In 1894, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the Qing Dynasty ended in a crushing defeat. If you can't win on the battlefield, you can only be slaughtered at the negotiating table, and it is an unchangeable truth throughout the ages. What is less well known is that in addition to bringing some of the spoils of war back to Japan, Japan also brought some of the sailors of the Beiyang Marine Division back to Japan for detention. It is sad that many sailors eventually failed to return to the motherland and could only bury their bones in a foreign country.
In the old army cemetery of Sanadayama in Osaka, Japan, and the army cemetery of Hijiyama in Hiroshima, a total of 10 sailors of the Beiyang Marine Division are buried. The author checked the information and found that the names of these 10 people were: Liu Hanzhong, Western Clinic, Lv Wenfeng, Yang Yongkuan, Liu Qide, Li Jinfu, Wang Dianqing, Zhang Wensheng, Xu Wande, and Zheng Gui.
In view of the large number of sailors buried in the old army cemetery of Sanada Mountain, the author focuses on the situation of Chinese cemeteries in this cemetery. The Sanadayama Old Army Cemetery was built in 1871 and houses about 5,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians who died before World War II. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of this century, Chinese students accidentally found the cemetery of the Qing army in the cemetery, and after the news spread to China, public opinion was in an uproar.
Carefully identify the tombstones, on which you can see the words "Qingguo Liu Qide" and "Qingguo Lu Wenfeng". After more than a hundred years of ups and downs, the tombstone has long been mottled, but the inscription on it shows that the owner of the tomb is Chinese. Carefully identifying the tombstone, people found that there is a large gap between the "Qingguo" and the name, according to the traces, the original gap is in writing, what will be the word?
A review of the information revealed that the erased inscriptions were "captives", which were insulting. It turned out that this cemetery also buried German prisoners during World War I, and their tombstones were also engraved with the words "capture". During World War II, Japan and Germany were so close that at the request of the German ambassador to Japan, cemetery administrators erased the "captures" of German soldiers.
When erasing the "trappers" on the German tombstones, the "catchers" on the tombstones of the Beiyang Marine Division soldiers were not erased in passing. In the 1970s, Sino-Japanese relations gradually normalized, and the Japanese side finally quietly erased the word "capture". Due to a lack of maintenance, these stone pillar-like tombstones have weathered and the grave area is overgrown.
In fact, not only could the Beiyang sailors not return to their hometown, but after the sinking of the "Dingyuan Ship", the Japanese Ono Takasuke bought part of the wreckage of the Dingyuan ship. Ono Hired to salvage a large number of shipwrecks and transported them back to Japan to build a "Dingyuan Pavilion". According to scholars familiar with this period of history, "Japan built the 'Dingyuan Pavilion' in Nagasaki with the components of the 'Dingyuan Ship' in order to publicize its defeat of the 'First Giant Ship in Asia' and satisfy the vanity of the whole country." ”
It is not difficult to imagine that the owners of these shabby cemeteries may have been just a very ordinary soldier a hundred years ago, but they still dared to fight the murderous Japanese army, even if they were eventually taken prisoner. Regrettably, these soldiers have not been able to return to their roots in the end, and may be able to achieve this in the future.
Many readers and friends leave messages to read more about modern history, not that the author does not want to write, because many times it may not pass the review. If you want to understand the modern history of China, the author recommends that you read "Modern Chinese History" written by Jiang Tingdian.
This book was written by Jiang Tingdian in Wuhan in only 2 months, and he was originally going to use 10 years to complete it, but unfortunately his daily work was too busy. Although it took a short time, this book is extremely important in the study of modern Chinese history and is known as a "pioneering work". The book was unanimously recommended by Guo Tingyi, director of the Institute of Modern History of Taiwan's Academia Sinica, Fu Sinian, former president of National Taiwan University, and Fei Zhengqing, tenured professor at Harvard University.
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The famous historian He Bingdi said: In the past half century, how many modern historical works have surpassed it? Today's award-winning "Emperor's Tome" does not add up to the weight of this book.
Historian Li Ji said that he established a scientific foundation for china's modern history during this period. This foundation is not only built on a number of original materials, but more importantly on several basic ideas that he developed. With the use of these ideas, he was able to bring this large pile of original materials to life.
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