Buddhism says that people will have a lot of pain in this life, such as aging, illness, and death. We should learn to reconcile with pain and coexist with pain. But sometimes, it is not that we hate evil, but some things that make us hate it to the core.

Buddhism says that people will have a lot of pain in this life, such as aging, illness, and death. We should learn to reconcile with pain and coexist with pain. But sometimes, it is not that we hate evil, but some things that make us hate it to the core. In the endless twists and turns of life, some people are worthy of our never forgetting.

My Aunt Meng Shujuan spent his whole life looking for a woman, but in order to find this woman, he actually forgot about marriage. It wasn't until I was a child that I realized that the woman my aunt had been looking for all her life was actually a prostitute.

In August 1946, at the witness stand of the trial of Japanese war criminals held in Nanjing, the person she was looking for accused a senior Japanese military officer of a premeditated and large-scale rape. At that trial meeting, the streets of Nanjing were empty. Almost the remaining population of Nanjing after the Japanese massacre gathered inside and outside the court. The aunt pushed aside the layers of her back and squeezed in front of the woman, but what she saw was a face that looked like something different.

Auntie confirmed that the voice, back, and expression were that of the person she was looking for, but the person denied it and quickly left the court with the flow of people.

From this time on, my aunt was determined that the person she was looking for must be alive, and began the most important mission of her life. She would spare no effort to know the whereabouts of the women she once despised but was most fearless.

Hello everyone, today let me lead you in interpreting Yan Geling's classic book "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" and relive the unforgettable years in December 1937.

In the decades that followed, Meng Shujuan recalled horrifyingly how Nanjing, China, fell so quickly in December 1937.

The night before the fall of Nanjing, Father Engelmann and Deputy Father Adonado took Shujuan and sixteen female students from Wilson Girls' School to the riverside, preparing to take the ferry to Pukou.

In the evening, a group of seriously wounded people suddenly arrived at the ferry. These seriously wounded people were all injured by their own bullets. When they received an emergency retreat order and retreated halfway from the front line, they encountered sniper fire from friendly forces who had not received the order to retreat.

Friendly forces frantically grabbed boats at the ferry out of guilt, and the priest and female students lost their ferry. Father Engelmann and Adornado could only take the sixteen female students back to the church through the alleys at night, hoping to find an opportunity to send them away again.

On December 13, 1937, Nanjing fell.

The next day, when it was dawn, the female students were awakened by the cry of a woman downstairs. They got up and peeked out from the small attic window. On the wall of the church, there were several people wearing satin robes and wearing beautiful flowers. woman.

These women behaved wildly, spoke vulgarly, and were noisy. The deputy priest Abi was driving them away with a wooden stick. Tell them that there is no food or drink here, and opening more mouths will only make everyone starve and die of thirst. At this time, a twenty-four or five-year-old woman suddenly knelt down to Father Engelmann:

"Our lives are not valuable and are not worthy of your rescue. However, we only want a good death. No matter how cheap a life is, we deserve to die neatly." , die with impunity "

". The kneeling back of the woman was rooted, but her shoulders and waist never stopped expressing. "

At this time, a woman fell into the arms of the church chef A Gu, and fell asleep on A Gu. The fur coat fell apart, revealing her naked body.

A Gu ran away with a frightened "Ah", and the women on the wall took advantage of the situation and jumped in one after another.

In this way, these women succeeded in squeezing their way into Wilson Church by relying on their swagger and rogue energy.

Female students who have received traditional oriental education and have pure hearts are ashamed and despised when they see these kiln sisters. Such shameless things are simply a shame for women!

In Meng Shujuan's heart, she deeply remembered the woman with a beautiful back. She later learned from Fabi that these women were prostitutes from Qinhuai River in Nanjing, and the kneeling woman was the number one in Qinhuai River , named Zhao Yumo .

Zhao Yumo in the movie

At noon the next day, the kiln sisters who woke up from their sleep began to rummage through the cabinets in the kitchen to find something to eat. The female students quarreled loudly with these kiln sisters over a piece of biscuit, and bluntly said, "You are not worthy of taking refuge in the church. An insult to the sanctity of the church.”

Hongling was so angry that she started to curse, you guys are so shameless. . . Hong Ling swallowed half of what she said. Her mouth was covered by Zhao Yumo who came over after hearing the noise and was forcibly taken away from the kitchen.

Among this group of female students, Meng Shujuan and Xu Xiaoyu have a very delicate relationship. Xu Xiaoyu’s father is one of the richest men in Jiangnan. The arrogant Meng Shujuan feels that only such girls are worthy of being her friends, but Xu Xiaoyu’s beauty makes Meng Shujuan I think beautiful women are most likely to hurt others.

She was secretly dissatisfied with Xu Xiaoyu, because Xu Xiaoyu was top-notch in his studies and pretty in appearance. With Xiaoyu, she might never be able to succeed like Meng Shujuan. Xu Xiaoyu's father was away on business, but Nanjing fell too quickly and there was no time to pick Xu Xiaoyu up.

