1. The death of Pu Yi and the creation of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee

Pu Yi is a figure with a very special historical status in modern history. Before Empress Dowager Cixi passed away, she specially selected the extremely young Puyi from among the emperor's relatives. After appointing him as the new emperor of the Qing Dynasty, she hurriedly left the world.

Puyi went through a lot of things later. In 1912, under the pressure of Yuan Shikai, he was forced to step down from his throne as emperor. In 1924, driven by Feng Yuxiang, he was driven out of the Forbidden City where he lived. Later, with the support of the Japanese, he became the emperor of the puppet Manchukuo.

After the end of World War II, he was captured by the Soviets and taken to Siberia. After he experienced various twists and turns, he was released back to China, where he endured several years of imprisonment. After that, he began to live an ordinary life in Beijing.

Emperor Puyi died in Beijing in 1967, and it was also in this year that the famous movie star and martial arts master Bruce Lee created his Jeet Kune Do in the United States by blending traditional martial arts.

2. The birth of the telephone and Zuo Zongtang leading troops to regain Xinjiang

In the late Qing Dynasty, our northwest frontier was invaded by Agubai, and faced with When faced with a life-and-death challenge, two different opinions emerged in the Qing court. Among the two opinions at the time, Li Hongzhang himself did not support the recovery of lost land. He believed that the focus should be on coastal areas.

Zuo Zongtang firmly opposed his opinion and believed that these lost lands should be recovered no matter what. In the end, Zuo Zongtang persuaded Cixi. It was in 1876 that he led troops into the border areas and recovered more than 1 million square kilometers of land.

Also in 1876, Bell, the father of the telephone, obtained the patent for the world's first telephone.