In 1965, when Li Zongren returned from overseas, Premier Zhou not only personally greeted him at the airport, but also held a grand welcome banquet at the Great Hall of the People. At the banquet to welcome Li Zongren back to China, there was a table of guests from the new Chinese film industry invited by Premier Zhou Enlai.
At the banquet, Premier Zhou Enlai specially came to toast the comrades in the film industry and said to Comrade Cheng Yin, a famous director and then president of the Beijing Film Academy: Comrade Cheng Yin, you have filmed "The Xi'an Incident", and today Mr. Li returned from overseas, and I see that he has two things that he can make in the future.
The first is the great victory of Taierzhuang in 1938 when Mr. Li commanded the Kuomintang Miscellaneous Army in the Battle of Xuzhou, and the other is that today Mr. Li returns to his roots.
Soon after, Mr. Cheng Yin died suddenly, and his last wish could not be fulfilled. Chen Dunde, who became the director of the Literature Department of Guangxi Film Studio in 1985, took over the heavy burden and won the strong support of Wei Chunshu, the old chairman of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Government, and the Huangpu Military Academy Alumni Association.
The film script of "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" was finally submitted for filming after many discussions and seventeen revisions and finalizations before and after.
At the end of the summer of 1985, Li Youlin, the only son of General Li Zongren, learned in the United States that Chinese mainland filmed "Blood Battle Taierzhuang", and immediately rushed back from the United States to visit his relatives in the motherland.
As soon as the plane landed, Mr. Li Youlin said to Chen Dunde, who had come to the airport to greet him: "I will not go to the hotel first, you will take me to see "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" now." Chen Dunde told him: "The film is in the final production, and the music has not yet been finally synthesized."
Li Youlin demanded urgently: "It doesn't matter, I just want to see it right away." Unable to resist Li Youlin's persistence and urgency, Chen Dunde had to ask Shi Fangyu, the leader of the National Film Administration.
After receiving his consent, Li Youlin, accompanied by Chen Dunde, watched the "line double film" (that is, a sample without music clip synthesis) of "Blood Battle TaiErzhuang". After watching for less than ten minutes, Li Youlin's tears flowed down in a hurry.
On June 11, 1988, the movie "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" premiered in Hong Kong, and the people competed to see it, causing a sensation in Hong Kong. Hsieh Chung-hou, head of Taiwan's "Central News Agency" in Hong Kong, after watching the film.
That night, he telephoned Chiang Ching-kuo and said: "I have just watched a film of the War of Resistance released by the Chinese Communists in Hong Kong, which tells the story of the Victory of the Nationalist Army in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, called "Blood Battle Taierzhuang."
In "Blood Battle taierzhuang", chiang kai-shek's image is such a plot: after the heroic sacrifice of the Kuomintang division commander Wang Mingzhang in battle, Chiang Kai-shek personally presided over the memorial service. At this time, there were Japanese invaders' warplanes flying in the sky to strafe and bomb.
In the face of danger, Chiang Kai-shek did not make a fuss in the face of danger, made a speech, and was calm and self-assured. Chen Dunde introduced that the scene was filmed according to historical archives. And this classic lens picture is indeed significantly different from the mainland's previous films reflecting Chiang Kai-shek.
When Chiang Ching-kuo heard about it, he was shocked and immediately said to Xie Zhonghou, "Find a copy and look at it."
So Xie Zhonghou went to the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency. Xinhua immediately reported to the Central Committee and quickly obtained the consent of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. As a result, the Guangxi Film Studio copied a videotape and sent it to Xie Zhonghou through Xinhua News Agency.
In this way, Xie Zhonghou immediately flew back to Taipei with the video tape of "Blood Battle Taierzhuang". After the Taiwan side received the copy, both Soong Mei-ling and Chiang Ching-kuo quickly watched "Blood Battle in Taierzhuang" and invited all the members of the Kuomintang Central Standing Committee to watch it.
Chiang Ching-kuo shed tears after watching this film, and Chiang Ching-kuo said: Judging from this film, the mainland has already acknowledged our war of resistance. The film doesn't smear my father's face. It seems that the mainland's policy toward Taiwan has been adjusted, and we must make some adjustments accordingly.
Soon after, Chiang Ching-kuo decided to agree to allow veterans of the Kuomintang troops to return to the mainland to visit their relatives, and after 37 years of separation, compatriots on both sides of the strait finally turned their bitter nostalgia into a joyful reunion, thus opening the prelude to open interaction between the two sides of the strait.