Forgetting history is tantamount to betrayal, especially for a Chinese nation, forgetting the shameful history of the past, it is impossible to forge ahead, let alone realize the great rejuvenation of the nation!
December 13 is National Day of Worship. This day is a national festival openly established to commemorate the major national disasters that have occurred. After the end of World War II, many participating countries launched a national mourning day to commemorate the people who died in the war in the form of national sacrifices. This, of course, is done to strengthen the memory of history of modern citizens in order to remind us at all times not to forget the disasters and shames of the past.
History will not forget: on December 8, 1937, Nanjing fell. The Japanese army fully occupied the outer positions of Nanjing and began to attack the inner city. On December 11, nationalist forces began to retreat, exposing hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians in Nanjing to the butcher's knives of the Japanese army. On December 13, the inhuman Japanese army invaded the city of Nanjing, and began the Nanjing Massacre, which lasted for more than 40 days!
History will not forget that the Japanese army entered the city with about 50,000 troops, and these Japanese troops actually violated international law, broke through the bottom line of human morality, and arbitrarily killed the residents of Nanjing, even the disarmed soldiers were not spared. Japan's large-scale massacre methods, such as machine gun shooting and collective burial, are extremely cruel and rare in the world. In just over forty days, 300,000 Chinese fell under the butcher's knife of the Japanese army, and even the Yangtze River was stained red with blood.
Skynet was restored without leaks, and Japan eventually paid the price for its own massacre. In August 1945, U.S. troops dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, instantly reducing 200,000 Japanese to ashes. Japan subsequently announced its unconditional surrender. Although we defeated Japan with the help of the United States and the Soviet Union, the victory belonged to us after all, and Japan could not refute it.
In order to better develop patriotic lessons and let modern people cherish today's peace, on February 25, 2014, the Seventh Session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress resolved to establish December 13 as the National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre. On February 27, 2014, the Seventh Session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress voted to establish December 13 as the National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
We remember history and hold public sacrifices not to perpetuate hatred, but to evoke the memory of everyone's national history. Only by remembering the past history can we not be arrogant and impatient, and bravely move forward.
Today's China has long become a world-class power, the national defense force ranks in the forefront of the world, and no country dares to bully us. But this does not mean that we have achieved national rejuvenation. On the contrary, we are still a long way from achieving national rejuvenation.
Don't forget the past, the teacher of the future. We defeated the Japanese invaders and won the victory, but we could not forget the scars and forget the pain. Only by truly understanding history and respecting history will we not let history repeat the tragedy.