Information about Nie Rongzhen.

Comrade Nie saved the daughters of Japanese soldiers who died in battle with a broad mind, touched the Japanese aggressors and even the Japanese people, and revealed the true meaning of Sino-Japanese civil friendship on the other hand.

Looking back at the history of the last century, turning over the dusty past, there was a touching story of "the general saved the orphan" on the land of North China 65 years ago. 1In August, 940, the Eighth Route Army launched a massive "Hundred Regiments War" against the Japanese invaders in North China. In a fierce battle, two soldiers led by Nie rescued two Japanese girls from the bullets.

When General Nie was informed, he personally visited the house and instructed that the two little girls must be sent back to the Japanese army station.

Time flies and the times change dramatically. From 65438 to 0972, China and Japan resumed diplomatic relations and the two countries entered a new era. On May 29th, 1980, People's Daily published an article by an anti-Japanese veteran, "Little Japanese girl, where are you? The story was made public and caused a warm response. Japanese media were very moved that General Nie still remembered his little sister in Japan 40 years later, and soon found his sister Mihoko who lived in the capital city of Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. Subsequently, the China-Japan Friendship Association cordially invited the Mihoko family to visit China. Nie Shuai, who is over eighty years old, met the Mihoko family in Beijing on July 1980. This incident has become another beautiful talk of Sino-Japanese friendship.

The wind and frost are inspiring, and 25 years have passed. Did the "little girl" live well in those days? Is she still watching China? The reporter recently made a special trip to the metropolis for an interview.

The general evokes memories of his youth.

Metropolis is located at the southern tip of Kyushu Island. June, 5438+this year 10, it merged with four surrounding towns and became a city with a population of 6.5438+0.7 million. Mayor Chang Fengcheng, who is only 35 years old, enthusiastically told the wonderful story of General Nie's rescue of Japanese girls and the communication between metropolis and China. Accompanied by Mr Kono, director of the Metropolitan International Exchange Promotion Office, and Mr Xinping, director of the Metropolitan Branch of the Japan-China Friendship Association, the reporter walked into Mihoko's home.

Mei Hezi lives in Meibei Town, which is close to the road and has a single house. Outside is the small hardware store opened by her family. This is a typical Japanese house. In front of the house are some neatly trimmed pine trees and iron trees peculiar to the south. The yard is paved with gravel. The simple and clean courtyard shows the diligence of the owner.

Mihoko and her husband Akio came out to meet us with smiles and led us into the living room. The room is full of poems, paintings and souvenirs from Japanese friends. The first thing that catches your eye is the photo of Nie Shuai when he met the Mihoko family, and the "Contribute to Sino-Japanese Friendship" he wrote to the Mihoko couple. Two landscape screens sent by Nie Shuai are decorated on the sliding door between the living rooms. "Little Japanese girl, where are you? The poems of Yao, the author of Hanging Axis, are also in the living room.

Mihoko's original surname was Kato, but after marriage she changed her husband's surname to "Chang". She is not tall, fair-skinned, wearing a plain flowered shirt, and looks much younger than her actual age. Miyoko smiled and said, "I was born in China in July 1936, and now I am almost 69 years old." Her husband Zhao Nan said aside, "I don't know why, when she came to China, she was often said to be very young."

After the host and guest were seated, everyone naturally talked about the past. Mei Hezi said that their sisters were rescued and sent to Shimen Hospital in Shijiazhuang. My sister, Miko, who was less than one year old, died of indigestion. She was safely brought back to Japan by her uncle on June 1940+00, and lived alone with her grandmother. Mihoko grew up in a poor family environment and suffered a lot. She said that because she was an orphan of war, she was often bullied when she was a child. Because I am poor, I have been working while studying. I wanted to work in a textile factory when I graduated from high school, but I was not admitted because I had no parents.

She said that she met her husband, Zhao Nan, while working in the Agricultural Cooperative Association. At that time, although Zhao Nan was weak, it was reliable. 1956, 20 years old, she got married. After their marriage, they run a small hardware store together. Zhao Nan chimed in that Mihoko was simple and strong, and when she first got married, she thought her expression was very melancholy. I have been in poor health, thanks to Mihoko's care. 1990, Zhao Nan suffered from a cerebral infarction, and now he is recuperating at home, taking 1 1 drug every day. Mihoko has three daughters, all of whom are married. She also has seven grandchildren. She has a family photo, which was taken when she visited Nie Shuai's exhibition.

