them one by one.
Yun Ying and his wife have a lot of cigarettes at home, but they don't like it, and often sell them one by one. Most of the people who come to buy cigarettes are poor people, and in order to smoke a cigarette, they have to negotiate with Yun Ying for half a sky-high price.
Especially in winter, in order to prevent the smoke from getting wet by rain and snow, Yun Ying will cover the cigarette with a cotton cloth. Sometimes cigarettes can't be sold, Yun Ying has to smoke by herself to kill her sorrows, and after a long time, she became addicted to smoking, and she maintained the habit of smoking until her death.
In that chaotic era, Gege Yunying, who lived in the deep palace, had to make changes in order to live. She began to sell on the streets, and people could often hear her crying: "Sell cigarettes!"
Sell cigarettes! However, the world is impermanent, and she has also been deceived because she has not been deeply involved in the world. Someone traded a batch of damp cigarettes for a large amount of her precious jewelry, which almost made her faint.
But in this society, she can't find a place to reason, so she can only endure it silently. However, she was not discouraged by this, but strengthened her determination to continue her life.
Zong Guang is the son of Yun Ying and Yun Ying. Back then, Zongguang was naughty and was scratched by a ploughing tool, and as a result, he got bone tuberculosis and walked with a limp. In order to treat her son's illness, Yun Ying went around to seek medical advice behind Zong Guang's back, but not to mention the lack of money, Yun Ying herself was injured and fell down her waist, which eventually caused her waist to no longer straighten up, and she also suffered from a stomach perforation.
During that difficult period, Yun Ying was short of money for treatment, but fortunately, an enthusiastic officer gave her medicine and saved her family.
For about five years, Zaifeng and Yun Ying lived a hard life, until the founding of New China and Zaifeng was recalled to Beijing by the state, and Yun Ying followed his father back to the capital.
In Beijing, her life has not improved, and she still has to beg for a living. In 1951, Zaifeng passed away, leaving Yun Ying with five houses and some jewelry. Since then, her living situation has improved slightly.
She continued to do all kinds of odd jobs in Beijing until 1955, when the appearance of a man changed her fate.
At the end of 1954, Zhang Shizhao, director of the ** Museum of Culture and History, visited an antique bookstall in Beijing in his spare time. He has a keen interest in the study of ancient books and antiquities, as well as a keen hunt for treasures at bookstalls.
This time, he found a book on the bookstall called "The Remnants of the Palace". Intrigued, he picked up the book and began to read it carefully. The book records Yun Ying's letters to Pu Yi during a certain day.
Yun Ying in the book is lively and vivid, at that time she has not experienced the tempering of the world, and the image of youth jumps on the paper, which makes Zhang Shizhao deeply moved after reading it.
The palace is solemn and there are few smart children, but Yun Ying's spirituality makes people have a new understanding of the palace and reveals another side of the palace. Zhang Shizhao was deeply moved, and searched around with a scroll in his hand, wanting to meet this last Gege.
In the end, he was able to meet her with the help of Yun Ying's seventh uncle, but he was also surprised. The middle-aged woman in front of her has lost the lively and flexible side of the book, and the hardships of life have made her lose her former agility, she is dressed in shabby clothes, and after seeing Zhang Shizhao, she just said hello and did not say a word.
Zhang Shizhao and his wife felt deeply sorry after reading it, so they chatted with her. Gradually, they learned that Yun Ying's life was very difficult, and it was not easy to raise so many children alone.
Deeply touched, Zhang Shizhao decided to lend a hand, and in any case, as a Gege of the late Qing Dynasty, this huge change is amazing. Under Zhang Shizhao's strong recommendation, Yun Ying wrote down her experience, which has dozens of pages.
It can be seen that despite the wind and rain, her writing is still excellent, and the font is clean and very beautiful.
Zhang Shizhao and his wife Yun Ying handed over her self-report, ** and request to the chairman with a book, hoping that the chairman could help. On New Year's Day, the chairman found Zhang Shizhao's letter and opened Yun Ying's self-statement.
After reading it, the chairman was deeply moved, although Yun Ying's letter was simple and unpretentious, but it was full of sincerity and revealed her sincerity.
Comrade Enlai, can you arrange a proper job for Yun Ying to improve her life? After learning about the plight of Yun Ying's family, ** felt very sad, he thought that Yun Ying received higher education, but begging on the street, it was really a waste of talent.
So, ** decided to let Yun Ying go to the sub-district office to help, and at the same time won a place for her in the CPPCC of Dongcheng District, Beijing.
**The help to Yun Ying's family not only gave her a stable job and the care of the country, but also exerted her strength on the stage of the CPPCC and provided valuable information and suggestions for the study of Qing history.
Yun Ying is full of gratitude for the country's gifts, and does her best to help those in need, whether in street work or life. Her enthusiasm and kindness made her the "Sister Kim" on the street, and everyone respected her.
Knowing the importance of giving back with gratitude, she always does her part to help those in need.