Wen Xiu sued the divorce and exposed Pu Yi's physiological problemsyears of cohabitation without sex.
Headline Creation Challenge The marriage between the emperor and the imperial concubine went wrong, and the imperial concubine asked for divorce! "
In feudal China, the emperor was a monarch with the power of life and death, and his status was respected and unshakable. Therefore, if the imperial concubine wants to divorce, it is undoubtedly "brushing the tiger's beard", which is unimaginable.
However, such a thing really happened to the last emperor Pu Yi, which made people stunned.
Wenxiu: The story of Wenxiu from the imperial concubine to the divorced woman, this Erdet Wenxiu, was born in the Eight Banners of Manchuria with the Yellow Flag. She was born in December 1909 in Xizhen's mansion in Fangjia Hutong, Beijing, but after the Xinhai Revolution, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, and the trajectory of her life changed.
Although the Qing Dynasty has disappeared, Wenxiu's family still has a legacy and his father once held an official position in the court. Although Wenxiu has only been studying for 5 years, she is talented and proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is deeply loved by her teachers.
However, it was this background that made her fifth uncle Hua Kan see an opportunity, and he hoped to save the declining Erdet family by making Wenxiu the queen. So, in 1921, Wenxiu was elected empress, which was the reason why she did not continue her studies.
Although she was only 14 years old, her talent and family background made her an imperial concubine.
After Wenxiu entered the palace and became the imperial concubine, Pu Yi immediately rewarded Wenxiu's mother Jiang with a set of luxurious mansions and sent expensive furniture, which greatly improved the life of Wenxiu's family.
However, for Wen Xiu, her marriage to Pu Yi was unfortunate, and suffering was about to come. Wen Xiu was chosen the day before Empress Wanrong entered the palace, and this was because she needed to prepare a person to greet Empress Wanrong for her arrival.
After the wedding, Pu Yi looked at Wen Xiu coldly and said, "Go down and rest." On the wedding night, Pu Yi did not enter Wenxiu's new house. In fact, even when she married Queen Wanrong the next day, Pu Yi went to the Heart Cultivation Hall alone after the wedding, and did not go to Wanrong.
Since entering the palace, Wenxiu has been snubbed by Pu Yi, and the compulsory course every day is to dress up, and then go to Pu Yi, Wan Rong and the four concubines in turn. In addition, Pu Yi rarely came to see the embroidery.
In her spare time, Wen Xiu could only teach the palace maid to read and write to pass the time, and learning became her hobby.
Wen Xiu was forced to move out of the palace with Pu Yi and Wan Rong because of Feng Yuxiang's forced palace, and the royal title disappeared. However, as an emperor with nothing, Pu Yi was still obsessed with the dogma and etiquette in the palace, insisting that Wen Xiu greet him and Wanrong.
Wen Xiu was influenced by the new trend of "equality between men and women", and was very disgusted by it, and sometimes refused. This caused Wan Rong's dissatisfaction, and she often complained to Pu Yi, which made Pu Yi feel that Wen Xiu was disrespectful.
Later, Wen Xiu learned that Pu Yi wanted to collude with the Japanese to restore the country, so he admonished him many times, but it caused him dissatisfaction. So, Pu Yi completely left Wen Xiu out in the cold, Wen Xiu could only live on the first floor alone, couldn't eat at the same table with Pu Yi and Wan Rong, and even went out shopping and played with Wan Rong, but never brought Wen Xiu, Wen Xiu didn't even dare to ask.
The feud between Pu Yi and Wan Rong caused Wen Xiu to endure endless distress and humiliation, and even the maid who was responsible for serving her sneered at her, and the relationship between master and servant had long since broken down. Wen Xiu was forced to do a lot of things herself, washing her face with tears all day long, physically and mentally exhausted, but Pu Yi turned a blind eye to this.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Wen Xiu felt lonely and helpless, and her heart was full of grief and indignation, and even self-harm. Fortunately, a eunuch beside her found out about the situation in time and ran to look for Pu Yi, but Pu Yi was playing with Wan Rong at this time.
