The French doctor was repatriated and sent a letter to *** I would like to be a Chinese guest
One day in 1954, ** was attending a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, when suddenly, an urgent domestic telegram interrupted his thoughts. ** Seriously picked up the telegram and frowned.
The telegram came from a French doctor named Pei Xiye. In this telegram, he wrote: "I consider myself worthy to be a guest of this country, and I have regarded China as my second motherland and the Chinese people as my people." ”
**Immediately instructed the domestic *** door to find out Pei Xiye's whereabouts and provide him with necessary assistance. So, who is this French doctor Pei Xiye?
What difficulties did he encounter to get *** so concerned? Finally, how will ** and China ** deal with Pei Xiye's affairs?
**Excellent presentation at the Geneva conference, impressive. Next, we will tell an interesting story in detail. Pei Xiye, a doctor born in Château Noveueus, Cleuse, France, came to China and changed his name to Pei Xiye.
Prior to that, he worked as a military doctor in India, where he successfully controlled outbreaks of infectious diseases such as cholera and plague. In 1913, Pei Xiye came to China with his family and was deeply attracted by China's cultural heritage.
At first, he worked as a medical officer at the French Embassy in China, and in order to promote Western medicine, he took the initiative to treat ***, although many Chinese were skeptical of Western medicine at the time.
During the ** period, there was a doctor named Pei Xiye, whose medical skills were superb and made the medical community in the capital famous. Once, a sick *** councillor searched for famous doctors in the capital, but his condition still couldn't be **.
Pei Xiye took over the case and successfully operated on him, so that his disease could be completely **. After this incident, Pei Xiye's reputation in the medical community gradually improved, and more people began to come to him for treatment, and he was happy to do so.
His medical skills and fame even led to Xu Shichang, Cao Kun and others who were the best at the time. Therefore, at that time, people called Pei Xiye "the emperor's foreign imperial doctor", and celebrities from all walks of life also came to him for treatment.
Pei Xiye was also hired as a school doctor by Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, for his good medical skills and great prestige, with a monthly salary of 250 yuan. In 1915, Pei Xiye purchased a private mansion on Wangfujing West Street and opened a clinic here.
After a period of getting along, Pei Xiye has come to see himself as a member of the city of Beijing.
Pei Xiye, a famous French surgeon, founded the "Pei Family Garden" in Beiping, and provided free medical treatment for poor people and farmers outside the garden gate. He said affectionately: "Before studying medicine, I was a farmer and knew their suffering.
I feel very satisfied to do something for these people. Nowadays, the Peijia Garden has become a cultural landmark in people's hearts, among them, Mr. Li Shizeng's inscription of "the doctor of the world" four characters have added a profound cultural heritage to the garden.
In China's modern history, there was a Frenchman named Pei Xiye, who had a deep love and concern for China. Thanks to Pei Xiye's efforts, close cultural exchanges and cooperation between China and France have been established.
Pei Xiye has helped many Chinese students get the opportunity to go to France for work-study programs, and the Sino-French University he founded has provided students with high-quality educational resources. Pei Xiye's selfless dedication and profound humanistic care not only provide valuable opportunities for Chinese students, but also make significant contributions to China's modernization process.
His story shows us that cultural exchange and international friendship can have a positive impact on the development of both countries.
The students who went to France for work-study and study, the Chinese War of Resistance was imminent, and the French friend Pei Xiye rushed back to Beiping from Shanghai as soon as possible to try to help the wounded and refugees. His Red Cross shelter shelters homeless refugees and the wounded.
When he heard the big ** of the city of Nanjing, he was deeply shocked and commented on it: "The Japanese soldiers were completely barbarians in modern clothes. I can't imagine an army raising a butcher's knife against unarmed civilians after conquering an enemy capital. ”
Pei Xiye saw clearly the brutal nature of the Japanese fascist army and stood up to help China.
