In 2005, Wang Wenti, the youngest son of Wang Jingwei, who was engaged in bridge construction in Hong Kong, paid special respects to his parents. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, many places built kneeling statues of traitors, bound their hands, bowed their heads and knelt in front of the bodies of fallen soldiers, and accepted the scorn of the world, Wang Jingwei was one of them.
As a son, Wang Wenti made a special trip to the kneeling statue of his parents, and when he saw the kneeling portrait of his parents, he was full of tears, he did not exonerate his parents, and was silent for a long time, before slowly saying a sentence that surprised everyone present: "If you do something wrong, you will be punished."
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > return to the hometown to worship the ancestors and understand the great righteousness</h1>
In 2005, at the age of 77, Wang Wenti chose to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors and worship his parents. No one knows why, in his old age, he chose to worship his parents in his old age.
Therefore, some people speculate that before this, because he had no face to face his father and elders in his hometown, he had never worshipped his parents, perhaps because he had a premonition that his limit was coming, and hoped to see his parents in the last few years of his life.
When he saw the kneeling portrait of his parents, he was silent, kneeling in front of the kneeling statue of his parents, only silently weeping. He could not understand why his father betrayed the country and the people, nor could he eliminate the evidence of his father's guilt, but could only watch his father accept the insults of the world in such a humiliating posture.
At the end of the worship, he sat quietly on the couch alone, thinking for a long time, and when asked him if he was okay, he said: I know that my father has committed a great sin, he is a sinner of the nation and history, this is the punishment he deserves, and there is no need to justify.
Wang Wenti slowly stood up, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, went out and bowed deeply to his father and elder who came to see him, and then hurriedly left his hometown and went to Hong Kong to spend his old age.
His words show his nurture and knowledge, he did not resent the country, nor did he defend his father, and compared between the parental upbringing and the patriotism of the country, it is clear that he chose the latter. After all, no one would be able to say such profound words as he did before his parents knelt before they knelt down.
When he said, "If you do something wrong, you will be punished," it can also be regarded as re-characterizing Wang Jingwei's traitorous behavior. Throughout the ages, those who betrayed the country and sought glory never had a good end, when Qin Yu accepted bribes and caused Yue Fei to die unjustly, he knelt in front of Yue Fei's statue and knelt for a thousand years.
Wang Jingwei's behavior was much more serious than Qin's, betraying the nation and the country, and only kneeling for a few decades, which was far from enough.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > betray the country and invite assassination</h1>
In 1928, Wang Wenti was born in France, he was the youngest son of Wang Jingwei, and when he was born, Wang Jingwei chose to go to France in order to save himself from the Kuomintang political arena.
In 1929, when the anti-Chiang kai-shek movement in China reached its climax, Wang Jingwei sent Chen Gongbo to China first to carry out military and political opposition to Chiang Kai-shek, and then returned to China with his wife Chen Bijun, leaving Wang Wenti, who was less than one year old, and other children in France.
Later, under the auspices of Wang Jingwei, the Guangzhou National Government was established, and the legitimacy of the Nanjing National Government to which Chiang Kai-shek belonged was denied.
However, when Japan invaded China, he chose to surrender to Japan, and the Wang Jingwei government used its privilege to hunt down and kill some patriots in the war zone, and also propagated the idea of the "East Asian Alliance" to the people in the war zone, hoping to sabotage the anti-Japanese national united front.
Japan's "political bombing" and "fatigue bombing" of Chongqing in our country were also put forward by Wang Jingwei, and such bombing occurred 10 times during the War of Resistance Against Japan, causing serious losses to the local people, especially the mental damage and fear caused to the people, which were difficult to heal for a long time.
A villager who had experienced the bombing described the scene of that year: the plane flew very low, and on the hill the pilots could be seen wearing glasses and hats, holding newspapers in one hand and operating the plane to shoot downwards with the other, killing and injuring countless people.
It was this desperate allegiance to Japan that caused the dissatisfaction of many patriots and caused him misfortune.
After a central committee finished taking pictures, suddenly a person rushed out of the crowd and fired three shots at Wang Jingwei, although he was rushed to the hospital for treatment and took out two bullets, but because the last shot hit the spine, it could not be removed, only to leave the shell in the body.
In the end, it was also because of this shell that it caused inflammation of the periosteum, and finally died on the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the remains returned home and the graves were bombed</h1>
Before his death, in his Japanese hospital bed, the dying Wang Jingwei could no longer see the outside view, because the Japanese were attacked by Allied forces, and they had to retreat to the basement of the hospital.
He knew that his time was short, so he called Chen Bijun to his side and said two words with the little strength he had left: "I want to go back to China, and I will be buried next to Mr. Zhongshan after I die." He swallowed his last breath.
Chen Bijun listened to Wang Jingwei's last words, brought his body back to China, and buried it next to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, at the same time she knew that Wang Jingwei's crimes would definitely cause hatred among many people, so when sealing the tomb, she asked to mix 5 tons of broken iron and concrete, pour the tomb, and build the tomb extremely strong.
However, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Jingwei, as a traitor during the war, although he was dead, was not indignant, and he was buried next to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, so they demanded that Wang Jingwei's tomb be blown up and a kneeling statue was built for him and his wife Chen Bijun.
