In the southwest of China's vast territory, there was a generation of rich Tibetan merchants who had been in the limelight for nearly half a century, and they were Bundacang.
From the early years of the Republic of China until the founding of New China, the three Bundacang brothers were active in various fields such as business, military and anti-japanese war.
In the 1930s, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way, the CPC led the masses of the people to open up battlefields behind enemy lines and built anti-Japanese base areas in Jin-Cha-Ji, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia, and other places.
On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and the sharp knives of the Japanese army wreaked havoc throughout the Land of China, thus strangling most of China's enemy rear transportation lines.
At this critical moment of survival, Bonda Cang helped each other, using mules and horses to deliver anti-Japanese supplies, which reached a scale of 150 million US dollars.
It was founded in the Republic of China
From the Tubo Dynasty to the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the eternal wind has walked here for more than 1,300 years. It seems that every wisp of wind remembers, remembers the mellow aroma when cooking barley wine, remembers the fluttering of the wind and horse flags, remembers the wings of the eagle hovering in the air, remembers the cattle, horses and sheep that run tirelessly and wantonly, remembers the Tibetan songs accompanied by Zamu Nie...
In this vast land, the Tibetan people cultivated nomadic and traded, and passed it on from generation to generation by hard work and wisdom. One of them was a family named Bonda.
In the 1910s, the Bunda family, which was doing business in India, helped the fugitive 12th Dalai Lama, and after returning to Tibet, he received funding from the Dalai Lama and gained a huge monopoly in the business field.
Since 1910, Bundacang has gained a firm foothold in both political and business circles, with nearly 50 years of prosperity and prosperity.
The Bunda family's business scope covers almost half of Asia, with Lhasa as the center, from India to Shanghai, from Nepal, Bhutan to Hong Kong, and the footprints of Bundacang can be seen.
They exclusively represented Tibet's wool and rare medicinal herbs, exported to major ports and cities, and accumulated capital over the years, making them the first-class merchants in Tibet.
Cast the soul with the anti-Japanese resistance
In the first half of the last century, the Chinese people suffered oppression and humiliation from the Western powers under the status quo of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, especially after the outbreak of World War II, Japanese imperialism launched a war of aggression against China, and Chinese society was even more a scene of people's livelihood.
Since the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the anti-Japanese national united front has officially taken shape, and the whole country has revolted.
Under the leadership of the CPC, in order to implement the line of all-round war of resistance, the people's army opened up a vast battlefield behind enemy lines in Jin-Cha-Ji, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia, and other places.
From the northwest of Jin, Shanshan and Daqingshan to the north and south of the Yangtze River, southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui, the people's anti-Japanese armed forces rose from the ground and gradually formed anti-Japanese material transportation lines and transfer routes that ran from north to south to east.
In 1937, the Japanese Emperor had already occupied the three eastern provinces of China, and the vast land and rich property stimulated the greater greed and ambition of the Japanese Emperor.
On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, at this time, Japanese imperialism turned its claws to the vast number of anti-Japanese people, and after the July 7 Incident, Japan imposed a strategic blockade on the rear of the Chinese War of Resistance.
The further aggression of the Japanese army blocked the transportation route for the supply of anti-Japanese materials, and the shipping route was also cut off by the Japanese side, resulting in the rear battlefield in the southwest of the great southwest falling into a heavy siege, making it difficult to circulate goods and materials to the hands of the anti-war troops.
The news spread throughout the country, and patriotic sentiments were like a raging flame, filling the hearts of every Chinese.
At this time, the Bunda family, which was active in both political and business circles, turned its energy to the War of Resistance. Bonda Yangpei and Bonda Dorjee of Bunda Cang planned a route to support the anti-war materials.
The large base of supplies in this package of assistance is already a huge challenge to the transport process. It also includes many precious medicinal herbs and foods, which need to be delivered to their destinations in a relatively short period of time.
However, just from the two major ports in India to import domestically, relying on the backward means of transportation at that time was already a problem.
What is even more worrying is that the geographical environment of the Sichuan-Tibet region is even worse for underdeveloped transportation technology.
Layers of mountains, endless plateaus, do not know that there are also hidden mountain bandits and thieves, indicating that every inch of land that the transport team will pass will be a test and test of everyone's courage and life again and again.
However, even with such and such irresistible and vicious factors, no matter how many frightening crises there were, BundaCang still took the first step in this distant journey, gathering more than 2,000 mules and horses, carrying supplies worth up to 150 million US dollars, and began to rush to the front day and night.
No one was able to share the hardships and obstacles they encountered on the road, and no one could personally experience their decisive will and strong faith at that time. Bundacang brought clothes, food, and healing for the soldiers and civilians who were suffering from the War of Resistance.
The thick and soft cotton gauze was warm not only to the first to catch it, but also to those who saw it and heard a "thank you comrade" in their hearts.
Those tobacco and cordyceps are put into today's values, and perhaps when most people face them, the first thing they reflect is the word "precious."
But for the people at that time, what was valued and cherished was only their value as food, but the respect for this food in their hearts was supreme.
What's more, the bandits along the way were also touched by the patriotic deeds of the giant businessman. Only then did people discover that in the past, people who killed people without blinking an eye, greedy and cunning, they could also become another kind of righteous people in the face of the survival of the righteous and the nation.
At that time, the three Bunda brothers decided to leave home for the sake of the big family of China, whether they finally returned home or not, for their respective small families, the moment of separation will become an indelible memory.
But with the passage of time, these memories have been polished into anti-Japanese stories that can be passed on from generation to generation.
Until now, the specific details that can be examined have gradually disappeared, but there are still generations of people who mention the bloody legend.
The Tibetan giant merchant Bang Dacang has become a symbol of national unity, love for the motherland, heroic and fearless soul.
The rapids are immortal
After the founding of New China, Bonda Dorjee, a major member of Bonda Cang, actively assisted the People's Liberation Army in marching into Tibet and once again made contributions to the reunification of the motherland.
In 1958, Bundacang stopped doing business, and the rich Tibetan merchants who had been in the limelight for nearly half a century retreated bravely, and since then the Bundacang business has become history.
Fifty years may not be a short moment for the entire history of the earth, but it is an era that the Bunda family has devoted a lifetime of effort to, and it is also an era that their descendants are proud of.
Bonda Cang is like a pearl on the bottom of the sea in the hearts of more Chinese, even if the sea is full of mulberry fields, it is still full of light.