After being pardoned, Puyi and Du went to Jiangnan for the first time. Why did they cry all the way?

A: Indeed, after Pu Yi was pardoned, she shed a lot of tears when she first went to Jiangnan with Du and others.

But these tears are really mixed, with gratitude, joy, sadness, shame, regret and guilt. ...

Why do you say that?

At that time, Puyi recorded many thoughts and opinions in the diary of his trip to Jiangnan. Although it doesn't look like a private diary, it looks like a thought report that can be reviewed at any time. But through these words and the memories of his entourage at that time, we can still get a glimpse of some of his inner world.

Puyi was pardoned at the end of 1959 and 12, and traveled to Jiangnan in the spring of 1964. It was a tour organized by Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, mainly to Jiangsu and other places.

The members of the tour group are mainly Amnesty personnel, including Du, Song Xilian, Zhou Zhenqiang, Wang, Shen Zui, etc. And their families, there are 40 people.

Puyi's family is his wife Li, who has been married for two years, as well as his younger brother and his sister-in-law.

Although Shen Zui is a spy, he likes dancing and writing. Later, in his memoirs, he called the tour group "the visiting group of the emperor's general."

Of course, this "Emperor's General Visiting Mission" can't be compared with the "Emperor's General Visiting Mission" in feudal times, but their itinerary has also been carefully arranged and strictly protected.

The first stop they visited was Nanjing.

Wu Zhongqi, who works in Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, is responsible for receiving them and their party.

Wu Zhongqi was originally a student of Whampoa Military Academy 18. Before liberation, director of Jiangyin Fort led the uprising in the battle of crossing the river.

Wu Zhongqi later recalled that the scenic spots that Puyi and others visited would be temporarily closed, and the whole floor of the hotel was covered, and strangers were not allowed to enter.

Old Wu Man Zhongqi said that when he met them at the railway station, he saw Puyi in tears.

As soon as Puyi got off the train, she shook hands with the conductor, wiped her tears and murmured, "It's the first time to get off the Yangtze River."

He added, "I've never been out, but now I'm really liberated."

That's it. Is it really worth crying like this? Du is a little puzzled.

Puyi explained: "In the past, the Japanese took me away and I went wherever I wanted, but I was bored and couldn't see anything. Now I've seen everything. I used to live like a bat. I don't see the sun or people. Now I can really be a China person freely. " ……

Therefore, it is true that Puyi "shed tears" in Jiangnan. Puyi stayed with them in Nanjing for five days. Wu Zhongqi clearly remembers that it was from March 1 1 to March 15. Besides the Ming Tombs, Meihua Mountain, Linggu Temple, Confucius Temple, Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Yuhuatai and the Presidential Palace, they also visited many companies in Nanjing, such as Nanjing Chemical Company, Friendship Clothing Factory and Yixin Silk Weaving Factory.

Wu Zhongyu specifically mentioned a detail. On March 12, when visiting Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, the delegation boarded the granite archway at the entrance of the Mausoleum. Li, Puyi's wife, had a bad heart and was too weak to walk, so she said to Puyi, I'll rest here. You should go up first. I'll wait for you to come down. Puyi was considerate of his wife and said I wouldn't go either.

Fortunately, Du, Song Xilian and Zhou Zhenqiang came to remind them at this time: "Old Pu, you have to leave, because ..."

Puyi instantly understood something, quickly helped his wife climb to the top of the mountain and bowed to Sun Yat-sen with everyone.

While eating in the reception hall of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Puyi muttered, "I used to be an emperor and did many bad things. I told myself and others that the past Puyi was dead and rotten, and now it is a new Puyi ... This time CPPCC spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to organize us to visit, which is also a change for us. "

Later, when I visited Yuhuatai, Puyi shed tears. He said, "It's sad to be here. We are really guilty. It's too bad that so many people died here ... We should think about what we did to the people of the * * * production party in the past and what the * * * production party did to ourselves today. We should consider how to transform ourselves, cleanse our sins and work for the people in the future. "

On March 16, the tour group went to Wuxi for a Taihu Lake dinner and visited Xi Hui Park.