Jin Yunying

Aisin Gioro Yunying
Gūwalgiya Youlan

Jin Yunying
Hanyu Pinyin	Bǐnghào

Yunying (1913–1992), better known as Jin Yunying, was a Chinese princess of

.

Names

Yunying's original family name was

.

Yunying's courtesy name, Ruixiu, was given to her by her father, Zaifeng. Her art name, Binghao, was given to her by her brother, Puyi. She is also sometimes referred to as Jin Ruixiu.

Reginald Johnston, the Scottish academic and diplomat who tutored Puyi, gave Yunying an English name, Lily.

Life

Early life

Yunying was born in the

. In Tianjin, Yunying and her siblings learned the Japanese language and played tennis.

Life in Manchuria

When Yunying turned 19, Puyi arranged for her to be married to

's sisters-in-law also specially invited her to their residence to teach them the Chinese language. Yunying felt lonely during her stay in Japan, so she often wrote to Puyi. Puyi had their letters compiled into a book. In 1933, Yunying returned to Xinjing to visit her family and decided to remain in China. Runqi accompanied her and served in Manchukuo as an instructor in a military school.

Later life

At the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, Soviet forces invaded and occupied northeastern China. Yunying and the rest of Puyi's family were evacuated by train from Xinjing to Dalizigou (in present-day Linjiang, Jilin); Puyi, along with two of his sisters, his brothers, three nephews, his physician and a servant, took a plane to Mukden (present-day Shenyang, Liaoning), where he was arrested and taken to a prison camp in Siberia. Runqi was also taken prisoner and was not released until 1957. Yunying, left with only a few sets of clothing, brought her three children with her to Tonghua. During this time, she supported herself and her children by collecting and selling used clothes at a tobacco stand on the streets. During this time, she was taken captive and publicly interrogated about her life. She was released later and allowed to return to Tonghua.

In 1949, after Chinese Communist forces occupied

In 1954,

to visit Puyi, who was detained there as a war criminal.

Yunying died in China in 1992. She was survived by her three children: Zongyan (宗弇), Zongguang (宗光) and Manruo (曼若). Her husband, Runqi was the owner of a small clinic that treated gynecological diseases and nervous disorders and was interviewed by The New York Times in 2000.^[2] He died in 2007.

Relationship with Puyi

Yunying was described as beautiful and goodhearted. In his memoirs, Puyi described Yunying as spoiled and idle and interested in pointless matters during the Manchukuo period, foremost to be in his favour:^[1] when he gave a gift to another member of the family, Yunying wished to be given the same.^[1] According to Puyi, Yunying later said about this period in her life: "What was I before, but an ornament?"^[1]

Ancestry

Gallery

• 
  Yunying and her son, Zongyan
• 
  Yunying and her husband, Runqi
• 
  Yunying with her husband, Runqi (seated), and her brother Pujie (standing)

Notes

References

• Puyi (Swedish): Jag var kejsare av Kina (I was the emperor of China) (1988)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110927064301/http://www.lijiazhang.com/downloads/files/life_after_the_last_emperor.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100831103347/http://fineartimports.com/imperial.htm