held your hand in this life, there is no way to turn back.
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Eight hundred heroes Xie Jinyuan’s wife: was received by Chiang Kai-shek Song Meiling, did not get a difficult subsidy
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Now, when people think of heroes, they always think of tragic and strong. In fact, behind this tragic and majestic is endless heartache.
This heartache is closely linked with tragic, but many times, what people feel is tragic.
is located at the Sixing Warehouse Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall at No. 1 Guangfu Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, and there are bullet marks of reinforced concrete.
Steel bar heartache, steel bar heartache, people even more heartache.
In this heartache, to feel the tragic and strong, rain of tears, soaking the world. The
four-row warehouse was a lot of tragic and majestic, and people at that time could see the battle at the heights. From October 27th to October 31st, 1937, in just 4 days, the warriors killed 9 people and wounded more than 20 people, repelled dozens of attacks and killed more than 200 people. Foreign media have also reported their deeds. The Times published an article saying: "The eight hundred strong men are fighting for humanity, for civilization, and for peace." The deeds attracted people who passed by here. , Either bend down and bow, or take off your hat to pay tribute.
hero, too tragic. They wrote 298 suicide notes there. A man named Chen Shusheng took off his white sweatshirt, bit his finger, and left 8 characters for his mother in Sichuan—letting one’s life for righteousness, what the child wanted! Because Sixing Warehouse is close to the concession, the Japanese did not dare to use heavy weapons easily when attacking, so they thought of a "trick": Send a team of a dozen people to sneak downstairs in the warehouse, desperately digging holes in the wall, Explosives are installed in the cave and blasted to open the breach. Chen Shusheng was tied up with grenades, pulled the fuse, and jumped from the sixth floor. With a loud noise, he died with a dozen Japanese soldiers. The thick smoke came from the bottom up, and the head Xie Jinyuan shed tears when he saw it. He thought to himself, with such a warrior, the position will not be lost and the country will not die. And the letter written by Head Xie to his wife is also full of blood and tears.
"Jin Yuan is determined to die for his country, vowing not to retreat easily, nor to make a living for a moment..."
In this way, the hero's tragic and majestic and the heartache of his mother, wife and children are linked together.
Today, people don't know what kind of heartache Chen Shusheng's mother felt when she saw those eight characters. Chen Shusheng was only 21 years old when she left, and the young hero will never return. The same is true for Xie Jinyuan. Behind his tragic and majesty lies the struggle and survival of his wife Ling Weicheng in heartache. It is the pinch of soil that, like a hero, can make people bow and take off their hats.
If life is as quiet as a lotus, years can be fragrant all the way, white as lotus root. Love is not arranged in a previous life, so it must be the encounter, promise, complementarity, and resonance of two hearts in this life. On October 31, 1937, after Xie Jinyuan and the 800 warriors entered the concession, they were disarmed by the British army and imprisoned in a clearing on Jiaozhou Road. They were surrounded by barbed wire to isolate them from the outside world. Therefore, to this day, people call this heroic army "lone army", and call their last place "solitary army camp."
fought for 4 days and the "solitary army camp" was trapped for 4 years. Xie Jinyuan wrote in his diary: "The orphan army camp is almost the same as the'captive camp' in the concession. Freedom is restricted and life is very difficult." But he is still positive and optimistic. , Strictly govern the army, and insist on the flag-raising ceremony before morning exercises every day. At this time, what about love? It blooms like a flower on the long road from Shanghai Lone Army Camp to Jiaoling, Guangdong, in the hearts of Xie Jinyuan and Ling Weicheng.
Ling Weicheng, a native of Shanghai, was born in 1907 in a merchant family in Xujiahui, Shanghai, with three sisters. She isThe second child. In 1924, he graduated from Wuben Girls' High School (now Shanghai No. 2 Middle School). In 1927, he graduated from Shanghai Southeast Sports College with a major in music. He is good at playing musical instruments and singing.
said that good men do not serve as soldiers and good women do not marry men. This phrase was destined to be popular the moment when Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty initiated the Chen Qiao mutiny and Huang Pao was added. But in a heroic country, facts are destined to be the opposite.
Xie Jinyuan and Ling Weicheng met at a wedding in 1927, when they were the best man and bridesmaid. Although Ling's mother expressed concern about marrying a soldier during the war, Ling Weicheng still fell in love with Xie Jinyuan despite her opposition. Later, when Xie Jinyuan recuperated at Hankou Hospital, Ling Weicheng came to visit, and their relationship deepened day by day. In September 1929, they got married in Hankou Dahua Hotel.
At the beginning of 1936, Songhu Garrison Commander Zhang Zhizhong dispatched officers above battalion commander in batches, disguised as plain clothes to secretly go to Shanghai to survey the terrain. At that time, Xie Jinyuan was the staff officer of the lieutenant colonel of the 88th Division, and was assigned to the second reconnaissance team to conduct reconnaissance on the terrain around the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters at the bottom of the North Sichuan Road. Seeing the war approaching, Xie Jinyuan had the idea of sending his wife and children to the countryside of Jiaoling, Guangdong.
