Wang Jingwei's life was transformed from an anti-Qing zhishi to a shameless traitor, from an elder of the League and vice president of the Kuomintang to the head of the Japanese puppet regime, and a life of degeneration and degeneration for the sake of power and personal status, but in the first half of his life, he was also admired for his spicy writing, strong personality, firm revolutionary ideas, and lofty appearance.
The middle is Wang Jingwei when he participated in the Peace Talks between the North and the South
After Wang Jingwei surrendered to the enemy, he repeatedly defended his traitorous behavior, believing that he was to "save the country peacefully" and avoid more bloody sacrifices, with the purpose of "preserving vitality and seeking rejuvenation."
These words, which avoid the importance of the heavy and turn black and white upside down, are outright capitulationism, which has fueled the confidence of the Japanese Kou in ruling China and is a continuation of his consistent pessimism, and his wife Chen Bijun has also played a great role in fueling Wang Jingwei's traitorous behavior, just as Chen Gongbo, the second traitor of the Wang puppet regime, said: "Mr. Wang cannot do great things without Chen Bijun, but without Chen Bijun, he cannot do great things." ”
Chen Bijun was a "Wu Zetian" figure in the Wang puppet regime, and Wang Jingwei, whose personality was relegated and hesitant, often relied on Chen Bijun's judgment to make up his mind.
Because the couple jointly defected to the enemy and betrayed the country, starting in 1940, Chongqing and many other places launched the "Plastic Reverse Monument" campaign, with the kneeling statues of Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun and his wife built in front of the monument of the unsung heroes and martyrs of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, not only in the rear, but also in Wenzhou, Shaoxing, Taizhou and other places in Zhejiang Province that fell several times, they all responded one after another, risking their lives to spontaneously build monuments for the martyrs of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and setting up kneeling statues of traitors Wang Jingwei and his wife in front of the monuments, just like the kneeling statues of Qin Juniper and his wife in front of Yue Fei's tomb.
The kneeling statue of Wang Jingwei and his wife in front of the Qiqi Monument
Wang Jingwei was helpless, and shortly before his death, he also left such a verse in his "Shuangzhaolou Poetry Draft":
"The city tower is leaning on the sky, and the goose's back is flying low. The ground is full of leaves, and the yellow flowers retain the slanting sun.
The railings are patted all over, the heart is blocked, and the scenery under the eyes is beautiful. In order to ask the green mountains and green waters, how many degrees can you forbid the rise and fall?"
He always had a moral self-confidence in what he did in disregard of righteousness.
Wang Jingwei, who served in a pseudo-post and repeatedly "swept up" the anti-Japanese army and people
This traitorous couple, who were eager for power and did not fear the scorn of the world, had a total of six children, in addition to one of whom died prematurely, they also had two sons and three daughters.
Among them, the eldest son and the third daughter served in the Wang puppet regime, the eldest daughter and the second daughter had different political views from their parents, and did not rebel; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the sisters took refuge in Wuxi, did not live with Wang Jingwei and his wife, and the second son was the youngest and had no help in evil deeds; after the victory of the War of Resistance, his eldest son Wang Wennian and the third daughter Wang Wenke were sentenced to "traitorous crimes" for holding a false post, and the other children were not implicated.
Wang Jingwei's children have lived overseas for a long time, relying on the property and personal ability left by their parents, living a relatively superior life, and also achieving success in their careers.
Except for Wang Wenbin, the second daughter of a nun, most of the others became experts and professors, and surprisingly, they almost all lived a long life, with their eldest son Wang Wennian living to the age of 98 and the eldest daughter Wang Wenyu living to 101 years old, much longer than their parents.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, the eldest son Wang Wenbao, squandered his life</h1>
Wang Wennian was born in France in 1913, when Wang Jingwei and his wife lived in France with Fang Junying and Zeng Xing's sister-in-law, Wang Jingwei wanted to return to China to participate in the revolution, Fang Junying took more care of Chen Bijun's mother and son, so Wang Wenying's name "Baby" was taken from Fang Junying's name to show gratitude, at the same time, Fang Junying was also Wang Jingwei's unforgettable first love, and in 1923 Wang Jingwei committed suicide.
The left one is Chen Bijun, the right side is Jun Ying, and the middle seat is Zeng Xing
Wang Wennian studied political economy in Germany, and later defected to his parents, and was once the director of the Quartermaster Department of the Third Department of the Military Commission of the Wang puppet regime, and was an authentic traitor.
When he studied abroad, Wang Jingwei was still only a high-ranking official of the National Government in Nanjing, supporting his family with a salary, but with the favor of his mother Chen Bijun, Wang Wennian lived a life of spending days and drinking abroad, because Chen Bijun's mother's family was a huge wealth in Nanyang, known as the local "multi-millionaire", Chen Bijun got a lot of property from his mother's family, which could be squandered by his son.
