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Xie Bingying, a female writer with a similar name to Bingxin "May Fourth".
But unlike Bingxin, Xie Bingying was a war writer, a woman who seemed completely rebellious at the time.
In Xie Bingying's life, she has served in the army twice, endured prison three times, and escaped her original fiancé four times, which can be called a legendary and tortuous experience.
But in her later years, Xie Bingying lived a wandering and lonely life, and finally died in the United States, leaving her last words hoping that her bones would not be buried in another country.
What kind of life does Xie Bingying, known as the "new Mulan", live?
"Mother, I'm going to study! I'm going to school! ”
Twelve-year-old Xie Bingying turned her head, didn't look at her mother's face, and said stubbornly.
Mother Xie looked at Xie Bingying's iron-hearted hunger strike, sighed heavily, bent down and wanted to turn Xie Bingying's body around, but Xie Bingying's small body was tense and stiff.
In the end, Xie Mu still picked up the food that had not been touched on the ground at all and left slowly.
At this time, Xie Bingying turned her head, looked at her mother's figure staggering away step by step, her eyes fell on the pair of "three-inch golden lotus" on her mother's feet, and she secretly swore in her heart.
"I must not be a 'talentless' woman like my mother!"
In 1906, Xie Bingying was born in a scholarly family in Xinhua County, Hunan Province. Under the influence of her family, Xie Bingying loved to read at a young age, and was familiar with books such as Tang poetry and historical records.
Under Xie Bingying's plea to her grandmother, Xie Bingying entered a private school at the age of 11 and became the only female student in the private school at that time.
But when Xie Bingying completed all the courses in the private school a year later and hoped to enter Datong Girls' School, she was sternly rejected by her feudal and conservative mother.
Therefore, there was a scene of Xie Bingying's hunger strike.
Unlike her mother, who has been trapped in the back house all her life, Xie Bingying has always longed for the outside world, and in her mother's eyes, she is a stubborn and disobedient child.
Finally, under Xie Bingying's three-day hunger strike, Xie's mother was forced to relent, and Xie Bingying entered Datong Girls' School to study.
On the first day of school, Xie Bingying took off the thick footcloth on her feet and threw it into the trash.
But soon after entering the school, Xie Bingying was persuaded to quit because she organized students to march in the school with the slogan "Down with imperialism, down with the warlords."
At this time, Xie Bingying's "rebellion" has been fully displayed.
After returning home, her conservative mother dissuaded Xie Bingying many times, hoping that she could stay at home obediently, learn to do needlework, and prepare to get married. In the face of her mother's obstruction, Xie Bingying's attitude was extremely firm.
"I want to study, not to marry!"
In the end, under the persuasion of Xie Bingying's father, Xie's mother still relented, and Xie Bingying was admitted to the Hunan Provincial First Girls' Normal School.
But during the period of studying, Xie's mother always wrote many times to ask Xie Bingying to go home and get married, which made Xie Bingying feel extremely distressed, and it happened that at this time, an opportunity for Xie Bingying to get out came.
In 1926, Xie Bingying was admitted to the Central Political and Military School (Whampoa Military Academy) with the first place, becoming the first batch of female soldiers in history.
Since then, Xie Bingying's military career has officially begun, but Xie Bingying's rebellion does not stop there.
"I was inspired by life and discovered the light."
As for the time in the Whampoa Military Academy, Xie Bingying described it like this. Even though she lived a life as hard as the march in school, she felt incomparably free in spirit.
In 1927, the Northern Expedition broke out.
In May of this year, Xie Bingying was selected and incorporated into the "Iron Army" led by Ye Ting, and accompanied the Northern Expedition.
During this period of military service, Xie Bingying slept on the door panel or straw, and walked eighty or ninety miles every day. But the hard life did not make Xie Bingying's mind dull at all, and whenever she had free time, Xie Bingying used pen and paper to write down what she had seen and heard in the army.
This "Diary of a Soldier", which records blood and war, caused a sensation as soon as it was published. Not only in China, "Soldier's Diary" has been translated into English, French, etc., and has been sold all over the world.
