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She is from Taiwan Province, a quarter Japanese ancestry but who firmly identifies as Chinese. Her heart is towards China, and she has always had an obsession, that is, to recognize her ancestors and return to her roots. Faced with the four-year "deadline for returning to Taiwan," she ignored and chose to settle in Shanghai, and she once frankly said about the questions of her compatriots:
"Everyone on the island has been deceived, and they are not to blame!"
She is Mrs. Chen, a Chinese who identifies with Chinese culture, so why is she different from the Taiwanese compatriots we know, and how did she step by step cross the obstacles to settling on the mainland?
A quarter of Japanese ancestry
Mrs. Chen is not a native of Taiwan Province, her grandfather is a native of Yiyang, Hunan, served as a major in a Kuomintang unit during the Republic of China, and in 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, he evacuated with his wife, a Japanese, a Japanese orphan in exile in Harbin, the two married and had children in Taiwan, until the death of her grandfather Grandmother returned to her ancestral home in Japan alone.
Mrs. Chen's father also fled to Taiwan from the mainland, his ancestral home is Qingdao, Shandong, he just arrived in Taiwan fashionable and young, and later met and fell in love with Mrs. Chen's mother, and finally gave birth to Mrs. Chen when he went to Japan to visit relatives.
Due to the existence of a quarter of Japanese ancestry, Mrs. Chen's grandmother suggested that the two register their children with Japanese nationality in place, but they did not expect Chen's father to resolutely oppose it, and his reason was simple:
"My daughter is Chinese, she should become a Chinese citizen!"
Born in such a complex family, Mrs. Chen's thinking was naturally slightly affected, and in her opinion, she seemed to be incompatible with the people and things around her, such as others have many relatives and have the same family ancestral hall, while the Chen family is only alone, and many people who have moved to Taiwan from the mainland will also look down on her Japanese blood and mock her for having the blood of an invader.
Under the influence of these circumstances, Mrs. Chen has had the same idea with her family since she was a child, that is, to recognize the ancestor and return to the ancestor!
Father Chen and Grandpa Chen thought so, and really did so, when Mrs. Chen was only three or five years old, they took their children back to their hometowns in Hunan and Shandong many times to find relatives, but unfortunately, time has passed, and thirty or forty years have passed since the events of that year, and it is so easy to find the "root".
The family went around in circles, aimlessly searching for traces of the past in a limited time, fortunately in the end they found the ancestral hall of their grandfather's family in Yiyang, Hunan Province, and found many relatives and friends of the Xia family, some of them were martyrs in the war that year, some were academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the children of the family had prominent talents in all walks of life, which could be said to be a large-scale family, but unfortunately, the Chen family in Qingdao, Shandong Province was never found.
Of course, the young Mrs. Chen did not know these things, and in her memory, she could only vaguely think of the beautiful scenery of the motherland on the mainland, think of the words of her father and grandfather, and their expressions of hope and disappointment again and again.
At that time, Mrs. Chen didn't understand this kind of adult emotion, she only knew one thing, that is, to abide by the agreement with her father and always remember that she was a Chinese.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Mrs. Chen has grown into a twenty-eight years old girl, she was sent by her family to study in Japan, and she lived a good life here with the care of her grandmother, but it was only at the material level, but at the spiritual level, Mrs. Chen was very confused.
As for why are you confused? There are two reasons, the first is that her grandmother always persuaded Mrs. Chen to stay in Japan to accompany her, hoping that she would not return to Taiwan, and not fantasize about returning to the mainland to live, and her grandmother always instilled in her how prosperous Japan is and how poor the mainland is, but this concept is completely different from the education Mrs. Chen received since childhood.
The second is Mrs. Chen's own doubts about Japanese culture, she loves to study history and knows Chinese history and culture well, she knows that the tea ceremony originally originated in China, knows that most of Japan's architecture and clothing originated from the Tang Dynasty in China, even the sushi and sashimi they are proud of are also played by Chinese ancestors, Mrs. Chen does not understand that it is obviously a Chinese thing, how can it be occupied by foreign countries and developed so well?
