The Nanjing Massacre is a history that every Chinese should remember, when the Republic of China lost the battle to defend Nanking, which led to the fall of Nanking on December 13, 1937.
After the Japanese invading China occupied Nanjing, Matsui Ishigen and Tani Shoufu commanded the invading Japanese army to carry out the Nanjing Massacre. The massacre lasted six weeks, and a large number of civilians and prisoners of war were brutally killed by the Japanese army. According to visible data, more than 300,000 people were killed in the Nanjing Massacre.
Although Japan has always been reluctant to admit this period of history, more and more information has been exposed, so that many people have learned about this history. Many directors have also made films for this purpose, such as "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
Speaking of this movie, it is necessary to mention Yumo, among the 13 people who were sent to the hands of the Japanese army instead of students, Yumo is the only survivor, probably because of this, many people want to know how Yumo ended up, and also want to know whether Yumo has a historical prototype, so then we will see how the real Yumo ended up through "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
Jinling Thirteen
Since the fall of Nanjing, the life of the people in the city has been extremely difficult. Everyone had to face the Japanese army like jackals, tigers and leopards, and the flower boat called "Qinhuai River" in Nanjing City was no longer the bustle and drunken gold fans of the past.
The 14 women on the "Qinhuai River" have been on the run since the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, two of them were unfortunately killed, and the remaining 12 women successfully came to the church and settled down briefly here.
Of course, as dusty women, they were not well treated in this church. In the eyes of the priests, they are not pure, and in the eyes of the students, they are very unbearable.
However, when the students were about to be taken away by the Japanese army, Yumo and the others stood up, they cut their hairstyles like the students, in order to make up the number, the priest's adopted son George also bravely stood up, he dressed as a woman, and Yumo and others embarked on the road of no return.
After arriving at the Japanese camp, thirteen people were humiliated, and they needed to "receive" a large number of Japanese soldiers every day, which led to their health getting worse and worse, and finally only Yumo survived. After the victory of the war, Yumo was successfully rescued, and then she was like a drop of water, blending into ordinary people.
In response to Yumo's ending, some people said that they had seen Yumo at the Japanese trial meeting, and Yumo left silently after seeing that the Japanese were sentenced to heavy sentences.
There are also female students who have been rescued by Yumo and others, saying that they once saw a person who looked different from Yumo but had the same voice accusing the Japanese at the trial meeting, but when they went to inquire, the person did not admit that he was Yumo, and said that Yumo had died a long time ago. Although the ending of Yumo in the film is not clear, the ending of one of her historical archetypes, Wittlin, is very clear.
One of the prototypes, Wittlin
Although Wei Telin is a woman, but because she likes to learn from childhood, coupled with the more enlightened family, Wei Telin has received a good education since she was a child, and when she reaches adulthood, Wei Telin came to Nanjing to serve as a professor at the Women's College.
China was in the midst of war at the time, with homeless children everywhere. Witterine pitied these children and always took care of them as much as she could.
Later, after the fall of Nanjing, Wei Telin took in many women, but unfortunately, Wei Telin did not save these women - Japanese soldiers completely disregarded humanitarianism and openly broke into the school to harass and insult female students. Wittrine hardly had a good day's rest, and sometimes even before she had finished a meal, she was called to rescue the schoolgirls.
Because of Weitlin's special status, as a missionary, the Japanese soldiers did not attack her, but she witnessed the crimes committed by the Japanese in Nanjing. Later, even after leaving China, Wei Telin always cared about Nanjing, and she compiled information about the Nanjing Massacre and ran around for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
Although she was not forcibly insulted by the Japanese army like Yumo, she, like Yumo, witnessed the dark and cruel Nanjing Massacre, and spent her life accusing the atrocities of the Japanese army, hoping to seek justice for the people of Nanjing, who had suffered miserably.
Later Wittling
Later, for various reasons, Wei Telin fell ill with a serious illness, which forced her to leave Jinling Nuda. In her diary, she solemnly wrote:
"For many years I have been deeply in love with Jinling Nuda and have tried my best to help her."
Unfortunately, Wei Telin was different from Yumo, and she died before the end of the war.
Witterine was very unhappy before she died, so she made a wish: if she could have another life, she would still serve Chinese. Because in her view, China is her home.
After the news of Wei Telin's death returned to China, on the same day of her funeral, the jinling female master was born in Chengdu and held a mourning ceremony to commemorate the great woman who had not forgotten China before her death.
In fact, in a strict sense, the protagonist of "Jinling Thirteen Chao", Yu Mo, has mixed with the personality characteristics and experiences of many people, and Wei Telin is only one of the most important prototypes of Yu Mo.
Yumo's character of being in the dark, but still having her own pride and persistence, can be said to be the same as Wei Telin' character; and her quality of standing up in a critical moment is exactly the same as that of the Chinese soldiers who voluntarily laid down their weapons and equipment in the Nanjing Massacre in exchange for more people to survive...
Yumo was the most ordinary low-level person in that era, but her tenacity and pride touched many people.