A few months later, Pei received a mysterious visitor in his clinic. The visitor claimed to be an "underground member of the Chinese Communist Party" and told Pei that the soldiers in front of him were facing a shortage of medicines, and that many were struggling and even dying as a result.
He asked Pei Xiye if he could provide some medicines and medical equipment at this critical moment, and expressed his willingness to buy them at **. After repeatedly verifying the identity of the other party, Pei Xiye did not hesitate to hand over his medicines and medical devices to him.
Although Pei Xiye did not take any of the money handed over by the underground partyman, he said to the comrade with tears in his eyes: "I am a doctor and cannot do much for you, but if you need medicine, you can come to me at any time." ”
Later, our party sent an underground party member, Huang Haohua, who disguised himself as a priest, to have secret contact with Pei Xiye. In order to further help China's anti-Japanese cause, Pei Xiye also agreed to use his garden as a "temporary joint" for underground party members.
He knew that, as a Frenchman, the Japanese army would never dare to come here to search easily.
With Pei Xiye's assistance, our party quickly established an anti-Japanese base area in Pingxi, which was directly inserted into the enemy's core area, like a sharp knife inserted into the enemy's heart.
The Japanese and the puppet army tried many times to clear the anti-Japanese base areas in Pingxi, but before each operation began, Pei Xiye would use his own special car to send underground party members out of the city.
By the time the Japanese army and the puppet army arrived, the comrades in the base area had disappeared without a trace. Therefore, in the base area outside the city, people often see a foreigner with a mustache riding a dilapidated bicycle to deliver medicine to comrades in the base area.
Although everyone knows him as a doctor, no one knows that he was once a diplomat and a sinologist. Later, Pei Xiye reached a closer cooperation with the underground organization of our party.
In order to facilitate the handover activities of our party comrades in the garden of the Pei family, Pei Xiye even made an underground party member his butler, so that all the activities of the underground party members were covered up in the past.
Pei Family Garden is the only way for many aspiring young people in Beiping to go to Yan'an, although Pei Xiye has never been to Yan'an, he has sent a large number of talents to Yan'an. Once, Pei Xiye fell on the way to deliver medicine and was picked up by a female college student, who was about to go to the protesting students in the Pei Family Garden.
The story of Pei Xiye and Wu Rudan) Pei Xiye said gently to the female student: "I am Pei Xiye, the owner of the Pei family's garden, or you can go with me, I will take you wherever you want to go." ”
Pei Xiye gentlemanly extended an inviting gesture and asked the girl to get on his bike. But Pei Xiye hadn't ridden long before he felt a sharp pain, and it was obvious that the fall just now had caused significant damage to his body.
It seems that this drug delivery is going to be in vain, and Pei Xiye has no choice but to pin his hopes on the female student he just met. For safety reasons, he didn't tell her what was in the car.
Pei Xiye took a cross from her body, handed it to the girl, and told her where the joint was located. Subsequently, he again emphasized the precautions and agreed on a place to meet later, and then returned to the "Peijia Garden".
Pei Xiye's vision is really unique, and Wu Rudan, a Chinese female student, helped him safely deliver the medicine to the underground party members. The two met and fell in love because of this, and staged a "transnational love", Wu Yidan Pei Xiye, who is more than 50 years older than him, has no trouble.
She believes that their love stems from a shared revolutionary ideal, regardless of appearance and wealth. With the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, people on the streets of Beiping cheered and celebrated, and Pei Xiye also showed a long-lost smile.
He chose to come to China because of his love for Chinese culture; Today, he chooses to help China because of his deep affection for the land.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Pei Xiye did not ask for any return from the organization for his merits, and still lived in Pei's Garden and treated passers-by for free. However, the outbreak of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party put the city of Beiping into a difficult situation for the people's livelihood, with soaring prices and scarce materials.
Pei Xiye's clinic could not operate in this situation. Although his friends advised him to return to France, he was convinced that the army led by the Chinese Communist Party would win. Therefore, he insisted on living as usual, fearless of the shadow of war.
