After the age of thirteen or fourteen, Puyi read a lot of ancient non-mainstream literary works and gained a lot of knowledge. He began to imitate these works, made up some legendary stories according to his own imagination, and amused himself by drawing illustrations. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, Pu Yi was deeply influenced and enlightened by the poems of his ancestors Kangxi and Qianlong, and began to work hard on poetry. With the passage of time, Puyi wrote more and more poems, and gradually became interested in contributing to the outside world. He once imitated and applied Liu Yuxi's Humble Room Inscription, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, and wrote an article entitled Sanxi Hall's Accidental Inscription: The house is small, the book is famous, the country does not seek hegemony, but some people can. This is a small room, only my ancestors. Ryukyu shadow, sunshine into the yarn. I enjoy writing and reading, and I am loyal to my contacts. You can look in the mirror and read san huang. No confusion, no fatigue. Zhili Changxindian, West Shu Chengdu Pavilion. Xiao Yu said, "Why is there peace?"
This inscription was contributed by Pu Yi and published in Shanghai Yijing magazine. The publication of this article is a great encouragement to the enthusiasm of young Pu Yi to contribute. In the next two years or so, Puyi wrote many poems, and once enthusiastically contributed to newspapers under his pseudonym, but it became an instant hit. After the manuscript was sent out, it was like a mud cow entering the sea, and there was no news.
1922 In the early summer, Puyi came up with a clever trick to play tricks on the editor. He named a five-character poem with eight lines and 40 words as "parrot" and posted it on Game Daily, a tabloid in Shanghai, as the pseudonym of Deng Jionglin. Sure enough, the emperor's poem was finally published in the newspaper. Then, from top to bottom, he successively issued a four-line seven-character poem "Floating Moon" and an eight-line seven-character poem "Lotus Moon". These two seven-character poems were quickly adopted by newspapers. It is said that the editorial department of Game Daily has tried many times to find out who this poet named Deng Jionglin is, but found nothing.
Zhuang Shidun, a master of literature from Oxford University and an English teacher of Puyi for five years, specially translated three ancient poems, Parrot, Floating Moon and Lotus Moon, published by Puyi in Game Daily into English, and included them in his masterpiece Dusk in the Forbidden City. It is pointed out in the book that this poet and writer whose pen name is Deng Jionglin is not others, but the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Now that I have revealed the truth, people at home and abroad may be surprised. He also said: when the emperor published his poems in newspapers and periodicals, he was only sixteen years old, which was often the age when his poetic talent began to sprout. In order to show off his students' so-called extraordinary poet temperament.
Johnston's Dusk in the Forbidden City is old-fashioned and literary. This book is also one of * *'s favorite books. According to Zhang, the English teacher of * * *, Johnston was listed in the reference book when they practiced English grammar. Dusk in the Forbidden City was first published in London in 1934. Cause a sensation. Luoyang paper is expensive for a while. Inscription on the title page: I would like to dedicate this book to His Majesty Emperor Puyi. Signature: His loyal servant and teacher Johnston. Puyi also wrote a preface to Johnston's "Dusk in the Forbidden City". In the preface, he wrote: Johnston's heroic writing and lofty deeds are beyond the reach of Confucianism in China. As this book has been published, it is expected that it will have an important impact on the contemporary world. Master and apprentice, echo each other, are complacent.
Finally, the secret was finally revealed. Puyi, who later became Shu Ren, revealed in his book My First Half Life that the three ancient poems he contributed to Game Daily were originally copied from the works of a poet in the Ming Dynasty. His three fake poems not only deceived the editor of Game Daily, but also his English teacher Johnston was kept in the dark.