Mrs. Chen is a very assertive woman, so after thinking about it again and again, she came to her own conclusion, first of all, what her grandmother said was wrong, she did not want to stay in Japan, she still wanted to return to Taiwan and go to the mainland in the future, and secondly, she identified more with Chinese culture, she felt that China's backwardness is only temporary, under the influence of cultural superiority, China will return to the top of the world sooner or later, and what she has to do is to return to China to carry forward the culture inherited by her ancestors!
Finally, based on these two points, Mrs. Chen also made plans for her future career, she refused her parents' advice to work in language, but fell in love with acting and singing in order to escape Japan, she first starred in small roles in TV dramas in her spare time to exercise her ability, and then returned directly to Taiwan, and formed a band with a few friends to become the lead singer of the band.
Mrs. Chen's music career officially set sail, but she was really born at an untimely time, her singing voice and timbre are all professional level, if she rushes to the "music famine" period, she may really be able to break out in the music scene, but the bad is bad that the Taiwanese music scene at that time was too hot, Teresa Teng, Wang Jie, Fei Yuqing, Li Zongsheng and others were in their prime, and their songs occupied almost half of the Chinese music scene.
Therefore, in this case, the Chen Tai Band was in a worrying situation, in those years they tried their best to produce more than ten high-quality songs, and spent a lot of money on the selection and packaging of songs, but unfortunately in the end, it seemed to be like a stone sinking into the sea and there was no news.
Faced with this situation, the band members said goodbye to Mrs. Chen one after another and decided to find another way, only two people are still struggling to insist, one is her and the other is the bassist of the band, that is, her future husband Mr. Chen, the two knew and fell in love in the midst of suffering and finally got married, or until they were exhausted around 2000, they finally gave up, sold their years of hard work, and each found a formal job.
At this time, Mrs. Chen is naturally unwilling, she doesn't want to live this life in mediocrity, she thinks that since she can't become a star, she will have to make a lot of money, so through many inquiries, Mrs. Chen set her sights on the real estate business, of course, she doesn't want to invest in real estate, she doesn't have this capital, what she really wants to do is real estate sales.
At the beginning of the 21 st century, with the rapid development of the mainland's policy of reform and opening up, the markets of the two sides of the strait and the three places have undergone considerable changes, especially the real estate industry can be called earth-shaking; taking Taipei City in Taiwan Province as an example, in 1999, the house price in Taipei City was still NT$250,000 per square meter, but in 2000 it rose to NT$260,000 in just one year.
House prices have risen, the property market has exploded, and Mrs. Chen just saw this opportunity to think about real estate sales, so did she make money in the end?
Returning to the homeland for the first time
The answer is yes, Mrs. Chen's ability is undoubted, unlike the female saleswoman next to her, she never uses her appearance to attract customers, and even her intended customers are not men, but increasingly independent women, she puts the time her peers spend on makeup on the study of words, apartment types, real estate, and customer psychology, so that in just half a year, Mrs. Chen has become the company's sales champion by virtue of her excellent business ability.
For a time, Mrs. Chen's name rose in the industry, and customers who came to her to buy houses, see the lot, and study their needs flocked to her, and most of these customers were successful women in Taiwan Province, they were not bad for money and very generous, buying a house could easily tip hundreds of thousands, and even because of the happy conversation, some customers who had a relationship with the owner of the real estate company would take the initiative to help Mrs. Chen dot, making her position also rising.
After only two years of work, Mrs. Chen became the sales manager of the head office, and the money in her hand was also increasing, but to put it mildly, Mrs. Chen was not very happy after the promotion and salary increase, because as the workplace struggled, her desire for money gradually decreased, but the idea of returning to the motherland became more and more intense.
Mrs. Chen once communicated with the boss about this, because the company is expanding its territory in China, she thought about going to the domestic branch to develop, but the boss's love for talent has not been realized, considering the actual situation of the company, she did not say more, or until an incident happened that she firmed her mind again.
It was 2003, Mrs. Chen's father had a serious illness, although it was not hindered in the end, it still made Father Chen very emotional, he lamented the fragility of life, and missed his hometown on the other side even more, so he said to his daughter:
"I don't know if I can deny the return of my ancestors in my lifetime, if... I mean if I'm gone, you must inherit my wishes and let me return to my roots. ”
Her father's words made Mrs. Chen cry several times, and she could no longer suppress the urge to return to China, so she couldn't care about the company's planning, just when the Shanghai branch was just established, she resolutely went to Shanghai despite the boss's dissuasion, and voluntarily reduced her salary and demoted to become the operation training supervisor of the Shanghai branch.