In January 1949, through the unremitting efforts of the high-level leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Beiping City was finally liberated peacefully. In the troops that drove into Beiping City, Pei Xiye saw the familiar red star again, and he knew in his heart that this marked the end of an old era in Chinese history.
Perhaps in his lifetime, he will be able to witness the rise and strength of the Chinese. However, as soon as the People's Liberation Army entered Beiping City, Pei Xiye received a letter from Beiping City.
In the letter, the staff of the city ** demanded in a strong tone that Pei Xiye must "leave the country within a limited time". At first, Pei Xiye wondered why he was suddenly asked to move out because he was living comfortably in Beijing.
Pei Xiye's plans for his later years were interrupted by China**. It turned out that after the founding of New China, ** ordered the cleaning of foreign embassies and consulates, and abolished the unequal treaties imposed on the Chinese people by the great powers in the past.
As a French citizen, Pei Xiye was naturally asked by Beijing to return to China immediately. Although he believed that he should be respected for his dedication and efforts over the years, the PLA soldiers came to him with a notice, and he did not respond directly.
Pei Xiye picked up the pen and wrote a few big characters on the paper, which was the code he used to connect with "the underground workers of our party". But the little soldiers of the People's Liberation Army obviously didn't know much about intelligence work, and they slapped the notice on Pei Xiye's desk very strongly, and finally walked away.
This made Pei Xiye feel a little lost, and he decided to report the situation to his superiors.
1. "In front of the gate of Dongjiaomin Lane during the ** period, Pei Xiye was full of sadness, Wu Rudan, as a progressive female student, had a sharp mind, picked up the paper on the table, and said to Pei Xiye: "Why don't you write a letter to the leader of the Communist Party of China?" ”
One sentence woke up Pei Xiye, and he immediately picked up his pen and wrote a sprinkling letter to ***, but at this time, *** was abroad to attend the Geneva conference. As soon as the comrade received the letter, he sent it by telegram to ***, who was far away in Switzerland
In the letter, Pei Xiye affectionately expressed his feelings for China and the Chinese people, and he felt worthy of being a guest of this country, China had become his second motherland, and the Chinese people were his people. "
2. "In front of the gate of Dongjiaomin Lane during the ** period, Pei Xiye frowned, Wu Rudan, as a former progressive female student, was quick to think, picked up the paper on the table, and said to Pei Xiye: "Why don't you write a letter to the leader of the Communist Party of China?" ”
One sentence made Pei Xiye suddenly enlightened, and he immediately picked up the pen and wrote a sprinkling letter to ***, but at this time, *** was abroad to attend the Geneva conference.
After receiving the letter, Comrade Pei Xiye immediately sent it in the form of a telegram to Pei Xiye, who was far away in Switzerland, in which he affectionately expressed his feelings for China and the Chinese people, believing that he was worthy of being a guest of this country, that China had become his second motherland, and that the Chinese people were his people. "
3. "In front of the gate of Dongjiaomin Lane during the period, Pei Xiye's expression was solemn, Wu Rudan, as a progressive female student, was quick to think, picked up the paper on the table, and said to Pei Xiye: "Why don't you write a letter to the leader of the Communist Party of China?" ”
One sentence woke up Pei Xiye, and he immediately picked up his pen and wrote a sprinkling letter to ***, but at this time, *** was abroad to attend the Geneva conference. As soon as the comrade received the letter, he sent it by telegram to ***, who was far away in Switzerland
In his letter, Pei Xiye affectionately expressed his feelings for China and the Chinese people, believing that he was worthy of being a guest of this country, that China had become his second motherland, and that the Chinese people were his people. "
After receiving Pei Xiye's letter, ** immediately instructed the comrades in the country to take care of him and his family. But the ** order was firm, and Pei Xiye was not spared. In 1954, he reluctantly left the land where he had lived in China for more than 40 years.
Due to nationality issues, Wu could not go to France with him and his children. They could only hug affectionately outside Tianjin Customs and say goodbye. Pei Xiye is old, and he doesn't know if he will be able to return to this land.
