The 89-year-old woman in Shaanxi has not had a hukou, and only when she was dying did she take a photo to reveal her true identity
From ancient times to the present, hukou is very important for a person. It is not only related to a person's life, old age, illness and death, but also very important for career development. People without nationality and hukou cannot participate in political activities. Not even a decent job. Today, the hukou can be used in our daily life. Therefore, there are very few citizens without household registration in our country. But an 89-year-old woman in Shaanxi has never had a hukou. What's going on? I'm going to introduce it to you today.
The true identity of the old man Wang Yulan
On January 10, 2018, the funeral of the elderly Wang Yulan was held in Leijiadong Village, Zhulinguan Town, Danfeng County, Shaanxi Province. At the funeral, in addition to the relatives of the elderly Wang Yulan, more than 150 people came to attend her funeral. Most of these people were villagers from their own villages, who came to send Wang Yulan on his last journey. Many villagers were surprised to find that the elderly Wang Yulan was actually buried in a kimono. And her portrait is also a photo of her wearing a kimono.
Old Man Wang Yulan
Is the old man Wang Yulan Japanese? Many villagers learned of this news for the first time. Villagers who are familiar with the elderly Wang Yulan said that this is indeed the case. So why did the old man Wang Yulan hide his name in a small mountain village in China? This matter must start from the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan. The elderly Wang Yulan, whose Japanese name is Hideko Mizusaki, was born in 1929 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, to a fisherman's family, and is the only daughter in the family.
Hideko Mizusaki
Because of her family's poverty, Hideko Mizusaki was sent by her parents to Changchun, China, at the age of 13, to her aunt, who was doing business in "Pseudo-Manchuria" at the time. In order to facilitate Hideko Mizusaki's life in China, her aunt gave her a Chinese name: Wang Yulan. Since then, this name has followed Hideko Mizusaki for the rest of her life. After Japan's defeat and surrender, Wang Yulan's aunt and family were also repatriated to China. But Wang Yulan was stranded in China for various reasons.
Wang Yulan's marriage in China
In 1947, Wang Yulan ushered in her first marriage. Her husband was a Kuomintang battalion commander named Zong Kaiguo. Not only does she look like a talent, but she is also very good to her. After the two held a wedding, Wang Yulan also became the "official wife". However, only half a year after such a good day, Zong Kaiguo rushed to the front line to fight, and since then there has been no news. Wang Yulan, who could not survive alone in the war, was introduced by others and remarried to another soldier, Lei Guoshun.
However, when Wang Yulan followed Lei Guoshun back to his hometown of Liangjiawan, Shangnan County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province, he found that he also had a daughter-in-law with an arranged marriage in his hometown. The new China's policy was monogamous, so Wang Yulan divorced Lei Guoshun. Later, under the introduction of Liu Dajie, the village women's director, Wang Yulan married Song Zhifu of the same village. But in 1976, Song Zhifu died of illness.
In the same year, Wang Yulan remarried to the Li Mingtang family in Leijiadong Village, Zhulinguan Town, Danfeng County, and her life was settled. Although Wang Yulan gets along well with her neighbors, she always thinks of her hometown whenever the night is quiet. So in 2002, she applied to return to Japan to visit her family. What she did not expect was that the Japanese government replied: "Japan already has a Mizusaki Hideko, as early as 1995 led 6 children and grandchildren back to Japan to settle down." ”
Wang Yulan's identity was replaced
Apparently, someone had impersonated her identity. In order to find out who is the real Mizusaki Hideko, japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare sent someone to The home of Wang Yulan in Shaanxi Province in 2005 to conduct a series of complex forensic investigations such as DNA sampling, which finally confirmed that the elderly Wang Yulan was the real Mizusaki Hideko. In April 2006, with the help of a Japanese non-governmental organization, Wang Yulan, who had been away from her hometown for more than 60 years, set foot on her homeland again and met her cousin. This time, she went with her old partner Li Mingtang.
Japanese official with Wang Yulan
According to Japan's policy at that time, Wang Yulan could choose to settle in Japan. But Wang Yulan, who has become accustomed to living in China, is no longer adapted to the Japanese living and cultural environment. So two weeks later, she and her wife returned to a small mountain village in Shaanxi Again. Because Wang Yulan lost important information during the war years, the hukou has not been successful.
Wang Yulan with her husband
But fortunately, she has obtained a residence permit for foreigners in China, so she can live in China all the time. In daily life, the old man Wang Yulan speaks no differently from the ordinary old lady in the countryside of Shaanxi, so few people know her Japanese identity. It wasn't until the eve of her death, when Wang Yulan hoped her family would allow her to be buried in a kimono, that no one knew her true identity.