"Grateful heart, thank you for having me, accompanying me all my life, giving me the courage to be myself." The song "Grateful Heart" sings the gratitude of thousands of children for the grace of their parents, including Li Yizu, a Chinese geological hero.
With white skin, blue eyes, and a tall nose bridge, Li Yizu, who looks like a foreigner, is an authentic Chinese. In 1938, while still swaddling, he was adopted by a Chinese couple. The couple saw him as their own and never abandoned him even during the war years.
The selfless love of his parents and the tolerance of his relatives made Li Yizu feel warm and buried a grateful heart for him. He said that he was born and raised in China, and he could only use his knowledge to repay the motherland. Since then, he has taken root in Xinjiang and used his geological knowledge to help the construction of the motherland.
Also in the war years, the story of Marshal Nie Rongzhen's adoption of Japanese orphans was also passed down as a good story by posterity.
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General Nie Rongzhen was the founding father of the People's Republic of China and one of the top ten marshals awarded the title in 1955. He successively participated in the agrarian revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, and served as deputy chief of general staff of the People's Revolutionary Military Committee after the founding of New China, making outstanding contributions to the strengthening of China's military strength.
In 1980, a Japanese woman named Mieko Kato came to China to look for relatives, claiming to be the daughter of Marshal Nie Rongzhen. But Nie Rongzhen is Chinese, Mieko Kato is Japanese, and during the War of Resistance, there was an indelible hatred between the two countries, how could Nie Rongzhen, as a marshal, have a Japanese daughter?
After the "918" incident, Japan launched an all-out war of aggression against China and quickly occupied parts of northeast China and north China. In order to provide better reserve supplies to the invading army, they marched into China's interior while building roads, railways, and mining coal mines in the places they passed.
In charge of these tasks were soldiers drawn from the army and Japanese civilians who had traveled thousands of miles. Mieko Kato's parents are staff members of the Ieki Mining District.
In August 1940, the Eighth Route Army, led by Nie Rongzhen and Peng Dehuai, launched the largest Hundred Regiments War in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The Eighth Route Army pressed forward step by step, and finally the Japanese army, which was forced to hurry, carried out indiscriminate bombing of the Jingxing mining area.
Bomb after bomb fell from the sky, and as the shell exploded, the infant sister of the five-year-old monk Mieko Kato became an orphan.
While clearing the battlefield, our army found the weeping women and their dying father in the rubble. The soldiers could not bear to leave their two children on the battlefield, so they took them back to the headquarters of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. Their father, on the other hand, died of his wounds.
At that time, Marshal Nie Rongzhen was sitting at the headquarters, and when he heard that the soldiers had brought back two Japanese children, he asked someone to bring them to him.
Young Mieko Kato did not understand the meaning of war. All she knew was that she had lost her parents and been taken to a strange place where she couldn't understand what the people were saying. The panic in her heart and the incomprehension of her words made Mieko Kato very confused.
Nie Rongzhen looked at Mieko Kato's helpless eyes and thin body, and her heart was full of pity. He knew very well that although our country was now at war with Japan, the children were innocent, and they were also victims of the war and victims of the evil deeds of the Japanese army.
So he tried his best to defy the public opinion, and immediately decided to temporarily adopt two Japanese orphans, wait for the war to stabilize, and return them to Japan.
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The simple and helpless child looked at the amiable uncle in front of him, and his mood gradually calmed down. Nie Rongzhen took the pear handed by the person at hand, cut it for her sister with her own hands, and handed it to her.
Mieko Kato was a little timid at first and did not dare to reach out. Nie Rongzhen smiled and said, "Eat, wash the pears." Xu was that she felt the kindness of General Nie, and nodonally reached out her hand to take the pear and nibbled it in a big mouth.
This scene happened to be captured by front-line reporters. Nie Rongzhen beckoned and said that since he wanted to take pictures, he would take a good frontal photo as a souvenir. So he took Mieko in his arms and took a group photo together. After the founding of new China, this classic photo was stored in the exhibition hall for future generations to see.
