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A Taiwanese veteran returned to his hometown in Jiangsu to visit relatives, and accidentally got drunk and talked about his experience back then, his daughter: "You are a soldier of the Communist Party?"
In 2002, a Taiwanese veteran named Zuo Zhichao, accompanied by his daughter, returned to Jiangsu Province to reunite with his family he hadn't seen for many years. Because he hadn't seen him for many years, Zuo Zhichao was so excited that he held a banquet with relatives and friends in his hometown and got drunk.
didn't think about this drunkenness, and revealed a big secret. After Zuo Zhichao woke up, his daughter asked even more eagerly: "According to what you said when you were drunk, you are considered a soldier of the Communist Party?"
What kind of bizarre experience did Zuo Zhichao have? Is he really a fighter of the Communist Party?
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Returning home to visit relatives
A Taiwanese veteran returned to his hometown in Jiangsu to visit relatives, and accidentally got drunk and talked about his experience back then, his daughter: "You are a soldier of the Communist Party?"
In 2002, Zuo Zhichao, a Taiwanese veteran who was already in his prime, returned to his hometown of Jiangsu again accompanied by his daughter to visit the few remaining relatives in his hometown. Although at the end of the 80s, Zuo Zhichao took advantage of the change in policy and had already returned to his hometown once and met his brothers and sisters. But more than ten years have passed, and Zuo Zhichao, who is getting older, has not only not decreased, but has become deeper and deeper.
So at the beginning of the new century, he and his adult daughter returned to the mainland again, leading his descendants to witness the place where he once lived. After successfully arriving at their hometown, Zuo Zhichao's father and daughter were warmly welcomed by the eldest brother and sister's family. I haven't seen them for many years, and several old people seem to have endless words in their chests, and there seems to be an indescribable sadness lingering all over their bodies.
finally got together, and the brother and sister held a grand reception banquet for Zuo Zhichao. On top of the banquet, Zuo Zhichao picked up his wine glass, swallowed the spicy alcohol in one gulp, and told his relatives in his hometown about what he had experienced over the years. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the banquet has come to an end. Driven by the mood of returning home, Zuo Zhichao drank a little too much and was confused.
He still talked about his experiences with his relatives back home, but because he was drunk, his speech was intermittent and a little confused.
After discovering her father's abnormality, the daughter on the side immediately went to her side and prepared to place him properly. But she didn't expect that this small act would make her accidentally learn the secret that her father had hidden for many years.
It turned out that after getting drunk, Zuo Zhichao muttered that he had joined the New Fourth Army and accepted the leadership of the Communist Party of China. When her daughter heard this, she couldn't help but be shocked and didn't know how to react. In her impression, her father was a soldier who served the Taiwanese government, and he should have been hostile to the Communist Party, and it could be said that he was an enemy who was incompatible with the Communist fighters. Why does Zuo Zhichao have two completely different identities on his body? Is he talking nonsense or is it really something?
Soon after he sobered up, Zuo Zhichao received an inquiry from his daughter: "Are you a soldier of the Communist Party?"
Her daughter's inquiry surprised Zuo Zhichao, who had just regained his senses, and he didn't know how to answer. After pondering for a while, Zuo Zhichao said slightly angrily: "I have said it many times, knowing that these things are not good for you, I will not ask anymore!"
Although his father did not give a definite answer, his strange attitude undoubtedly confirmed his conjecture from the side. Zuo Zhichao's daughter began to be more and more curious about her father's identity and his life experience.
In 2008, Taiwan launched a documentary film program for veterans who had traveled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek. The Taiwan government hopes to show the life trajectory of these veterans in Taiwan through documentaries, so that more people can know the stories of these special people.
Under this premise, Zuo Zhichao's daughter began to persuade her father to tell her story many times.
Zuo Zhichao was very resistant to this matter, and he didn't want to involve his daughter and family in related affairs, but he finally relented under his daughter's constant advice.
In order to explain his life experience to his daughter, Zuo Zhichao took his daughter to the beach. Facing the DVD footage in his daughter's hand, Zuo Zhichao, who had gray temples, raised his finger and pointed to Kinmen Island, which seemed to be far away from the sea, and said: "I came to Taiwan from here! My life in Taiwan should start here!"
Finally, this old man who never talked about the past in the past took off his guard, and his daughter finally knew Zuo Zhichao's twists and turns in his life.
