Septuagenarian Couple Get Married After Being Separated for 43 Years During Cultural Revolution

Septuagenarian Couple Get Married After Being Separated for 43 Years During Cultural Revolution
Apr 21, 2014 By eChinacities.com

A couple who met and fell in love in the seventies have reunited and gotten married after an enormous 43 year separation proving to all you cynics out there that maybe true love does conquer all.

It all began when an 18 year old girl posted an appeal online to help her find Wang Hong, an elderly lady she’d never met before. The lady was her biological grandmother and had been separated from the family because she’d had her son out of wedlock.

The star crossed lovers met in 1967 when they were assigned to the same work unit. Wang Hong fell in love with Qiao Yongqian, who was already married with two children, and the two started an affair, which ended up in them secretly having a child together. Afterwards Qiao’s wife reported the two to the authorities and they were expelled from their work unit.

His wife then refused to divorce Qiao, so the couple was unable to be together due to the strict regulations regarding marriage at the time. 

After they broke up, Qiao’s wife took her children back to her family’s home and the couple lived separately, leaving Qiao to raise his son alone. When his son had grown up Qiao told him the truth about who his mother was, and the two started searching for Wang Hong. They finally found her 43 years after they had last seen each other.

The couple, who now have been widowed for many years got the consent of their families to finally be together. Qiao Yongqian brought with him 58 love letters that he’d written to her and an erhu that he’d kept as a keepsake of their time together and re-declared his love for her. The two are now happily married after over four decades apart.

Source: ifeng.com

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mike168229

A touching tale of adultory.

Apr 22, 2014 19:52 Report Abuse

Robk

Awesome story, glad they were brought back together in a time that was more open to change.

Apr 22, 2014 01:16 Report Abuse

desiriderz

touching story

Apr 21, 2014 19:06 Report Abuse