For Wang Jingwei's children, November 10, 1944 was a very painful day, and on this day, in Nagoya, Japan, Wang Jingwei, who had been ill for many days but had not been able to treat him, ended his death and swallowed his last breath.
For thousands of Chinese, the death of the "number one traitor in China" due to illness is undoubtedly good news, but the trajectory of his family, wife Chen Bijun and his five children has also undergone earth-shaking changes.
Where, then, did his children go after his death?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > wang Wenbao, the eldest son of a traitor all his life</h1>
Wang Wenbao, also known as Wang Mengjin, was born in France in 1913. As the eldest son of Wang Jingwei, Wang Wennian can be said to be the most similar to Wang Jingwei among several children, not only looking like Wang Jingwei, but also having a very similar temper and disposition. Correspondingly, he was also most deeply influenced by Wang Jingwei.
Compared with several other siblings, Wang Wennian is a typical clumsy person, as early as the period of study in Germany, his life was very luxurious, the car and the house were fully equipped, and even required the same car as Hitler. After Wang Jingwei rebelled, he also became a traitor.
One of the things he did most during his tenure in the Wang puppet government was to transfer the Wang family's property overseas, so that even after the victory of the War of Resistance, the Wang family would have a way to go.
Unfortunately, people are not as good as heaven, and in 1944, Wang Jingwei fell ill and died in Japan after being assassinated. His wife, Chen Bijun, still wanted to stay on the mainland and wait for the reversal, but she did not expect that before the opportunity to overturn the market came, the War of Resistance had already been won. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Bijun was sentenced to life imprisonment as the "number one female traitor", but she did not confess until she died of illness in prison.
As the eldest son of Wang Jingwei, Wang Wennian has been serving in the Wang puppet government and doing a lot of things to harm the people, so he was also sentenced to "traitor" and imprisoned, and was imprisoned in the same prison as his mother Chen Bijun - Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison.
In prison, Wang Wennian was treated the same as the war criminals at that time, but because of his family's wealth, he used money up and down to make points, so he was not punished particularly severely.
He and his mother Chen Bijun often met, and the two inevitably supported each other, but Chen Bijun's behavior in his early years was very bad, and he always refused to repent. But Wang Wennian was much more sober than his mother, insisting on active reform in prison, and in 1948, Wang Wennian was given a chance to be released from prison on parole early.
After his release from prison, he sold all his Shanghai property to Hong Kong and then to the United States.
In the United States, Wang Wennian has always been afraid of being recognized as Wang Jingwei's son, so he has been careful to live in California anonymously. At this time, the importance of the property he transferred for his parents in the early years was highlighted, and he took all these properties out, bought three cars and three villas in the United States, and lived a very privileged life.
The carefree life did not make him forget his identity, and he never said to anyone that he was Wang Jingwei's son. It wasn't until 2011, when Wang Wennian, who was nearly 100 years old, died that his name was known from the tombstone.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the eldest daughter Wang Wenyi, who actively resisted Japan and taught and educated</h1>
Wang Wenyi is Wang Jingwei's second child, she was born only a year later than Wang Wenbao, she was also born in France. Wang Wenyi was a premature baby, but under the careful care of Wang Jingwei's two friends, she not only did not die prematurely, but also became the longest-lived brother and sister.
Wang Wenyi's personality is somewhat like her mother Chen Bijun, who is resolute and courageous, and very courageous. But unlike Chen Bijun, she and her husband He Mengheng have received a good new-style education, have correct values, and have always been at odds with the political views of Wang Jingwei and his wife. She also participated in the march after the September 18 Incident and actively carried out anti-Japanese propaganda.
After the establishment of the Wang puppet government, Wang Wenyi and his wife always adhered to the great national righteousness and never held any important position, and she even denounced her father's behavior in public many times.
After Wang Jingwei died of illness, Wang Wenyi and her husband moved to Hong Kong. They did not hide their identities in Hong Kong, and still lived an ordinary life, the couple first opened a small flower farm, but soon closed down due to poor management.
