Preface
"Dad, I'm Tonghua, I'm here to see you!"
Meet again after 70 years, the lifelong dream of a century-old veteran has finally come true!
What exactly caused them to be separated for 70 years?
What happened between them that made the eighty-year-old son shout "Daddy, I've come to see you!" ”
In 19 years, in a sanatorium in Taipei, Taiwan, Wang Tonghua, who was nearly 80 years old, finally met his father Wang Daohuang and mother Liu Yongmei, who were nearly 100 years old.
The son that Wang Daohuang and Liu Yongmei missed day and night finally appeared in front of their eyes again. Wang Tonghua kept himself close to his father, and kept shouting Wang Daohuang "Dad", and the mother next to him was already full of tears, but she always looked at her child.
Times are turbulent, and flesh and blood are separated
1949 was an unforgettable year for Wang Daohuang and Liu Yongmei, they never thought that they would be separated from their child Wang Tonghua for more than 70 years.
Born in Hunan, Wang Daohuang was captured by the Kuomintang in 1935 and served as a strong man, and later joined the Kuomintang army. Wang Daohuang, who had enlisted in the army for a long time, gradually became an experienced veteran, and as an ordinary person, he did not have any choice.
When the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was gradually coming to an end, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek saw that it was about to be defeated, so it made the decision to retreat to Taiwan. Wang Daohuang, who had rich combat experience, was forced to follow the search battalion of the Kuomintang paratrooper corps and retreated from Xiamen to Taiwan by boat.
Due to the tense situation at that time, Wang Daohuang had no way to take away his children, so he could only leave in a hurry, properly arrange his children, and take his wife, who was nine months pregnant, on a ship to Taiwan. No one expected that since that hurried parting, when they met again, they would be in a state of gray hair and decaying sideburns.
Although Wang Daohuang and his wife came to Taiwan, they have never forgotten their hometown in Ningxiang, Hunan, on the other side of the strait, and they still have two children, five-year-old Wang Tonghua and her sister.
They are very eager to return to the mainland, but because the relationship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait has been tense in the first few decades of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the couple has no choice but to continue to live in Taiwan while missing their children.
When the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan in 49, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were separated by blood, and in the time since then, the two sides of the strait have been constantly falling into a situation of confrontation.
And Wang Tonghua, who is far away in Ningxiang, Hunan, has a memory of his parents forever stuck in a hurry for 49 years.
Although his mother wanted to pick up all the siblings at that time, because his grandmother did not agree, his mother had no choice but to stay at home for a short period of ten days, and then went to find his father alone.
In that war-torn era, my grandmother wanted to extend a few sticks of incense to the family, which led to her and her sister being without parents since childhood.
Wang Tonghua, who used to live with his grandmother, was forced to live with his sister after his grandmother died of illness, living with his uncle and aunt, and always felt deep regret when talking about his parents.
Just when he had gradually forgotten the pain of being fatherless and motherless, who knew that in 1980, a family letter that had crossed the ocean came to Wang Tonghua's hands after several turns, picking up the bloodline that had been separated for more than 30 years.
In order to ease relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have readjusted the policy on cross-strait exchanges after many consultations, allowing some Taiwan residents to visit relatives on the mainland and allowing cross-strait communications to be carried out.
Wang Daohuang wrote a letter to his eldest son Wang Tonghua at the first time, but because the receiving address was still the address before liberation, the letter was not delivered to Wang Tonghua at the first time, and a relative of Wang Tonghua happened to see that the recipient of the letter was Wang Tonghua in the post office, so he sent it to Wang Tonghua.
Wang Tonghua was very surprised, so he followed the prompts in the letter and sent a letter to his father's friend in Hong Kong, who then forwarded the letter to Wang Daohuang.
In this way, the father and son got in touch again, and the two kept writing for a few years, and then Wang Daohuang and his wife proposed that Wang Tonghua go to meet at a friend's house in Hong Kong.
So after more than 40 years, separated relatives met, Wang Tonghua's mother Liu Yongmei couldn't help crying when she saw her child, the family was in Hong Kong for a short week, parents bought Wang Tonghua a few sets of clothes, took him to Hong Kong's Ocean Park, and left money for Wang Tonghua before leaving.