Just when they were worried about parting, a PLA soldier handed over a note inscribed by ***. With the special approval of the prime minister, Wu Yidan can go out of the customs to accompany her husband to France.
At the end of the note, ** expressed his deep apologies to Pei Xiye.
Pei Xiye and his wife Wu Yidan together) Pei Xiye stared at ***'s handwriting, and his mood was much more comfortable. Even though he cherishes the land where he has lived for more than 40 years, he respects the decision of the Chinese people because they have long become his family.
There may be disputes between family members, but there will always be a day when they will be reunited. Back in France, Pei Xiye looked at the unfamiliar motherland and was full of emotion in his heart. Although he was originally from France, he had been adrift all over the world since his youth, following diplomatic delegations and the military.
He has lived in the cities of Iran and camped in the rainforests of India. After wandering abroad for most of his life, he knew very little about his homeland. In desperation, he chose to move to the countryside and bought a piece of land to spend the rest of his life here.
In 1955, Wu Yidan gave birth to a son for Pei Xiye. To the joy of the old man, he named his son Louie. According to the customs of the Chinese, Wu Yidan named the child Bei Shitao.
Pei Xiye loved Shi Tao's works very much, so he named his son this name to express his deep expectations for the child and his longing for China.
Pei Xiye, an "international friend" who has dedicated most of his life to the happiness of the Chinese people, still insists on treating the poor at the bottom of society after returning to France.
Despite his advanced age, his experience and memory are not as good as before, but his kindness and persistence have never changed. In 1958, Mr. Pei Xiye passed away peacefully at home at the age of 86.
His departure left Wu Yidan and their children behind. Although there is an age difference of more than 50 years between the two, Wu Rudan's feelings for Pei Xiye are extremely sincere.
After Pei Xiye's death, Wu Yidan relied on selling paintings to supplement his family, while carefully tutoring his children's schoolwork. In the end, under the training of Wu Yidan, Bei Shitao was admitted to the Naval Medical College, inherited his father's legacy, and became a doctor who saved lives and helped the wounded.
However, with the passage of time, Pei Xiye's name seems to have been forgotten, and his dedication and dedication seem to have been diluted by the long river of history. But his spirit and story will always be remembered in people's hearts.
In 2013, the city of Beijing finally listed Peijia Garden as a cultural relics protection unit and sent an invitation to Pei Xiye's family. However, this exciting moment was made heavy by the sudden death of Wu Sidan.
Wu died of illness in France at the age of 89. Her death allowed countless Chinese to learn for the first time about this "French friend" who once fought side by side with the Chinese people through an exclusive interview with ** TV station.
Wu Sidan's death did not stop people from recognizing Pei Xiye. In the same year, the People** published an article praising Pei Xiye as a "great internationalist fighter" and a "Bethune-style doctor".
This marks that Pei Xiye's achievements have finally been officially recognized by China, and also indicates the continuous continuation of the friendship between the Chinese and French peoples. Pei Xiye and Wu Yidan's "wedding photos" and their stories have become an eternal symbol of Sino-French friendship.
Their love story and selfless dedication make us remember history, cherish peace, and move on.
Today, Beijing's "Beijia Garden" has become a well-known tourist attraction, and it is difficult to imagine that it was once closely associated with the Chinese Revolution when people admire this tranquil garden.
Dr. Pei Xiye saved the lives of countless Chinese with his superb medical skills here, and after the Chinese people gained independence, he silently left this land he loved so much.
Although this made Pei Xiye regret it himself, it unexpectedly promoted the friendship between the Chinese and French peoples. Over the past century, countless internationalist fighters have fought valiantly on the front lines of national liberation wars, speaking different languages, with their own living and eating habits, but all with the same fiery ideals burning in their hearts, which people in the 21st century cannot imagine.
In the future, perhaps more people like Dr. Pei Xiye will cross the ocean to another country, and that will mean that the world will become more connected, and everyone will have more joy and happiness as a result!