Tianzhong Evening News all-media reporter Li Chenxi
"On November 27, 1950, my great-uncle died on the Korean battlefield, and we still don't know whether he was in a foreign country or has returned to the embrace of the motherland! Generations of ours have been looking for news about him, hoping to help us find our loved ones through media reports, the martyr Zhang Hengyuan. On September 2, citizen Liu Quan asked reporters for help through the Tianzhong Evening News video douyin (tzwbxmt).
Liu Quan (center) watches the live broadcast of the burial ceremony of the eighth batch of martyrs in the Korean Volunteer Army with the elderly Zhang Hengzhi
On September 2, the ROK handed over 109 martyrs to the Chinese side, and in the ROK Chinese the remains and related relics of the martyrs of the People's Volunteer Army, and another group of heroes and martyrs returned to the embrace of the motherland. Four of the seventh batch of martyrs who returned to China in 2020 officially confirmed that they had found relatives, of which the martyr Zhan Zhizhong was from Xincai County, Zhumadian City, Henan Province. Tianzhong Evening News New Media first published this news on the Douyin platform, and caused strong concern in the society.
Upon hearing this news, Liu Quan's 85-year-old fourth uncle Zhang Hengzhi was very excited, and he once again ignited the urgent hope of finding zhang Hengyuan, who sacrificed his eldest brother in the DPRK, and hoped that he could personally "see" his brother in his lifetime. By this year, he had been looking for news about his eldest brother Zhang Hengyuan for 71 years.
On September 3, the reporter followed Liu Quan to Tunzhuang Village, Luozhuang Village, Shunhe Street, Yicheng District, and met Zhang Hengzhi, an 85-year-old man. Seeing the reporter, he quickly took out the small book he had been treasured, which contained some information about his brother that he had inquired about in many ways over the years.
The reporter listened to the story of the martyr Zhang Hengyuan
Martyr Zhang Hengyuan was born in October 1920, joined the army in January 1947, participated in the Liberation War, and during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he was incorporated into the 175th Regiment of the 59th Division of the 20th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army as a squad leader. He went to Fight in Korea in early November 1950 and was killed in the Battle of South Hamgyong on November 27 at the age of 30.
Martyr Zhang Hengyuan in 1950. This photo was taken by him in Shanghai before he went to the Korean battlefield and sent it to his family.
"My brother is not married, this photo was taken by my brother in Shanghai, and he went to North Korea not long after the photo was taken, and this photo was sent to his home before he left." I was about 14 years old at the time, and in the letter he mainly told his family about going to Korea to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Who knows how long it didn't take for him to die, and when the martyr's certificate was issued, the family was very sad, and we always wanted to know where he was buried. Zhang Hengzhi said that his mood began to decline.
Information about martyr Zhang Hengyuan on the China Heroic Martyrs Online.
After the death of the eldest brother Zhang Hengyuan, Zhang Hengzhi looked for clues about his brother in many ways, but did not find too much valid information. He once wanted to go to South Korea through a tour group to see if it was possible to find his brother's ashes. He also thought about whether to go to Shenyang to check, maybe his brother's ashes had been buried in the martyrs' cemetery there. But he was getting older, more and more powerless, and felt that there was little hope, but he did not want to find his brother all the time.
The old man fell into the thought of his brother.
Zhang Hengzhi has 7 brothers and sisters in his family, and four brothers Zhang Hengyuan is the eldest. Now, the four brothers are left with him, and he feels that it is his greatest wish to find his brother Zhang Hengyuan in this life. "This time, 109 heroes and martyrs in Korea and China returned to the embrace of the motherland, and I heard that a martyr in Xincai confirmed that he had found relatives, and I felt that there was hope again." I believe that the country will not forget them, let alone abandon them. Zhang Hengzhi's eyes were very firm.
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