It is said that the love of the Republic of China has nine sorrows, and many lovers cannot keep each other. In that era of war and fire, it was not easy to save one's life. Children's love looks insignificant in the face of war, and true feelings will also appear incomparably precious.
At the time of Japan's invasion of China, china and Japan were hostile, but in this relationship, a Japanese female nurse found her lifelong love in China and married the famous General Jiang Baili. In the face of the country's great righteousness, he also drew a clear line with his own country, and he never returned home in Japan in 64 years.
The two broke the boundaries between countries, did not interfere with the world, and created a transnational love that we know. After marriage, he raised five golden flowers, and it is worth mentioning that one of his daughters is married to Qian Xuesen, a famous scientist in China. Let's take a look at this legendary love story.
Ambition is hard to reward
One day at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a baby was born in a family of scholars in Haining, Zhejiang, who was General Jiang Baili, who had a legendary life. When he was young, he was gifted, and when he was studying in a private school, he gave full play to his unusual talent, often giving examples and repeating things, touching the class, and winning the show at the age of 16.
As a hot-blooded young man with great ambitions, China's internal and external troubles at that time, the humiliation and helplessness brought about by the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, decided to abandon the military and save the country that was in danger at that time. Later, with the help of many people, he went to study for a non-commissioned officer in the Japanese Army, and his grades were very good, and he later graduated with the first place.
After that, he went to Germany to continue his studies, and was deeply appreciated by the German military scientist General Beloumai, who also said that he was what Napoleon said: the great military scientist of the East. After graduating from Germany and returning to China, the young Jiang Baili served as the principal of China's first regular army school, the Baoding Army Officer School. At that time, he also promised to cultivate the students in the school into the best talents, and if they could not do so, they would "face the fathers and elders of Jiangdong without face."
Soon after taking office, Jiang Baili began to carry out a drastic reform of the school system. With the military experience learned in Japan and Germany, the internal discipline and school rules were rectified, many useless people were cleaned up, and excellent talents were selected to regulate the behavior of students. He also advocated learning from Europe, Japan and other countries, vigorously promoting new teaching content suited to the national conditions at that time, and cultivating Chinese-style officers with great vision and complete culture and martial arts.
Thanks to Jiang Baili's unremitting efforts, with the continuous deepening of reform, many people could not accept this new-style reform system, the contradiction between the new people and the old people was constantly highlighted, and the interests of the old Beiyang soldiers represented by Duan Qirui were also damaged.
Without economic support, everything can only be empty. After Jiang Baili repeatedly unsuccessfully requested funds from his superiors, he deeply felt that the official arena at this time was incomparably dark, he felt that his strength was so small, and he was full of ambitions and hopeless, and he felt very sorry for the students of the army school. He thought about the promise he had made, and he had suicidal thoughts.
In the early morning of one day, just after dawn, Jiang Baili cleaned himself up and urgently asked all the teachers and students of the school to assemble in the playground. Dressed in a military uniform and wearing the knife he usually uses for command, he stood on the stone steps and said to all the teachers and students of the school: What you were asked to do, you have done, and I have not fulfilled the promise I made, so I should keep my promise and punish myself.
As soon as the words fell, before the teachers and students below could react, they suddenly took out a pistol from their waist and fired a shot at their chest, and then fell to the ground, and the military uniform on their chest was stained red with blood.
Blessed by misfortune, the first encounter
Fortunately, when Jiang Baili pointed the gun at his chest, the attendant next to him looked at the situation and pulled it in time when he quickly stepped forward to grab the gun, and the deviation did not hit his heart, but only bruised his lungs. After the guards lifted the people up, they were sent to a nearby private hospital run by Japanese. Just as the so-called blessing of misfortune, fate is so wonderful that during his hospitalization he met the love of his life, and the gears of fate are tying the two together.
Jiang Baili's move caused a sensation in the whole country, and the president at the time was also very shocked after he knew about it, and was forced by the pressure of the outside world, because he was worried about Jiang Baili's life safety, he asked his subordinates to find the best doctor to treat Jiang Baili. So Sato Yadori, a Japanese female nurse who came from Beijing, met Jiang Baili.
