Hong Yan Yu fei, whimpering. - "Shijing Xiaoya"
The goose flew aimlessly because it could not find a place to roost, and it let out a wailing sound. Those orphans who were displaced during the war and forced to live in a foreign land are not like those wild geese who have no place to live. An old man refused to go to the hukou and told her true identity before she died, it turned out that she was a war orphan named Hideko Mizusaki. Villagers who know the truth shouted: The hiding is really deep.
The ninety-year-old refused to register
As we all know, as long as they are Chinese citizens, they must register their hukou from birth. Chinese are numerous, so household registration management is very important for China, and a census is conducted every few years.
For some historical reasons, every census will find some black households, the so-called black households are not registered. In a mountain village in Shaanxi, there is an old man who has not been registered, and every time the staff wants to register for her, she is very resistant.
At the end of the old man's death, she revealed her true identity, and everyone understood why the old man always refused to go to the hukou. The old man's name in China is Wang Yulan, and his real name is Shuizaki Hideko. I think when you see this name, you will also understand why the old man has to hide his true identity.
We all know that Sino-Japanese relations have always been very special due to historical issues. The old man is worried that the exposure of his true identity will affect his life in China, and his Chinese is very good, as long as he does not tell the real identity, others will never know. An old man who wants to hide his true identity can imagine how hard it is for her to live in China for decades.
Decades of turmoil in a foreign land
Hideko Mizusaki was born in 1929 to a fisherman family in Fukuoka, Japan, as the only daughter of the family. In 1942, in order to make a living, the 13-year-old Hideko Mizuzaki came to Changchun, China, to join her aunt in the "pseudo-Manchukuo", where she had been doing business for many years, so only she could help Mizusaki Hideko.
After arriving here, his aunt gave him Chinese name "Wang Yulan", and Mizusaki Hideko also began to learn Chinese, so she lived with her aunt in Changchun for three years. Until 1945, when Japan was defeated, the aunt's family was repatriated to Japan, but for some reason, Mizusaki Hideko was left in China.
In this way, Hideko Mizusaki lives alone in China. In 1947, Hideko Mizusaki married Zong Kaiguo, a Battalion Commander of the Kuomintang, under the introduction of others. Zong Kaiguo likes Shuizaki Hideko, and Mizusaki Hideko also likes the dignified Zong Kaiguo, and the personalities of the two are very compatible.
When the two were married, Zong Kaiguo set up a wine table and gave Hideko Mizusaki a ring. However, the good times were very short, and half a year later, her husband Zong Kaiguo went to the battlefield, and since then, there has been no news of her husband.
After losing contact with Munkaikoku, Hideko Mizusaki has been living alone. Maybe others thought that Shuizaki Hideko's life alone in this chaotic world was too difficult, so they introduced him to a soldier, Lei Guoshun, and the two lived together for two years.
In the year of the founding of New China, Lei Guoshun returned to his hometown in Shangnan County, Shaanxi Province, with Shuiqi Hideko, but Lei Guoshun's family had already arranged marriages for him in the countryside and had an arranged daughter-in-law. At that time, China was already monogamous, so Lei Guoshun and Shuizaki Shuko divorced in desperation.
After the divorce, Mizusaki Hideko also lived in the village, and soon the village's women's director introduced Mizusaki Hideko to a villager, and the lonely Mizuzaki Hideko agreed. Hideko Mizusaki and her third husband lived for more than a decade until the death of her third husband in 1976.
Shuizaki Hideko, who is in her early forties, still has to find someone to rely on for her life, so she remarries Li Mingtang, a villager in Danfeng County, and her life is also stable. They lived together for decades until Li Mingtang passed away in 2015.
Since then, Hideko Mizusaki's life has been taken care of by her son and daughter-in-law until Hideko Mizusaki's death in 2018. Seeing this, I think all readers should be very sympathetic to this old man, not only living in a foreign country for decades, but also a lifetime of marriage is also full of ups and downs.
The road back to the province
The difference between humans and animals is that people have feelings, and nostalgia is also one of the most important feelings for people. In fact, Hideko Mizusaki is not missing her hometown. In 2002, Hideko Mizusaki wanted to apply to return to Japan to meet her relatives in her hometown.
However, the Response from the Japanese side was that Hideko Mizusaki's name had been impersonated. The person who stole Hideko Usuzaki not only forged documents and seals, but also settled in Japan in 1995 with six children and grandchildren.
The matter of returning home to the province also dragged on for several years, until 2005, when a Japanese agency sent someone to Shaanxi, where they found Hideko Mizusaki. After learning about the situation with Hideko Mizusaki, they performed a series of operations such as DNA sampling for Hideko Mizusaki. In the end, after taking evidence, they determined that this Mizusaki Hideko in Shaanxi, China, was herself.
Another year later, in 2006, Hideko Mizusaki, who had lived in China for nearly sixty years, came to Japan with the help of a Japanese non-governmental charity and her husband, Li Mingtang. After returning to Japan, Hideko Mizusaki met her cousin, the only relative he could contact.
At this time, Hideko Mizusaki was 77 years old, and Hideko Mizusaki had forgotten her native Japanese, and basically relied on translation assistance when communicating with her cousin. In fact, According to The Japanese policy of the time for these overseas orphans, Hideko Mizusaki had the option to stay in Japan.
However, Hideko Mizusaki, who has been living in China for decades, has become accustomed to living in China, not to mention that her own family and children are in China, so Mizusaki Hideko chose to stay in China. In the end, Hideko Mizusaki stayed in Japan for two weeks and then returned to her home in China.
In January 2018, Hideko Mizusaki died in Leijiadong Village, Danfeng County, Shaanxi Province, at the age of 89. At the funeral of Hideko Mizusaki, in addition to her own family, more than 150 men, women and children from the same village also came to see her off, which shows that the popularity of the elderly is very good.
However, When Hideko Mizusaki died, she revealed her true identity, and the villagers who knew the truth were shocked, but still gave her one last journey. The photo at the funeral, Mizusaki Hideko wearing a kimono, in fact, this is also Mizusaki Hideko's last wish, hoping that she can wear a kimono after her death, perhaps this is Mizusaki Hideko's last thoughts about her hometown. When people gradually feel that the sound of the countryside is different, they hate the sound of the warbler like the old mountain.
We all miss our hometowns at any time, not to mention the orphans of the war, who are not only exiled outside their hometowns, but also suffer from the devastation of life. No matter how many war orphans like Hideko Mizusaki are still living overseas, all we can do is send them the best wishes. At the same time, we also hope for world peace, no more wars, and no more repetition of history.