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Cows, led to Beijing, or cows!
To this day, this is a slang phrase that Taiwanese folk often blurt out in conversations. Although no one can clearly explain the era and circumstances from which this slang was formed. But it makes it concrete: Beijing, across the sea from the Wanzhong Mountains, is concretely connected to the lives of the people of Taiwan, not just an abstract existence.
Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of Taiwan compatriots from Fujian and Guangdong have successively crossed the sea in order to survive, composing one song after another full of bitter songs of crossing The Sea. These ancestors who crossed Taiwan from Tangshan later became "Taiwan compatriots" in the eyes of the original villagers. Then, for the sake of scientific research, business, or because of the political changes of the great era, these Taiwan compatriots who crossed Taiwan from Tangshan were like moray eels who had swam thousands of nautical miles from the Atlantic Sea and fought against the fierce winds and waves to the hometown of their parents, and at different times, for different reasons, returned from Taiwan to Tangshan and came to Beijing.
The Taiwan Guild Hall, which was re-expanded in the middle of nowhere, illustrates the close relationship between Taiwanese and Beijing since the Qing Dynasty. Here, it is conceivable that after the defeat of the Qing court in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Taiwanese people who participated in the examination in Beijing rose up in anger at the time of the discussion of cutting off Taiwan, and immediately joined hands with the Taiwanese jinshi who were serving in the DPRK to write a letter: "Millions of beings are weeping in the north, and the women and children in Luxiang must not want to eat the flesh of the Uighurs, and each has a vendetta against the heavens, who is willing to surrender to the enemy!" Even if the Uighurs threaten to use troops, and the whole Taiwanese are not born with the Uighurs, they are bound to reluctantly support them, and when they are killed, tens of millions of lives are completely eroded and then gone. However, the corrupt and incompetent Qing court ceded Taiwan.
Under Japanese colonial rule, Taiwanese came to Beijing one after another.
In 1913, Lin Xiantang came to Beijing to visit Liang Qichao and ask for advice on the way to resist Japan. Liang told him: Within thirty years, China is powerless to rescue the Taiwanese, and the Taiwanese are invincible to Japan, so they can only imitate the Irish's method of resisting the British, first seeking to relax the pressure, and then obtaining political participation. Liang Qichao's words thus opened up the thinking and practice of this cultural anti-Japanese resistance that was later regarded as the "leader of the anti-Japanese faction of the motherland".
In January 1920, directly influenced by the May Fourth New Culture Movement in Beijing, young Taiwanese students studying in Japan first founded the Xinmin Association in Tokyo, and followed the model of "New Youth" and published the magazine "Taiwan Youth" to carry out enlightenment propaganda of nationalist ideas. The new cultural movement in colonial Taiwan thus flourished. Later, Zhang Wejun, who studied in Beijing, criticized the old literature through the "Taiwan Minbao", and then quoted a series of articles introducing the theoretical propositions of New Chinese Literature in the newspaper, and at the same time successively published the works of famous new literary writers such as Lu Xun and Yisheng as a model for creation, thus launching the New Literary Movement in Taiwan.
In 1925, Taiwan students in Peking advocated linking the fate of Taiwan with the fate of the motherland, relying on the motherland to recover Taiwan, and believed that participating in the founding work of the motherland was the way to rescue Taiwan. Therefore, in addition to those who studied literature, there were also those who switched from Peking University to learn martial arts and made certain contributions to the anti-Japanese military of the motherland.