The plane from Taipei to Shanghai is 1,019 kilometers, taking a total of 2 hours, but it is this short journey that Mrs. Chen has been looking forward to for more than 30 years, and she has many conjectures about the motherland on the plane, and she is even ready to work hard in the "poor country", but what she never expected was that when the plane got closer and closer to Shanghai, she saw a shocking scene.
Shanghai's Bund is beautiful, there are countless skyscrapers behind the Oriental Pearl, and the brightly lit streets are far more prosperous than Taipei, but only now did she realize how shameless the media in Taiwan are, and they have been smearing the development of the mainland, so that the people on the island have such an absurd impression of the mainland.
At this moment, Mrs. Chen's heart is complicated, because she wants to settle in Shanghai and settle in her motherland like this, but she is also worried about her husband and children, after all, Taiwan had a policy at that time, that is, people who have left Taiwan for more than four years will automatically be canceled their Taiwanese citizenship, and it is not a problem to leave by themselves, but what should I do with my husband's career and children's studies?
Mrs. Chen was extremely entangled, but because of her work, she had to go back and forth between the mainland and Taiwan, thinking about the future and enjoying the breath of the motherland.
This irregular life lasted until 2008, and it was only then that Mrs. Chen's heart knot finally opened, not because of anything else, but because of the Beijing Olympics.
The 2008 Beijing Olympics made the world's attention focus on China, and it is natural to do business with popularity and traffic, plus Mr. Chen has long guessed his wife's careful thinking, so after thinking about it for a long time, he made a decision, that is, to give up life in Taiwan and come to Shanghai with his family to re-establish a business and start a new family.
Just do it, Mr. Chen concealed that Mrs. Chen bought a house in Shanghai, arranged the child's studies properly, and finally moved the company to Shanghai, and only after everything was ready did he inform him of the situation, and when he learned that Mrs. Chen's excitement was overflowing with words, and she officially settled in the motherland that she missed.
Taiwanese on the mainland
After settling on the mainland, Mrs. Chen's life changed drastically in an instant, and she was finally able to do what she wanted to do without worry, such as attending parties, learning about the current situation in China, holding parties with friends, etc., and in the process, Mrs. Chen also regained her original love.
At the suggestion of a friend, Mrs. Chen formed a band again, and although the members were all replaced by local Shanghai newcomers, one person remained the same, that is, Mr. Chen, who still served as his wife's bassist, and fought together as romantically as he did back then.
Mr. and Mrs. Chen's band set sail, they were not limited to Shanghai, but "toured" all over the country, during which they learned a lot of domestic pop music, met many domestic friends, and mastered a new skill, that is, Chinese style!
The song in the form of Chinese style is exactly what Mrs. Chen has always wanted but did not expect, which is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for her who hopes to spread Chinese culture, so after 2015, in addition to integrating Chinese style into the band's repertoire, she also established a Hanfu Club, promoted Hanfu on both sides of the strait, and also spread Chinese culture to the hearts of tens of thousands of people on the island.
However, everything has advantages and disadvantages, although Mrs. Chen's behavior has brought many good influences, but it has also been criticized by many people, including people from Taiwan Province and mainlanders, first of all, the former, because before 2019, Mrs. Chen often returned to Taiwan to promote Chinese culture, promote patriotic ideas, and educate local young people to "open their eyes to the world", which caused many ignorant young people to provoke, insult, and blame.
These people's views are very consistent and strange, either saying that Taiwan does not need to return to the mainland, or saying that Mrs. Chen is a traitor sent by the mainland, anyway, it is a little "refusal to reunify."
And seeing the young people on the island so Chen Tai's heart is also full of sadness, she wanted to go over to refute the other party's point of view, and also thought about directly scolding this group of philistines, but after thinking and thinking about it, she finally gave up, and the reason is also very simple, because this is not their own opinion, but was bewitched and deceived by some extremists on the Taiwan side, this group of people are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, deliberately conceal the truth, and infinitely magnify the bad side of the mainland, but the good side is not mentioned at all.
