The last eunuch of the Qing Dynasty: Who was the last eunuch in China?

Sun Yaoting.

Sun Yaoting (November 30, 1902 - 1996), a native of Xishuangtang Village, Jinghai District, Tianjin City, was the last eunuch in China, nicknamed Liu Jin.

In 1916, the Sun family sent Sun Yaoting to the Forbidden City through the introduction of trustees. He endured the greatest insult to his personality and became a eunuch. He was 15 years old at the time.

During the Zhili-Fengtian War in 1924, Feng Yuxiang defected to Beijing and expelled the last emperor Puyi from the Forbidden City. Puyi hid in his aunt Rongshou Gulun's house and followed him into the Japanese Embassy in China.

After Sun Yaoting left the palace, he continued to serve Wanrong at the home of the regent Zaifeng. More than a month later, Wanrong went to find Puyi. From then on, Sun Yaoting ended his career as a eunuch.

His autobiography "The Last Eunuch in China" was adapted into a movie in 1988.

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"The Last Eunuch in China" is a feature film directed by Zhang Zhiliang and starring Mo Shaocong, Wen Bixia and others.

The film tells the story of a poor boy named Laixi who asked for self-purification in order to have enough food and clothing for his family. However, when the monarchy was abolished, he went to study drama instead. Later, in order to escape the pursuit of warlords, he sneaked into the Forbidden City and became a eunuch. Soon after, he The story of how he was expelled from the Forbidden City by the emperor and began his wandering life. The film was released in Taiwan, China on October 24, 1987.

In the third year of Xuantong, when an anti-Qing upsurge was set off at home and abroad, and the Qing Dynasty was over, the eunuchs in the palace resigned and returned to their hometowns one after another when they saw the decline of the imperial court. An 8-year-old poor boy from Dongliumu Village in Hebei Province came to see the village eunuch Xiao Dezhang "returning to his hometown in fine clothes". However, he suddenly felt envious and begged his father to purify himself so that the whole family could have enough food and clothing. He became a victim of ignorance.

Soon, the Republic of China overthrew the Qing Dynasty, abolished the imperial system, and no longer employed eunuchs in the palace. Laixi's dream came to nothing. So his father sent him to Beijing to study opera.

Ten years later, Laixi was successful in his studies and met his childhood playmate in a brothel to recruit a younger brother. Zhao's younger brother mistakenly believed that he was a revolutionary, so he pledged himself to him and agreed to escape together. After his identity was exposed, Zhaodi left in pain. In order to avoid being tracked by the warlord, he sneaked into the Forbidden City and became a eunuch again.

Corruption was prevalent in the palace at that time, and he was harmed again. Fortunately, Eunuch Ding, the eunuch in charge, rescued him. Soon, the emperor drove away all the eunuchs due to a fire. Laixi met again in the capital to recruit his younger brother, and the two lived together for several years.

Later, Eunuch Ding came to persuade Lai Xitong to serve Puyi who was under house arrest in the Japanese Consulate. Unexpectedly, Ding was brutally murdered by the Japanese outside the consulate. When Laixi returned to her brother-in-law, her revolutionary husband also came to pick her up

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