The war ahead was tight, and it was temporarily impossible to send the two sisters to other places, they could only live with Nie Rongzhen first. General Nie was an iron-blooded warrior god on the battlefield, but in life he was a gentle person to the bone.
In his spare time, he would personally arrange the lives of the two sisters, what to eat, what to drink, and what to use; when he was busy, he did not forget to ask questions from time to time, and people who did not know really thought that General Nie had brought his daughter with him.
In order to ensure the health of the two sisters, he would also order the doctors of the military district to check the bodies of the two sisters from time to time. Even if the language barrier is not spoken, it does not prevent him from playing and laughing with the children.
Gradually, Mieko Kato became dependent on him. Sometimes when working, Nie Rongzhen will also take Mieko Kato with her. The little child hugged Nie Rongzhen's leg tightly. Rely on him like a baby with daddy. Nie Rongzhen also liked the two sisters very much and treated them as his daughters.
But Nie Rongzhen understood that their home was in Japan, and perhaps there were relatives in their hometown who were looking forward to their return, and the two sisters should be returned to Japan as soon as possible.
So Nie Rongzhen wrote a letter to the Japanese side at that time: The beginning of the letter first denounced the brutal behavior of the Japanese army, which harmed the safety of the people of the two countries. After that, he briefly introduced the history of the two sisters, and expressed the internationalist spirit of our army with beginning and end, benevolence and righteousness, and its determination not to be afraid of aggression and resist the war to the end.
Soon after, the war was so tight that Nie Rongzhen no longer had time to take care of his two children, and he knew that the time had come to separate. So he sent the child to the Japanese garrison in Shijiazhuang. He then lost contact with the children.
Mieko Kato returned to her homeland after a long absence under the arrangement of the Japanese army. Unfortunately, she was still a baby sister, and during her time in Shijiazhuang, she fell seriously ill and died.
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Mieko Kato returned to China and lived at her grandmother's house. After that, like a normal girl, she began to study, fall in love, and start a family life. In her spare time, she often talks to her family about her experience in China. This magical experience was magical and tender for Mieko.
However, due to the tense relationship between the two countries at that time, coupled with the long time, this experience gradually became blurred as Mieko grew. All she remembered was that a kind uncle had played with her and taken care of her. But she couldn't remember what her uncle was called.
In 1980, a news story titled "Sister Mieko, Chinese Marshal Nie Rongzhen Misses You" caused a lot of turmoil in Japan and China, and it was at this time that people learned about Marshal Nie Rongzhen's experience of taking in Japanese orphans.
At that time, Mieko, who was far away in Chongyang, had already married a woman and formed her own family. She was thrilled when she heard the news from a friend. For so many years, the Chinese "father" has not forgotten her.
In July of the same year, nearly 40 years later, Mieko Kato once again set foot on Chinese soil. She was at the airport. Familiar scenes evoked memories of her scenes. She happily told others that she had come to China to look for relatives, and her father was Marshal Nie Rongzhen.
On July 10, Nie Rongzhen's daughter Nie Jia personally came to pick up Mieko and return home. After many years of absence, Mieko finally met Nie's father. The two clutched each other's hands tightly, unwilling to let go for a long time.
This time in China, Mieko received a special gift - a picture that reads: Sino-Japanese friendship, eternal youth. Nie Rongzhen agreed very much and said that the people of the two countries should continue to be friendly from generation to generation.
Since then, Mieko Kato has been to China many times and has made many contributions to the friendly exchanges between the two peoples.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > summary</h1>
War is merciless, and people have feelings. The war crushed the hearts of the two peoples with bullets one bullet after another; but the simple Chinese soldiers chose to repair the wounds with kindness and warmth, and with virtue and resentment.
"The Eighth Route Army, the most benevolent and righteous, has a beginning and an end," these words written in the letter to the Japanese are Marshal Nie Rongzhen's high evaluation of the feelings of our army, and they are also the life principles he pursues. Marshal Nie's personality charm can be seen.