Today, December 13, 2021. Today is the eighth statutory national day of the victims of the Nanjing Massacre in China.
Here, borrowing the picture of the People's Daily, there is a 1-minute silence.
Very moving picture
Throughout the day, the sad memories of history were once again awakened.
Say it once, it hurts once, but it still has to be told, because the truth should never sink.
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese invasion of China began in the city of Nanjing, more than 40 days of tragic massacre, more than 300,000 innocent lives were tragically killed.
Thinking of this, my heart was overwhelmed by the heavy boulder, and perhaps hundreds of millions of people across the country were as heavy as me. It is only because the topic of #Today is the National Public Sacrifice Day# that it also occupies the hot search on Weibo.
This is the history that every compatriot should be touched by.
Resist the grief and let us understand the truth of history together.
In the following month or so, more than 300,000 Chinese in Nanjing were brutally killed by the Japanese army.
More than 20,000 rapes have occurred, more than a third of buildings have been destroyed and property damage has been countless ...
Shooting, knife splitting, burial alive, "beheading of a hundred people", "mass slaughter"
The city of Nanjing became a real "hell on earth".
A Japanese soldier stands at the scene of a massacre of corpses and bones on the outskirts of Nanjing. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
84 years have passed, and whenever we read this bloody page, the people of Nanjing, with their frightened eyes, desperate cries, and weak struggles, will still deeply pierce our hearts with the rampant laughter of the invaders and the blood-stained butcher's knife.
The Japanese army threw the slain citizens of Nanjing into the Yangtze River. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
The truth is far more cruel than we think, and in the face of the dead compatriots, any words seem pale and powerless.
Tang Taizong Li Shiping said: "Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall." ”
Show the past, and let the future generations.
To understand the truth and not to forget the national shame is not to dwell on the past, but to let future generations take it as a warning, remain vigilant, and be angry and strong.
Remember that this is a history that every Chinese cannot forget.
As the saying goes: "Don't forget the past, the teacher of the future." ”
Remembering the martyrs is not to indulge in pain, but to remember history, but to better move towards a new life.
At present, the people's good life is getting better and better, but history cannot be forgotten, history is the best textbook, but also the best sobering agent, teaching the people to get up when they fall, and to get up when they are knocked down.
Zhang Chunru, a Chinese-American.
Her book", "Nanjing Massacre", is considered by William Kirby, the head of the history department at Harvard University, to be the first book in human history
Fully study the English writings of the Nanjing Massacre.
Before the book was published, Western societies knew little about the Nanjing Massacre. They knew about Auschwitz, about the millions of Jews, Poles, Soviets, Gypsies, Germans who were slaughtered by the Nazis.
However, they did not know what kind of atrocities the Japanese army committed in Nanjing during World War II.
During the writing of "Nanjing Massacre", Zhang Chunru often trembled with anger and had nightmares, and later she suffered from depression.
At the same time, she and her family continue to suffer retaliation and harassment from Japanese right-wing forces.
In 2004, Zhang Chunru used a pistol to end his life at the age of 36, shocking the world.
In 2005, in the memorial hall of the Nanjing Massacre of compatriots killed by the Japanese invasion of China, Zhang Shaojin and Zhang Yingying (left) unveiled a sculpture of their daughter Zhang Chunru.
There are many people like Zhang Chunru, who speak for history and run for peace.
In the bloody days, the glory of human nature has never been far away.
They are witnesses to history, seekers of history, and even more defenders of history.
Each of them deserves our memory.
This tragic history, the sons and daughters of China from generation to generation, should be vigilant and should take this as a warning.
It is not only to remember the pain of the nation, but also the indomitable struggle, as well as the yearning and perseverance of peace.
To remember grief is to remember the mission on our shoulders Chinese.
Let the Chinese nation realize the dream of great rejuvenation and let the flame of peace be passed on from generation to generation. This is the best respect for history and the best consolation for the compatriots who died.
Don't forget the national shame, forge ahead; don't forget the national shame, my generation is self-reliant.
In 84 years, we will not forget, nor can we forget.
This once calamity has turned into an eternal wake-up call, great courage and heavy responsibility.
In the face of the blood-dripping butcher's knife of the aggressors, the sons and daughters of China fought with hatred and blood, winning a great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Chinese.
This tragic and magnificent epic of resisting foreign aggression profoundly reveals the historical truth that justice will triumph, peace will triumph, and the people will triumph.
At the moment of peace and stability, countless Chinese martyrs have exchanged their lives for it, and each of us must guard it well.
Only by remembering the history of the Nanjing Massacre can we cherish and defend the hard-won peace.
Only by defending the truth of history can we safeguard peace and justice.
This is our responsibility.
The 300,000 compatriots who died are all wounds of the country and the pain of the nation.
Can't forget.
How can you forget?
Not every son or daughter of China!
To forget history is to betray.