She was a Japanese woman, originally named Sato Yadori, and later because of her careful care for Jiang Baili, she became jiang Baili's second wife, changed her name to Jiang Zuomei, regarded herself as a Chinese, and completed her life in China.
At 5:00 a.m. on June 18, 1913, before the sky was fully lit, Jiang Baili, as the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, summoned more than 2,000 teachers and students from the school for emergency training. At that time, he dressed himself very mentally and handsomely, wearing a military uniform, a saber hanging from his waist, and polished riding boots on his feet.
At the beginning of the lecture, although Jiang Baili on the stone steps of the Shangwu Hall had a feeling of being on top, his face was gloomy and ugly, and he said: "When I first arrived at the school, I swore that you must do what I want you to do; I must also do what you want me to do." If you can't do it, I'm going to punish you; if I can't do it, I'm going to punish myself. So it seems that I have failed to fulfill my responsibilities... You must summon up the courage to take on the great responsibility of China's future! ”
The teachers and students listened habitually, but Jiang Baili's words suddenly stopped, only to see him pull out his pistol, shoot himself in the chest, and then fall down. Previously, he had written such a letter to his mother: Loyalty to the country, although death is not important, but it is beneficial to the future of the army and the Republic of China. Two hundred coins, a few acres of thin fields, and a chat for support. Therefore, some people say that his suicide stemmed from the despair of serving the country and the despair of the military and political circles in China at that time.
Rescue, doctors believe that although Jiang Baili was hit by his own bullets, he did not hurt the key points and did not worry about his life. In order to get better treatment for him, the Beiyang government at that time contacted the Japanese legation in China and asked him to send the best doctors to Baoding to perform surgery on him. In this way, a Japanese military doctor and a Japanese female nurse rushed from Beijing. After reviewing the injury, Japanese doctors decided that surgery was not necessary, but that long-term recuperation was needed.
At that time, Jiang Baili's mood was very unstable, and he even wanted to commit suicide again. The Japanese military doctors and female nurses felt that Chinese doctors and nurses should be able to solve this kind of thing and planned to go back, but Yuan Shikai sent word that one of them must stay and take care of Jiang Baili. Thus there was the acquaintance of Jiang Baili and the Japanese female nurse Sato Yaden, she was left to take care of Jiang Baili, and when she saw that Jiang Baili still had the idea of taking a light life, she said to Jiang Baili: You have to focus on your country, and it is not easy for your country to cultivate a talent like you. You know, death is easy, and you have to live to repay your country.
Sato Yadori was born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1890, when he was only 23 years old, Jiang Baili was 31 years old at the time, and he was somewhat surprised to hear a foreign woman younger than himself say such a thing, and it was this sentence that made him give up the idea of taking his own life and began to have a good feeling for Sato Yadori. More than twenty days later, Sato Yadeng was ordered to return to Beijing, and Jiang Baili felt that he had no spiritual pillar in his heart, and even felt a little sad because of Sato Yadeng's departure.
After recovering from his injuries, Jiang Baili resigned as the principal of the Baoding Military Academy and went to Beijing to recuperate, wanting to see Sato Yadō again. Coincidentally, the hospital where Jiang Baili was recuperating happened to be the hospital where Sato Yadori worked, and they really saw each other again. Jiang Baili, who was a military man, launched a fierce and persistent pursuit of Sato Yadori, but Sato Yadori always avoided him. He had no choice but to ask his Japanese attending doctor for help and ask the Japanese attending doctor to bring a message to Sato Yaden.
The Japanese attending doctor said to Sato Yaden: "Jiang Baili entrusted the president, the president entrusted the Japanese minister, and the minister entrusted me to explain to you that Jiang Baili hopes that you will marry him." The Japanese attending doctor was brought here, and Jiang Baili was also in this channel, but the Japanese attending doctor advised Sato Yadō not to marry Jiang Baili, because the two people had their own nationalities, which was very unrealistic. Sato Yaden also asked the Japanese attending doctor to bring a message to Jiang Baili: he is still very young and has not thought about this aspect, and asks Jiang Baili not to pursue her anymore.
Despite this, Jiang Baili still refused to give up, still chased after him, Sato Yadō was very painful, and even some could not stand it, and then had the idea of leaving the hospital and returning to Japan, and then hid and no longer wanted to see Jiang Baili. Jiang Baili was very anxious and could not see Sato Yadori, and wrote to Sato Yadori to advise her not to leave the hospital and not to leave China, but Sato Yaden still returned to Japan. At this time, Jiang Baili was still not dead-hearted, and wrote a letter to Sato Yadō, who had gone to Japan, saying: "I have survived because of your comfort for you, and if you ignore me again, I will die, I will go to Japan, and die in your house!" ”
Letter after letter kept coming, and Sato Yadori was very distressed, it turned out that she had also fallen in love with Jiang Baili, a young and excellent Chinese soldier, but when she first told her parents about her ideas, her parents did not agree to her marrying a Chinese. Tormented by pain, she had no intention of working, but she looked at the letters that Jiang Baili had given her over and over again, and finally, one day, she plucked up the courage to bring the letters that Jiang Baili had given her to her father, and asked him to come and see them. What she did not expect was that after reading the letters that Jiang Baili had written to her, her father was silent for a while and actually agreed to marry Jiang Baili.
In 1914, Sato Yadori came to China, and in the winter of that year, he and Jiang Baili married at the German Hotel in Tianjin, because they liked plum blossoms, Jiang Baili gave Sato Yadeng a Chinese name: Jiang Zuomei. The next thing, many people know, Jiang Zuomei gave birth to five golden flowers for Jiang Baili: Jiang Zhao, Jiang Yong, Jiang Ying, Jiang Hua, Jiang He. These 5 daughters, the eldest daughter Jiang Zhao, died early, and they are all talented, personality and legendary.
Jiang Yong, who was originally studying at the University of Chinese in Hong Kong, returned to China to join the ambulance team after the start of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression according to the advice of his parents, served the wounded, and then settled in the United States; Jiang Ying graduated from the Berlin State Conservatory of Music, was a famous pianist and singer, returned to the motherland with Qian Xuesen in 1955, worked at the Central Conservatory of Music, and was Qian Xuesen's wife; Jiang Hua, who settled in Belgium, organized the European Zhongshan School, made a major contribution to the education of overseas Chinese, and assumed an important role in threading needles and threads in the process of Qian Xuesen's return to China; Jiang He, At an early age, he traveled around Europe with his father, settled in Beijing after liberation, and was an arrogant and indomitable person.
What surprises many is that jiang Zuomei, who was born in Japan, never taught her daughters to learn Japanese after marrying into China, and she herself only used Chinese during her long years in China. Why? Today's information is little about this, but one thing is certain, after Jiang Baili's death in November 1938, Jiang Zuomei made her own choice between China and Japan, she left herself in China and went to the anti-Japanese front line as a field nurse to care for wounded Chinese soldiers.
Jiang Ying and Qian Xuesen
In this regard, what we want to say is that too many people's lives may not be able to make major changes to the situation, and reality has not given them such an opportunity, and if they can do their part clearly between good and evil, it is enough to make others respect. In this way, Jiang Zuomei's life and culture in China have become a part of China.
In 1978, Jiang Zuomei died at the age of 88. Her tombstone is still inscribed with the name Jiang Baili gave her, Jiang Zuomei, the name of a traditional Chinese wife, so that people have forgotten her original name as "Sato Yaden". And she herself, since marrying Jiang Baili, has never returned to Japan in the long period of 64 years.
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