Because of this, these young people who have not yet established the three views will have such a deep hostility to the mainland and to Mrs. Chen, which is not to blame them, they just don't know the truth, so what Mrs. Chen wants to do is not to blame, but to awaken, to wake them up with the real situation on the mainland.
In Mrs. Chen's view, most people on the island of Taiwan are still rational, and it is easy to let them recognize the reality, after all, the current network is so developed, as long as they have the heart to understand, they will definitely find that what is said in the book and the news is a lie, and the truth is not so easy to be covered up.
So speaking of the question here, it is understandable that Mrs. Chen's behavior was misunderstood by the masses on the island, but how could some people on our mainland speak out?
This reason is actually very complicated, and according to Mrs. Chen, it is roughly divided into three points.
The first is the patriotic sentiment of Mrs. Chen and his wife, Mrs. Chen is different from ordinary natives born and raised on the mainland, she returned to the motherland after thousands of difficulties and dangers, just like a child who was trafficked and crossed thousands of mountains and rivers to find her biological parents, in this case, she naturally has a little more love for the motherland and a much more enthusiastic attitude.
But this attitude has puzzled some Chinese people, who will unconsciously think:
"How can this Taiwanese be more patriotic than us?"
I will also feel that there will be demons if things are abnormal, and Mrs. Chen's actions must be ill-intentioned.
Therefore, out of this concern, these people naturally have some doubts and accusations about Chen.
The second is the "mask" factor, since the outbreak of the domestic epidemic in 2020, in order not to cause trouble to the motherland, Mrs. Chen and his wife have never returned to Taiwan, they have accepted the unified arrangement of the country like most Chinese, doing nucleic acid, isolation, silence, etc., in the process many people have felt depressed, under the pressure of work, unemployment, loans and so on, and this has given some ill-intentioned people the opportunity.
According to the observation of Mrs. Chen and his wife, during the epidemic, many people were deliberately provoking the relationship between the government and the people, spreading rumors and videos in an attempt to aggravate the conflict, so the two began to call on everyone to remain calm in the circle of friends and social media, to distinguish what is true and what is fake, but you must know that "the authorities are obsessed with bystanders", they can see clearly as Chinese outsiders, but many Chinese people do not want to believe it.
They stubbornly believed in the rumors of the outside world and even attacked the exhortators, and Mrs. and Mrs. Chen, who are from Taiwan Province, naturally became an outlet for them to vent their inner dissatisfaction.
The third is the factor of online live broadcast with goods, due to the impact of the epidemic, Mrs. Chen had to suspend the work of Hanfu Club and Band, and returned to the company to maintain their livelihood, considering the instability of the offline industry, the two set their sights on the line, released some videos about food, knowledge, decoration, and livestreamed some of the company's products, hoping to turn losses into profits.
Mrs. Chen's actions are beyond reproach, but the result is not true, but because of this, it has aroused the criticism of many mainland netizens, these people feel that Mrs. Chen's so-called patriotism is to attract people's attention, and the previous things are also paving the way for live broadcast goods, for which they launched insults against Mrs. Chen in the live broadcast room, from behavior to character, and even regional discrimination is common.
Their scolding words are also very difficult to hear, what "Taiwanese are not a good thing", what "Taiwanese can say anything for money" and so on, hearing these words Mrs. Chen was sad in her heart, but as before, she still did not blame netizens, but patiently explained and patiently persuaded, hoping that everyone would not be misled by some false and false news.
In the face of these rumors, Mrs. Chen's mentality is still good, she said to the majority of netizens:
"As far as I know, most Taiwanese are still good, they are as close to the motherland as I am, and they love their identity as the descendants of the Chinese people, so instead of believing the slander of outsiders, why not listen to the voices of their compatriots?"
Yes, Mrs. Chen's words are worth pondering, in the current environment, people's anger is getting heavier, which is understandable, but I also hope that everyone will not vent their dissatisfaction on their compatriots, especially Taiwanese compatriots like Mrs. Chen, after all, it is not easy for them to return to the motherland, and they are all Chinese like us, right?