Was Zuo Zhichao a soldier of the Communist Party? How did he come to Taiwan and become a veteran of Taiwan?
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A Taiwanese veteran returned to his hometown in Jiangsu to visit relatives, and accidentally got drunk and talked about his experience back then, his daughter: "You are a soldier of the Communist Party?"
In 1930, Zuo Zhichao was born in an ordinary farming family in Jiangsu. As the second boy in the family, Zuo Zhichao's arrival made the family extremely happy. Because at that time, the more boys in the family, the more labor they had, which made life easier for the family.
A few years later, Zuo's parents gave birth to another girl, which added a lot of burden to this already small family. Because of this, Zuo Zhichao did not get the opportunity to go to school, and began to join the family at a very young age, hoping to share some pressure for his parents.
Although Zuo Zhichao has tried his best to reduce the pressure on his family, with the change of the domestic situation, the life of the Zuo family is becoming more and more difficult. Because of the large population in the family, eating has become a big problem, and my younger sister always complains that she can't eat enough. In order to keep his younger brother and sister from surviving because of food as much as possible, the slightly older brother took the initiative to split up and began to live alone.
But the elder brother's sensibility failed to make the situation of the Zuo family better, and as Jiangsu fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders, the Zuo family fell into the most dangerous situation. After the Japanese invaders occupied Jiangsu, they used the puppet regime to collect a large amount of peasant land. The amount of land owned by the Zuo family itself is very limited, and it is not even enough to provide food for their own family.
After the land was taken away by the puppet regime, the Zuo family completely lost their economic resources. Soon the left father fell seriously ill and was bedridden, and the old man in the family also died in pain because he had no money for treatment. The only adult in the Zuo family who can still devote himself to labor is Zuo Zhichao's mother.
In order to support this extremely difficult family, Zuo Zhichao and his sister always took the initiative to help their mother work and dedicate their meager labor. Because he was still a minor, Zuo Zhichao was inconvenient to devote himself to activities such as land reclamation, so he had to help his mother do some other labor. Once, after harvesting a lot of cabbage, my mother asked Zuo Zhichao to carry it to the town to sell.
Zuo Xing rushed to the town with cabbage on his back, but met a group of soldiers of the puppet regime halfway through. The group of soldiers stopped Zuo Zhichao and said that he wanted to buy all the cabbage, and ordered him to follow everyone to send the vegetables to the barracks.
Zuo Zhichao was too young to suspect him at all, and immediately followed the pair of puppet government soldiers. As a result, when he arrived at the barracks, the soldiers refused to let him go, nor did they want to pay for food. Later, it was difficult to distract the soldiers, and Zuo Zhichao escaped from the barracks and returned home.
This experience made the young Zuo Zhichao deeply feel the helplessness of the troubled times, and he couldn't help but have the idea of joining the army to protect his family and the country. But he is not willing to join the puppet government army and be a sinner who only knows how to dump the common people. Therefore, he could only give up this desire for the time being and be a good farmer's child.
In 1943, the troops of the New Fourth Army came to Zuo Zhichao's hometown in the guerrilla struggle against the Japanese invaders. Because of the shortage of personnel, the New Fourth Army launched a large-scale recruitment campaign in Zuo Zhichao. He had hoped to serve the country in the army, but he finally waited for this day. After saying goodbye to his family, Zuo Zhichao joined the New Fourth Army and began his military career.
Although he joined the army very late and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was almost coming to an end, this did not prevent Zuo Zhichao from growing up in the army. With a simple heart, brave and resolute, he soon showed his outstanding combat ability. In several successive battles, Zuo Zhichao has contributed very good combat performances.
In one battle, in order to break through the enemy's defenses, he even proposed a plan to jump into the enemy's defensive positions with explosives tied to himself. His comrades-in-arms dissuaded him: "You are too young to do such a risky act!"
But Zuo Zhichao responded firmly: "As long as you go to the battlefield, don't talk about age, don't care who is older and who is small!"
It was precisely because of this fearless fighting spirit that the party organization quickly recognized his efforts, incorporated him into the party, and became an honorable party member.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zuo Zhichao's unit was dispatched to conduct the Kinmen landing operation. Due to the lack of experience and misjudgment in landing on the island, the Kinmen operation ended in failure. The Kinmen landing troops, including Zuo Zhichao, were either killed in the battle or captured by the Nationalist troops.
