In the 5,000-year history of China, there are many shining awakenings of great men. The lives of these great men may be gone, but the spirit and style left behind can defeat the passing of time and the changing times, and affect every generation of descendants of Yan and Huang.
"If you benefit the country from life and death, how can you avoid it because of misfortune and good fortune?" This sentence well interprets the life of Ma Heling . When the national interests are in front of him, he decisively chose to abandon personal interests, put the overall situation first, and protect the country's interests. His story is unforgettable and cannot be calm for a long time.
Don’t forget your original intention in troubled times
1920, Majiayan, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, accompanied by a loud cry, a baby boy was born.
This baby boy was Ma Heling later. Many years later, even though he was already in Taiwan’s treasure island, he still had pride in his hometown of Xiangtan, Hunan.
Xiangtan is indeed a good place with outstanding people. There are many celebrities here, more or less contributing to China's construction.
There are many celebrities in Xiangtan: master painting Qi Baishi , general Peng Peng Dehuai, and Chairman Mao are all from Xiangtan. Ma Heling is very proud to mention these celebrities.
Of course, in addition to the so-called "outstanding people and powerful people", Ma Heling's personality is also indispensable to the cultivation of his original family.
Ma Heling's father was named Ma Li'an. Unlike most ordinary people at that time, the Ma family was not a traditional farmer family that made a living by farming.
Ma Heling's father is a businessman who travels around the world. Because of his outstanding business skills and mind, he is very honest in doing business, so he also makes a lot of money.
From a certain perspective, Ma Heling’s family conditions are quite good.
Ma Heling recalled his childhood - it was a period of comfortable and smooth life. During his heyday, his father had more than a dozen shops alone, and his family had hundreds of hectares of fertile land. He worked for their family for hundreds of people. He could be regarded as a famous family and a wealthy family in the local area.
Generally speaking, few young men from rich families can become successful. Because of their good living conditions, they have basically never suffered any hardships. They only know how to play cards and walk birds all day long, and they are ignorant.
But the Ma family is different. Although his father is rich and generous, he knows that making money is not easy. He has strict requirements on Ma Heling and has many restrictions. He is not allowed to do nothing. When Ma Heling was very young, he sent Ma Heling to enlighten and learn to read.
My father himself is not the kind of person who does things wrong when he is rich. On the contrary, because the situation was unstable at that time, my father was still responsible for the local tutor training and would guard the local safety when necessary, so he was very famous in the local area.
Ma Heling grew up in such a living environment. It can be said that his rich living conditions not only did not spoil the child, but instead made him understand the heavy responsibility on his shoulders. His sense of responsibility, like a father, later became the most obvious component of his life personality.
days have unexpected situations, people have good fortune and good fortune. Soon, before Ma Heling grew up safely in Majiayan, the war broke out.
The war is quite ruthless. In the face of the well-equipped team, the team trained by Ma Heling's father had no strength to compete. For safety reasons, Ma Heling's father decided to move his family to Heng County to avoid the flying war.
Ma Heling spent his youth at the foot of Hengshan Mountain. At the age of 15, his father waved his hand and sent Ma Heling to the best middle school in the local area, Yueyun Middle School .
Ma Heling's values and outlook on life have been sublimated here. In terms of study, he really does not feel sorry for the expectations he placed on him.
He is naturally smart and soon made a fortune in Yueyun Middle School, which is full of talents: he is particularly excellent in physics and Chinese, and he is quite interested in these two subjects, and his grades are soaring, and he is the leader in the school.
In addition, Ma Heling's athletic talent is also shown in the sports meetings held by the school. He is good at long-distance running and once led the school team to the top in provincial competitions. It is beyond words.
He himself became famous in the school because of this, and everyone knew it.
More importantly, Ma Heling met many like-minded friends at Yueyun Middle School and became one of the thousands of progressive new young people at that time.
At Yueyun Middle School, he met many friends who later influenced his life. Yang Kaihui was one of them. They talked about the situation and expressed their ideals together. There are many friends like Yang Kaihui.
