Jin Shijie was interviewed to confirm the news of his father's death, revealing that Jin Ying passed away at Pingtung Donggang last week. Jin Shijie received the news last week and immediately went south to Pingtung Donggang to handle his father's funeral. He held a resting service on the 30th and sent his father's last journey on the 31st.
It is reported that Jin Shijie's father Jin Ying was born in 1916 and is from Anhui. He graduated from the eighth phase of the bombing group of the Air Force Officer School. After graduation, he served as a flight instructor and went to India to teach. He is one of the first batch of fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force.
During the Anti-Japanese War, more than a thousand aviation school students participated in the war, with a very high casualty rate, and the average age of sacrifice was only 23 years old.
In 2015, Zhang Zhaowei directed a documentary called "Summiting the Sky", which tells the story of Chinese pilots' anti-Japanese history and interviewed Jin Ying specially.
Although Mr. Jin was very excited to learn that he was going to shoot this movie. He talked to the director for more than three hours. Later, he rode a motorcycle to buy food for them. When he recalled the past, he burst into tears: "There are 147 people in a class, and only 3 people are left."
He said that every time the classmates gathered, they would toast to their comrades first: "The first cup toast the big guys who died in the Anti-Japanese War, you left first, but you are still lucky..."
Zhang Aijia serves as narrator in this documentary.
Jin Shijie once recalled on the show that there were many photos of pilots left at home. The young people in the photos were all handsome, loved to drink and play guitar, and were all elites full of longing for the future. He saw his father drawing many dots in the old photos, and when he came back, he realized that this meant that these people had left.
It is said that most of these pilots are top students, and many of them graduated from Tsinghua University .
Mr. Jin has also received the favor of God. He and his wife Zhang Lijin are both long-lived elderly people and have always lived in the countryside.
December 2020, Jiang Qichen interviewed Jin Ying. At that time, Mr. Jin was in good spirits with crutches and said that he had to ride an electric four-wheeled bike to the vegetable market to buy vegetables every day. He did not need to wear glasses to read newspapers, and he could cook and cook without worrying about his children.
Jin Shijie didn't know that his father was an anti-Japanese hero at first. Later, he participated in the CCTV program "Home Where to Come from ", and returned to his father's work and study place, which was moving.
Jin Shijie held a farewell ceremony for his father on the 30th. He said emotionally that his father's rich life experience has been passed down to his descendants through many articles and images, and his father's figure will always remain in the hearts of his children.
Finally, I hope the old man will go well.
