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In the 1950s, a family named Sun lived in a village called Gaozhuang Village, Nanzhao County, Henan Province.
The Sun family has a strange member. This member is not from the village, nor is he even a Chinese. he is a Japanese wounded soldier who was not taken away when the Japanese invaders retreated.
The one who brought back the Japanese wounded soldiers was Sun Bangjun, the male owner in the family.
Shortly after the Japanese imperialism surrendered in 1946, he was going to a market to do business one day and accidentally encountered a begging Japanese soldier.
He was compassionate and took the Japanese wounded soldiers home to take good care of them. The Sun family has been taking care of this for 47 years.
7 years later, Sun Bangjun's son Sun Baojie found his family far away in Japan for the Japanese wounded soldiers.
Japanese side learned that he was still in the world and felt deeply grateful to the Sun family. They not only gave Sun Bangjun's family, but also gave precious gifts to the entire Nanzhao County .
, how did Sun Baojie find relatives for Japanese wounded soldiers, and what is that precious gift?
This matter starts with another Japanese who stayed in China.
47 years later sincere thanks from Japan
Gen Lizi is a Japanese woman living in Fangcheng County, Henan Province. The cold winter of 1989, the unexpected visit of two guests made her cry.
These two people are Sun Baojie and Japanese wounded soldiers.
19 years after bringing back Japanese wounded soldiers, Sun Bangjun died of serious illness. Before leaving, he instructed his son Sun Baojie not to drive away Japanese wounded soldiers and take more care of him. It is best to find his relatives in Japan and send him home to reunite with his family.
Sun Baojie took good care of the Japanese wounded soldiers with his family as he followed his father's instructions.
In order to find a home for Japanese wounded soldiers, Sun Baojie has been writing letters and going to various places to inquire about news since the 1970s. He has been doing this for nearly 20 years, spending countless energy, spending a lot of money, and also carrying 3,000 yuan in debt, making his family difficult.
As an ordinary farmer, he did many things beyond his obligations just to fulfill his father's last wish.
One day, he heard a cadre from the United Front Work Department of Nanzhao County that Gen Lizi, who was in Henan, might be able to provide some clues about Japanese wounded soldiers looking for relatives. Sun Baojie brought him to her house the next day and sincerely asked for her help.
never thought that a Chinese peasant family could take good care of a Japanese wounded soldier for so many years. Unable to contain her complicated mood, she burst into tears excitedly.
She immediately wrote a letter to her friend in Japan, so Sun Baojie's search for a relative to the wounded Japanese soldiers was known in Japan for the first time.
In the spring and autumn of 1991, two Japanese friendly visiting groups also visited China one after another. After they returned to Japan, they informed the Japanese media of the incident. This played a key role in the fact that Japanese wounded soldiers could finally find their families.
Photos of Japanese wounded soldiers were placed in the missing person notice and published in Japanese newspapers.
th year, a Japanese man named Yasukami Tsuda came to Sun Baojie's house and recognized the Japanese wounded soldier at a glance. He was Ishida Hiroshiro who had been in the same army as him.
Japanese wounded soldiers drew some blood and sent it back to Japan for testing. The test results verified that he was indeed Hiroshiro Ishida.
Ishida Kojuro, who lives in Matsuda Town, Akita Prefecture, Japan, always thought that his brother Ishida Hiroshiro has long been gone. Because he was told decades ago that his brother had been killed.
When Ishida Hiroshiro appeared in front of him accompanied by Sun Baojie, the 63-year-old Japanese man choked up.
He wrote a letter to Sun Baojie's family, in which he wrote, "Thanks to the meticulous care of your three generations for my brother... I am deeply moved by all this", expressing his deep gratitude.
He donated 80,000 yuan to local schools in his personal name to fund the education in Nanzhao County.
The story of Sun Bangjun's family taking care of Hiroshiro Ishida for forty-seven years has spread in Japan.
"Ishida Hiroshiro Rescue Committee" was established. The Japanese who were moved by Sun Bangjun and his family's tolerance and kindness donated money to express their gratitude to them.
committee will receive a large amount of donations to fund local international students to study in Japan and build Henan.
Henan is a major agricultural province in my country, and Matsuda Town, Akita Prefecture, Japan is also a place with relatively developed agricultural technology.
Sun Baojie's son Sun Lufeng and five other students in Nanyang City have successively obtained places to study the local forestry and fruit industry advanced technology in Japan.
Committee also invested in the construction of a botanical garden in Nanzhao County, called the "China-Japan Friendship Taizeng Botanical Garden".
