Today is the eighth National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
The National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre is a commemoration day established by the Chinese government to commemorate the more than 300,000 compatriots who died in the Nanjing Massacre in the form of national public sacrifices.
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army invading China began a massacre of more than 40 days in Nanjing, killing more than 300,000 compatriots. This is the most painful page in China's modern history, and it is also a traumatic memory that countless Chinese cannot erase.
300,000 is not just a number, but a life that once existed.
During the Nanjing Massacre, American pastor John Magee used video cameras to capture the massacre of Chinese soldiers and civilians who had laid down their arms and the treatment of devastated civilians by the invading Japanese army. These precious shots have become the only moving images of the Nanjing Massacre that have survived to this day.
The past suffering can not be forgotten, the past sacrifice is not dare to forget, the image is the most true witness.
Every victim is a wound to the country and a pain to the nation. In 2021, 11 Survivors of the Nanjing Massacre died, and only 61 survivors of the Nanjing Massacre remain on record today.
In the name of the Chinese state, the public ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre is not to continue the hatred, but to learn from history, create the future, arouse the yearning and adherence of every good person to peace, and jointly safeguard world peace and a righteous conscience.