China News Service, Beijing, February 28 (Zhu He) "The 'February 28' Incident was a spontaneous movement of love for the land and hometown by the people of Taiwan Province. It was a conflict between the government and the people and class opposition, rather than a provincial conflict or ethnic conflict." Looking back The history of the "February 28" incident, Chu Jingtao, a researcher at the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said on the 28th.

　　On the same day, the Central Committee of the Taiwan League held a symposium in Beijing to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Taiwan People's "February 28" Uprising. People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, including Chu Jingtao, traced history, commemorated the martyrs, and called on the younger generation to care about history and recognize the truth.

　　The "February 28" incident was a resistance movement launched by the Taiwanese people in 1947 against authoritarian rule and demanding democratic autonomy.

For some time, the "Taiwan independence" forces have distorted the incident into a provincial conflict and the origin of "Taiwan independence", and tried their best to provoke and create confrontation.

　　Chu Jingtao said that the "February 28" was a movement by the Taiwanese people to pursue provincial political reform in the early days of liberation. At that time, affected by the rising democratic movement in the mainland, the people hoped to implement local autonomy in Taiwan Province as soon as possible, abolish the Monopoly Bureau and the Trade Bureau, and build hometown.

From the perspective of China as a whole, this movement is an integral part of the post-war national democratic movement; from the perspective of Taiwan's unique development history, it is a continuation of the resistance struggle of Taiwanese elites during the Japanese occupation.

　　Xu Mengxiang, deputy secretary-general of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Taiwan Workers' Party, also believes that from the "February 28" uprising to the founding of New China, the progressive student and industrial movements on the island all responded to the anti-hunger, anti-civil war, and anti-persecution demands of the broad masses of the motherland. movement, directly or indirectly participated in the new democratic revolutionary wave.

　　However, the historical truth and significance of the "February 28" incident have been distorted on the island for a long time.

Xu Mengxiang analyzed that in the 1990s, the "228" incident became a tool for separatist forces on the island to manipulate ethnic opposition and deconstruct the identity of the Taiwanese people's motherland.

The so-called "Taiwanese tragedy" has also become one of the means used by separatists to incite emotional political mobilization.

　　Lan Hao, a doctoral candidate at the School of Marxism at Tsinghua University and a student from Taiwan, feels that the introduction of "228" on the island is often accompanied by labels such as "conflict of provincial citizenship". The younger generation may be afraid of or avoid "228" Let's not talk about it; Li Zhong, deputy secretary-general of the Taiwan Summer Tide Federation, also observed that "228" is now gaining more and more attention, but the relevant discussion on the island is in a trend of losing context and history.

　　Many Taiwanese teachers and students are employed and studying in the mainland. Li Zhong believes that this gives young people a good opportunity to make up for and correct the misplaced historical education on the island.

　　The commemoration of the "February 28" incident is even more closely related to real politics.

Chu Jingtao pointed out that after 1977, he recalled the struggle of the Taiwan League predecessors represented by Xie Xuehong in building New China, and deeply felt that they were the forerunners, pioneers and leaders who promoted the joint promotion of Chinese culture on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and promoted the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should use the national kinship that is thicker than water to turn hostilities into friendship, jointly promote the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations, and ultimately realize the complete reunification of the country, so as to comfort the compatriots who died in the "February 28" uprising.

　　Tsai Li-jing, a member of the Taiwan League, is a descendant of Tsai Zi-min, who witnessed the "February 28" incident.

After the uprising was suppressed, Cai Zimin was wanted by the authorities and fled to Shanghai in disguise. He was unable to return to Taiwan for 56 years in the mainland.

Cai Lijing said that she will inherit the spirit of her ancestors and continue to serve as a bridge for exchanges between compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the younger generation.

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