Quick comment丨 Relay to tell the history of suffering, draw on the strength to move forward

Today is December 13th, and the "Tong" sees "witness" and prays for peace, which is the deep theme of this day. Against the backdrop of only 61 registered survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, our remembrance and recounting are becoming more and more urgent.

How do we remember and tell?

The publication of "Under the Monument - Fieldwork of the Burial Sites of Compatriots Killed in the Nanjing Massacre" is an answer. The results of the investigation shown in the book are a resonance of the scar memory of Nanjing City and an echo of folk discourse.

As the editors thought, as one of the cities that suffered the most in Japan's war of aggression against China, as the place where the massacre of the Japanese army occurred, it is responsible for the city of Nanjing, the people of Nanjing, and history to carry out in-depth and effective research work in Nanjing to liquidate the damage caused to the city of Nanjing and the harm caused to the people of Nanjing by the Japanese war of aggression against China.

We can express our "not forgetting" in many common ways on this day. The more we take the express train of time away from 1937, the more we should think that we must have more physical evidence to sound our positions and propositions, and we must broaden and support our historical horizons through more frequent and effective transmission of discourse. Finding more and better ways to remember and tell, making remembering and telling more tense, and making the lies of those who try to falsify history more and more powerless, this is a promise to history and the future.

952 pieces (set)! This is the number of cultural relics newly collected by the Memorial Hall of the Compatriots Killed in the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese Army Invading China in the past year. Among them, the "Diary of the Formation" of the Eleventh Squadron of the Thirty-sixth Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army invading China and other orphan books have extremely high historical value; a few days ago, the Modern Express published a report on the front page of "Looking for Chen Feiran", which aroused attention. 84 years ago, Chen Feiran remained in the Nanjing safe zone to guard the refugees, and Wei Tering's diary records that he was nearly killed by the Japanese in order to protect his compatriots. Such a search, in the smoke clouds of history, is particularly conspicuous and meaningful. In order to make the memory richer and fuller, we can only keep searching and running.

In the eyes of novelists, events over time are easy to become "stories". However, the "1937" that every Nanjing person has in mind will never be a story. This is because decades of narration have made that day of that year not blurred with the passage of time, but became clearer and clearer.

In the Modern Express report "Race against Time, They Never Stop Telling", the old man Fang Suxia, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, is telling, and the old man Ge Daorong is telling... "I live until now, as long as I am peaceful and oppose war", xia Suqin's words have spoken the hearts of many Nanjing people. Obviously, the old people are talking and entrusting. Calling for peace and cohesion is to build the motherland stronger and more peaceful.

In the depths of our memories, our ancestors recounted their personal experiences and taught us to "not forget for a moment"; our documentary works depict bloody rain and wind, teaching us to cherish peace and strive for strength. Whether it is family training or public memory, they have found a more valuable way to connect history and reality, and hope that the "future generations" will continue to relay - remembering the history of suffering and drawing on the strength to move forward is exactly the righteousness.

Modern Express commentator Dai Zhishen