source: Chengdu commercial newspaper reporter Wang Mingping photographic report
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the last veterans husband and wife
from the form alone
the war veteran Zhang Junqing old man after 95 years of uncommon life. On the afternoon of 27, at 15 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Junqing's mother-in-law died in the home of Mianzhu, Sichuan, due to heart failure. Tan Daoshen, a 98 year old wife, was sad to death. The last couple of veterans in Mianzhu were left alone.
Zhang Junqing and her husband, Tan Daoshen, who had been admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy in the last century, joined the defense war in Tongguan, and saved an innocent Japanese mother and baby. In 2015, both husband and wife were awarded the 70th anniversary commemorative medals of the Chinese people's victory in the war of resistance against Japan.
the 30 morning, Zhang Junqing's ashes were buried in the wheat field not far away from home. Tan Daoshen buried an anti Japanese War commemorative medallion with his wife's ashes and left one on his side. "She wanted me to live, and she thought I could take a look at the commemorative stamp, and I was the same." Tan Daoshen said.
love died
"she wants me to live well."
yesterday morning, 98 year old Tan Daoshen stood with crutches and stood by the wall at the door of the living room. Perhaps it is because of early preparation, Tan Daoshen's eyes and raven cheeks, not too sad look, just showing a few reluctant to give up. He occasionally greeted the neighbors and volunteers who came to visit him. Sometimes he turned his head and stared at the portrait of his wife not far away.
"mother left at about 3 p.m. on the 27 day." Tan Dezheng, the three son of the old man, said that although there were no diseases, her mother had grown old in recent years. In early February of this year, mother accidentally fell in the living room and broke her femur. The family sent her to the hospital for treatment. She never recovered, and her heart was not very good. Eventually, she died of heart failure and other organ failure.
the old man's wishes before life, everything is simple, hope that his wife should live well, do not be overly sad, and do not miss her too much.
"Uncle Tan loves his wife. When he was buried this morning, he insisted on holding a crutch to give her the last leg before Zhang Junqing's grave." Zhang Cizhen, a relative. In fact, Tan Daoshen was worried that his children would not like him to attend his mother's funeral.
Tan Daoshen could no longer sit still when the whip of the gun started. He slowly opened the lock of the wardrobe, took out a box, and carefully removed a commemorative stamp. It is the 70th Anniversary Commemorative Medal of the Chinese people's victory in the war of resistance against Japan. Each couple has one, which is the two most cherished commemorative badge of two couples.
"you help me, I'm going to give her a ride." Tan Daoshen said to Zhang Cizhen, and then staggered out of the house. In front of the wife's grave, the old man bent down and put the golden commemorative chapter beside his lover's ash box. "She wanted me to live well, and she thought I could look at the commemorative stamp when I was." The old man said to his relatives and friends.
in the sound of firecrackers, the Loess buried the ashes of his wife, and Tan Daoshen's eyes were covered with tears.
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a "crooked silver" saved his life
in 1922, Zhang Junqing was born in zandao, Mianzhu. In the late 30s of last century, she went to Mianyang to study in Mianyang after graduating from Mianzhu middle school after she was born in Mianzhu. After the outbreak of the war of resistance against Japan, Tan Daoshen and Zhang Junqing were admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy in 1939 and 1944 respectively. Although Tan Daoshen's ear is not good enough, he remembers the extraordinary life of the couple.
in the spring of 1945, the Japanese aggressors launched an attack on Tongguan. Tan Daoshen, who was reading at the Whampoa military academy, and Zhang Junqing followed the troops from Xi'an to Tongguan in the battle of the Feng Ling ferry.
"our troops on the shore of the Yellow River, Tongguan, Shaanxi, were green and green when they went into the mountains 3 days ago. You can't see clearly each other's blood. Speaking of this experience, Tan Daoshen was a bit excited,
"the Japanese army smuggled the Yellow River in the night, and they attacked the Chinese army with 60 guns, 82 guns and heavy machine guns and flame ejectors. The Japanese army changed a division every 5 minutes. After 15 minutes, our soldiers guarded Tongguan in the flesh and blood and guarded the ancient tomb of Feng Ling. He said.
Tan Daoshen recalls that when they arrived in Shaanxi with troops, he saw an old woman crying on the roadside. When he learned that the old man had received a "silver dollar" when he sold his shoes, he gave her a real silver dollar to her mother and put the "crooked silver" in his jacket pocket. Unexpectedly, it was this "crooked silver", which saved his life on the battlefield. "A bullet hit my chest. When I woke up from a coma, I felt the pain in my chest, and I found that the" skew silver "in my jacket pocket was shriveled. It was it that saved my life.
after the end of the Tongguan guard war, Tan Daoshen and Zhang Junqing were cleaning the battlefield with the troops and found a Japanese woman with a newborn baby and trembling in the house in which a Japanese officer had lived. They immediately joined the red cross members and sent the Japanese parturient and baby to the temporary shelters with stretchers. Because it was raining heavily, Tan Daoshen also put a coat on the Japanese parturient and the child.
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newlyweds with fresh water "waiting for guests"
at the end of the war of resistance, Tan Daoshen and Zhang Junqing were married in the army, but still according to the establishment of the troops at that time, each returned to the departments. "At that time, getting married is very simple. We sat together and poured a cup of boiled water. Even if we knew each other, we would get married." Tan Daoshen said. The news of Japan's surrender is the day that he and his wife remember all their lives. "In August 15, 1945, we should remember history and cherish peace."
around 1947, Zhang Junqing left the army and went to teach in a local school. Two people really had their own homes. After the war of resistance against Japan, Tan Daoshen and Zhang Junqing returned to their hometown of Mianzhu and gave birth to 3 children.
Chengdu commercial newspaper reporter learned from the Mianzhu civil affairs and the United Front Department that, in 2015, Tan Daoshen and Zhang Junqing husband and wife were the only couple in Mianzhu to win the 70th Anniversary Commemorative Medal of the victory of the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japan.
in the eyes of neighbors and relatives and friends, this old couple who lived through wars had love and love, and seldom quarrelled. "Although Zhang Junqing's mother-in-law sometimes gets angry and wants to curse, uncle Tan always lets her." Zhang Cizhen said.
"mother is a kind, honest, tolerant woman." Tan Demao, the eldest daughter of the old man, remembers that her parents taught her and her two brothers to go right from childhood.
the two son of the old man, Tan Dezhong, said his father was 99 years old next year. "Mother once said his father was a hundred years old to give him a life. She is not here now. We must complete the wish of her old man next year."
the interview ended, the optimistic and open-minded Tan Daoshen said he wanted to live well. He also told the Chengdu business newspaper reporter that "when I was 100 years old, you have to come to witness."