Their child Xie Jimin later described this history like this:
"This is a very important and sudden change in life. No relatives and friends of the mother agree. Even without a father, the mother can support herself and her children with the support of her natal family. My little uncle Zhou Zhaotang is also a Whampoa graduate and has a certain reputation in the political circle. He and her aunt urged my mother to go to Chongqing with them. But his father disagreed. His reason was that Jiaoling was located at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, and Japanese troops would not be strong. In such a remote mountainous area, safety can be guaranteed. On the other hand, my uncle died of illness while working in Nanyang in 1929, and my aunts were also married. My grandparents were over 60 years old and no one took care of them in my hometown. The father was really worried. The mother was very considerate of his father’s desire to be filial, and despite all the opposition, she resolutely agreed to his request." [1]
At this time, Xie Jinyuan is the father of the 4th daughter Xie Xuefen. Xie Lanfen, third son Xie Youmin, and fourth son Xie Jimin have not been born yet. When parting, Xie Jinyuan said to Ling Weicheng: "The Japanese invaders' ambition to invade China will not die, and the Sino-Japanese war will break out. This war will be very cruel. It is really a last resort to leave you in this poor country." Said: "The child in the belly is born. If the boy is born, he will be called'Jimin', let him inherit the fine character of his ancestors... Wait until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and then pick you and the children back." Miss Shanghai took off her cheongsam and jumped into the farmland. , The piano player is used to do awkward farm work, and the voice that can sing can only be turned into silent thoughts. Many years later, Ling Weicheng asked his children: "How did we come over in those years?" The children asked their mothers back: "How did you come over in those years?" In those years, there were 8 people in the Xie family, an elderly second elder, Ling Weicheng. Four children, and one child is the uncle's daughter Xie Mengzhao. The uncle died working outside and the aunt ran away.
8 people have only one labor, still a woman, from the ten fingers not stained, to the hands covered with thick calluses, Ling Weicheng planting, planting, watering, fertilizing, ploughing, harvesting... Without high heels and soft jewelry, in the hero's My hometown became a peasant woman.
Xie’s children were left at home. They were thirsty and went to scoop up water by themselves. When they were hungry, they picked up pickles and ate.
Ling Weicheng went out early every day and came back late every day. If there is anything that can help her, it is a small amount of money Xie Jinyuan accidentally sent home, but it is far from enough to confuse the eight people. Ling Weicheng could only struggle endlessly in the farmland. Perhaps only those two words—love—have held your hand in this life, and there is no way to turn back.
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waited hard for the news that her husband was killed.
At 5 o'clock in the morning on April 24, 1941, Xie Jinyuan led the officers and soldiers to do morning exercises as usual. He saw Hao Dingcheng, Long Yaoliang, Zhang Wenqing, Zhang Guoshun and other four people sneaking in late and asked why.No, these 4 men were bought by Wang Pseudo as traitors. They swarmed up with their blue faces and fangs. They used pre-prepared weapons such as daggers and iron pickaxes to stab Xie Jinyuan's chest and left temple. In the end, the hero was seriously injured in many places and bleeds. He died tragically at 6 o'clock that day, at the age of 37. [2] The
mourning hall was set up in Shanghai and Jiaoling. There were 300,000 people who went to Shanghai to offer condolences, and the way was blocked [3]; in addition to the condolences from the villagers, Jiaoling was more of a woman’s mental breakdown and Collapse life. It seems that she had wanted to leave, "But after all, she still couldn't leave her father-in-law who was nearly seventy years old and the young girl who was waiting to be fed, so she had to tears into her belly, re-energized her spirit, and continued to support this broken body with a weak body. The family. It’s really easy for the dead and difficult for the living"[1].
died before he got out of school, and the hero burst into tears!
In the summer of 1941, Ling Weicheng traveled to Chongqing from five provinces, and Jiang Jieshi and met her in person. After learning about Ling Weicheng’s life, Chiang Kai-shek said: “During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the country is in difficulties. After the victory of the War of Resistance, the country will take care of you!” Song Meiling took Ling Weicheng’s hand and said in Shanghai dialect: “Oh Weicheng Don’t worry, the country will not forget Lennon. From now on, you can come to Chongqing once a year, and Dannon will talk together." [1] During
, Ling Weicheng attended the tea party held for her by the women’s world and heard it in detail for the first time. The heroic deeds of the husband and the 800 heroes killing the enemy, and also watched the film "Eight Hundred Heroes" based on this story (Author's note: In 1938, Hong Kong filmmakers quickly made "Eight Hundred Heroes", which became the most classic of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Promo). Ling Weicheng watched and wiped tears. While being proud of her husband, she silently swore in her heart: One day in the future, I will bring the children to your grave and tell you that they have grown up!
