The Forbidden City sold ancient books in the 1980s.

Puyi In modern China, there was an emperor who attracted much attention, and that was Puyi. His life can be said to be very tortuous. He experienced almost all the great changes in modern China, and he was also a witness of history. As the last emperor, his fate was actually quite helpless. 19 14 Before Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor, Puyi was the emperor of the last feudal dynasty in China. As a child, he abdicated twice in a row. For the first time, under the coercion of Yuan Shikai, he announced his abdication. At that time, he could still live in the palace. After all, it is his ancestral home. Puyi, 6, is still very happy in the palace because. Later 1924, the great warlord Feng Yuxiang drove Puyi and all members of the royal family out of the Forbidden City. Prior to this, Puyi had already felt the injustice of his fate, and secretly transported many treasures and cultural relics from the palace out of the palace in advance, and stored them in the trusted ministers' homes, some of which were converted into money by him for convenience. How many cultural relics did Puyi take from the Forbidden City? According to expert statistics, the value of these cultural relics adds up to more than all the property of Bill Gates, the richest man in the world. Let's take a closer look at what treasures Puyi brought out of the palace. Gu Kaizhi's Goddess of Luofu (partial) Yan Bujitu (partial) 1922 From July to 65438+ February, Puyi transferred 2 10 volumes of precious ancient books in Song and Yuan Dynasties and more than 2,000 paintings and calligraphy works in Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties to the palace in the name of giving. Zhou Fang's "Mrs. Fan Waving Map" (partial) Gu's "Han Xizai's Night Banquet Map" (partial) 1924 1 1. /kloc-in October, Puyi was expelled from the palace by Feng Yuxiang, and his entourage took away a lot of so-called private property, including many carefully selected cultural relics. After leaving the palace, Puyi hid in the Japanese Embassy. Puyi 1925 In February, Puyi secretly sneaked into Tianjin and set up a palace in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin. More than 70 boxes of cultural relics and jewels in the Forbidden City were hidden in the Japanese Concession in Bird. During Pu Yi's life in Tianjin, things often happened in the palace that stirred up the local cultural relics circle. Pu Yi Photographed by Pu Yi Photographed by Pu Yi Photographed by Pu Yi Photographed by Pu Yi1931110/0 In October, Pu Yi secretly fled to the northeast under the planning of the Japanese and became the puppet Manchukuo emperor. He took a lot of cultural relics with him when he fled, but the whereabouts of some cultural relics left in Tianjin are unknown. Tian Huang San Lian printed red gold, six flowers and eight treasures tableware, the most upscale embroidered robe of Puyi, 1945. In August, Japan defeated and surrendered. At that time, Xinjing (now Changchun), the capital of Manchukuo, was in chaos, and many people moved all kinds of materials to prepare for the final escape. Puyi's most important preparation work is to instruct his entourage to load the original cultural relics of the Forbidden City and a large number of precious jewels found later into the car, including priceless pearl crowns, gold-inlaid opal pendants, Qing Dynasty robes and so on. Most of the cultural relics he carried were eventually plundered by the Japanese army and their whereabouts were unknown. After being intercepted by the Soviet Union, Puyi also tried to present a treasure in exchange for the right of abode, but ultimately failed. A large number of precious cultural relics carried by Puyi were either sold for some reason or destroyed by war. Among many treasures, only 468 pieces eventually returned to the motherland and became important cultural relics collected by Shenyang Palace Museum. The whereabouts of other cultural relics are unknown.