Botanical Garden covers an area of about 300 acres and has a large area. It is planted with various trees and flowers such as apples and persimmons, symbolizing Sino-Japanese friendship and bringing lush green to the county.
In addition, the land in Gaozhuang Village is very suitable for planting apple trees. To thank the villagers of Gaozhuang Village, Japan chose four high-quality apple trees, namely "Qianqiu", "Wang Lin", " Red Fuji ", and "World", and gave it to the village.
In this way, in autumn, the villagers who worked hard to take care of Ishida Hiroshiro can eat sweet apples.
The magnanimous Sun Bangjun family has brought improvements to their hometown and Nanzhao County, Henan Province to their hometown and Nanzhao County, Henan Province. It can be said that good intentions will be rewarded.
However, Sun Bangjun did not save Ishida Hiroshiro in order to repay him. He saved the Japanese wounded soldiers out of a humanitarian spirit. In an era when the trauma left by war on people was still very deep, this spirit was extremely precious.
The kindness of the whole village "Old Japanese" and the story of the people around you
At the beginning, when Sun Bangjun brought a wounded soldier wearing a Japanese military uniform back to Gaozhuang Village, many villagers said they could not accept it.
Although Japanese imperialism surrendered, the harm it caused to the Chinese nation is irreparable.
Sun Bangjun knows everyone’s thoughts, and he also knows that it is too difficult to ask the villagers to fully accept the Japanese wounded soldiers. So he said nothing and placed the Japanese wounded soldiers at home to treat him.
At the beginning, this Japanese wounded soldier brought a lot of trouble to the Sun family and the village.
In the middle of the night, he shouted alone in the yard and slapped himself in the face hard, making the neighbors unable to sleep.
He couldn't tell the difference between his or her. The Sun family made him shoes and he would angrily cut the shoes into half with an axe, which made everyone sigh.
But over time, people found that his head had been shot by a bullet, and brain trauma caused him to lose his memory, study and life ability; his incredible behavior was not caused by his cruel nature, but by disease.
Therefore, Sun Bangjun taught Japanese wounded soldiers to do farm work, hoping to make his personality better through labor.
Sun Bangjun taught him to plant wheat and remove weeds, but he couldn't tell the difference between wheat grass and weeds. Sun Bangjun had just planted a row of wheat grass. When he looked back, he pulled them all.
The family raised a few sheep, and Sun Bangjun gave him the work of feeding the sheep with grass; but he only decided to pull out one kind of weed, and only pulled a handful of them in half a day, and the hungry lamb went to find Sun Bangjun with a bleating.
, Sun Bangjun, who had no choice, asked him to do the simplest farm work, which was to pick up some dry firewood and burn the firewood home. He himself split a whole piece of sticks and firewood to sell it to the market for money. This was the result of the labor of Japanese soldiers.
Although it is just a simple farm work like picking up dry firewood, the effect of labor education is still very good. Japanese wounded soldiers gradually became able to control their tempers and could basically take care of themselves in their lives.
After discovering his changes, although he could not fully agree with Sun Bangjun's behavior of saving Japanese wounded soldiers, the kind villagers finally tolerated him.
Japanese wounded soldiers lived in the village for a long time, and needed a title, so Sun Bangjun named him Li Tong.
Sun Bangjun's family treated Li Tong as his family and gave him very careful care. He has all his family members, for example, in winter, everyone wears cold-resistant cotton jackets, and Li Tong also has several warm cotton jackets made by the Sun family.
Li Tong has a big appetite and can eat two big bowls of a meal. The Sun family, who is not rich, has never let him starve.
Li lived in Sun Bangjun's house for 47 years and he had two more serious illnesses.
The first time he had just arrived at Sun's house and had to hemiplegia ; in order to supplement his nutrition, Sun Bangjun and his wife made him white flour steamed buns and noodles with wheat noodles. The eggs laid by the hens at home were no longer sold and they were all given to Li Tong to eat.
You should know that these two foods were not available every meal at that time, and the wheat noodles were originally prepared for the New Year celebration at home.
Li Tong was hemiplegic for eight months, and Sun Bangjun and his wife took care of him for eight months. Even in the middle of the night, when he heard Li Tong's movements from the next room, Sun Bangjun would put on his clothes and take care of him with the cold and sleepiness.
Li Tongsheng's second disease was arthritis. It was in 1962, and Sun Baojie and his wife took care of him.
Li Tong was lying on the bed and couldn't move. Sun Baojie bought acupuncture books from the bookstore. He used his hand that had never been exposed to medicine, and learned to acupunctures for Li Tong bit by bit according to the book.
Hard work pays off. Under the same careful care of Sun Baojie and Sun Bangjun, Li Tong was able to walk as usual again.
