A Chinese veteran who has been stranded in India for 54 years accidentally entered India because he was lost. How is he doing now?

There is a sentence in "On the Passage of the Qin Dynasty": "Millions of corpses are lying on the ground, and the blood is floating in the oars." This sentence very intuitively tells people the cruel scene brought about by war. Where there is war, there will be There will be casualties. During war, countless families will be torn apart, and some may even be left in a different place without being able to return home. He is a Chinese veteran who has been stranded in India for 54 years. He got lost and entered India by mistake, and finally had no choice but to marry a wife and have children there.

The Chinese veteran we are going to talk about today is named Wang Qi. Although he did not die on the battlefield, he has been trapped in India for 54 years, unable to return home or contact his family. Many people who have left their hometown to work hard will understand how painful it is to miss their hometown. Fortunately, we can still go home, but this veteran has not been able to go home for decades.

Wang Qi was born in Shaanxi in 1937, and joined the army in 1960. Wang Qi originally wanted to dedicate his life to the country and the army, but his life took a turn because of an accident. In Wang Qi's fourth year in the army, he followed the army to station in Tawang area in southern Tibet. This place is close to India, and Wang Qi lost contact with the troops during the march. Finally, Wang Qi, who was lost, entered India by mistake.

Recalling the experience at that time, Wang Qi said that he left the military camp in the evening and wanted to take a walk. But on the way back, he took a Red Cross car, thinking it would take him to his destination, but in the end he found that the car took him to the Indian military. On the way to send him to India, Wang Qi saw a car belonging to the Chinese Red Cross. Wang Qi wanted to call for help and let the car take him back home, but the Indian military covered his mouth. This also caused Wang Qi to miss the opportunity to return home.

After arriving at the Indian military garrison, he thought that after the war between China and India ended, China released Indian prisoners, and India should also send him back to China. But things were not as simple as he thought. The Indians handed him over to the military and charged him with "espionage." Because of this trumped-up charge, the Indian military imprisoned Wang Qi for seven years. During these seven years, Wang Qi missed her motherland very much and had to endure the homesickness every day. The military also tortured Wang Qi. Wang Qi endured these torturous and painful days for seven years before he was finally released by the Indian military.

Because of the pain of the past seven years and the longing for her hometown, Wang Qi wanted to return to her motherland even more after she came out. According to the daily records at the time, after Wang Qi was released from prison, India asked him where he wanted to go. Wang Qi naturally wanted to return to China after hearing this. India told Wang Qi that they would send him back in a few days, but in the end they sent Wang Qi to a small village. This move obviously has the meaning of imprisonment, because the village is very dilapidated and desolate, with almost no people and no way in or out. This village is full of foreign soldiers. It is equivalent to the place where India imprisons soldiers from other countries.

Wang Qi didn’t know the truth at first. It wasn’t until several months later that he discovered something was wrong. Wang Qi went to inquire, but the relevant personnel told him: He might never be able to go back. From then on, Wang Qi had no choice but to accept the reality of living in this country. Later, Wang Qi worked in a flour mill, and he later married a local Indian woman as his wife.

Wang Qi also gave birth to four children with this woman. Later, he opened a shop and lived a very happy life. Although he has a happy life, Wang Qi still misses his hometown. In the following decades, he has been actively writing letters to relevant Indian authorities seeking help, but has never received a reply.

It wasn’t until 2012 that Wang Qi asked the Chinese Embassy in India for help. Wang Qi’s situation attracted the attention of the embassy. However, due to the passage of time, there was no way to prove Wang Qi's identity, so we had to investigate first. Then Wang Qi’s identity was confirmed through investigation, and finally in 2017, old Wang Qi returned to his beloved hometown.

There is a saying in "Nine Songs": "Sorrow is not the result of separation." The greatest pain in the world is separation. Wang Qi has been separated from his relatives in his hometown for fifty-four years, and finally returning home smoothly can be regarded as making up for his regrets.