The Last Emperor - Puyi

The Forbidden City

Puyi looking sleepy

Last week i had spent almost 3 hours of my life watching a movie call The Last Emperor, it is about a boy who turned into an emperor when he was barely 3 years old. Puyi was a Manchurian, part of the Aisin-Girio clan, and the last emperor of China. The film was released in 1987, before I was even born. The fact that my parents watched it 10 years ago just made me stunned in disbelief. Immediately I felt like, 'Wow, Now I'm watching it'.

Puyi was conferred as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty in 1908, recommended by her grandma, Empress Dowager Cixi. At that time that he was brought away from his family and sent to the Forbidden City to begin his training as a member of the royal family. Though only a small child Puyi was treated like a god,he was carried everywhere rather than allowed to walk and was constantly attended by a troupe of eunuchs, who were his servants.You can't even look at him if he passes you. In 1912 the power of the royal family was severely limited by the rise of the Republican forces that officially seized power after the Xinhai Revolution. Subsequently, Puyi's role was reduced to that of a ritual figurehead rather than a true leader. He was merely enjoying his life in the palace, with an empress and a concubine, man you pimp...

Apparently China had a broken society, different people had different ideologies for their country, which made China disunited. 

Many years later when Japan took over Manchuria and named it Manchukuo, Puyi was selected as the new emperor of Manchukuo. However, he was just a mere puppet and had limited power. He only had a little say in controlling Manchukuo. Manchukuo was part of today's Russia, North Korea and China. It was used a base for the Japanese to facilitate their attack on China, and to ease their plans of ruling the world.   

 Mixed feelings because I felt sorry for this guy. He was practically used throughout his life, as a fool and a puppet. But I believe that in life you cannot have everything you want, sometimes even you've worked hard it. Why? Because that's life. I think it's just better to be a normal person, especially at wartimes and the earliest civilizations when kings and queens just get killed like that. Well, Pros and Cons for both ways but it's a balancing factor.