After learning about Pu Yi's interaction with Wan Rong, Wen Xiu's heart was full of disappointment and despair. She confided in her distant cousin-in-law Yufen, the daughter of Yuzhang, about her years of depression and pain.
Yufen felt very sympathetic and indignant about this, and decided to help Wenxiu solve the problem. Yufen was Feng Guozhang's daughter-in-law, Feng Guozhang was the Chinese *** at that time, so she had enough guts to make a suggestion.
She directly suggested that Wenxiu cut off relations with Pu Yi and find her own happiness. Although Wenxiu is avant-garde, she has some concerns about this kind of "royal" thing. However, Yufen directly told her that it was now China**, Pu Yi was no longer an emperor, but an ordinary citizen, and he must obey the law and treat everyone equally.
She suggested that Wen Xiu find a lawyer to write a complaint, accusing Pu Yi of abusing his wife, asking for a divorce, and demanding her future living expenses. Yufen's words gave Wenxiu new courage and motivation.
With the help of her sisters Wen Shan and Yufen, a ** "No. 1 divorce case" is about to begin.
On August 25, 1931, Wen Shan came to Jingyuan to find Wen Xiu and discuss how to escape from here. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Wen Shan found Pu Yi and asked to accompany Wen Xiu to go out for a walk on the grounds that her sister Wen Xiu was in a low mood.
At first, Pu Yi did not agree, but was moved by the sharp teeth of his little sister, and finally reluctantly agreed, but asked a eunuch named Zhao Changqing to go with him. After leaving Jingyuan, Wen Xiu instructed the driver to drive directly to the Tianjin ** Hotel, and after getting out of the car, she said to Zhao Changqing: "You go back to the palace first, I won't go back, I want to go to the court to sue Pu Yi and divorce, please forward this letter to him." ”
Zhao Changqing was stunned and at a loss, and immediately went to find Pu Yi after receiving the letter. Pu Yi was unsettled after receiving Wen Xiu's letter, and immediately sent someone to arrest Wen Xiu. But Wen Xiu and the others had already prepared, they pretended to live in the Tianjin Hotel, but in fact they moved to a western-style building provided by others in advance.
The people sent by Pu Yi pounced. With the help of a lawyer, Wen Xiu soon submitted a divorce lawsuit to the court: "Accusing Pu Yi of abusing her in marriage, causing her great physical and mental harm, and Pu Yi has physical problems, the two have lived together for nine years, she has never been satisfied, so she decided to divorce."
At the same time, she demanded 500,000 yuan for personal daily clothing and alimony. This particular divorce case was quickly widely reported, and newspapers in Beijing and Tianjin reported it on the front page at that time, causing huge social repercussions. "
The Imperial Princess Revolution"、"The Knife Concubine Revolution"and other labels appeared in an endless stream, so angry that Pu Yi's face turned black with anger.
Wenxiu's experience aroused public sympathy, ** pressure made Pu Yi feel pressured during a critical period, especially Wenxiu's accusation made him lose face in front of the public, and the divorce lawsuit was an unprecedented royal scandal, which put him in an extremely embarrassing situation.
In order to resolve this dispute, Pu Yi quickly found Lin Di and Lin Tingchen as ** lawyers, who were fully responsible for the divorce mediation with Wen Xiu. Although Pu Yi tried to persuade Wen Xiu to change her mind, Wen Xiu's determination to divorce could not be shaken.
With this in mind, divorce has become an inevitable option. After mediation, the two parties finally reached an agreement, Pu Yi agreed to divorce Wen Xiu, and Wen Xiu also agreed to accept a one-time 550,000 yuan of divorce living expenses.
However, there is one condition, and that is that Wenxiu cannot marry again.
This divorce lawsuit, which claimed to be the first, was finally ended in a hurry in private. However, after the outbreak of the "918 Incident" in 1931, Pu Yi, who became the "puppet emperor", became more and more angry the more he thought about it.
In order to save the so-called "royal" face, he arranged a ceremony of "worshiping the heavens and telling the ancestors", announcing the abolition of the title of Concubine Wenxiu and the reduction of her to a concubine. However, to outsiders, this just adds some jokes to the farce.