Wang Tonghua thought that from then on, he and his parents would not lose contact again, but he did not expect that in the nineties of the last century, Wang Tonghua lost contact with his parents again.
Wang Tonghua has no children and no daughters in his life, because he was too poor when he was young, he had no choice but to be a son-in-law for others, although he adopted an adopted son, but in his later years, he still only had his wife.
Whenever he mentioned his parents, although Wang Tonghua was very sad, he never complained about his father, nor did he resent his mother. He understands the difficulties of his parents, and understands that his parents were forced to leave him, but sometimes, he always feels that his life is too hard.
After losing contact with his parents, Wang Tonghua thought that they had already died, after all, he was so old, until Wang Qingping, director general of the Taiwan Ningxiang Association, contacted him, he did not know that his parents, who were close to 100 years old, were still alive and had been looking for his whereabouts.
The night he received the call, he was very happy and very emotional. Wang Tonghua went to his cousin's house a few kilometers away the next day to learn how to use WeChat, and with the help of his cousin, he finally had a video call with his parents.
Seeing that his mother had been crying over there, and his father still remembered his name even though he had Alzheimer's disease, Wang Tonghua had tears in his eyes.
He cherished the few clothes his mother had bought for him, especially the light green cotton coat, which had been washed and turned white, but he was still reluctant to throw it away.
Wang Daohuang's parents have been living in a nursing home in Taipei for eight years, and they are now unable to walk normally, relying on liquid food to stay alive and need to be oxygenated at all times.
Wang Tonghua's mother, Liu Yongmei, always said to Wang Daohuang, who couldn't speak, open our eyes, we must live to be 100 years old, and we can't leave in a hurry before we see our children.
In 19, with the help of Wang Qingping, Wang Tonghua took two bottles of honey and some dried fruits and embarked on a journey to Taiwan to visit relatives. After a few hours of travel, Wang Tonghua first met his sister Wang Fanghua at the airport.
Since 1965, after his 23-year-old sister who was dependent on him in his hometown died in his arms, Wang Tonghua, who was very lonely, saw his relatives for the first time after 70 years.
Although it was the first time they met, Wang Tonghua was still very moved, because he knew that from the moment they met, he was no longer alone in this world.
After following his sister Wang Fanghua, Wang Tonghua came to the nursing home, hugged his father Wang Daohuang, and kept calling Wang Daohuang "Dad", and then turned around and threw himself into the arms of his mother Liu Yongmei.
Although Wang Daohuang was slurred and could not clearly identify the crowd, he always shouted Wang Tonghua's name.
Liu Yonglan is full of guilt for this son who came all the way, and always misses the child who is far away in the mainland in her dreams, and even cries in her dreams, crying for the daughter who died in the mainland.
Wang Tonghua said that he has never complained about his parents, and does not regret staying in his hometown in Hunan, he watched his younger siblings follow his parents and achieve great achievements, and is very grateful to his parents in Taiwan who can still think about and look for their son in the mainland.
The meeting is always short-lived, although Wang Daohuang left an inheritance to his eldest son Wang Tonghua, but Wang Tonghua refused and did not fulfill his filial piety by his parents' side, so he did not ask for this inheritance.
Maybe in his heart, the most important thing is always family affection and relatives, although it is difficult to meet, but as long as he misses it in his heart, it will always be together, as long as his heart is together, he will always be a family.
epilogue
Wang Tonghua's life is unfortunate, but at the same time lucky. In the countdown moments of his life, he saw his parents again, and his parents happened to not give up looking for him. But unfortunately, they have no way to be together forever, they can only look at each other across the sea again, and they cannot be together.
In addition to Wang Tonghua, there may be many elderly people and children on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, looking for their relatives and their own bloodline. As written in the afterglow, nostalgia is a simple stamp, and then nostalgia becomes a grave, a longing, a shallow strait, although they face each other across the sea, they can never be reunited.
An ordinary bay, but it carries the thoughts of countless people. I can only hope that they can go home as soon as possible and find their own place as soon as possible.
Information sources:
Watermelon Video: Finding Relatives Season 1 Episode 4
Global Network: Taiwan's 98-year-old couple's wish: to find their eldest son in the mainland
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