There is such an old man, his father followed Sun Yat-sen in Japan, joined the League to participate in the anti-Qing revolution, he was born in Heze, Shandong Province on the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japan, spent his childhood in exile, and later went to Taiwan in the war, becoming a senior Kuomintang elder and a well-known lawyer.
However, he always had his heart set up the Heze Association of Fellow Villagers in Taiwan and persisted in opposing independence and promoting reunification. After the opening of the two sides of the strait in 1987, he sent the ashes of hundreds of veterans from Taiwan back to their hometown on the mainland, but their "last wish" was fulfilled. His story touched the sons and daughters of China on both sides of the Taiwan Straits and the three places, and in 2012 he was named "one of the top ten people who moved China", he is Gao Binghan. He once said: "Where you are born, you are home." ”
A childhood on the run
Gao Binghan has a certain degree of popularity in both the mainland and Taiwan, and he introduced himself like this: "Many people like to call me 'Taiwan veteran', in fact, in the real sense, I can only be counted as a 'Taiwanese little soldier'" at most."
Gao Binghan is not as stereotyped as we think, on the contrary, he will open the conversation box at the moment he sees reporters and interviewers, and talk to everyone about his past without hesitation, although Gao Binghan is already an old grandfather, but it has to be admired that his thinking is still as clear as a young man, and he remembers his deeds as a child.
Gao Binghan was born in 1935, born in Heze, Shandong, and was a real scholar at that time. Gao Binghan's maternal grandfather had gone to Japan to study at the end of the Qing Dynasty and also joined the League at that time. In Gao Binghan's family, many of his siblings are high-achieving students at Tsinghua university and Beijing Normal University. But sadly, Gao Binghan was born at the wrong time, he was born in the local famous door, but did not really enjoy much of a glorious and rich life, but in order to escape the war, when he was only 13 years old, he came to the east and west, mainly in East China and South China, a generation of exile, after many years and finally came to Taiwan in October 1949.
Gao Binghan, who had just arrived, was not familiar with life, and in the eyes of everyone, he was still a child without the strength of a chicken, and here, Gao Binghan fully felt what it was to be unaccompanied, because his family, relatives and friends were left in the mainland. At night, he had no place to sleep but to sleep outside the station, and in order to survive and save his life, Gao Binghan once needed to rely on the residue in the garbage dump to fill his stomach. Until later, Gao Binghan met a fellow villager, who advised Gao Binghan, who wanted to go home, to study well and not to waste time and miss a good time of study.
Since then, with the help and encouragement of this fellow, Gao Binghan has successfully been admitted to a well-known middle school in Taiwan through his own efforts--- Taipei Jianguo Middle School, when in order to complete his studies, Gao Binghan once relied on serving as a student soldier in the army to earn his own tuition fees and living expenses such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation.
Time lived up to the painstaking, Gao Binghan finally succeeded, he was admitted to the law department of the "National Defense Management College" as desired, continued to study, soon after, Gao Binghan graduated, after graduation Gao Binghan did not stop studying, but continued to obtain the local judge professional qualification certificate, after ten years as a judge, Gao Binghan chose to end his career as a judge, so Gao Binghan resigned from his position as a judge, and then established his own personal studio. With his outstanding intelligence and his own efforts, Gao Binghan soon became a well-known lawyer, successfully changing from a judge to a lawyer who helped people coordinate cases.
Set up a hometown association to send the ashes of veterans home
Gao Binghan's experience is very different from other ordinary veterans. To this day, although Gao Binghan has long reached the retirement age, there have always been many law firms that want to hire him as a consultant for their own firms, which is also what makes Gao Binghan feel very proud and proud.
After Gao Binghan joined the work, as a representative of young talents, he soon married and had children, and Gao Binghan's wife gave him three very outstanding children. Gao Binghan is a model of the double harvest of career love in the mouth of the left neighbor. Although in the eyes of anyone, Gao Binghan has already had a full life, but Gao Binghan's heart has always hung a stone, that is, he is worried about his mother and hometown all the time, Gao Binghan misses his relatives in his hometown, and he often shed tears in the middle of the night.
Gao Binghan once said such a sentence in an interview, which makes people feel painful, he said: "Every time when the night is quiet, I am most afraid of hearing the barking of cats, dogs and dogs, because their barking will make me miss my hometown more and miss my relatives in my hometown." Because Gao Binghan once raised a "flower-faced" dog in his hometown, in August 1948, when he wanted to leave in the dark, in addition to his mother and relatives at home, as well as the "flower-faced" dog he raised, he also followed closely, wagging his tail and clinging to it. Gao Binghan, who turned back three times in one step, could only roar loudly, and the "flower face" dog shrugged his head and turned around to go home.
However, the cross-strait environment at that time and the environment on both sides of the strait are now different. It was not until after the reform and opening up of the Chinese mainland in 1979 that the two sides of the strait gradually opened up the three links. Previously, Gao Binghan could only look across the strait at his homeland.
In 1981, one of Gao Binghan's sisters went to Taiwan to visit relatives, bringing Gao Binghan and Heze villagers a large box of hometown souvenirs and Heze soil, and more than 100 villagers gathered together to listen to the sister's emotional exposition of the nostalgia report while sharing these gifts from their hometown. Gao Binghan was given a portion of the burnt cake and some of the soil in his hometown, and he was reluctant to eat the burnt cake, but only used part of the soil as tea to brew and drink. "That's the taste of hometown, licking."
