htmlOn August 9, Cong Huijuan's mother Liao Jiao died at the age of 97. She knew that her mother was going to go to heaven to find her father.
Cong Huijuan's parents are from Jiangsu and Taiwan, and they have been with each other for many years.
When his father passed away in Taiwan in 1993, Cong Huijuan wrote a letter to notify relatives in Jiangsu. After nearly thirty years, she also wanted to tell her aunt in mainland China about her death.
Cong Huijuan and her mother Liao Jiao
"Free Reading"
Cong Huijuan's father is Cong Jikang. He was born in Pei County, Jiangsu Province (now affiliated to Xuzhou City ). He has six brothers and sisters in the family and lives a very hard life.
In the late 1940s, the Cong family's eldest brother heard that there was a chance to study for free outside, but he considered that he was the eldest son and needed to help manage the family plan, so he asked his second brother Cong Jikang, who was 19 years old at the time, to report to study.
Unexpectedly, the other party was just secretly recruiting soldiers and fighting under the guise of free reading. Cong Jikang was forced to embark on the road to join the army.
In the army, Cong Jikang learned a lot of medical knowledge and followed the troops to fight south and north as a military doctor. In 1949, he crossed the strait and went to Taiwan. Since then, he has been separated from his relatives and relatives in Jiangsu.
Jiangsu veteran Cong Jikang
"Tao Sweet Potato"
From 0:00 on May 20, 11949, Taiwan, including Kinmen and Mazu, began to implement "martial law orders", cutting off contact with mainland China.
Cong Jikang had no way to go home. After retiring from the army, he did not continue to work in medical work. He just occasionally saw minor illnesses and prescribed prescriptions for neighbors. If he was unwell, he could give himself two injections.
Later, under the introduction of others, Cong Jikang met his wife Liao Jiao from Taiwan. The two settled in Taipei and formed their own small family. Cong Jikang makes a living by driving a taxi, and his wife takes care of her children at home.
In the past Taiwanese society, such a "cross-strait marriage" was not uncommon. Taiwan Island is shaped like a sweet potato leaf. Taiwanese people call themselves "sweet potato zodiac". Cong Jikang, a person from other provinces from mainland China, is called "taro zodiac" by Taiwanese people. In such a "tao sweet potato" family, the couple's living habits and dialects are different, but their love and tacit understanding over the years have broken through all obstacles.
Although Cong Jikang is from Jiangsu, the dietary habits of Pei County are more inclined to the north and have good pasta. Cong Jikang is very good at making dumplings, and his only daughter Cong Huijuan is still obsessed with the dumplings and special dipping sauces made by her father.
Cong Huijuan still remembers an interesting scene, "My father speaks Mandarin ( Mandarin ), and his mother speaks Taiwanese (Minnan dialect). Outsiders sound like they talk to each other, but they can easily understand each other."
Cong Jikang's family of three
"Juanjuan"
In 1987, Taiwan lifted the "martial law order" and opened to Taiwan's veterans to return to the mainland to visit relatives.
Due to poor health, Cong Jikang was unable to return to the mainland to visit relatives, but only contacted his relatives in Jiangsu by writing a letter.
After decades of hearing the news, Cong Jilan, my hometown sister, was excited to cry when she received a letter from her brother from Taiwan.
In the letter, Cong Jilan learned that his brother had already started a family in Taiwan and suffered from a stroke in his later years, with inconvenience in his legs and feet. Cong Jikang also sent money back to his hometown with the letter and used it to repair the house for his relatives.
Later, Cong Jikang's stroke became more and more serious. He could not write a letter, so he could only ask his daughter Cong Huijuan to write, "Auntie calls me 'Juanjuan' in the letter."
993, Cong Jikang passed away in Taiwan.
Around the millennium, relatives on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were busy with livelihoods, and the number of contacts between them gradually decreased. The long-term lack of contact also caused them to lose contact again.
letters and photos sent by the Cong family in Taiwan to their hometown in Jiangsu
"Aunt, are you doing well?"
On August 16, 2022, the Cong family in Taiwan contacted the Toutiao Search for People and Cross-Strait Couple Relationship Project, entrusting the search for lost relatives in Jiangsu.After understanding the situation and collecting information, the relative search group published an article titled "
Jiangsu family has always treasured letters and photos from relatives in Taiwan
"Auntie, I am Juanjuan, are you all right?" After Cong Huijuan contacted her aunt, she was like a long-distance ship returning to the port and getting warm protection. Although this time it was to inform her mother of her death, she believed that her parents would be very pleased to be able to contact her elders and relatives in the mainland.
Reunion of relatives across the Taiwan Strait
This is the 383rd case found successfully since the establishment of the cross-strait kinship project. It is also the 1116th case found after Toutiao Search and volunteers cooperated with each other and helped. Toutiao’s cross-strait family search service was released by Toutiao’s search service and Taiwan ETtoday News Cloud as media partners. If you have relatives in your family who are separated in Taiwan, or you are in Taiwan and want to help Taiwanese veterans find their relatives in mainland China, you can also contact us through Facebook fan page (name: headline personal), email ([email protected]), Douyin (name: Douyin search), WeChat official account (name: headline search), Weibo (@headline search).
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