Zuo Zhichao, who was only 19 years old, and a few comrades-in-arms were imprisoned by the enemy. In order to save their lives, many fighters tore up their party membership cards to prevent the enemy from discovering their true identities. In a panic, Zuo Zhichao also tore up and swallowed his party membership card, eliminating the fact that he had joined the Communist Party.
Zuo Zhichao and others were arrested by the Nationalist Army, but how did he arrive in Taiwan? Why did he join the Taiwan Nationalist Army?
Exiled to Taiwan
A Taiwanese veteran returned to his hometown in Jiangsu to visit relatives, and accidentally got drunk and talked about his experience back then, his daughter: "You are a soldier of the Communist Party?"
During their detention, the Nationalist Army interrogated Zuo Zhichao and others several times. For those fighters who were suspected of being communists, they carried out frenzied beatings and interrogations, hoping to obtain more information related to our party. Because Zuo Zhichao had already destroyed his party membership card, when he was interrogated, he always said that he had only recently joined the People's Liberation Army and did not know important information. The enemy, bewitched by his immature face, let him go.
Soon after, Nationalist forces brought the PLA prisoners, who had been tried fruitlessly, back to the island of Taiwan. Because of his performance during the interrogation, Zuo Zhichao was not recognized by the Taiwan National Army as a member of our party and was not strictly controlled and monitored. In order to strengthen its own island defense force as much as possible, Taiwan's national army began to recruit people from all over the world to join the army.
Even Zuo Zhichao, the former People's Liberation Army, was forcibly stuffed into the national army. After entering the barracks of the Taiwan National Army, Zuo Zhichao felt unprecedented pain. In order to ensure that his thinking was not "infected" by the PLA, the leaders of the national army always conducted ideological education and relevant tests on him from time to time.
In order to pass the test smoothly and save his life, Zuo Zhichao could only lie again and again. As a communist fighter, such a day of disagreement made him very tormented. Its ideological baggage has also become heavier and heavier with the passage of time.
In 1966, Zuo Zhichao was finally discharged from the army and was relieved. Under the arrangement of the army, he entered a local steel mill in Taiwan. At that time, he had already changed from a young man to a middle-aged man. But because of his years in the army, he hasn't even been in love once.
But God still seems to favor this middle-aged man with a rough life, and in the steel mill, Zuo Zhichao met his future wife.
His wife was married in her early years, and because her husband died of illness, it was very difficult for her to live alone with two children. Zuo Zhichao has a lot of intersections with her because of work. He is simple by nature, and in his spare time, he will always take the initiative to help this equally poor woman and reduce the burden of life for her.
After going back and forth, two people who were tormented by life came together. A middle-aged old bachelor and a divorced woman got married smoothly. After marriage, his wife gave birth to a son and a daughter for Zuo Zhichao, which gave Zuo Zhichao, who was separated from his family, with hope for life.
But the past life experience has always made Zuo Zhichao always carry a heavy ideological baggage. He did not dare to tell his wife and children that he was a Communist Party member, for fear of causing trouble to his wife and children. But the feeling of being forced to leave his homeland and unable to return, and being contrary to his ideals, always made him very painful.
Therefore, in the eyes of his wife and children, Zuo Zhichao always looks depressed and lonely, with many secrets. His daughter was very curious about this, and always pestered her father to tell her past. But Zuo Zhichao always sternly refused and was unwilling to mention related matters.
In 1987, after decades of separation, the two sides of the strait were finally eased, and the Taiwan government began a friendly exchange of visits between the two sides of the strait.
After Zuo Zhichao learned of this, he immediately began to contact his comrades-in-arms and returned to his hometown of Jiangsu together. After returning to his hometown, Zuo Zhichao was shocked by the changes in his hometown, and after a lot of searching, he finally found his sister and eldest brother.
This return to his hometown has relieved Zuo Zhichao's strong thoughts and feelings that have been trapped on the island for decades. It wasn't until 2002 that he returned to his hometown again accompanied by his daughter, and accidentally let her daughter learn his secret.
Facing the camera, Zuo Zhichao said that he didn't tell his family secrets because he was afraid that it would not affect them well. Afterwards, he even wrote "Do Not Disturb" on the door of his home, refusing to communicate with the media.
In 2011, Zuo Zhichao passed away. His daughter took half of the ashes back to Jiangsu for burial in accordance with her will, so that this old man who had a life of ups and downs could be completely laid to rest.
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