After Wang Jingwei's death, his wife Chen Bijun hid in Guangzhou and secretly built her own "independent kingdom", and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, she was imprisoned and tried in a local prison. On the day of the trial, the court was full of people, all local people, and Chen Bijun's attitude when he was tried was arrogant and unreasonable.
When the judge called her name, she said, "Did you also call my name?" Dr. Sun Yat-sen never called me by my name. ”
At the public trial, she actually did not admit that the Wang puppet government had betrayed the country and ridiculed the judge, but the evidence was conclusive, she was still sentenced to life imprisonment, and she was not at peace in prison, often scolding the prison guards, making a lot of noise, and asking her children to come to see her, but at that time, her children were either far away from the mainland or in prison, and only her daughter Wang Wenyu had seen her.
In 1959, Chen Bijun died of pneumonia and heart disease in the prison hospital, and his ashes were taken away by his youngest son, Wang Wenti, who was in Hong Kong at the time.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > father dies and goes their separate ways</h1>
After Wang Jingwei's death, not only was his wife punished, but Wang Jingwei's 5 children were implicated to varying degrees.
Wang Jingwei and his wife Chen Bijun had a total of 6 children, but one died shortly after birth, including the eldest son Wang Wenbao, who was born in France in 1913, when Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun had to leave their newborn son in France and entrust it to their friend Fang Junying because they wanted to return to China to participate in the revolution.
When taking the name, it is said that "Ying" and "baby" are homophonous, so the name of the eldest son is Wang Jingwei to thank his friend.
Wang Wennian later studied in Germany, returned to China to serve in the Wang puppet government, and later after the death of his father, secretly flew to the United States for refuge, spent his life in the United States, he never mentioned his parents during his time in the United States, until after his death, the world did not see his real name from his tombstone.
The eldest daughter, Wang Wenyi, when her father surrendered to Japan, did not approve of her father's approach, secretly participated in anti-Japanese activities without her parents, she had a generous personality, did not hide her identity, in the early days of the founding of New China, engaged in education in Hong Kong, but it may also be because of her father's reasons, after retirement, followed her eldest brother to the United States.
The second daughter, Wang Wenbin, was kidnapped when she was a child because of Wang Jingwei's status, and after the founding of New China, with the help of her eldest brother, she arrived in the United States, and later became a nun in her later years, probably because she saw through life.
The youngest daughter, Wang Wenke, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, sorted out historical manuscripts for her father in the puppet government, and after the founding of New China, she was not influenced by her father, and later became a professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Hong Kong, teaching Hong Kong students Chinese culture.
Unlike his brothers and sisters hiding around, Wang Wenti has a different life.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > deeply implicated and serving the country</h1>
Of all the children, only the youngest son, Wang Wenti, was affected by his parents' treason.
Wang was born in France in 1928, when ignorant children did not know that their father was a traitor to the nation. He moved west to Chongqing with his father and worked in Wang Jingwei's puppet government, where he entered the military academy on behalf of his father for enslaved military education.
As a result, he was convicted of adultery in 1946, but was sentenced to only one year and six months in prison, suspended for five years.
Life in prison was not good, because because of his father, he was often treated unfairly, the work was divided into the heaviest, and he ate less than others. But because of his active reform in prison, he was released from prison a year later.
Because of the influence of the birth environment and the educational environment, Wang Wenti did not have the same timid and cowardly character as his father, he was brave and generous, dared to admit his mistakes, after his release from prison, he did not hate the country, but returned to the embrace of the motherland, engaged in the construction industry, and contributed to the construction of a country that was in urgent need of reconstruction.
Later, Wang Wenti chose to go to Hong Kong after his release from prison, he lived anonymously in Hong Kong, because he was intoxicated with architecture, he chose to stay away from politics and study hard, in order to make up for his academic deficiencies, he often picked up the lamp to read at night and studied diligently.
In this way, after more than ten years of painstaking research, he broke through to the University of Hong Kong, trained many architectural talents for the country, and became a world-famous bridge expert.
In the 1980s, with the beginning of reform and opening up and with the support of state policies, Wang Wenti began to invest. With the money earned from architectural design, he injected capital vitality into the national enterprises that were developing at that time, and under his leadership, many Hong Kong people also began to be optimistic about the mainland economy.
In public, Wang Wenti never mentioned his father, nor did he argue for him. For history, Wang Wenti did not refute it, he respected the truth of history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary:</h1>
As the son of Wang Jingwei, the knowledge he learned from childhood allowed him to trust the motherland and devote himself to the construction of the motherland when the family and the motherland were in conflict, which was loyal;
In his lifetime, he can abandon distractions and worship his parents, which is filial piety;
When confronted with the kneeling portraits of their parents, without defending their parents, they think of the revolutionaries who died because of their parents.
Each of us has the right to choose, Wang Wenti has no way to choose his own origin, but when he chooses the country and family, he can choose the country without hesitation, he cannot choose for his father, but he can repent for his father, he loves the country for his father, and contributes to the cause of the country.
In the new era, we must also have patriotic feelings, remember the lessons of history for future generations, understand the truth that only a country can have a home, and strive for the construction of the new era.