Miyoko said, "When I was a child, I heard my grandmother say that my parents were involved in the war, and my memory was not clear. So, until 1980, she didn't want to think much about her life experience, and she gradually forgot it. It was the reports of China and Japan and the investigation afterwards that evoked memories of her childhood. " 1June, 980, Mei Hezi wrote to Nie Shuai and said, "According to my uncle, I was taken away by the Eighth Route Army and sent back ... When I returned to China, I often talked to my grandmother about things like eating pears and sitting in baskets."

Back to the old place.

Mihoko recalled that it was Mr Yao's report that changed her life. Yao, deputy director of the People's Liberation Army Daily, wrote an article "Little Japanese girl, where are you?", which attracted the attention of the press in both countries.

Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun first discovered the whereabouts of Miho. Through a series of investigations, the reporter found the Kato Kiyoshi family whose plot was similar to that reported by China, but still could not confirm that Mihoko was the "little girl". Our reporter took a photo of General Nie and his little daughter sent by China News Service and found Mihoko who had changed his surname. Mihoko thought that the little girl in the photo might be herself, and her uncle who went to China to claim Mihoko felt "very similar", and said that she had heard Mihoko tell the story of "eating pears and high-grain rice and being put in a basket". All these are completely consistent with the story provided by the Chinese side, confirming that Mihoko was the "Japanese little girl" of that year.

After the beautiful talk about the general's rescue of orphans spread, Mei Hezi received hundreds of letters and was interviewed by reporters in succession, becoming a hot news figure. Later, the prince of the Japanese Embassy sent an invitation letter from the Japan-China Friendship Association, inviting the Mihoko family to visit China. With excitement and anxiety, Mihoko's family boarded the flight to China on July 1980, which happened to be her 44th birthday.

Mihoko never imagined that she was "welcomed like a head of state" at the Beijing airport. Nie Shuai's daughter Nie Li said to her, "Nice to meet you. My father has been waiting for your visit. Send roses and calamus that are blooming in my home. " Meisui had mixed feelings and burst into tears; She didn't expect that a beautiful birthday cake had been laid out for her in Beijing Hotel. ...

During their two weeks in China, the Mihoko family visited Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Hangzhou and Shanghai, visited Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall, the Revolutionary Military Museum and Jingxing Coal Mine, and were warmly received. What she will never forget is the meeting with Nie Shuai. /kloc-in July of 0/4, Nie Shuai and Mei Hezi reunited in Xinjiang Hall of the Great Hall of the People 40 years later. Mihoko was so excited that she burst into tears and thanked him for saving his life. Nie Shuai said that this is not his own credit. "We do this because the Japanese People's Liberation Army has a glorious humanitarian tradition ... China and China are close neighbors separated only by water, and there is no reason not to be friendly." Miyoko said in her notes that during her trip to China, she cried many times along the way, and the long-standing estrangement in her heart was swept away.

Nie Shuai once recalled, "When I saw the delivered child, I immediately called the nurse to take care of the child and ordered my men to find a woman from the village to nurse the younger child. Give the eldest child a pear to eat, and she won't eat it at all. When she washed it with clear water and handed it to her, she ate it with relish. Older children always pull my pants with their little hands and follow me everywhere. I want to raise them myself. " When Nie Shuai sent his orphan daughter away, he asked the soldiers who escorted him to bring a letter to Japanese officers and men. The letter said that the Chinese and Japanese people have no enmity, and orphans like Miho are innocent, so the Japanese people will not be enemies with the Japanese people.

After meeting, Mihoko felt that General Nie was kinder than the photo. General Nie is his father, and she wants to call him "father". 1982 In May, Miyoko learned that Nie Shuai was ill and went to Beijing to visit him. He said "father", expressing Mihoko's feelings for General Nie.

The journey of rebirth is to thank the benefactor.

There is a photo frame embedded with a newspaper in the closet of Mihoko's living room. It was the first issue of Miyazaki Hayao's Nikkei News that reported Nie Li's visit to the metropolis, with a photo of Nie Li and Mei Mizi on it. The topic is "Orphans in the Sino-Japanese War, rescued by General China, goodbye to the daughter of the rescuer, please go home and talk, and continue to be friendly". Mihoko specially asked someone to make it into a gold foil version for easy collection.

