(From "post-90s" to "post-90s", the voice of peace will last forever) Nanjing Massacre survivor Xie Guiying: reborn after the catastrophe, she has a warm friendship with Japanese teachers
China News Service, Nanjing, December 11 (Reporter Shen Ran) "When the new crown pneumonia epidemic was the most serious this year, Ms. Huan Matsuoka sent us a batch of masks, and my name was written on the bag carefully. "The ninety-year-old Xie Guiying would cry when she talked about the Nanjing Massacre, and she would wipe her tears when she talked about the friendship with Japanese friend Matsuoka Huan over the years.
In the heart of this kind and simple old man, only by cherishing the hard-won peace can the people of China and Japan live a good life.
Xie Guiying, who is already full of gray hair, still clearly remembers the tragic scene 83 years ago.
"In 1937, my mother took us out of the city. After the Japanese soldiers entered the city, the staying father Xie Youhua and uncle Xie Yougui went out to watch. His father was killed on the spot by the Japanese soldiers, and his uncle fled to the refugee area and hid. When the news of the death spread to the countryside, my mother could not believe it was true. After two months, we returned to Nanjing, all the way from outside the city to the city, and saw dead bodies all over the street, and most of the house at home was burned."
Xie Guiying couldn't help crying: "I don't want to cry, but I can't stop tears when I think about it. That winter, I took my brother to dig wild vegetables outside and ran into Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers took me My brother fell on the vegetable field, and then dragged my two feet around on the vegetable field. My head hit the stone on the ground and shed a lot of blood. The Japanese soldiers saw that I was not good enough, so they let us go. Without medicine, my mother pressed firewood ash on my head, and now there is a scar. My brother is dead."
"I always tell the children that it was the Japanese invaders who killed thousands of our compatriots, not the kind people like Japan. As long as there is no war, the people of the two countries will have a good life, so we must cherish peace. "The old man repeatedly emphasized.
Photo by Yang Bo
This experience of escaping from the dead has been deeply buried in Xie Guiying's heart until in the late 1990s, the staff of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall of the Japanese Invaders and the Japanese retired elementary school teacher Matsuoka Huan found her.
"They said they have been looking for me for two full years."
Since then, Xie Guiying can finally speak out loudly in front of the world of the family tragedy in this war.
"I want to speak not only to the people at the memorial, but also to all Chinese and all Japanese."
In 2002, the elderly participated in the Nanjing Massacre testimony held by the Japanese friendly citizen group "National Liaison Meeting for 60 Years of the Nanjing Massacre" in various cities in Japan.
"That was the first time I went to Japan. I once thought that I would never set foot on Japanese soil in this life." Xie Guiying recalled: "On that trip to Japan, I saw Ms. Huan Matsuoka when I got off the plane. She accompanied me. I went to give lectures in Japanese cities and encouraged me to tell the Japanese the truth about the Nanjing Massacre and our experience."
The friendship between Xie Guiying and Matsuoka Huan was thus forged.
"She has been writing to me over the years. When the epidemic in China was the worst this year, the mask was nervous. Ms. Huan Matsuoka specially sent masks to the survivors. She also used Chinese carefully on the bag she gave me. Wrote my name."
Because of this warmth, the kind old man has always remembered that Japanese "old friend".
"I always tell the children that it was the Japanese invaders who killed thousands of our compatriots, not the kind people like Japan. As long as there is no war, the people of the two countries will have a good life, so we must cherish peace. Xie Guiying repeatedly emphasized.
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