Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 2nd, Wire Title: Remembering History and Forging ahead—Written on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese War and the World Anti-Fascist War
Xinhua News Agency reporter
Through the smoke and clouds of history, the unyielding years of bloody battles and salvation are still shocking——
There are no distinctions between the north and the south, the old and the young. All the Chinese people braved the enemy’s artillery to fight for national disasters and fought for 14 years. They won the first complete victory in the fight against foreign invasions in modern times.
This is a decisive battle between justice and evil, light and darkness, progress and reaction, and a major turning point in the modern history of the Chinese nation.
In the baptism of blood and fire, the ancient Chinese phoenix nirvana and rebirth from the ashes, starting a new historical journey for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Listen, the great truth revealed by history stirs time and space: justice will prevail!
Peace will prevail!
The people will win!
A piece of history will never be forgotten-united against insults, fighting bloody battles, the people of the whole country have no hesitation to devote themselves to the torrent of Japanese aggressors
"Japan surrendered!"
On August 15th, 75 years ago, the front page of "Ta Kung Pao" announced this important news to the people of the whole country in five super-sized fonts.
Just five words, so many people tears.
In modern China, the beacon of war never seemed to disappear.
Since the British colonists opened the door of China in 1840 with strong boats and weapons, Yang Yang Zhonghua has fallen into a nightmare of humiliating land and compensation.
Shenyang, Liaoning, outside the "September 18th" History Museum, a "remnant stele" full of bullet marks, setting history forever-September 18, 1931.
On the evening of this day, the Japanese army blew up the rails of the Nanman Railway near Shenyang Liutiao Lake and brazenly launched the September 18th Incident, starting the long-planned war of aggression against China.
Within a few months, all three northeastern provinces fell.
"Since then, the anti-Japanese national salvation flames between the white mountains and the black waters quickly ignited across the country. The Chinese people, who did not want to be slaves to the country, rose up and fought for 14 years." said Fan Lihong, director of the "September 18th" History Museum .
In the exhibition hall, tourists Ms. Liu Siyang and her 6-year-old daughter stopped for a long time in front of the white "National Anthem Wall".
"My daughter is still young, and she can't fully understand many of the contents in the exhibition. But I told her on the'National Anthem Wall' for a long time. This is the song she is most familiar with. I want her to understand that this is a people In the war, the ancestors used flesh and blood to build new hopes." Liu Siyang said.
The September 18th Incident, the concocting of the Puppet Manchukuo, the North China Incident... Japan's ambition to embezzle the entire China day by day.
By the Lugou Bridge, blue waves are rippling.
The 89-year-old Zheng Fulai wore the "Wanping Volunteer" red armband on his arm, but his thoughts returned to the night 83 years ago: "My family lives in the west of Lugou Bridge, less than 50 meters from Lugou Bridge. July 7, 1937, Lugou Bridge The sound of shells rang almost all night..."
That night, intensive gunfire awakened Zheng Fulai, who was only 6 years old, from his sleep.
He understood that the Japanese had entered the city.
The little friend Siharuko who was still playing together the previous day was killed by a shell that fell in front of her house.
"Dying a Chinese is like dying an ant." Eighty years later, the old man Zheng Fulai was still extremely angry.
"All Chinese compatriots! Pingjin is in danger! North China is in danger! The Chinese nation is in danger! Only when the whole nation carries out the war of resistance is our way out!"
On the second day of the July 7th Incident, the call of the Communist Party of China through the airwaves stirred the hearts of hundreds of millions of people.
"Vow not to be a slave to the country!"
Under the banner of the anti-Japanese national united front based on the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party initiated and established by the Communist Party of China, to fight against aggression and save the country for survival, it has become the common will of all parties, nationalities, classes, strata, groups, and overseas Chinese. The sons and daughters committed themselves to the torrent of fighting against the Japanese invaders without hesitation.
"Although its strength was still very weak at the time, as the first party to issue a manifesto of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Communist Party of China assumed the historical responsibility of the vanguard of the Anti-Japanese War and played a key role as a mainstay." said Wang Xinsheng, former researcher of the Party History Research Office of the CPC Central Committee.
In Nanjing, Jiangsu, the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders is solemn.
At 8 o'clock in the morning on August 15 this year, people from all walks of life held a peaceful assembly here.
Ling Bojian, the "post-95" who visited the memorial for the first time, stopped in front of a huge archive wall.
The blue is the files of the survivors, the gray is the files of third-party witnesses and Japanese veterans, and the black is the files of the victims. There are more than 10,000 copies in total.
"Behind every file is a living life, a living history." Ling Bojian said with emotion: "In six weeks, more than 300,000 compatriots were massacred. In a peaceful age, many times I forget how peaceful peace is. It is precious. Only by looking back at history can you know how cruel the invaders are."
Strolling through the exhibition hall, 1213 photos of Nanjing Massacre survivors are densely displayed on the wall.
