In the Sun Yat-sen Cemetery in Nanjing in 2005, a special tourist who was nearly an elderly person came to the grave of Wang Jingwei and his wife, saw the kneeling portrait of Wang Jingwei and his wife, and said with tears: "If you do something wrong, you will be punished." This person is Wang Jingwei's younger son, Wang Wenti.
Wang Jingwei, real name Wang Zhaoming, pen name Jingwei. Born in 1883 in Sanshui, Guangdong Province, he lived a miserable life at a young age, losing his father and mother one after another, and the family was not welcomed, only his half-brother helped him. In 1903, he went to Japan to study and became acquainted with Dr. Sun Yat-sen and joined the League.
In 1908, he went to Yangon, Burma to set up a branch, met Chen Bijun, the daughter of Chen Gengji, a huge overseas Chinese, and then married. In 1910, he participated in the assassination of Zaifeng, the last regent of the Qing Dynasty. During Yuan Shikai's reign, he went to France to study. In 1919, he founded the magazine "Construction" in Shanghai. In the 1920s and 1930s, he became a key member of the National Government. In the later period, ideology gradually receded, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, it defected to Japan and established a Puppet Government. He died in Japan in 1944 due to "bone marrow swelling".
Wang Jingwei had two sons and three daughters in Chen Bijun's birth, and one died prematurely. Among them, the eldest son Wang Wennian and the eldest daughter Wang Wenyu were born abroad. The second daughter Wang Wenbin, the third daughter Wang Wenke, and the younger son Wang Wenwei were born in China, except for one who died prematurely, the rest are relatively long-lived. But they are reluctant to show their faces and avoid talking about family stories. Only Mr. and Mrs. Wang Wenyi are willing to say these old things in their later years.
Wang Wennian and Wang Wenyu were born to Wang Jingwei and his wife Chen Bijun when he was studying in France. Born in 1913, Wang Wennian studied economic and political theory in Germany, and served as the director of a certain section of the Military Commission of the Wang puppet government during the War of Resistance Against Japan. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was imprisoned as a war criminal, and after being released in his later years, he settled in California, the United States, and since then he has been incognito, and the living conditions of his descendants are now unknown.
Wang Wenyi was born in 1914, returned to China as a teenager to study at Jiangsu Provincial College, and later went to Hong Kong to engage in education with her husband He Mengheng, and after retiring in his later years, he went to New State (New Jersey) to settle down, and his three daughters had long gone to the United States to settle down in the United States before Wang Wenyi and his wife.
The second daughter, Wang Wenbin, was born in Shanghai in 1920 and worked in the Indonesian government's pharmaceutical department, and Wang Wenbin spent very little time in China, staying in Indonesia for many years. I don't know whether it was the ups and downs of the family for many years, looking down on the red dust, or in order to hide his name and not want to have more contact with outsiders, Wang Wenbin believed in Christ in Indonesia and became a nun.
The third daughter Wang Wenke was born in 1922, after becoming an adult, helped her father Wang Jingwei deal with office documents, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, ran to Hong Kong, and later became a professor at the University of Hong Kong, among the brothers and sisters, her life expectancy is the shortest, but relatively long-lived, died of illness in Hong Kong in 2002. The descendants are anonymous and have no records.
The second son, Wang Wenti, was the only one among all his brothers and sisters to graduate from a military academy and the only one implicated. The other children may have heard of what happened to their younger brother and fled the mainland. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Wenti was sentenced to one year and six months in prison by the Nationalist government in Nanjing, because he was studying at the Nanjing Military Academy at the time, so the sentence was suspended for five years.
He then moved to Hong Kong to work on bridge construction. Probably because there have been many cooperation projects with the mainland, Wang Wenti often travels to the mainland, and in 2005, he went to the grave of his parents in Nanjing to worship, and when he saw the kneeling statue of his parents in the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, he said the sentence "If you do something wrong, you will be punished."
Wang Jingwei became a lackey of the Japanese during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and died early before the war was over, and did not get the retribution he deserved. Only a kneeling statue can be erected to bear the scorn of the world. However, his children, because he had taken the wrong path, could not return to their roots even though they were old, nor did they dare to show their faces, and could only live a reclusive life.
bibliography:
1. "Biography of Wang Jingwei" by Wen Shaohua Unity Publishing House
2. "Chronicle of Wang Jing's Hygiene" by Cai Dejin and Wang Sheng, China Literature and History Publishing House