In the Hundred Regiments War in 1940, Nie Rongzhen, marshal of the North China Military Region, saved two Japanese girls in the chaos of the war. Due to the war, their parents were both killed, standing helplessly in a mess, and Nie Shuai immediately took them back to the headquarters.
In the command headquarters, Nie Shuai gently comforted the two little girls, and personally washed a fragrant pear for the older girl to eat, and called a medical team for the little girl who was still in her infancy, and carefully bandaged it. The older child gradually let down her guard, and Nie Shuai communicated with her to learn that her name was "Xingzi", that is, Mieko. Nie Shuai then instructed the cooking class to boil porridge for Mieko and asked the guards to go to the village to find lactating women to feed the baby.
【Photo】 Nie Rongzhen and Mieko
However, due to the fierce war at that time, the Japanese army offensive was fierce, the army needed to carry out many transfers, could not ensure the safety of the two children, after some consideration, Nie Shuai decided to send two children back to the Japanese troops in Shijiazhuang, afraid that the two children would starve on the road, he also put a lot of fragrant pears in the basket of girls, and wrote a letter to explain the situation to the Japanese army.
The letter expressed the evils of war and the innocence of the people, and called on the Japanese army to stop this unjust war. Nie Shuai embodies iron-blooded tenderness and a very high humanitarian spirit, in this war of life and death only for a moment, he still has a noble human nature and respects every innocent life.
After the war, Nie Shuai still thought of these two girls from time to time. Until 1980, the Japanese news published the story of Nie Shuai and these two Japanese girls. At this time, Mieko, who was married and had children, and had a happy life, immediately decided to go to China to thank her savior.
In July 1980, Nie Shuai met Mieko again, and seeing Nie Shuai's old face, Mieko burst into tears and called out "Father" in obscure Chinese, thanking the man who gave her a second life. The story of the marshal who rescued the orphans in the war was also spread between China and Japan, playing a huge positive role in Sino-Japanese friendly diplomatic relations.
【Photo】 Nie Rongzhen
In the long river of history, there have been countless wars, and wars may be political necessities or self-defensive resistance, but wars should never be a reason for indiscriminate killing of innocents. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army slaughtered more than 300,000 innocent people in Nanjing, countless families were torn apart, and countless children lost their parents.
In another Japanese ransack, when the wives and children in the village who had time to move were found again, the wife had been stabbed to death with a bayonet, while the infant was boiled alive in a pot. There are many, many more tragedies like these.
[Pictured] is the innocent people killed in the Nanjing Massacre
Children brutally murdered in the Nanjing Massacre
These criminal acts are heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army, inhumane, and our bloody lessons. The sins of war should never be repaid by these innocent people.
For these tragic experiences, what we must do is to learn from Nie Shuai's lofty humanitarian spirit, but we must also remember history, do not forget the national shame, and let these scars always be engraved in the hearts of every generation, so that our nation can be stronger and more cohesive!
Text | Chu Xi
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