went home and returned to her husband's hometown. Ling Weicheng used half of the National Government's special pension of 50,000 yuan. She used the money to buy 3 acres of land and cultivated it by herself to support a family of eight. The struggle is still in the farmland, and Miss Shanghai’s status as a "peasant woman" was confirmed. At that time, without her husband, the husband said: "The condolences of old relatives, the upbringing of children, and all measures of housework, Qing Lao is fully responsible... …"[3] also had a poem: "Bravely kill the enemy eight hundred soldiers, resist the heroic sentiment of the enemy with poetry; who pity and love the country, thousands of tears, when it comes to widows injustice." Therefore, she has a bright heart in her heart. Prospects-the day of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
September 1945, Ling Weicheng finally waited for this day. At this time, she felt that she should go to Shanghai to see her husband. She sold a part of the farmland, got together, and brought her children. It was the next spring when she left. I took a small boat from my hometown to Shantou in order to save money. I had to take a steamer from Shantou to Shanghai, but the money in my pocket was not enough. The kind folks from Shantou went to the ship company to intercede: "This is the survivor of General Xie Jinyuan, can you take care of it..." The ship company’s people were moved and promised that the boarding and lodging expenses are free, but the ship will cost about one. Month departure. Where does a woman go with 4 children? The Shantou folks dragged the survivors of the martyrs to their homes.
This time, it took Ling Weicheng more than a month to stop and go, but this time, she spent ten years in her life.
shed tears when feeling, hate goodbye to be shocked.
In front of General Xie’s grave, Ling Weicheng let the children kneel down. The 16-year-old daughter Xuefen and the 14-year-old second daughter Lanfen can still remember the image of their father. The vague concept, watching my mother cry and sister crying, I cried with it. The 10-year-old son Jimin has never seen his father, and his father is a statue standing in front of him at the moment. He cried and called the statue "Dad". This is the first time in his life that he has called these two words.
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Because of the newspaper in advance, people from the eight hundred strong men came to the door and received Ling Weicheng's mother and son at No. 466 Wusong Road. Although they were settled down, there were still dozens of eightOne hundred heroes were living on the street, Ling Weicheng said: "Your team leader is gone, I have to pick up the burden he left behind." In order to find a better way for these people, she took her son and young people to Nanjing. I wanted to find the chairman, but couldn't find it. Song Meiling met her and promised to transfer the situation to Chiang Kai-shek, but there was no response later.
faced the problem of making a living again. Ling Weicheng took the 800 soldiers in Shanghai to sell "Lone Army" towels, socks, and soap, and also asked her husband to find jobs for some of the 800 soldiers, so that their lives gradually began to grow. Landing.
Ling Weicheng wrote to the mayor of Shanghai Chen Yi. Chen Yi attached great importance to it. The Shanghai Municipal People’s Government issued the Secret Order No. 589, stating: "Xie Jinyuan participated in the Anti-Japanese War and died for the country. His survivors should be taken care of. House No. 466, Wusong Road. The section of the building and the cemetery is still allocated to Ling Weicheng to live and use, and the general expenses will be reduced or exempted." [4-5] Ling Weicheng and some of the lone soldiers received corresponding care. Ling Weicheng was assigned to work in the kindergarten and served as the Hongkou District Political Consultative Conference in 1957. The committee members finally led a stable life. In January 1991, the old man left peacefully, at the age of 84. In Songyuan, he and General Xie "walked" together forever. Their 4 children, except for the infant who died in the 1970s, the rest are growing up healthily, especially Jimin. After reading a lot of related materials, he wrote the book "My Father General Xie Jinyuan" after several years. The story is told to more later generations. Behind the
hero is the hero. Ling Weicheng is the heroine behind General Xie. In the year when he returned to Shanghai, in front of General Xie’s grave, Ling Weicheng once fell to the ground, as if he fell into the arms of her husband, crying bitterly. That was the first time this strong woman shed tears in that decade. . Because of love, in that era of suffering, she had nowhere to escape, nowhere to retreat, and society had to give the heroes a better ending. Perhaps the old man Ling Weicheng in Songyuan had quietly told General Xie all this.
[1] "Mother Ling Weicheng: From Miss Shanghai to Mrs. Xie Jinyuan", Archives Spring and Autumn, Xie Jimin dictated, Zhang Jingjing interviewed and organized;
[2] "Xie Jinyuan Lonely Army Camp" Shanghai Local History Office, District and County History;
[3] Shanghai Yangpu District Archives Receives Photos of General Xie Jinyuan's Memorial Meeting, China Archives;
[4] "Xie Jinyuan Family Letter", Shanghai News Network;
[5] "Son of Anti-Japanese General Xie Jinyuan: Father and "Eight Hundred" The Final Outcome of "The Hero", People's Daily Online; "Interview with Mrs. Xie Jinyuan Ling Weicheng before and after", Shanghai People's Government Overseas Chinese Affairs Network.
The pictures in this article are from the Internet, some of them are taken by Dongyou Long, thanks to the original author
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