The doctor sent immediately made a comprehensive examination of Jiang Baili, because the position was wrong at that time, and there was no harm, but the physical function was still injured, the body became fragile, and it needed to rest, and said that Jiang Baili needed more spiritual comfort than medical treatment at this time, and the mental trauma was far more torturous than physical. At that time, Yuan Shikai sent a message: it was required that one person between the doctor and the nurse must stay behind to take care of Jiang Baili. So, nurse Sato Yaden was left behind.
During the hospitalization, Jiang Baili's body was slowly recovering, and Sato Yaden had been responsible for taking care of his daily life during this period, taking his temperature every day, and pushing him to go outside to bask in the sun and breathe fresh air when the weather was clear. But Jiang Baili still showed the idea of taking his own life many times, and sometimes he would tell Sato Yadori that he couldn't sleep and wanted to take a little medicine to help sleep, but every time he gave him medicine to help sleep, he secretly hid under the pillow and tried to commit suicide.
Fortunately, they were all found and stopped by Sato Yaden. During the time of taking care of Jiang Baili, Sato Yadori also understood in his heart that the trauma in Jiang Baili's heart was the most serious, and only by untying his heart knot could he fully recover.
So Sato Yaden often gently dismissed Jiang Baili, telling him that he was a talent that the country had cultivated so hard, that he not only belonged to himself but also belonged to the country, and that he could not solve any problems with his death, but on the contrary, he was a coward' performance, and he should live to serve the motherland in order to create more possibilities.
This remark made Jiang Baili suddenly enlightened, he slowly found the meaning of his life, saw unlimited hope again, and began to face life positively. She also often took him out for a walk, felt the beauty of the world, chatted to comfort him, and soothed his wounded heart.
After a period of time together, Jiang Baili's heart developed a love for the female nurse, he has been deeply attracted by Sato Yadori's understanding, and accustomed to the way the two get along. But the sky was not as good as anyone wanted, Sato Yadeng did not belong here, she was just a nurse temporarily sent to take care of Jiang Baili, and after Jiang Baili was almost well, she was transferred to a hospital in Beijing.
Across the ocean, you will eventually become a family member
In this way, Sato Yaden left, and also took Jiang Baili's heart away. In desperation, Jiang Baili could only slowly adapt to the days without Sato Yaden's "explanation flower", thinking every day whether they could see each other again and where they would meet. It may be that heaven heard the infinite thoughts in Jiang Baili's heart, after Jiang Baili was discharged from the hospital, in order to be able to better recuperate his body, he went to a Japanese nursing home, coincidentally, Sato Yaden also worked in it.
After a short separation, Jiang Baili understood even more about the difficulty of meeting, and he thought that this was probably the opportunity given to him by God to arrange for them to meet again. So Jiang Baili no longer hid his inner love, and he began to pursue Sato Yadori fiercely. He did not directly express his admiration for Sato Yadori, but conveyed his admiration to him through the attending doctor, the dean, and even the president, hoping that SatoYaden would marry him. At that time, Sato Yadori rejected Jiang Baili for many reasons and decided to leave the place.
Jiang Baili learned of the news that Sato Yaden was leaving, and immediately wrote a letter asking her to stay in the hospital. However, Sato Yadori only wanted to leave, and in order to get rid of Jiang Baili, he specially quit his job at the hospital, thinking that when he returned to Japan, Jiang Baili would no longer be entangled. Surprisingly, when Sato Yaden returned to Japan, he managed to find the address of Sato Yaden's home and sent letters recording his longing and admiration to Sato Yaden's hands one by one.
Initially, Sato Yaden's attitude was very firm, and she refused. But when she saw Jiang Baili persistently writing letters to express her lovesickness, she was also touched by him, but she could not agree to it out of many considerations. Because of the disparity in identity between the two, one is the famous military school principal, and the other is an unknown little nurse.
This gap also separates the two. The two are still in different countries, and the relationship between countries is still very tense, and the distance is across the ocean, which is simply unrealistic. So she chose to escape, and as time went on, slowly Sato Yaden was impressed. She saw her thoughts clearly, no longer running away, no longer wavering, and before that, the biggest difficulty was the opposition from her parents, who first had to agree to let them be together.