Once, Wang Wennian bought a car in Paris, France, indicating that he wanted to be the same as the German Fuehrer Hitler, and at that time Hitler was riding a limited production, special supply of German Rolls-Royce, and did not put it on the market, the seller felt embarrassed, Wang Wennian asked the seller to order from the manufacturer at any cost, and finally did not buy it, he simply purchased a Mercedes-Benz car with a similar appearance, modified, according to Zhang Xueliang, who was in Europe at the time, Wang Wennian's car was equipped with dozens of headlights, looking like a monster, driving on the street at night , the lights are fully turned on, more eye-catching than the circus clown.
Fang Junbi, a female painter in France, works "Children's Sleep", which is wang Wennian in the painting
At the end of 1939, Wang Jingwei, who was not willing to be the second most important figure in the Kuomintang, issued a beautiful telegram and openly surrendered to the enemy, and Wang Wennian also became an important figure in the Wang puppet regime, and he asked his father for the post of quartermaster general.
Wang Jingwei also knew that he was in danger, and once wrote in his diary: "If China is saved (victorious in the War of Resistance), my name will be finished." ”
Wang Wennian was well aware of his father's panic, and since taking office, one of the hardest things he had done was to transfer the Property looted by the Wang family from the enemy-occupied areas overseas to leave a "back road" for his parents.
In 1944, Wang Jingwei was shot by Wang Yaqiao's iron-blooded hoe gang and the bullets were not taken out, causing lead poison to spread, and eventually suffered from "multiple spinal tumors", and died of illness in Japan, after his death, Chen Bijun's younger brother, Chen Yaozu, the governor of Wang Pseudo-Guangdong Province, had been assassinated again, and Chen Bijun, who was greedy for power, still wanted to control Guangdong with the help of his brother-in-law Chu Minyi.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Bijun, the "number one female traitor", was sentenced to life imprisonment and imprisoned in Suzhou Shizikou Prison, and later transferred to Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison, where she died of illness in 1959 because she refused to admit guilt.
In 1948, after Wang Wennian's "parole" was released, he took the opportunity to sell his Shanghai real estate and property, first fled to Hong Kong, and later fled to the United States using overseas connections, settled in California in anonymity, and took out most of his parents' property for his own squandering, bought three villas and three cars in one go, and in 2011, after Wang Wennian died, he restored his original name on his tombstone.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, the eldest daughter Wang Wenyi, once petitioned to resist Japan, teaching for a career</h1>
Wang Wenyi was one year younger than Wang Wenbao and was born in Montagny, France, at the end of 1914.
Wang Jingwei husband and wife with the eldest daughter
She was born a premature baby, weighing only three pounds (about 1.3 kilograms), Wang Jingwei and his wife returned to China at the same time to carry out political activities, and gave Wang Wenyu to Zeng Xing and Fang Junying to take care of her, so she was named "Yue", which is synonymous with Zeng Xing's name, and Zeng Xing did take good care of her, making this premature baby stronger and later became the longest-lived person in the Wang family.
Wang Wenyi in Fang Junbi's paintings
Wang Wenyi graduated from the Jiangsu Provincial Institute of Education, in 1939, she married He Mengheng, a graduate of the Department of Agricultural Economics of Jinling University and engaged to him for five years, she was different from her parents' political views, after the "918" incident, she and her classmates marched in the streets and carried out anti-Japanese propaganda, so after Wang Jingwei's rebellion, the couple was willing to live a plain life and did not hold a pseudo-post.
The wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Wang Wenyi in Hanoi
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Wenyi and He Mengheng went to Hong Kong to make a living, first set up a small flower farm, and soon after, the farm went bankrupt, they gave birth to three daughters, in order to support their families, He Mengheng went to primary school to teach English, and at night he also had to translate English, and later obtained the letter of appointment of professor of the Department of Botany of the University of Hong Kong, which was considered stable, Wang Wenyi first learned sewing, and soon got the graduation certificate of the Hong Kong Education Department Education Training Class, taught in a number of private and public primary schools, and raised three daughters together.
Wang Wenyi and He Mengheng
In 1981, after He Mengheng retired, the couple went to the United States to join their three daughters who had studied and settled down, and also began to accept interviews and write memoirs about Wang Jingwei, and they were also the only people after Wang Jingwei who were willing to talk openly about their parents' past.
The elderly Wang Wenyi and He Mengheng lived in new Jersey, USA
Although they did not hold a pseudo-post, in life, they and Wang Jingwei lived together day and night, so they saw and heard a lot, left a lot of valuable historical materials, and left as objective a narrative of major historical events such as "Hanoi Thorn Wang" as witnesses, and restored a lot of historical details.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, the second daughter Wang Wenbin, was kidnapped to leave mental trauma, and later became a nun</h1>
Wang Jingwei's second daughter Wang Wenbin was born in 1920, nicknamed Yuanyuan, and her life is more bizarre, in 1939, after Wang Jingwei surrendered to the enemy, Wang Wenbin was kidnapped.
According to the recollection of her boyfriend Xu Xizhen, who later served as a librarian of literature and history in Zhejiang Province, at that time, Wang Wenzhen and Wang Wenbin sisters were opposed to their parents' defection to the enemy, the sisters did not hold a false post, did not live in a puppet house, lived in Wuxi to live a civilian life, Xu Xizhen was one year older than Wang Wenbin, he used to substitute classes in Wuxi Middle School, and he became acquainted and fell in love with Wang Wenbin, who listened to the lectures.
