The general and the orphan girl.

1940, Sha Fei filmed the whole process of Nie's rescue of Japanese girl Mihoko, leaving an immortal masterpiece "The General and the Orphan Girl", which triggered a story of friendship between the Chinese and Japanese people 40 years later. ?

The background of the photo is as follows:1August 2, 9401day. In the fierce Hundred Regiments War, Commander Nie took in two orphans of king snakes at the command post. They were Mihoko sisters rescued by the Eighth Route Army soldiers in the East War in jingxing mining area on August 20. Their mother died in the war and their father was the deputy stationmaster of the King Snake Railway Station in Japan. He was seriously injured and died after being rescued by the Eighth Route Army. Nie took good care of two Japanese orphans, personally fed Mihoko, who was five or six years old, bought fruit to eat, and found a wet nurse for her little sister who was not weaned. He wanted to adopt them, but on second thought, he thought it would be better to send them back. On August 25, a reliable fellow villager took Nie's personal letter to Japanese officers and soldiers, picked two little girls with a laundry list and sent them to Shijiazhuang to return to the Japanese army. Sha Fei took more than a dozen photos of the whole process of this incident, that is, "the general and the orphan girl". He said to his comrade-in-arms Ji Lianbo, "Just send these photos to Japan in a few decades." ?

Sure enough, as Sha Fei expected, 40 years later, 1980, People's Daily published the article "Little Japanese Girl, Where Are You" by Yao, the president of the People's Liberation Army Daily, and the photo of "General and Orphan Girl" taken by Sha Fei that year caused great repercussions in China and Japan, and the reporter of Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun finally found Miho in Kyushu, Japan. She is a mother of three children and runs a small grocery store with her husband. Her little sister died in Shijiazhuang Japanese army hospital due to illness. Nie received telegrams and letters from all over Japan. The old Japanese soldiers who participated in the war of aggression against China were very excited, apologized for the evil of the war of aggression against China, thanked and praised the revolutionary humanitarianism of the Eighth Route Army, and called Nie Rongzhen a "living bodhisattva". ?

Later, the Mihoko family made a special trip to China. When Nie Rong Zhen saw them, Mihoko was so excited that he burst into tears and thanked them again and again. Fishermen in Hokkaido also asked her to bring scallops to express their wishes to the people of China. Mihoko's family specially visited Dongwang Society in jingxing mining area, sent a family photo to Yan Wang, Sha Fei's daughter, to express their gratitude and nostalgia for Sha Fei, and sent a congratulatory letter to the organizing committee of Sha Fei Stone Hua Shao Photography Exhibition.