At this time, they already had three daughters, in order to make a living, He Mengheng first went to the primary school to teach English, and used his spare time to translate English articles at night to earn extra money. Wang Wenyi also taught himself to sew to supplement his family.
This situation continued until He Mengheng got the letter of appointment of a professor at the University of Hong Kong, Wang Wenyi also got the graduation certificate of the Hong Kong Education Training Class, and the two began to teach successively, and only then did they successfully raise their three daughters.
They sent their three daughters to settle in the United States. In 1981, after He Mengheng retired, the couple also followed their daughters to settle in New Jersey, USA. It is said that in his later years, Wang Wenyi's health was still very healthy, and he dared to ride a horse alone in his 80s, and he could drive himself when he was in his 90s, and he gave up under the persuasion of his children.
Mr. and Mrs. Wang Wenyi did not talk about their parents' affairs like Wang Jingwei's other children, but were interviewed extensively, making a very significant contribution to restoring the historical truth at that time.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > was kidnapped and eventually became the nun's second daughter, Wang Wenbin</h1>
As the second daughter of Wang Jingwei, Wang Wenbin's life can be described as relatively bumpy.
Wang Wenbin was born in Shanghai in 1920, and his nickname was Yuanyuan. Although she and her sister Wang Wenyi opposed her parents' political views, she did not hold a pseudo-position in the Wang puppet government, but settled in Wuxi, living an ordinary civilian life, and also attended classes at the Wuxi Middle School at that time, and thus became acquainted with Xu Xizhen, who was teaching at Wuxi Middle School at that time, and the two soon fell in love.
However, as the daughter of Wang Jingwei, after Wang Jingwei suddenly announced her defection to the enemy, she was still implicated, kidnapped by a group of very irrational gangsters, and suffered many tortures.
According to Xu Xizhen's later recollections, his relationship with Wang Wenbin was just established, Wang Wenbin suddenly disappeared, and later some people said that she was kidnapped to a remote rural area, during which Wang Wenbin suffered great mental trauma, and after more than 20 years, she has always lived the life of an ordinary peasant woman.
Even in such a life situation, she did not mention the name of her father Wang Jingwei, but endured humiliation and burden and lived a secluded life.
After the founding of New China, Nian never followed her father Wang Jingwei in rebellion, and our party government also arranged a job and a place for her to live well on the mainland.
It was not until 1973 that Wang Wenbin immigrated to the United States with the help of his eldest brother Wang Wennian. She and Xu Xizhen never saw each other again until 1986, when Wang Wenbin asked a friend to send a letter to Xu Xizhen, and later they resumed the correspondence. In the days that followed, both of them remained unmarried for life, but they did not renew their frontiers.
After Wang Wenbin settled in the United States, he did not continue to live a dull life, but went to Indonesia to become a doctor, and worked hard to develop himself, and finally sat in the senior director of the Indonesian government's pharmaceutical department.
But Wang Wenbin's life once again had a major turning point, when she was in the political arena and was about to reach the peak, she may be tired of the official arena's intrigues, or maybe she is too old to be physically exhausted, she suddenly like seeing through the red dust, choose to retreat bravely, become a nun with a pure heart, and once again return to a secluded life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > resembles her mother, Wang Wenke, the young daughter of a former professor</h1>
Wang Wenke is the youngest daughter of Wang Jingwei, she was born next to Wang Jingwei in 1922 and has been growing up with Wang Jingwei and his wife since childhood. Wang Jingwei can be described as a pearl for this little daughter, and it is not too much to say that it is a hundred kinds of care, it is simply afraid to melt in the mouth, and it is afraid to fall in the hand.
Growing up in such an environment, Wang Wenke was greatly influenced by her mother, her personality was very similar to Chen Bijun, and she dared to do something, but unlike her two sisters, she chose to follow her father's rebellion and entered the Wang puppet government.