Xu Xiaoyu believed that one day her father would come to pick her up and leave. She also used empty words about her father coming to rescue her to win over the hearts of all the female classmates stranded in Wilson Church, except for the arrogant Meng Shujuan.

Nanjing in 1937 was cold and cruel, but in the young and pure heart of 13-year-old Meng Shujuan, she hated the Japanese soldiers who burned, killed and looted outside the church, but this hatred was far less than the hatred for the colorful kiln sisters inside the church. The contempt and jealousy of classmates are concrete and real.

Wilson Church is an American church, and Father Ingman has always felt reassured by its neutrality in the war. This is also the only bargaining chip he believes can protect the safety of these girls.

Wilson Church

But he and these children never imagined that on the night when Nanjing fell, it quietly lost its neutral status.

A Chinese soldier with a serious chest injury quietly sneaked over the church wall and hid in the church cemetery.

This soldier is the regimental deputy of the Second Regiment of the 73rd Division of the National Army, a 29-year-old major.

In Meng Shujuan's memory, the Major Dai was a "born soldier with ideals", a man who became a soldier for his ideals and not for making a living.

Major Dai lurked in the church for two days, and the water from the baptistery behind the church fed him.

At around five o'clock in the morning on December 15th, gunshots rang out intensively along the Nanjing River. That night, there was a knock on the door of Wilson Church. It was the burial team sent by the Japanese that brought two surviving Chinese. Soldiers, Father Engelmann and Adornado were determined not to take in Chinese soldiers because they believed that taking in Chinese soldiers would undermine the neutrality of the church and bring great risks to female students.

In the darkness, Major Dai secretly held a gun against Father Engelmann's chest. The soldier at the door made a painful and dying struggle sound. The soldier standing had exposed tendons on the back of his leg. Father Engelmann's expression Standing silently like a statue, at this moment, the kind and kind Father Ingemann once again compromised in the face of reality.

But the priest's only request was that all weapons be handed over: "I only take in refugees from China who need help. If I hold weapons, I will lose the advantage of protecting the children."

Major Dai reluctantly handed over his weapons, just as Father Engelmann reluctantly took in three Chinese soldiers.

The injured soldier told Major Dai that the Japanese were massacring Chinese soldiers. More than 5,000 Chinese soldiers were killed on the riverside without resistance.

Xu Xiaoyu's father finally came to take her away, and took away the two classmates who were usually the most considerate and obedient to Xu Xiaoyu. Meng Shujuan later learned that in order to return to Nanjing to pick up Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu's father sold a storefront in Macau, used the money to do business with the Japanese, and sold the Japanese some backbone and conscience.

Under the nest, there are still eggs.

The war finally reached the church.

The first time, the Japanese soldiers took away Father Engelmann’s old Ford;

The second time, the Japanese major ordered the killing of unarmed Chinese soldiers.

The Japanese no longer believed in Father Ingman’s claim about the neutrality of the Wilson Church in the United States. When they entered the Wilson Church for the third time, they demanded that Father Ingman hand over the female students to attend a Christmas party organized by senior Japanese military officers.

Looking at the Japanese soldiers standing in the church, Father Engelmann compromised. He knew that he could no longer hide it and could only exchange his life for his life.

This is cruel, but Father Engelmann has no choice, just because they are not pure enough.

But he couldn't say it. He opened the door heavily, only to find Zhao Yumo standing by the door with her sisters, ready to sacrifice, and asked Wilson Church to take away the students' singing uniforms.

Meng Shujuan did not see Zhao Yumo and his party leave with her own eyes. But she knew that it was the prostitute she despised the most who saved them at the critical moment.

For dinner that day, every student had a double portion of potato soup . The students prayed all day long for them to leave, but now that they finally left, Meng Shujuan felt a deep pain in her heart. Unexpectedly, her prayer turned into a vicious spell.

That night, a Western lady Vautrin from the safety zone took them away in an ambulance, and after several turns, escorted them out of Nanjing.

My aunt Meng Shujuan spent her whole life searching for the whereabouts of these women. When I was twenty-nine years old, she completed the most important mission of her life.

Zhao Yumo is the only one among the thirteen women who survived.

Two of them tried to resist with steak knives and were killed on the spot;

The remaining 11 were sent to comfort stations after the Japanese officers had enough of them. Some died of illness and some committed suicide.

My aunt told me that after leaving the church, she and her classmates would often come up with the catchphrases of the former kiln sisters, or the minor tune they sang, all of which were subconscious.

When they quarreled, everyone was rude and unforgiving.

They finally understood those women who had been looked down upon by them. It turned out that everything was really nothing. Even men and women were just the same thing?

As time passed, the female students finally grew up, and they finally saw clearly the women they regarded as inferior, and finally understood that the dignity of a person does not depend on status, but on human nature.