The dynasties of the Qing emperors are always a subject that many of us are curious and eager to learn about and understand. Because throughout this long history, it contains many stories, with glory, with sadness, with joy, but also with unspoken sorrows…
We respect the stories from history, remember and preserve them. These stories go into the pages of books, each book preserved in large libraries or in bookstores.
What we can do is gently cherish them, feel the fragrance of ink on paper, enjoy a cup of tea with a book, quietly fulfilling is enough.
And the story talked about today is the story of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty.
The Qing Dynasty is a dynasty that lasted for more than 300 years, going through all 12 emperors. However, there is one notable detail that in the Imperial Palace today, we only see 11 thrones? Why is that so? What secret does it hide?
The explanation behind the 11 thrones of the Qing emperors
The Qing Dynasty lasted for more than 300 years, even though later on, due to the implementation of the closed-door policy, China gradually became backward, but no matter what, it is still history, things that have existed, the ups and downs of China.
Therefore, regardless of the outcome of that dynasty, we should not judge anything, history is always history.
On the path of the Qing Dynasty’s decline, we cannot fail to mention the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance into China. When entering China, this force not only weakened the defense capabilities of the Qing Dynasty but also looted its wealth, turning China into a sweet cake to be divided among them, as well as destroying a large amount of valuable treasures and cultural artifacts of this country.
Among them, there is a throne of Emperor Qianlong taken by a German missionary. This person did not regard it as valuable, so he conveniently threw it into the basement of his house.
Later on, the throne was found by a kind-hearted person, who bought it back with a large amount of money and returned it to the Imperial Palace. From this incident, we can see how tragic the end of the Qing Dynasty was, even the ancestral throne could not be protected.
It took a long time for the thrones of the Qing emperors to be fully collected again, but there are only 11 of them. What about the emperor without that throne? The answer is Emperor Puyi.
Everyone probably already knows that Puyi’s life was full of twists and turns.
He was born at the end of the Qing Dynasty, facing a country that was on the verge of decline, he always wanted to save it but didn’t know where to start when the old and new thoughts clashed with each other.
Later on, under the hands of the Japanese, Puyi was made the emperor in Manchukuo. In fact, this was just a trick of the Japanese towards Puyi.
The Japanese only wanted to take advantage of Puyi, to see Puyi as a puppet in their hands. After Manchukuo was destroyed, Puyi was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Later on, when the new state of China was established, Puyi was brought back to the country and became a citizen of China.
As a descendant of the Aisin Gioro clan, Puyi really wanted to regain the throne of his ancestors, but the Chinese government did not allow it. Until his death, Puyi still could not regain the throne of his ancestors.
Later on, as a normal Chinese citizen, Puyi returned to the Imperial Palace where he used to live. At that time, the Imperial Palace had become an exhibition hall, and Puyi had to buy a ticket to enter.
Surely, Puyi had indescribable emotions at that moment.
From his own thoughts, the writer feels that Puyi is a very pitiful person. Growing up in the royal family, he couldn’t control his own destiny. Later on, when the new state of China was established, he couldn’t control his own life either. He just lived like that, unable to escape from his own cage.
In history, there are good and bad comments about Puyi, but if we see Puyi as a normal person, surely many people would empathize with his fate. Born as an emperor but in the end, and until his death, Puyi was just a normal citizen, no longer an emperor, that’s why the Qing Dynasty had 12 emperors but only 11 thrones in the Imperial Palace.
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