In the early days, in order to make a living, the people in the coastal areas of the mainland "went down to the South China Sea" or crossed the heavy ocean to live overseas, forming an immigration phenomenon of "where there is water, there are Chinese".
Today, the number of overseas Chinese has exceeded 10 million. The ideological tradition of overseas Chinese people who love their families, remember their ancestors and trace their roots is in the same vein as the land of China. However, due to the separation of mountains and rivers, the long migration, and the inconvenience of communication, many overseas Chinese have lost contact with their relatives in their hometown and are on the road to find their roots and ancestors.
Headline Searchers now set up the "Chinese Roots Search" service to help Chinese people at home and abroad realize their wishes to find relatives. Recently, Ms. Song Huizhu, a Chinese from Myanmar, contacted the headline searcher through the Yunnan Spring City Evening News to ask for help from the Chinese Root-Seeking Public Welfare Project to find her father Song Yongkun's relatives in Sichuan.
The information of Song Yongkun is now sorted out as follows, and I hope that you will help forward it and help them reunite through the love relay.
Name: Song Yongkun (alias Zhiyao)
Hometown used to contact the address: Chongqing Street, Chengdu, Sichuan, Huguang Guild Hall Street
Hometown relative information: grandfather Song Dengcheng; father Song Xingxing (zi pei), uncle Song Xingde (zi liang), uncle Song Xingwan; younger brother Song Yongquan (character Fang Wei), sister Song Yongqing, Song Yongfeng
Overseas relative information: Daughter Song Huizhu
Overseas contact address: Lashio, Myanmar
Here are the stories of the search for relatives:
Song Yongkun, whose ancestral home is Chengdu, Sichuan, is located in Chongqing Street and Huguang Guild Hall Street, and his family runs a pawnshop, a wood factory and a Cotton Shop of Puhe Xiangsi. Because of his family's solid wealth, Song Yongkun was sent to Ya'an Middle School by his family after he grew up.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, under the call of the Nationalist Government to "one inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood, 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops," Song Yongkun threw his pen into Congrong, joined the Youth Expeditionary Force, the First Battalion of Chariots of the Chinese Army stationed in India, and successively participated in the counteroffensive in Northern Myanmar, Myitkyina, Lashio, and other battles, promoting the opening of the Sino-Indian Highway.
Song Yongquan's younger brother Song Yongquan also joined the Air Force, and although he later switched to ground service due to vision problems, the brothers contributed to the defense of their families and the country in their respective positions.
Song Yongkun (Burma, 1947)
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Song Yongkun's family in Chengdu sent him a letter saying that they had helped him determine a family affair and hoped that he would return home as soon as possible. But Song Yongkun did not listen to the family's arrangement, but chose to marry a Yunnan overseas Chinese in Myanmar and settled there.
Song Yongkun and his wife have a total of four sons and five daughters, Song Huizhu is the youngest daughter, and now she is nearly sixty years old. Children are placed by their parents to attend local Chinese schools from an early age, so they can not only speak fluent Chinese, but also master Burmese and English.
Later, due to factors such as communication and inconvenient transportation at home and abroad, Song Yongkun and his relatives in Sichuan completely disappeared. In 1996, Song Yongkun died in Burma, and returning to his hometown in Sichuan, China, became a long-cherished wish that he could never achieve.
As a soldier's son, Song Yongkun's sons and daughters are closely related to the descendants of other burmese military dependents. Everyone gathered together, in addition to recalling the heroic deeds of the ancestors and carrying forward the patriotic spirit of the Chinese nation, it is also a matter that everyone has been working hard to find roots and relatives. "I hope to find my relatives in my hometown in Sichuan and reconnect the Chinese blood at home and abroad."
If you can provide more clues about the relatives of Song Yongkun's hometown, please contact us. Headline Search for Chinese Roots is a free public welfare project for Chinese people at home and abroad, which is released together with Malaysia's China News and Guanhuo News Network as media partners. If you also have relatives lost overseas at home, or you are overseas Chinese and want to find Chinese relatives, you can also contact us through The Facebook Fan Page (Name: Toutiao Finder), Email ([email protected]), WeChat Public Account (Name: Toutiao Finder), Weibo (@Toutiao Finder) to contact us.
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