Shortly after he and Wang Wenbin exchanged gifts, Wang Wenbin suddenly disappeared, and later rumors were rumored to have been kidnapped to the countryside in extremely remote areas, and had been a peasant woman for more than 20 years, leaving great mental trauma, she never mentioned her father's name, and was willing to live in seclusion.
Until 1973, she went to the United States to settle down with the help of her eldest brother Wang Wennian, and later became a doctor in Indonesia, served as a senior director of the Indonesian government's medical department, and finally became a nun.
Xu Xizhen and Wang Wenbin's first love suffered from this change, and they could not be married as life partners, and neither of them was married for life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, the third daughter Wang Wenke, whose personality resembles Chen Bijun, was a professor at the University of Hong Kong</h1>
Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun's third daughter, Wang Wenke, was born in 1922 and studied at Nankai Middle School in Chongqing and Lingnan University, with excellent grades, and after graduation, she became Wang Jingwei's secretary, helped her father sort out manuscripts, and became Wang Jingwei's political right-hand man.
Kata Kimi-Ying 1925 Paintings
Wang Wengong's personality resembles that of his mother, and he is stubborn, so he has embarked on a different path from his two sisters.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, she was tried together with her brother Wang Wennian and sentenced to one and a half years in prison and suspended for five years for "traitorous crimes." After gaining her freedom, Wang Wenke moved to Hong Kong, no longer paying attention to political affairs, but concentrating on academic research, becoming a professor in the Department of Education of the University of Hong Kong, teaching students traditional culture.
Although she learned more about Wang Jingwei's life and political thought, she never wrote articles or published memoirs, and was reluctant to look back on this history.
Wang Wenke died of illness in 2002 at the age of 80, which is the shortest life expectancy among Wang Jingwei's children.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >5, the second son Wang Wenti, became a bridge construction expert, and collapsed after seeing his parents kneeling</h1>
Wang Wenti is the second son of Wang Jingwei, but also the youngest child, born in 1928, because of his old age, Wang Jingwei is quite fond of him, Wang Wenti graduated from the Nanjing Central Army Officer School, only 17 years old when the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, so there was no evil deed.
Later, he moved to Hong Kong, and after painstaking study, became a well-known bridge construction expert in Hong Kong.
Chen Bijun was not visited in prison, and after his death, no relatives came to collect the body, and then Chen Bijun's daughter-in-law in Shanghai was buried and cremated, and the ashes were sent to Guangzhou, and the following year, the second son Wang Wenti sent people to Guangzhou to claim it and scatter it into the sea near Hong Kong.
The Memorial Monument to the Anti-Japanese War in Ciqikou Ancient Town, Shapingba District, Chongqing
Wang Jingwei's tomb was originally buried in Meihua Mountain in Nanjing, because he had confessed to his subordinates before his death that he wanted to be buried in Meihua Mountain on the left side of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum to "guard the tomb of Dr. Sun Yat-sen".
In order to protect Wang Jingwei's coffin, Chen Bijun ordered people to pour it with concrete and five tons of broken steel, thinking that it was indestructible, but it was exploded by Zhang Lingfu's sapper battalion with 150 kilograms of explosives, and the body was crushed and scattered in a roadside puddle. It is said that after the coffin was opened at that time, it was found that there was a copy of Wang Jingwei's hand-copied poem "Self-Deprecation" inside the coffin: "Xinyu will destroy everything, and the end of the world will be everywhere complaining." Even if there are ancestors who taste the heat and cold, there is no posterity to continue the Spring and Autumn Festival. Wang Jingwei also had a note written by Chen Bijun in his pocket: "The soul has returned."
Kneeling portrait of Wang Jingwei and his wife in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province
Under the premise that traitors to the country and seek glory and great festivals have been lost, any justification and whitewashing is futile.
In addition to Wang Wenti, Wang Jingwei's children never set foot in their homeland again, and Wang Wenti was invited to the mainland for academic exchanges and project cooperation many times because of his achievements in bridge construction.
In 2005, 77-year-old Wang Wenti once came to the mainland to worship his father, and when he saw a group of kneeling statues of his parents, he couldn't help but feel sad, and he cried in public, and after ten minutes of tears, he did not have any excuse or request to withdraw the kneeling statue, but said: "If you do something wrong, you should be punished." ”
Compared with Wang Jingwei, who was bent on surrendering to the enemy for the sake of power and later arguing with himself endlessly, Wang Wenti was much wiser and wiser, and since he wanted to sacrifice the interests of the country and exchange tens of thousands of people for his own power, he had to accept the end of being firmly crucified on the column of historical shame.
Born in this kind of family, Wang Jingwei's children have had different hearts and courses from each other, and later most of them made a living from academia, no doubt they have certain endowments and personal abilities, most of them have also reflected on their parents' actions, and their later lives have also reflected this reflection, so far no one has publicly overturned or defended Wang Jingwei's case, only Wang Jingwei and his wife, who are obsessed with money and power, exquisite and self-interested, have no bones, and have been reviled with rebellious shameless words and deeds and many kneeling images.