Sato Yadori first showed her all the letters written by Jiang Baili to her parents, and the letters full of true feelings also touched her parents. Later, Jiang Baili simply ran directly to Japan, in front of Sato Yadori's parents to propose to him, the feelings were very sincere, Sato Yadeng's parents looked at this sincere young man, there was only one request for him, that is, they hoped that he could take good care of his daughter, and finally nodded and agreed to the marriage.
In the autumn of 1914, Jiang Baili happily received his exotic bride Sato Yaden at the Tianjin docks. In the winter, the two held a grand wedding in Tianjin and became a family. Because Jiang Baili liked plum blossoms very much in his life, he named his beloved wife "Zuomei" and followed his surname of Jiang, so he had a nice Chinese name: "Jiang Zuomei".
In addition, he also bought many fields in the western foothills of his hometown of Dongshan, and planted hundreds of plum blossoms in them, named "Plum Garden". After retiring, he returned to the countryside and could enjoy his favorite plum blossoms with his wife in the plum garden.
In the face of right and wrong, deeply understand the great righteousness
After Jiang Zuomei and Jiang Baili were married, the two returned to Beijing together, Jiang Zuomei dedicated herself to helping her husband run the family, in order to adapt to life in China, but also to fully integrate into China, she no longer speaks Japanese, bothers to learn Chinese, gives up the Japanese living habits she has developed, communicates only in Chinese, and follows chinese traditional customs.
At that time, Jiang Baili worked in the Beiyang government, and the salary was very impressive for many ordinary families, but they had a wide range of contacts, and their monthly salary was only enough to socialize, and Jiang Zuomei never complained, and she took care of this small family with her own talent. Jiang Baili has many important things to do, there is no time to take care of the family, she has no complaints, but silently supports Jiang Baili behind her back.
Jiang Zuomei gave birth to five daughters for Jiang Baili, and in the education of her daughters, she never spoke Japanese, and the daughters did not know that their mother was Japanese until they grew up. Five daughters, which was not understandable in China at that time, but Jiang Baili had her sterilized in order not to reduce his wife to a "fertility machine".
After the outbreak of Japan's war of aggression against China, in the face of great right and wrong, she had great righteousness in her heart and chose to stand on the side of justice and did not defend her country. Not only did she cut off all contact with Japan, but she has not returned to Japan since. It also makes it straightforward that the war between China and Japan is the fault of Japanese imperialism.
In order to support the War of Resistance, Jiang Zuomei always stood on the same front as her husband. Jiang Zuomei suggested to Jiang Baili that the car be donated to the state, and Jiang Zuomei also sold many valuables and used the money to buy cloth and gauze.
Day and night, they sewed clothes, bandages, etc., and sent them to the front line to rescue the injured. At that time, Jiang Zuomei was still Japanese, so he often suffered some verbal attacks, but Jiang Baili always believed in his wife and believed in her deep righteousness.
In the face of doubt, show it with action
In 1938, the 56-year-old Jiang Baili had a heart attack in Guangxi and died after being rescued to no avail. The sudden death of General Jiang Baili made Jiang Zuomei instantly pushed to the cusp of the storm, and many people suspected that she had killed her husband. Among them is the famous warlord Feng Yuxiang, only because Jiang Zuomei once said a lot to her husband, "You love your motherland as much as I love my motherland." In fact, this sentence was not meant to be so, but it was over-understood by Feng Yuxiang.
But at that time, Jiang Zuomei was immersed in the grief of losing her husband, faced with social doubts and incomprehension, and young children who needed to be taken care of by herself, so she used actions to express her position, with her husband's unfinished business, and with her daughters to devote themselves to the cause of the War of Resistance. Slowly, her actions made many people look at it, and also won the support and trust of everyone.
epilogue
As a Japanese friend, Mrs. Jiang Zuomei has long been integrated into China and become a part of China in the sixty-four years since she married to China. For a long time after marrying General Jiang Baili, she was criticized and questioned a lot, but she insisted on her own heart and insisted on her love.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, she did not choose her own country, she sided with justice and did not favor the invaders. Such a spirit is worth learning, and such a person deserves our respect.