From 65438 to 0998, Nie Li visited Japan as the head of the delegation of China Women's Federation. During his visit to the metropolis, he conveyed Nie Shuai's wish that his hometown Jiangjin and Mihoko's hometown metropolis become sister cities. This proposal has received a positive response from Japan. The following year, the mayor of this city led a delegation to attend the unveiling ceremony of Nie Shuai Exhibition Hall established in Jiangjin City to commemorate the centenary of Nie Shuai's birth, and signed a friendly exchange agreement.

Jiangjin and metropolis became attached to Miho because of Nie Shuai. To commemorate the friendly agreement between the two cities, the film "The Story of Chen Bao", which was co-produced by China and Japan and reflected the atrocities of Japanese aggression against China, was shown in the metropolis. Many Japanese viewers said they would "apologize to China" and demanded that it be shown again for the sake of children. In July, 20001,Nie Shuai and Jiangjin City exhibition was held in the capital. The audience left a message saying: "I was lucky enough to know this touching story, and after watching the exhibition, tears filled my eyes." As a Japanese national, I think we should tell the next generation of China people's kindness. " Others said, "After reading it, my heart was filled with gratitude to Nie Shuai and the people of China. I look forward to Japan-China friendship forever. " In 2002, the capital and Jiangjin jointly held a symposium on Nie Shuai's humanitarian spirit and friendly exchanges between the capital and Jiangjin, calling for carrying forward Nie Shuai's humanitarian spirit in order to create a peaceful 2 1 century.

Mr. Xinping, who came to live in the United States, is a practitioner of Japan-China friendship and an "authority" to study Japanese stories. In "Friendly Movement Based on Humanism", he said, "It is the best embodiment of humanitarianism to rescue the children of enemies who hate their guts in a cruel war, take care of them like their own children, and send them to the enemy's positions."

Miyoko, who survived the robbery, was associated with China with gratitude. Because of his active participation in Japan-China friendship activities, he was commended by the national headquarters of the Japan-China Friendship Association and elected as the director of the Capital Friendship Association. In August, 2002, 62 years after being rescued, Mei Hezi returned to the place of rebirth again, and went to jingxing mining area, Jingxing County and Pingshan County along the route of being rescued in that year for a "grateful trip" to thank the benefactors one by one.

During this visit, she visited the memorial hall of mass graves in jingxing mining area to pay homage to the miners killed in China. He went to Zhong Guyue Village to write a strange book to the Eighth Route Army soldiers who had taken care of himself. He also went to pingshan county to feed his sister, Mr. Chen, and the old man who first brought the sisters to the Japanese garrison with a personal letter from Nie Shuai to burn incense and worship. When she learned that people had found Yang Zhongshan, a soldier of 17 years old who rescued her directly from the war, she excitedly wrote to thank him immediately and said that she would arrange time to visit the old man in person next time she came to China.

Wherever Mihoko went, he was received sincerely. There are only 500 people in Honghecao Village, Jingxing County. As a result, thousands of people came to welcome Miho. Mihoko's Meibei Primary School and Honghe Caocun Primary School became friendly primary schools. The Capital Friendship Association used the money raised to buy computers and desks for Honghe Caocun Primary School, and also established a "Remembering Meihezi's Saving People for Further Education" in Xinzhuang Middle School, which provided all the expenses for high school study for 10 outstanding students every year.

Mihoko's family is practicing Japan-China friendship. Naoko, the eldest daughter, said that she was inspired by General Nie's humanitarian spirit and wanted to do something for the society. She said that what moved her most was meeting General Nie in the Great Hall of the People. On behalf of her mother, she visited China again on June 5438+065438+ 10, 2003, and attended the inauguration ceremony of "General Nie and the Statue of Meikongkong" in Honghecao Village and the inauguration ceremony of "Meikongkong Salvation Monument" in jingxing mining area. To commemorate the Hundred Regiments War and rescue Mizuho, the "Jingxing Capital Friendship Memorial Hall" jointly funded by China and Japan will also be officially opened in Jingxing County in August this year.