The frozen faces seem to be still gazing at this suffering history.
During the entire 14-year war of resistance, China paid a huge price: half of the country was trampled by the Japanese, more than 930 cities were invaded, more than 35 million military and civilian casualties, direct economic losses of 100 billion U.S. dollars, and indirect economic losses of 500 billion U.S. dollars...
The earliest struggle, the final victory.
In this world anti-fascist war concerning world peace and the destiny of mankind, China’s War of Resistance Against Japan started the earliest and lasted the longest. It fought and wiped out the Japanese army the most and paid the most. It played a decisive role in the complete victory over Japanese fascism and the world. The final victory of the Anti-Fascist War made a significant contribution.
History is like a mirror, showing the future.
On the memorial square, people rang the peace bell.
The bells are melodious, entrusting people's infinite sorrow for the dead, and the beautiful hope for the common destiny of mankind and the peaceful development of the world...
A spirit travels through time and space-fighting to the end, fighting to the end, Chinese sons and daughters compose a chapter of patriotism that is shocking and weeping
"We are all sharpshooters, and every bullet destroys an enemy." A popular "Guerrilla Song" that inspired thousands of soldiers and people during the War of Resistance.
Looking back at the present, the lyrics "Each bullet destroys an enemy", is it not forced by the hard conditions of the year?
The 14-year arduous war of resistance against Japan was a contest between a backward agricultural country and a powerful industrial country.
Jiang Bin, a veteran of the New Fourth Army, recalled: "The Japanese devils were armed with new machine guns, mountain cannons, and enough bullets. The guns we used were the old'Hubei Tiaozi' and the old sleeves. The bullet bag looked straight, in fact Not many."
The enemy is strong, we are weak, the equipment is backward, the clothes and food are scarce... What kind of belief supports the heroes and martyrs through the rain of bullets?
What kind of spirit has inspired the Chinese nation to endure the test of blood and fire?
On Youzhu Road, Nanchang, Jiangxi, a small two-story building stands quietly.
This is the exhibition hall of the former headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Nanchang.
82 years ago, the New Fourth Army was formed here.
Inside the museum, an oil painting titled "Eight Thousand People Singing Parade" attracted visitors.
In the painting, musician He Shide stands on a truck and directs 8,000 people in a singing parade. There are crowds of people on the road, and the sentiment is indignant. The banner of "Provide China" is raised in the wind.
"At that time, a large number of enthusiastic youth and patriots gathered in Nanchang to actively carry out anti-Japanese salvation activities, joined the New Fourth Army Field Service Corps, Jiangxi Youth Service Corps and other organizations, and the enthusiasm for anti-Japanese salvation was unprecedented. The spirit of participating in the national disaster has long been in the blood of the people."
As a newspaper commentary in that year said: "Today, in the North and South battlefields, we are fighting to die, rushing to die, because everyone has absolute faith and knows that sacrificing ourselves is in exchange for the independence and freedom of the descendants of the Chinese nation. With confidence, it will be achieved."
"The comparison of power is not only the comparison of military power and economic power, but also the comparison of manpower and human heart," said Comrade Mao Zedong.
On the Suzhou River in Shanghai, a high wall full of 8 shell holes and more than 400 bullet holes of various sizes, records a song of history.
In October 1937, the Battle of Songhu was in full swing.
Facing a powerful enemy several times greater than ourselves, Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu, the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division of the Chinese Defensive Army, led the "eight hundred strong men" to stick to the Shanghai Sixing Warehouse, fighting alone and fighting to the end...
"The front and rear understand that the Battle of Songhu was an arduous battle. If we retreat, the country will not be the country. We can only resist tenaciously." said Cheng Zhaoqi, a distinguished professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
"China will not perish, China will not perish, you see those 800 warriors fighting alone to defend the battlefield..." In the Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall in Shanghai Sixing Warehouse, the melody of "Song of the Eight Hundred Heroes" was played repeatedly, pulling people's thoughts back again. To that period of flames--
Tong Linge, who swears to serve the country to death, gave generously to the Japanese invaders, saying that "the country is too difficult for the soldiers to serve the country with their death";
Zhang Zizhong, who fought to the last moment, wrote to the officers and soldiers to tell them "the determination to die for the country and the nation, the sea is not clear, the stone is not rotten, and will never change at all";
Zhao Yiman, who was tortured, sang "the flag of the people, the flag of blood red, and the soldier's corpse. The corpse is not stiff, and the blood has stained the flag";
Yang Jingyu, who uses withered grass, bark and cotton wool, to deal with the enemy alone for 5 days and nights, fighting stubbornly until his ammunition is exhausted;
The "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain" who would rather die than surrender, faced the approaching Japanese and puppet troops, destroyed their guns, and did not hesitate to jump off a cliff tens of feet deep...
An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood, a touch of hot soil and a touch of soul.