On July 7, 1937, Japanese imperialism launched the Lugou Bridge Incident and invaded China in an all-round way. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous moment, and as a result, the Chinese nation entered an all-out war of resistance. As the Chinese nation launched an all-out War of Resistance, the people of Taiwan also saw the hope of Taiwan's restoration. Like Zhang Shenshen, one of the main generals of Taiwan's new literary movement, countless young people in Taiwan who "called out to the motherland across the sea" profoundly realized: "If we cannot save the motherland, Taiwan will truly perish, and our hopes are only tied to the rejuvenation of the motherland, and once the motherland dies, we will not only be unable to stop colonization, but even we ourselves will be wiped out by the new imperial people!" Therefore, while the Japanese colonial authorities vigorously launched the imperial people's movement, they risked their lives one after another, sneaked back to the mainland, and actively participated in the ranks of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
On August 15, 1945, Japan accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and declared its unconditional surrender. However, as the writer Zhong Lihe put it, "Beijing after the victory" does not seem to have changed much of the reality of society - the strict Forbidden City still stands tall; the humble beggars still beg in the streets; the dancing hall is still so lively; the sound of mahjong has not stopped; the rich people are soaking in the opera, they are drinking champagne while humming the popular song "Sister I love you"; Gao Dewang is still talking on the radio; and the average housewife still has to frown at the dirty water and dirt of the courtyard... These and those of ordinary life do not change at all. The change in the order of life was only to change the name of the Japanese to "Beijing" after the "July 7" Incident and change it back to the original Beiping; and to slow down the clock that was set by the Japanese by one hour and then by one hour; and so on.
Still, Taiwanese in Beijing were immersed in the ecstasy of returning to the embrace of their homeland with the victory of the War of Resistance. On the evening of August 15, several powerful Taiwan compatriots initiated the establishment of the "Preparatory Meeting for the Taiwan Provincial Luping Hometown Association." At 2 p.m. on September 9, the inaugural meeting of the "Taiwan Provincial Luping Hometown Association" was held at the Xidan Daguang Theater, attended by more than 500 Taiwan compatriots in Beijing, and seven executive members, including Liang Yonglu, Zhang Wejun, and Zhang Shenche, as well as two supervisory committee members, including Su Ziheng, were elected as the president. Since then, the demobilization of the war's backstage compatriots has begun.
On January 14, 1946, the Executive Yuan of the National Government promulgated the "Order on the Centralized Management of Taiwan Compatriots.". On the same day, the newspaper published a telegram from the Central News Agency that "the Executive Yuan approved the publication of the "Measures for the Industrial Handling of Koreans and Taiwanese." After these two orders were disclosed one after another, the brigade platform compatriots, who were originally excited because of their return to the embrace of the motherland, immediately fell into a state of tension of "everyone is in danger" and "every family is uneasy". Some people have stopped their original business as a result, some people have sold their property cheaply, and some people have even been robbed by local unscrupulous elements... Historical mistakes eventually caused the local general public to misunderstand that "Taiwanese are also Japanese" because they did not understand Taiwan, so that they developed a contemptuous psychology towards Taiwanese... Because of this encounter, Zhong Li, who was still in Beijing at the time, wrote down the sad mood of the white potato with concern:
"Peking is big. With its humility and greatness, it can embrace everything. But if you are known to be Taiwanese, it is very bad. Unfortunately, it was tantamount to a death sentence. At that time, you must really feel that Peiping is so narrow, so narrow that it cannot hide you... Therefore, the Taiwanese in the Pingjin area hid Taiwan! White potato, a synonym for Taiwanese and Taiwanese, has become a code word and has been used by Taiwanese in Pingjin and Tianjin! There are no Taiwanese in Beiping, but there are white potatoes!...... Sweet potatoes can't speak, but they have bitterness! Autumn is the season of wind and rain, and it is at this time that the sweet potatoes ripen. Be careful not to let the rain soak the roots of the sweet potato. In this way, the sweet potato will rot from the heart! Rotten heart - that's when the sweet potato is bitter!"
In 1949, history finally turned the page that made the sweet potato rotten. In the new China, where the two sides of the strait are separated, the Taiwanese people continue to write a new chapter of history on the mainland of the motherland, some of which are glorious and some of which are aggrieved. But the great wheel of history will eventually continue to move forward, and it will not be able to indulge in personal grievances. In 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress issued the "Message to Taiwan Compatriots". The heavy responsibility of writing a new page of history has then fallen on the shoulders of a new generation of mainland Taiwanese.
Over the past four decades, the Taiwanese, who have been isolated from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait for a long time, have jointly composed a new historical song for the reconstruction of the common homeland between the two sides of the strait through the hard work of successive colleagues of the Taiwan Compatriots Association. I would like to congratulate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the All-China Association of Taiwan Compatriots.
The first plenary meeting of Taiwan compatriots in the whole country