Yunhe was born in the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan in 1911 as the second daughter of Prince Chun and Princess Consort Youlan.
In November 1924, the warlord Feng Yuxiang took control of Beijing and forced the former imperialy family out of the Forbidden City.
In 1931, Puyi was installed as emperor of Manchukuo, a puppet state established by the Empire of Japan in northeastern China.
[1] Yunying and her family were evacuated by train from Xinjing to Dalizigou (in present-day Linjiang, Jilin); there, Puyi left his wife, his concubine, his sister-in-law and his nieces, and selected his three full siblings (his brother Pujie and his sisters Yunhe and Yunying), his physician and a servant to accmpany him further.
They took a plane to Mukden (present-day Shenyang, Liaoning), where Puyi and his brother was arrested and taken to a prison camp in Siberia.