China News Service, Shanghai, August 13th (Li Qiuying, Zhang Hengwei, Zhou Yang Luohao) This year marks the 85th anniversary of the National Anti-Japanese War and the August 13 Songhu Anti-Japanese War. On August 13, the Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall held the theme of "Remember history and move forward". The theme held a series of commemorative activities.
Photo by Zhang Hengwei of audience visiting Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall
At 8:13 in the morning, along with the majestic "March of the Volunteers", the commemorative ceremony officially began.
The audience lined up neatly, holding flowers, watching the national flag and singing the national anthem.
Afterwards, the audience stood in silence to pay tribute to the martyrs who died heroically in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Afterwards, the honor guard presented flower baskets to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives heroically in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Photo by Zhang Hengwei of audience visiting Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall
"My grandfather is a revolutionary martyr who died in Shanghai, and I come here to participate in commemorative activities almost every year." Mr. Zhong is nearly old, and in the folder he carries with him, he carefully prepared his grandfather's photos, certificates and other materials. " When a national disaster is on the way, everyone is responsible, not to mention that as a soldier, I dare not to serve the battlefield. After defeating the Japanese invaders, I didn’t die, and my husband and wife will be reunited again.” At the scene, Mr. Zhong chose to read a few words from his grandfather’s family letter.
"I came to the ceremony to let the younger generations remember this history, to bear hardships and to be patriotic. This is the most important thing, and we must be patriotic."
Photo by Zhang Hengwei of audience visiting Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall
Students present flowers to the martyrs Photo by Zhang Hengwei
At the ceremony, Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall received related cultural relics donated by Taiwan compatriot Bai Zhongqi and cultural relic collector Yang Yong.
Among them, there is the first vinyl record of "March of the Volunteers" recorded by Shanghai EMI Records in 1935, numbered 34838b.
It is reported that due to the small number of releases that year, the album is rare and valuable.
In addition, there is a promotional advertisement for the movie "The Children of the Storm" published in "Declaration" on May 19, 1935.
They have witnessed the twists and turns of the Chinese nation's resistance to aggression and self-reliance.
The staff said that the donation of these cultural relics has played a positive role in the publicity display and academic research of the memorial hall.
Photo by Zhang Hengwei of audience visiting Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall
The Children's Troupe is a revolutionary literary and artistic team for children born under the leadership and cultivation of the Communist Party of China. With extraordinary courage and determination, they carried out anti-Japanese national salvation propaganda work in different literary and artistic forms such as songs and dramas. A force that cannot be ignored.
Photo by Zhang Hengwei at the ceremony
In order to carry forward and commemorate the national spirit and patriotism of the Children's Theatre during the Anti-Japanese War, the Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, together with the Memorial Hall of the China Left-wing Writers' Union and the Memorial Hall of the Former Site of the Eighth Route Army Wuhan Office, jointly held an original exhibition "A Generation in the Blood of the Anti-Japanese War". Strange Flowers - Thematic Exhibition of Children's Theater" was also officially launched on the same day.
The exhibition is divided into three chapters: nurture, bloom, and imprint. With dozens of members' recalled manuscripts, more than 100 pictures, and nearly 100 cultural relics, the exhibition shows that the Children's Theater troupe was issued during the Anti-Japanese War to resist foreign aggression, save the nation from peril, and unite the nation's children's forces. The glorious deeds of the national strong voice against the enemy.
Photo by Zhang Hengwei at the ceremony
"The Children's Theatre troupe stimulated children's patriotic enthusiasm through children's songs and children's plays, and awakened the masses of the people to fight against Japan in a more vivid and direct way." said Tang Lei, curator of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall in Shanghai. This exhibition connects the children's theatre troupe from Shanghai, grew in Wuhan, and continued to develop in Chongqing, and restores the complete growth process of the children's theatre troupe.
Photo by Zhang Hengwei at the ceremony
At the same time, the memorial hall also carried out a series of commemorative activities in a combination of online and offline methods.
For example, the research and inheritance of red culture - a symposium to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of the August 13 Songhu Anti-Japanese War, a special lecture by experts to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the August 13th Songhu Anti-Japanese War, and cross-strait youth orientation activities to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the August 13th Songhu Anti-Japanese War .
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