Year after year, with unreserved care, he could feel the kindness of the Sun family to Li Tong. His mind was not very smart, but he knew that the Sun family was treating him with the greatest kindness, and all this was worth cherishing.
Li Tong had a difficult time talking and could not talk to people normally; but he learned the names of eight people in the Sun family and could call out their names.
Sun Baojie's son Sun Lufeng was grown up by Li Tong. Li Tong likes children and often hugs and teases the child. Sun Lufeng regarded him as his other grandfather and had been very good to him since he was a child.
lived in the village for decades, and Li Tong knew that the villagers, like the Sun family, were all good people. When he was sick, Sun Bangjun borrowed money from his neighbors, and he also borrowed money from his neighbors.
On weekdays, when the villagers meet him on the road, they will talk to him and ask him what they ask him, and they will express themselves in a friendly manner. However, at this time, Li Tong, who didn't understand Chinese very much and didn't know how to speak well, just smiled "hehe".
When the family was fine, Li Tonghui visited his neighbor's house next door to help them peel peanuts. This is a bit time-consuming, but it is a relatively simple task.
Li Tong has a preference for smoking. After getting familiar with his neighbor, he would ask for two cigarettes with his neighbor, one smoking in his mouth and the other behind his ears.
However, he didn't take other people's whole box of cigarettes, after all, cigarettes are relatively expensive - it can be seen that Li Tong is not confused about many things.
No reward for efforts. The great love of Chinese farmers
Sun Bangjun's family has been used for 47 years to take care of a former Japanese soldier, which is very rare in world history. It also shows the friendship and kindness of people at that time from one side.
With Sun Bangjun's example, Sun Baojie and his wife Wang Chengxiang both have the beautiful qualities of integrity and selflessness.
When Sun Baojie was 17 years old, he achieved excellent results through years of hard work and was admitted to a university in Nanzhao County.
But because there is a Japanese at home, he failed to become a college student.
years later, the mystery of Li Tong's identity was revealed.
He is a college student and graduated from the Agriculture College in Japan. He originally planned to work in the local agricultural life in Matsuda Town.
However, in the war of aggression against China launched by the Japanese government, Japanese adult men were obliged to serve in the military. Li Tong and his second brother Ishida Motojiro entered the army and were forced to become a soldier invading China.
Later, the troops retreated in a hurry, and he was seriously injured and abandoned by his compatriots.
Before Wang Chengxiang and Sun Baojie got married, she knew that Sun Baojie had to support three elderly people, her mother, uncle and Li Tong, and the burden of pension was very heavy.
She said without any mind, who doesn’t have an old man yet! After getting married, she, who was diligent and kind, took on the burden of taking care of the elderly together with Sun Baojie.
She works peacefully and patiently, and takes care of every elderly person carefully.
Li Tong, who is Ishida Hiroshiro, found his family. On the day he was going back to Japan in 1993, Wang Chengxiang bought him new clothes. The parting made her feel uncomfortable, but she was still happy that Li Tong could return to her hometown.
Sun Lufeng and Sun Luju knew that another "grandfather" who had lived at home since their birth was leaving; Sun Lufeng combed Ishida's hair, while Sun Luju made a pair of insoles for Ishida to take back to Japan to wear.
Sun Baojie borrowed money to hire a car and took Ishida Hiroshiro to Luoyang to take a plane. In order to make Ishida feel more at ease, Sun Baojie sent him to Matsuda Town, Akita Prefecture, Japan, and lived with him for twenty days before leaving.
Ishida Kojuro later wrote a letter to tell Sun Baojie that after he left, his brother looked for him everywhere inside and outside the house, and he could find him for ten days. After reading the letter, Sun Baojie and his family felt sour.
Wang Chengxiang visited Ishida in Japan in 2000. Her arrival made Ishida very happy.
The day she left, Ishida habitually followed her, as if she wanted to go back to China with her. Wang Chengxiang shed tears. She thought that Ishida probably felt that Gaozhuang Village, which had lived in almost fifty years, was her home.
Sun Lufeng, who went to Japan to study and study, often visited Ishida during busy study and work breaks, talked to the old man who grew up, and sootheed his heart.
Sun Lufeng got married in Japan and had two children. His wife is a Japanese-Brazilian student. In 2005, he returned to his hometown, who had already started a family and reunited with Sun Baojie and his wife.
The story of Sun Bangjun's family and Ishida Hiroshiro is a beautiful witness to the friendship between China and Japan, and a timeless historical story about kindness and feelings. The humanitarian light shining in it belongs to New China and to all mankind.