Yueyun Middle School cultivated Ma Heling's feelings for the country in his youth, and also strengthened his determination to study politics and serve the country.
In 1940, the 20-year-old Ma Heling came to the Kuomintang Political University. Young and talented young people were appreciated everywhere. After their academic performance was so outstanding that they were seen, Ma Heling was selected to become the guard officer of Duke Chiang.
Although Ma Heling had already made great achievements at that time, he had never forgotten his hometown. He had a deep relationship with Xiangtan, where he was born.
In 1946, Ma Heling went back to his hometown to visit his relatives. In front of all the villagers, he couldn't bear to see the villagers suffer, so he happily burned the IOUs signed by the villagers at his home, and all the accounts were burned out by him, which moved the villagers from all over the countryside.
Although he has the ambition to serve the country, the turmoil in the current situation is no longer artificial. In 1948, for some reasons, he followed the Kuomintang army to Taiwan, and the story with the mainland came to an end temporarily.
is loyal and remembers his hometown
Although Ma Heling was forced to flee to Taiwan due to the constant changes in the situation, the story did not end.
It turned out that he was very in a hurry when he left the mainland, and his mother was still alone in the mainland. As time passed, his mother was getting older and had problems with her health. Through the letters, she learned that her mother was not taken care of by anyone, and Ma Heling was very anxious.
happened to be unsatisfactory in Taiwan's officialdom at that time, and his career entered a stagnation period. He became ruthless and decisively quit his job in Taiwan's political circles. He and his wife were preparing to go to the mainland to bring his mother to live together.
Although he finally went through a lot of luck and hardships, he finally took his mother back to Taiwan and lived with him and his wife, Ma Heling's life was not luxurious, and he was even a little nervous.
At that time, my wife had just given birth to a child for herself, and this child was later Ma Ying-jeou.
At this time, the family not only has to bear the various expenses of the newborn, but also has to be responsible for supporting the elderly mother. In addition, Ma Heling just resigned, which is helpless.
The most difficult time, Ma Heling's family had to live in a dark dark room. His wife was washing clothes for others and sewing them to supplement the household's expenses.
This situation lasted for many years and was only improved in Ma Heling's middle age. Due to his outstanding personal abilities, he was valued by the leaders at that time and finally moved out of the darkroom and had a happy family life.
Time is cruel. Decades of time quickly passed through their fingers like a flash of time. The son Ma Ying-jeou also grew up and became a sensational figure in politics. However, even though Ma Heling has slowly grown old, his longing for relatives and friends over the strait has never cooled down.
The first concern in his heart is his sister who is far away from the mainland.
It turned out that the tension at that time made him move to Taiwan without having time to say goodbye to his sister. In the next few decades, the relationship was unclear and the letters were difficult to reach his sister. In order to send a letter to his sister in mainland China, he had to send the letters to his friends in the United States first and ask him to forward them on his behalf before they could reach his sister.
I haven’t seen each other for decades, how can I express my longing in just a letter?
Fortunately, in 1989, after decades of separation and the situation eased, he finally had the opportunity to meet his relatives.
At that time, Taiwanese director Ling Feng came to the mainland to prepare for a documentary, and Ma Heling's nephew Liu Zhaoli As an excellent doctor who saved lives and healed the wounded, it aroused the director's interest.
He focused on Liu Zhaoli as one of the protagonists, recording many of the daily lives of Liu Zhaoli's family, including the daily lives of Liu Zhaoli's mother and Ma Heling's younger sister Ma Yunying.
When this documentary tape full of family affection came to Ma Heling's hands several times, he shed tears. After watching the documentary repeatedly, he could no longer suppress his longing for his family.
Therefore, for the next two years, he has been working hard to find ways to meet his family. God pays off. In 1991, he finally invited his sister to Taiwan. When he held these hands that had been away for decades, he saw his sister getting old, and shed tears.
