Friday, April 22, 2011

The Passage of Time


       A person can go through a lot of things in their whole life, sad, happy, risky, and so on. And each experience is different and valuable.
        In this interview, I interviewed my great grandmother. She was      born in 1933. The motherland grew up with her as a witness personal. She was a landlord’s daughter. In 1937, the war of Resistance against Japan began. At first, the Japanese imperialist invaded red on July, 7.  But at the same time, the president of China, Jiang Jieshi Ignored the Japanese enemy, the range that the Japanese enemy invaded was enlarged.
         When my great grandmother was about 5 or 6, the Japanese enemy came to her village. My great grandmother and her family hid in the forest of a mountain. They saw that the Japanese enemies burned the farm tools and houses, stole everything that was worth anything and killed the fowl to eat. In the evening, they dared to go to their village. On the second day, they did the same thing, except they brought some food, but it was not enough. My great grandmother said, thanks to the Communist Party and Mao Zedong. In 1945, the Japanese soldiers surrendered. And from 1946-1949, the civil war of China, Communist Party against Kuomintang, the Communist Party won. In 1951, the nation issued the land reform and my great grandmother’ father had to divide into parts and be poor farmers. And from 1966-1976, the Reform and Opening-up began, and my great grandmother’s children couldn’t go to high school. In 1984, my great grandmother immigrated to the United States. And now, she lives a happy life.
          Everyone’s whole life may meet something interesting, something risky. (People whose lives do not go through the setbacks, will only become the flowers in the green house)[This is an extra.]
                                               
                                    
                                                                                       Writer: Qiwen Huang

  

2 comments:

  1. The war brought tears and pain to everyone who experienced it. For your great grandmother, it is really hard time in the war, but luckily, she gets a better life now.

    Lucille

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  2. I heard from my grandmother about the war, too. She was in Beijing at that time.
    --Lucy

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