Bethune was not used to eating China's "local products" after he arrived in China, and his stomach was uncomfortable, but he didn't complain, let alone ask for care, but endured. He thinks: China's friends can eat, and I have to adapt. Life at that time was hard and unstable, with no milk, bread and strong coffee, only coarse grains in the mountain village.

Comrades were afraid of ignoring Bethune, so they specially made some eggs for him to eat. Bethune refused to be taken care of and quickly said, "If I want to enjoy it, then I won't come to China Liberated Area." He forced the egg back. Once, the cook cooked old corn for everyone, and Bethune ate it with relish.

After eating, he took out a knife, cut off the corn cob, dug a small nest at the bottom, put a thin bamboo tube on it, then put tobacco in the small nest of the corn cob, lit it and smoked happily. After seeing this, the chef in China showed a surprised look: "Doctor, you can really be said to be an authentic villager!"

Bethune said, "No, no!" Then he made a ceramic pipe for the cook. In the difficult living environment, Bethune felt the deep feelings of the military and civilians. In Bethune's view, there was no insurmountable difficulty for the soldiers and civilians in China.

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Bethune came to China not far from Wan Li, supported the liberation of China people, and sacrificed his precious life for the victory of the China Revolution. He is a hero in China.

On March, 1938, Canadian producer party member and famous doctor norman bethune led a Canadian-American medical team to Yan 'an. In April of the same year, Bethune crossed the Yellow River eastward and came to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region.

He took the field medical team to many battlefields, braved the bullets and saved thousands of wounded and sick people in extremely difficult environment. 1in the winter of 939, Bethune was unfortunately killed in June 1939 165438+ 10/2 when rescuing the wounded in the Motianling of Laiyuan, the front line of the Anti-Japanese War.

Bethune wrote to Nie Rong Zhen before he died. In the letter, he wrote: "The last two years have been the happiest and most meaningful days in my life; Here, I still have a lot to say to my comrades, but I can't write any more. Let me give you a hundred times gratitude, millions of dear comrades. "

? Public trust. Com- The Eternal Voice of the Anti-Japanese War: 1939 Mao Zedong published "Commemorating Bethune"