Until May 1991, after 43 years, Gao Binghan could finally return to his Heze hometown, but when he saw Heze's hometown again, the situation in front of him was obviously a thing, and the only constant was the old locust tree that grew up with him in the backyard of his hometown, and the old locust tree seemed to be bending down to welcome himself. The old locust tree was old, just like Gao Binghan at this time, he was also old. Gao Binghan could only silently hold this stooped old locust tree and cry bitterly.
At the same time, Gao Binghan saw his cousin who had not been seen for a long time, and he was excited, but he did not expect that his cousin did not recognize himself, but instead said to himself in front of himself, "Gao Binghan died outside a long time ago", which made Gao Binghan sigh and have mixed feelings in his heart. After the exchange, the cousin finally believed that the person in front of him was Gao Binghan, and the two cried and laughed at the moment of recognition.
In 1995, with strong feelings for his hometown, Gao Binghan established the Heze Association of Fellow Villagers in Taiwan. This is a non-governmental organization that unites friendship and nostalgia, and is also a group that loves the country and the people, opposes independence and promotes reunification. Gao Binghan served as the founder and president, he fully took care of the veterans of the hometown who fled to Taiwan, and used his legal status and economic conditions to solve the difficulties encountered by the members as much as possible. In this way, he wanted to give back to his brothers and sisters who took care of her after he went into exile in Taiwan at the age of 13.
As a result, many veterans of the same village pinned their hopes of returning home on Gao Binghan, who was in his prime, and instructed him: "Brother, I have no hope of going back, you are still young and have a chance, if I die, you can go home one day and you must bring my ashes back..." Just like that, one, two... Gao Binghan shouldered a lot of affectionate entrustment. For many years, Gao Binghan has insisted on doing one thing, that is, helping people in his hometown to transport their ashes home. He has helped at least hundreds of veterans fulfill their last wishes to "return to the roots of the fallen leaves".
Moving China
Finally, in 2012, he successfully won a glorious title with this incident, that is, "the top ten people who moved China". However, during the recording process of the program, what moved the audience most at the scene and in front of the TV set was not his help in transporting the ashes, but only Gao Binghan's own story that made everyone cry.
When Gao Binghan was only 13 years old, his father lost his life in the war, and since then he has become a child without his father's protection, and he has not been bullied and looked down upon. Soon after, Gao Binghan, on the strong recommendation of his mother, finally made the decision to flee with the teachers and students of the school to the south to avoid the war. What he never expected was that this difference actually separated him from his mother from yin and yang.
On the show, Gao Binghan's eyes were moist and he told a sentence that he could not forget in this life, which was what his mother said to himself when he was parting, and the mother said: Child, the mother will definitely wait for you to come back, wait for you to come back alive.
Time is fleeting, but for Gao Binghan it is so long and difficult. It was not until the spring of 1979 that Gao Binghan had the opportunity to send the first letter to his relatives stationed in his hometown, but the moment he received a reply from his relatives, he was in tears, because the first sentence in the letter was that his mother had died in 1978.
Since then, Gao Binghan's heart has a little more "nostalgia", that is, the story about his mother and hometown.
At the scene of the show, Gao Binghan almost tearfully told the details of his story, and also touched the hearts of thousands of netizens.
At the end of the show, Gao Binghan left his own message. Gao Binghan said to his mother: "My dear mother, you once said, 'My child, the mother will definitely wait for you to come back, must come back alive', now, the child I came back alive, but mother, why didn't you wait for me, why didn't you wait for me to leave?" ”
In the eyes of the elderly Gao Binghan, he would feel that he had handed over the white scroll in filial piety, and when his father died in the war in 1947, because of various chaotic reasons, the young Gao Binghan did not send his father to the end. In 1978, when his mother died alone in his hometown, Gao Binghan was not able to return home in time to accompany his mother. Gao Binghan wrote in his book, "I remember the times when I was separated from my parents, because I was young and ignorant, I didn't understand what filial piety was. Now, it can only be the son who wants to raise and the relatives who are gone. At this point, I burst into tears.
According to CCTV-4 report: With the broadcast of the fourth episode of the "Thank You, My Home" program on the evening of January 27, 2022, the majority of netizens re-acquainted with the elderly who thought they were over eighty years old. In the process of broadcasting the program, Gao Binghan, who went abroad as a representative of Taiwanese veterans, appeared in our field of vision and told netizens the story of his family's family style.
Gao Binghan used the most simple words to tell his inner expectations for "going home", his biggest wish is to reunite the whole family for a good year, his story touched thousands of viewers, the details are even more painful, and even caused netizens to cry three times.
A few days ago, I saw that some netizens expressed their views on the message board of the program, he said: "In the whole process of the program, this gao Binghan grandfather who is over seventy years old is choking up and telling his story almost the whole time, and the audience is also tearfully watching, and the story of Gao Binghan's grandfather can't even be made up by the best novelists." ”
The award speech that touched China to Gao Binghan was as follows: the strait is shallow, and the bright moon is crooked. A family letter, a ferry ticket, a lifetime of misses. Away from each other, I feel that it is chaotic and bitter, and I know the sweetness of my homeland more close to my hometown. The young man left home, and now that you have returned, your hands are trembling, and what you are holding is not the bones of a veteran, altar after altar, full of nostalgia.