When the Chinese nation was at its most dangerous, these anti-Japanese heroes who came forward threw their heads and shed their blood to build an unbreakable wall of flesh and blood for the Chinese nation.
The patriotism of the rise and fall of the world, the responsibility of everyone, the national integrity of seeing death as home, rather than surrendering, the heroic spirit of not fearing violence and fighting to the end, and the perseverance and perseverance of victory...
The anti-Japanese spirit tempered in the great war of resistance against Japanese aggression has become a precious spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation and inspires the Chinese people to never surrender and move forward no matter what difficulties and obstacles they encounter!
One faith leads the future-to comfort the history and martyrs with the new achievements of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
Since modern times, the historical process of the Chinese nation's rejuvenation has been interrupted time and time again.
However, the Chinese people have never been discouraged, but stood up tenaciously again and again, repacked and set off again.
In the ancient city of Taierzhuang, Shandong, the canal wetland park is full of lotus flowers, and tourists are like weaving.
In the spring of 1938, to prevent the Japanese army from going south, the Chinese defenders launched the Battle of Taierzhuang.
After more than half a month of fierce fighting, the Chinese army defeated the main force of the two elite divisions of the Japanese army in one fell swoop and seized a large number of weapons and equipment, which greatly encouraged the confidence of the people across the country to win the war.
"In history, there are many names of small towns as turning points: Waterloo, Gettysburg, Verdun... Today, a new name has been added-Taierzhuang." A foreign media at the time wrote respectfully.
However, the ruthless war caused more than 90% of the buildings in this thousand-year-old city by the canal to be destroyed, "no walls, no bombs, no soil and no blood."
Standing amidst the broken walls, the current Taierzhuang ancient city has undergone reconstruction, with small bridges, flowing water, blue bricks and green tiles, and a prosperous scene, making it a well-known Jiangbei water town and a famous tourist city.
"Where there was artillery fire, now is a happy and peaceful city. The war site in Taierzhuang always reminds us that we must remember history, remember the martyrs, cherish peace and create the future." A tourist said with emotion.
Kunming, Yunnan, the former site of Southwest Associated University.
A few simple bungalows with iron roofs and loess walls are the classrooms of the year.
This university, established in the war of resistance against Japan, persisted in running the school under difficult conditions, and achieved amazing results: it has trained more than 8,000 students, and has successively won 2 Nobel Prize winners and 8 "two bombs and one star". Meritorious medal winners, 5 winners of the highest national science and technology awards, more than 170 academicians...
"Southwest Associated University has not only inherited history and culture for the Chinese nation, but also reserved a large number of talents for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The national spirit, educational spirit and spirit of resistance that it embodies is a model of the patriotism of the Chinese nation." Said Li Hongying, curator of the Great Museum.
In such a difficult environment as the War of Resistance, we can all cultivate a large number of outstanding talents.
Today, our conditions and environment are no longer what they used to be. What reasons do we not continue to face the difficulties and struggle hard?
Outside the walls of the "September 18th" History Museum in Shenyang, Liaoning, every few minutes, trains with speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour pass by.
History and reality meet here-the location of the Harbin-Dalian high-speed railway is the Nanman Railway.
From the Nanman-Manchurian Railway, which is full of national blood and tears, to China's high-speed railway, which is on the global stage, the Chinese people have gone through a long and arduous struggle, rising step by step from tribulation and growing up in tribulation.
"History has proven and will continue to prove that the Chinese people are united and united, there are no difficulties that cannot be overcome, and there are no challenges that cannot be overcome!" said Zhu Chengru, a volunteer at the "September 18th" History Museum.
Yin worry and enlightenment are difficult to prosper a nation.
In the exhibition hall of the old site of the Wayaobao Conference in Yan'an, Shaanxi, there is a classic photo called the Voice of the War of Resistance.
The heroic young trumpeter raised his right arm and blew his trumpet in front of the flying Anti-Japanese flag, demonstrating the indestructible determination of the Chinese Communists to resist the Japanese War.
In the war years, the belief in the War of Resistance was as firm as a rock, and the determination to lead the masses in the old areas out of poverty in peacetime was also unswerving.
Just last year, with the persistent struggle of the Chinese Communists, the last two impoverished counties in Yan'an were lifted out of poverty, saying goodbye to absolute poverty in a historic way.
Today, Yan'an is taking poverty alleviation as the starting point for a new life and new struggle, effectively linking poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and striving for a better future.
After many winds and rains, people are not old, and the road to Guanshan is still long at first.
The great victory 75 years ago was saturated with the blood and lives of countless people with lofty ideals and opened up a bright prospect for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Today, 75 years later, what kind of beliefs and responsibilities will we use to remember history and create the future... (Writing: Lin Hui, Wang Peng, Sun Shaolong; Participating in writing: Bao Yuhan, Zhao Hongnan, Qiu Bingqing, Sun Nan, Peng Yunjia, Wang Chenyang, (Xia Ke, Luo Xin)