What women saw and heard in the army made foreign countries break the inherent perception of feudal women in China, which brought them a great shock, and Xie Bingying also became famous at home and abroad in one fell swoop.
But soon after the end of the Northern Expedition, the military academy women's team announced its disbandment, and Xie Bingying had no choice but to return home.
And this time, Xie's mother officially gave Xie Bingying a strict order - she must get married.
"If you don't marry, kill me, if you don't kill me, then you kill yourself!"
During this period, Xie Bingying had planned to escape marriage three times, but in the end, her mother found out and took her home to be more closely guarded. As a last resort, Xie Bingying could only pretend to agree to get married.
Soon after the marriage, Xie Bingying fled to Shanghai when the man went out to work, and at the same time announced the dissolution of the marriage in the newspaper, completely getting rid of the shackles of feudal marriage.
escaped marriage four times, so that Xie Bingying's deeds began to be widely known, and became a model for women in the new era at that time.
In 1931, relying on the manuscript fee obtained from creation, Xie Bingying went to Japan to study. But at the end of the year, Xie Bingying was repatriated for organizing a mourning protest.
It was not until 1935 that Xie Bingying came to Japan again to study. But she didn't expect that what was waiting for her this time was a prison sentence.
Because she refused to greet the puppet Manchurian emperor Pu Yi at the time, Xie Bingying was arrested and imprisoned in public.
In fact, this is not the first time Xie Bingying has been arrested and imprisoned.
On the way to escape marriage, Xie Bingying was imprisoned twice as a kidnapper because she was suspected of being a radical and by mistake. But this imprisonment made Xie Bingying's body and mind extremely painful.
In prison, Xie Bingying was subjected to harsh punishments, only three weeks, but almost killed her. After Xie Bingying was released from prison, it took more than a year to recuperate.
At this time, the "Lugou Bridge Incident" made Xie Bingying completely aware of the urgency of resisting Japan, and she really determined what she should do.
At this point, Xie Bingying began her second military career.
Xie Bingying came to Changsha and organized the "Hunan Women's Field Service Group" in only four days, following the Fourth Army led by Wu Qiwei to the front line of the Songhu battlefield.
On the battlefield, Xie Bingying saw a tragic situation that was even more cruel than the Northern Expedition, and a large number of soldiers were killed by the enemy's artillery and planes every day.
"Our brothers will never die, the soldiers will die and the people will die, and the husbands will have their wives after they die."
In Xie Bingying's book, she declared her determination to fight to the death.
After the Battle of Songhu, Xie Bingying took her women's corps and went to Xuzhou again after the "Battle of Taierzhuang" after a short rest. There, Xie Bingying met General Li Zongren. Li Zongren gave Xie Bingying a very high evaluation and praise, and also wrote an inscription for Xie Bingying's new book.
During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the female soldiers led by Xie Bingying appeared in the rear of various battlefields to provide materials and ambulance support for the battle.
knew that the Anti-Japanese War was over, and Xie Bingying's career as a female soldier officially ended.
But after the Anti-Japanese War, Xie Bingying's life suddenly fell into a predicament.
After the war, due to the indiscriminate issuance of currency by the Nationalist Government, the currency depreciated rapidly, and Xie Bingying's salary from writing was pitiful, which was completely insufficient to support the family's life.
After 1949, Xie Bingying came to Taiwan to teach, but after several changes, she never had a stable residence or job. In her later years, Xie Bingying moved to San Francisco, USA.
But in 2000, at the age of 94, Xie Bingying was buried in San Francisco. During the time she lived in the United States, Xie Bingying once left a last word.
"If I die unfortunate enough to die in the United States, cremate me, sprinkle me under the Golden Gate Bridge, and let the waters of the Pacific Ocean take me home."
In the end, Xie Bingying's family followed the will and scattered the ashes into the sea, fulfilling her dream of returning to her hometown.
At this point, the legend of a "new Mulan" has officially come to an end.
Resources
Democracy: Female Soldier Writer Xie Bingying
Xiang Chao: Xie Bingying: China's First Female Soldier Writer
In the same boat: "Xie Bingying: The "New Mulan" of Twice in the Army and then from the Wen
Female soldier writer Xie Bingying-Xinhuanet (xinhuanet.com)