Xiang Fei’s great-great-grandson

Aixinjueluo Yuyan (Pinyin: Yù-Yán; Yantongyan, 1918.5.17-1999.1.18) was born on the eighth day of April in the seventh year of the Republic of China. His courtesy name is Yanrui and his nickname is Xiaoruizi. , Chinese calligrapher, a member of the Qing Dynasty clan. Born in Wangfujing, Beijing. He was the distant nephew of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and Puyi's private heir. Yu Yan is the great-grandson of Emperor Daoguang's fifth son Yi Pei, and the great-great-grandson of Concubine Xiang. His grandfather was Zai Lian (1854-1917, the first son of Prince Heshuodunqin Yigui), who inherited the title of Beile and Enzhunjia County; his father was Pucheng (1873-1932), who was the first rank Dai and Ren Qianqing walked around the gate. Yu Yan lost his mother when he was young, and as a young boy his father ran away from home and passed away. In 1936, he was selected by Puyi to become a student in the Imperial Palace of Manchuria and help manage state affairs. Yu Yan and Pu Yi had a very good relationship. In 1943, Yu Yan married Ma Jia, a Manchu family, and subsequently had two sons, Heng Zhen and Heng Kai. After the fall of Manchukuo in 1945, Yu Yan and Pu Yi were sent to Siberia by the Soviet Union as prisoners of war. In 1948, Ma Jia died of illness and remarried the following year. When Puyi was in Siberia in 1950, he adopted Yuyan as his heir. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Yu Yan returned to China and was imprisoned in Fushun War Criminals Management Center to receive education and ideological reform. In 1957, Yu Yan was released by the government without prosecution. After being released from prison, he made a living by teaching Chinese and selling groceries. When the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, Yu Yan was implicated again because of his special status and was sent to Shanxi's labor camp to work as a coolie. Returned to Beijing in 1979. In 1980, he was hired as a consultant by Prince Gong's Mansion of the Ministry of Culture, and later served as a director of the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association, a director of the Oriental Calligraphy and Painting Academy Research Association, and a director of the Changbai Painting and Calligraphy Research Association. Life in old age is relatively stable. He died of illness in Beijing on January 18, 1999 at the age of 80. During the Qingming Festival in 1999, the ashes were buried in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Garden on the west side of the Qingdong Tomb in Zunhua. In District 6 of Dongyuan behind the Jade Buddha Hall, Shanxi Hei's tombstone has his lifetime signature "Aixinjueluo Yuyan" engraved on the right side and Manchu on the left side. The tombstone is simple and unique.