Wang Wenke has been working as Wang Jingwei's secretary in the Wang puppet government, helping his father sort out documents and becoming Wang Jingwei's right-hand man. During her work, she came into contact with many different people, gained a lot of insights, and learned a lot of skills under the guidance of her father, becoming a very capable woman.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Wenke saw that the momentum was not right, and felt that he was about to be in a big trouble, so he quickly packed up his things and fled to Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, she is not held accountable and her life is not high-profile, so there is very little news about her.
But some say she fell in love with a Hong Kong doctor who already had a family in 1947 and was willing to lower her status to live with him. This relationship also seems to be very bumpy, once torturing Wang Wengong to the point where he was often prepared with poison to commit suicide, and finally it was over.
Probably tired of politics, Wang Wenke did not enter politics again after settling in Hong Kong, but her inherited talent from her mother was not buried, and she chose to concentrate on academic research, and even served as a professor at the University of Hong Kong, teaching Chinese culture to Hong Kong students. This also seems to be somewhat ironic.
In 2002, Wang Wengong finally died of illness at the age of 80. Among Wang Jingwei's five children, Wang Wenke is the first to die today, and although he has also lived to the age of old age, he is still the shortest-lived of his siblings.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the youngest son Wang Wenti who had the courage to admit his mistakes and return to his homeland</h1>
In 1928, Wang Jingwei was 45 years old, which was considered to be an advanced age, and Wang Wenti was born in France in this year. Wang Jingwei, who was a young man, under the guidance of his father, aspired to join the army from an early age, and received education in a regular militarized school, the Nanjing Central Army Officer School, and followed his father into the Wang puppet government without understanding.
When Wang Jingwei died, he was only sixteen years old. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Wenti was arrested and imprisoned, and sentenced to one year and six months in prison for the crime of "traitorous crime", but considering that he was still young, he was not yet an adult when he was arrested, and did not cause substantial harm, he was suspended for five years.
After the end of his sentence, Wang Wenwei moved to Hong Kong like his sister Wang Wenke, and also devoted himself to academics, becoming a famous bridge architect in Hong Kong, and later invited to return to the mainland for project cooperation many times, making many contributions to the construction of new China at that time.
In the 1980s, in the wave of reform and opening up, Wang Wenti also made investments, leading many Hong Kong investors to inject vitality into the developing national enterprises and promote the development of New China.
Unlike his older siblings, Wang was the only child who had set foot in his homeland to visit his parents. In 2005, perhaps feeling guilty about the country or feeling that he should visit his parents once, Wang Wenti, 77, returned inland, but the only thing he could worship at this time was the kneeling statue of Wang Jingwei and his wife.
In the face of his parents' kneeling portraits, Wang Wenti's heart was very sad, and he couldn't help but cry uncontrollably, but he knew very well in his heart that such a result was caused by Wang Jingwei and his wife themselves, so he never asked for affection for his parents once, because he knew how unforgivable what they had done was.
In front of the stone statue, he was silent for a long time, and finally said only one sentence - "If you do something wrong, you should be punished."
Wang Wenti was much wiser and more noble than Wang Jingwei and his wife, who had been pursuing power all their lives, and he did not abandon the righteousness of his family and country for his own selfish interests, nor did he refuse to admit the sins of his parents in order to save his reputation and life.
He is loyal to his homeland and filial to his parents, but this filial piety is not foolish filial piety, and he dares to admit the faults of his parents and to take responsibility for them. It can be said that "loyalty" and "filial piety" have been typically embodied in him.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Each of Wang Jingwei's children can be regarded as the dragon and phoenix among people, and their father's rebellion has brought them an indelible impact, but now, that turbulent era has gradually left us, "the disaster is not as good as the children", we can not be too harsh on them.
After all, they have paid their due price for their actions, and after correcting their mistakes, they should also have the right to pursue their own happy life.