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On the afternoon of June 7, 1993, a 90-year-old Taiwan compatriot in Beijing (the old Taiwan Communist Party Wang Biguang, who was originally from Fengyuan), took the initiative to lead me to a wooden house in a hutong near Wangfujing, and then on the second floor of the headquarters of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, which was once chaired by Xie Xuehong, I listened to and recorded Mr. Lin Weimin's account of the life history of his father, Lin Zhengheng. Later, at the invitation of New Congress magazine, I published the < the first Taiwanese to be executed in the September issue of the White Terror Feature Report--- the legendary > of the 21st Lin Zhengheng of the Wufeng Lin family.
The ancestor of the Wufeng Lin family was the 14th Lin Shi (1729-1788), who was imprisoned for implicating the rebellion of Lin Shuangwen of the Pinghe clan in Zhangzhou. In the 17th lin dingbang and Lin Dianguo brothers, the Lin family became local tycoons for the first time. This branch of Lin Dianguo is the so-called "top house" known as the "top house" of his Grandson Lin Dedication Hall. Lin Dingbang is the ancestor of the so-called "lower house".
Lin Dingbang's eldest son, Lin Wencha (1828-1864), was posthumously awarded the title of hereditary knight lieutenant by the Qing court for his merits in pacifying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with Zuo Zongtang.
Lin Wencha's eldest son, Lin Chaodong (1851-1903), was given the title of "Erpin Official" for leading the "Dong Army" to repel the invading French army. After the Qing court cut off Taiwan, he was ordered to cross the family internally, but still stayed in Taiwan as his third son Lin Zumi (1878-1925), who had a strong personality, while managing a huge industry and secretly aiding the anti-Japanese rebels.
Lin Chaodong (Photo courtesy of Lin Guanghui)
After the fall of Taiwan, Lin Zumi resolutely moved to Gulangyu Island. He enthusiastically supported Sun Yat-sen's National Revolution, became the first Taiwan compatriot to restore Chinese nationality after the Xinhai Revolution, joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party, funded and established the anti-Yuan Patriotic Army in southern Fujian, and in 1918 was appointed by Grand Marshal Sun Yat-sen as the commander of the National Revolutionary Army in Southern Fujian.
After the defeat of the rebels in various parts of Taiwan, Lin Zumi still spared no effort to support the anti-Japanese restoration movement of the Taiwan compatriots. In 1923, the Beiyang warlord Sun Chuanfang entered Fujian. He resigned and took the road of "saving the country through industry and benefiting the country and the people"; two years later, he was killed on the way to inspect the river dredging project.
According to Mr. Lin Guanghui, the grandson of Lin Zumi, in order to completely eliminate the influence of the Lin Zumi family in Taiwan, the Japanese colonial rulers began to deliberately reverse the title and "degrade" the house of Lin Dingbang as "xiacuo".
Lin Zumi had nine sons. The eldest son, Lin Zhengxiong, inherited his father's ambitions and led his troops to fight the warlords, but was seriously injured and blind in both eyes. Subsequently, the responsibility for practicing Lin Chaodong's will to recover Taiwan fell on the elder Liu Lin Zhengheng (1915-1950).
In 2005, I met Lin Guanghui. He said that Lin Zhengheng was his sixth uncle, and he had always wanted to get to know me after reading the report I had written. Because his family's history has been deliberately annihilated and distorted since the Japanese occupation (I only knew Lin Xiantang before), he had a sense of mission to publicize the family history of his blind uncle since he was a child; because of this sense of mission, he bought back the original historical materials of his family that had been lost at his own expense for a long time; because of the hundred-year-long loneliness, he who was humble and could not write articles had the habit of seizing the opportunity to speak; because I could listen, and I could understand, and he loved to say what he liked to say, and he saw it with me. Because I often listened to him tell well-founded historical details, I also opened up the second vein of Ren Dou, who understood the history of Taiwan's anti-Japanese movement. For example:
Why is it that Qiu Fengjia can respond in all directions as soon as he ascends to the top and arm the anti-Japanese resistance, especially the Taozhu Miao Hakka Zhuang is particularly fierce? Is it really just because the Hakka people have a strong sense of nationality? This is not convincing. Specifically, it is because of the original establishment of the Dong Army, as well as the economic foundation of the Lin family and the various reclamation numbers, Qiu Fengjia, as the sister-in-law of Lin Chaodong (marrying the main card of the god), can have such leadership conditions!
Why was Luo Fuxing, who was born from overseas Chinese, quickly gather a large number of cadres and masses and launch an anti-Japanese uprising in the remote and conservative Hakka Village of Miaoli Great Lake? This should still be through Lin Zumi and the support of Lin Chaodong's old forces! Because, in 1886, Lin Chaodong was ordered by Liu Mingchuan to enter the Great Lake with the "Commander of the Middle Road" and at the same time initiated the creation of the All Saints Palace (donated by Jin He Chengken) to enshrine the Guansheng Emperor; two years later, the temple was completed, and the local people "simultaneously honored the commander Lin Gong Changsheng Lu to the throne to commemorate merit." ......
Photo courtesy of: Mr. Lin Guanghui
I like to listen to the slightly drunk Lin Guanghui vividly tell the story of the Lin Wencha family that cannot be seen in the books. I was also able to fully understand his family's century-longing loneliness and its desire to tell, so I often introduced him to some friends in the cultural world. But many people, after listening to his passionate recounting of a history that is difficult for ordinary people to understand, always have to wonder, "Is this man in the water?"
A few years ago, Li Gang came to me because he wanted to make a movie on the theme of "Taiwan Communist Party". I made an appointment with Lin Guanghui to meet together. It is hard to imagine that Li Gang, the so-called "second generation of other provinces" who had not yet started the history of Taiwan at that time, was actually attracted by lin Guanghui's family history, and he fell into it day by day, unable to extricate himself, and finally made the century-old lonely history of the Ah Hood Wu Lin family into a documentary film "A Hood Fog Storm".
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