introduction
The period of the War of Resistance Against Japan was the peak of the cohesion of the Chinese, when all the Chinese had only one goal in their hearts, and that was victory, victory, victory.
The whole country was unanimous to the outside world as never before, and the frontal battlefield for which the Kuomintang was mainly responsible was an extremely important part of the war. The Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Taiyuan, and so on, and in these battles, there are always a few names that leave indelible traces in our minds.
Jeong Dong-kook is one of them. As the first Kuomintang general to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan, he made great achievements in both the Battle of Taierzhuang and the Great Victory of Kunlun Pass. But the emotional experience of this legendary general can be described as a twist and turn.
Early marriage
Zheng Dongguo was born in 1903, because he lived in an early age, and at the age of 14, he married Qin La'e, who was eight years older than himself, under the control of his parents. Although the age difference between the husband and wife is very large, the feelings are very good, and they have always respected each other as guests.
But the marriage ended unexpectedly. In 1930, during his participation in the Central Plains War, he received a telegram bringing news of his wife's death. Such news once made Zheng Dongguo sad to faint.
But no matter how great the tragedy can stop the pace of war, Zheng Dongguo will continue to fight. He put away his grief and anger, and in the subsequent wars he continued to strike powerful blows at the enemy, and his career sang all the way. After the End of the Great Wall War, he went to Nanjing to visit his hospitalized friend Xiao Zhizhong. Here he met his future wife, Mrs. Shaw's seventeen-year-old cousin Chen.
Chen's father was a veteran of the Kuomintang and later opened a law firm, which was very famous at the time. She herself has a very good talent, speaks English and writes well.
The spirited young generals with a bright future and the young and beautiful people with good lives can arouse people's countless reverie just by seeing these two sentences. The reason why the stories in the book are classic is often because reality has been staged too many times.
The two quickly fell in love, and soon settled for life, and they were also very affectionate after marriage. Even if the war forced the two to separate for a long time, Chen would try his best to get together with her husband as long as he had a little free time.
In 1939, under the pressure of the war, in order to allow the soldiers of the army to focus more on the battle, many people brought their families to Kunming, and zheng dongguo did the same.
Chen tried her best to help her husband in Kunming, and she held a charity fundraising party in the army, which worked well and won the title of "Flower of the Nu River".
In 1943, when Jeong Dong-kook went to India as a military commander, Chen even crossed the Hump Route, known as the "Death Flight Line", just to meet her husband.
In this way, you can risk your life for the sake of the other party, and in the war years, it is not too much to sigh that "love is stronger than gold".
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the two temporarily lived in Shanghai for a while, and their relationship was still very good, because they had no children, and Chen also adopted her brother's daughter.
Emotional rifts
In 1946, Zheng Dongguo was sent to Changchun, and then besieged by the People's Liberation Army for two years, during which Chen wrote to say that he was worried and sad that Zheng Dongguo was fighting for Chiang Kai-shek. Later, Zheng Dongguo revolted in Changchun in 1949, and Chen crossed thousands of mountains and rivers in spite of danger just to meet her husband once, just like that year.
The rift in their relationship began in 1951 when Zheng Dongguo returned to Shanghai to treat stomach diseases, and after recovering in 1952, he wanted to settle in Beijing, but Chen unusually refused to go north on the grounds that the weather in Beijing was very cold and he was not satisfied with the water and soil, and even sent a divorce agreement the following year.
The end of this relationship is so abrupt, it is simply confusing, how deep the feelings in the front are, and how sloppy the end is in the back. Not only can we not understand, but even the party Zheng Dongguo feels very absurd.
But both later went their separate ways into another marriage. Chen soon married a man surnamed Zhong, and Zheng Dongguo married Gu Xianjuan in 1955 and gave birth to a daughter, Zheng Anyu.
Although the marriage broke down, the two remained in touch.
Subsequent
But Chen's second marriage did not usher in a happy ending, Chen's husband was imprisoned for some reason, and after his release, he was also poor, and later went to the countryside of Suzhou, and finally died of illness.
Her husband's experience made Chen's life very difficult, so when she heard of Gu Xianjuan's death in 1972, she went to Beijing, hoping to reunite with Zheng Dongguo, but she did not get any response except for a visit. And zheng dongguo, no matter how much his children persuaded, did not have the idea of compounding.
Although there has been a vigorous love, there is never an easy precedent for repairing a broken mirror, and there will never be any more.
The cracked mirror, the white paper with the crease, all symbolize the love that was once beautiful but can never go back, so no matter how young and vigorous, no matter how righteous it was at the time, never make a decision to regret it, because when you decide to make a change, then what was once will always be the past.