The Tang Dynasty poet He Zhizhang wrote in a particularly famous poem: "The young man leaves home and returns to the old man, and the rural voice does not change and the sideburns fade." Children don't know each other, laughing and asking where the guests come from. "Homesickness is the most common emotion of people, because hometown is an inherent attribute of a person, and it is difficult to change in a lifetime. Only by returning to their hometown can people feel at home, and even if other places are good, they are still "strangers in a foreign land".
An old lady in Shaanxi refused to go to the hukou and said her true identity before she died, villagers: hidden really deeply. Her story profoundly explains how strong the concept of hometown is, even if it takes a lifetime, it is very difficult to change. The old lady's name is Wang Yulan, she is very high-lived, and her popularity is quite good, but every time the state goes to register her household registration, she will refuse for various reasons, which makes the villagers feel very strange.
It wasn't until 2018, when Wang Yulan died at the age of 89, that she didn't explain the truth to people before she died: she turned out to be a Japanese. Her original name was not Wang Yulan, but Mizusaki Hideko, born in 1929. In 1894, the Sino-Japanese War took place. History books often write about the "fusion" of the nation, in fact, there are many forms of "fusion", and war is more often the mainstream of "fusion".
For example, since the Sino-Japanese War, a large number of Japanese have come to China to make a living, and their number even far exceeds that of the Tang envoys in those years. In fact, this is a kind of fusion in the form of conquest and subjugation, and the Japanese can make a lot of money and resources when they come to China, so they were very happy to come to China at that time. And Hideko Mizusaki is the Japanese who came to China under such a big era.
She wasn't from a wealthy family herself — and that's why she wanted to come to China to make money. Born into a fisherman's family, she came to Changchun, China in 1942, and with her aunt's influence in puppet Manchukuo, Mizusaki gradually led a prosperous life in China. She began to learn Chinese and adapt to China's food, clothing, shelter and transportation. However, Hideko Mizusaki clearly misjudged the situation, and Japan in 1942 was already at the end of the crossbow in China.
After Japan's defeat in 1945, her aunt returned to Japan, but for some reason she was left in China. Fortunately, she was also a small aristocrat who lived in puppet Manchukuo for a while, and her life in China also allowed her to get acquainted with many chinese rich circles. At the age of 18, she relied on the introduction of others and married Zong Kaiguo, the commander of the Kuomintang battalion. She herself may not have imagined that what was once the conqueror of China has now become the wife of Chinese.
However, these things are obviously not important, and she needs to have a home when she is alone. Originally, the life of the two was also considered happy, but happiness was always short-lived. Like when she came to Japan, this time she "invested" in the wrong direction at the expense of her own marriage. Her husband joined the battlefield and was never heard from again. Fortunately, Hideko Mizusaki's accumulated connections were not bad, and soon after, she married the soldier Lei Guoshun.
Lei Guoshun also likes this beautiful girl, and the couple's life is like lacquer glue. However, happiness is still short-lived. With the founding of New China, Lei Guoshun dragged her back to her hometown in Shaanxi to meet her "mother-in-law", but found that his parents had already made an arranged marriage for him, and at that time he could only be monogamous, so Lei Guoshun chose to divorce Hideko Mizusaki. In this way, Mizusaki Hideko stayed alone in the mountain village of Shaanxi.
The villagers saw that she was alone and miserable, and she was only in her 20s, so they introduced her to a villager to get married. Although the villagers are not rich and wealthy, the husband and wife life is still very happy. This time, Hideko Mizusaki's happy life lasted for a long time, until 1976, when her husband died, and she once again fell into a period of widowhood. At this time, she was only 47 years old, and the good people once again introduced her to a husband, Li Mingtang.
Maybe it was too lonely to live alone, and Hideko Mizusaki gladly agreed and began a happy life again. However, despite having four Chinese husbands, Hideko Mizusaki, a Japanese woman, still feels that she is a very authentic Japanese, even if she can no longer speak Japanese, but her heart is still in Japan. She had repeatedly dragged Li Mingtang to take her to the Japanese province, but found that her name had been impersonated, and DNA verification was done to prove her Japanese identity. And refused to register as a Chinese account.
But at this time, nothing can be changed, she has a Chinese husband, a Chinese son, the whole person has been Sinicized, can only leave the heart in Japan, people still have to return to China. But she always attached great importance to her identity, and hid it from others, until before she died, she told the nearby villagers that she was originally a Japanese. From the example of Hideko Mizusaki, we can also see that in addition to war, other "fusion" is really slow and difficult.
Even after living in China for a lifetime, Hideko Mizusaki's heart was still Japanese, and she even put on a kimono when she died.