Does Prince Shouyuan in "The Last Prince" have a real-life prototype?

Yes, the prototype of this prince is Aixinjueluo Zaitao, Guangxu's younger brother. He loved horses all his life. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as an adviser to the horse's political situation and also served as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Aixinjueluo Zaitao has pure royal blood. He is the grandson of Emperor Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty, the seventh son of Prince Chunxian Aixinjueluo Yixuan, the half-brother of Emperor Guangxu, and the son of Puyi. uncle.

However, he was born in the late Qing Dynasty and was unable to enjoy happiness like other elder brothers and princesses in the Qing Dynasty. Instead, he prematurely tasted the troubles that troubled times brought to the royal family. In order to save the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zaitao made a lot of efforts.

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As the younger brother of Emperor Guangxu and the uncle of Emperor Xuantong, Zaitao also enjoyed an important status and role in the Aixinjueluo family. He is highly respected, approachable, and enthusiastic in serving family members, so he is respected as the "patriarch" of the family.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was appointed by Chairman Mao Zedong as the Political Bureau Advisor of the Artillery Headquarters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He also served successively as consultant to the Civil Affairs Bureau of the General Logistics Department, member of the National Ethnic Affairs Committee, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal People's Committee, and member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee. He was a representative of the first to third National People's Congress and a member of the second and third National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died in Beijing on September 2, 1970, at the age of 83. His ashes were placed in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.