The arrival of my sister not only healed Ma Heling’s longing for her relatives, but also brought news about her hometown.
From my sister's mouth, Ma Heling learned that the hometown that once raised him has developed completely new, and that little land that had been left in his memory for many years is now as if it was slowly rendered with color, becoming vivid in his mind.
The older generation pays attention to returning to their roots, and Ma Heling is no exception. He has never forgotten more than half of his hometown. He just set foot on his hometown again, perhaps even more difficult efforts will be required.
But because I miss my hometown too much, Ma Heling has been working to ease the Taiwan Strait relations in the next few years. In his heart, he has a strong sense of belonging to the motherland.
He always felt that like many people who came to Taiwan, he was a wanderer from the motherland and was very concerned about the mainland.
1995, with the efforts of Ma Heling and many people who care about the motherland, he finally got the opportunity to visit the motherland.
At this time, Ma Heling had been away from the mainland for more than 40 years. When his feet stepped onto the familiar land again, his thoughts seemed to have returned to forty years ago.
Thirty years from Hedong and Thirty years from Hexi, the once small mountain village has now become an orderly city, and people's lives are very rich, just like I have been looking forward to for so many years.
After setting foot on his hometown again, Ma Heling felt that his hometown was hard to leave, so he made up his mind to work harder to promote cross-strait reunification.
After returning to Taiwan, Ma Heling often promoted the idea of cross-strait unification, and also participated in the World Chinese Peace Construction Conference and was elected president.
He always set an example and adhered to the principle of "one China" and has never wavered. In front of the people of Taiwan and the people, he played an indispensable role as a public figure.
In 1998, a major flood broke out in Ma Heling's hometown Hunan Province. The natural disaster touched the hearts of every Hunanese and Ma Heling, who was far away in Taiwan Province. His feelings for his hometown flourished at this time and took the lead in donating a total of NT$3 for post-disaster reconstruction work in Hunan Province.
Ma Heling was already 78 years old at this time, but he paid more attention to the disaster in his hometown than anyone else. He often stayed in front of the TV and paid attention to the reports from his hometown.
In 2004, Chen Shui-bian made an infuriating and ulterior motives and split remarks, and Ma Heling was the first to stand up to oppose it. He loudly scolded the alien remarks and took the lead in maintaining the unity of the motherland, which was tearful.
In 2005, Mr. Ma Heling passed away. He hoped that someone could take over his responsibility of promoting unification. Unfortunately, things did not go as they wished. He did not expect that his career would be unsuccessful.
The dream of a wanderer shattered
In 2013, Ma Heling's son Ma Ying-jeou was elected as the governor of Taiwan . Everyone believes that a tiger father has no dog son, and Ma Ying-jeou will definitely inherit his father's mantle.
At the beginning, Ma Ying-jeou did, like his father, make his own efforts to build the cross-strait. He opened flights from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and opened tourism projects. It seemed that everything was getting better.
But soon, doubts also surged, and there were more and more condemnations about Ma Ying-jeou's government, and Ma Ying-jeou's mentality also changed dramatically.
In 2008, Ma Ying-jeou's attitude took a 180-degree turn. He put forward the three principles, which made his father's efforts over the years almost in vain, and Taiwan Strait relations became tense again.
Just three years later, Ma Ying-jeou even began to falsely say that Taiwan is an independent country. At this point, he has completely forgotten his original intention and left his father's advice behind.
022, Ma Ying-jeou publicly stated that he would actively prepare for the war, which undoubtedly added fuel to the already nervous situation in the Taiwan Strait, making people angry question what his intentions were, but Ma Ying-jeou was unmoved, as if his father's last wish had become a wind in his ears.
Now Mr. Ma Heling has passed away, but he has made efforts and contributions to the Taiwan Strait relations, which is obvious to everyone. For Ma Ying-jeou's decision that goes against his conscience, I believe that if Mr. Ma Heling is still completely disappointed, it is just that this person has gone, and the rest of the development and decision can only be commented on by future generations.
