Nanning is a city with beautiful mountains and rivers, known as the green capital of China, and you can feel the embrace of nature when you walk anywhere. However, 50 kilometers away from Nanning City, at the junction of Binyang County and Kunlun Town in Yongning County, there is a kunlun pass that has a history of more than 1,000 years and is said to have been built by Ma Yuan, a general of the Han Dynasty.
Kunlun Pass is the gateway and barrier of Nanning City, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, really belongs to the "one husband when the pass, ten thousand people can not open", is the military generations of military scholars attached importance to, is the soldiers must fight the place. At the entrance of the scenic spot are parked fighters and tanks that imitate those used in the battles of that time, because there have been 9 battles in the history of the past, and the biggest and most tragic is the "Battle of Kunlun Pass" during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
The KunlunGuan Battle Site is a national key cultural relics protection unit, the first batch of national defense education demonstration bases, the first batch of national anti-war sites Guangxi patriotism education base, and the scenic spot also has the only anti-war special museum in Guangxi: kunlun guan campaign museum.
On the south side of Kunlun Mountain, there is a three-door and four-pillar archway, and the main entrance banner is engraved with Du Yuming's inscription: Cemetery of the Fallen Soldiers of the Kunlun Pass Battle of the Fifth Army of the Army. Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the National Defense Commission of the National Government, wrote a column of the inscription: Fang Lie's long stream has done filial piety for the country and the nation, and the heroes and heroes have succeeded in believing that the War of Resistance will be victorious and the country will be built. The front and back horizontal columns of the east and west doors are inscribed with inscriptions by Li Zongren, Xu Yongchang, Zhang Fakui, Yu Hanmou and others.
The surrounding mountains of Kunlun Pass are arched and layered with mountains. Although the distribution in the whole scenic area is not large, it still takes some time to go from one destination to another place, among which there are more stone steps up and down, the altitude is about 300 meters, and the surrounding is the Daming Mountain Range.
KunlunGuan Battle Museum is the only anti-war museum in Guangxi, designed by Dai Fudong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the Institute of Architecture of Tongji University, with a construction area of more than 3,500 square meters and a collection of more than 1,000 cultural relics. It is said that since its construction, it has received many national leaders to visit here.
The total height of the entire museum is 23.176 meters, divided into one floor above ground, half underground floor, and the ground floor area is 3101 square meters, which is divided into four exhibition halls such as the prologue hall, the blood Kunlun hall, the front hall and the memorial hall, and a multi-functional hall to be built, and has a reception room and office management room. In terms of the form of the exhibition, it is roughly similar to other museums, mainly in the form of pictures and videos.
Different times have always left different stories, these objects exhibited in the exhibition hall are the best testimony, although some items look shabby, and even some are rough, but the older generation of people rely on these to persevere, until today these bits and pieces may be gradually forgotten by people, but this belief can not be lost.
The museum is divided into four exhibition halls, including the prologue hall, the blood kunlun hall, the front hall and the memorial hall, where you can learn about the whole battle process. The Battle of Kunlun Pass, which took place here from December 18, 1939 to January 11, 1940, was one of the largest battles of the Anti-Japanese War, and was also a battle in which the National Revolutionary Army invested the strongest troops in the Battle of Guinan, and was also a major victory for the Chinese military and civilians in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
According to the records, the Battle of Kunlun Pass suffered about 24,000 casualties, the Fifth Army suffered 11,000 casualties, more than 5,600 killed, and more than 800 missing. The most heroic was the 13,000 men of Zheng Dongguo's Honorary First Division, and only more than 700 combat soldiers were finally withdrawn from the battlefield. In the Battle of Kunlun Pass, the Japanese army killed 5500 people, almost completely annihilated the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division, the most elite of the Japanese Army, killed major general Masao Nakamura, the commander of the Japanese 21st Brigade, and finally recaptured Binyang Kunlun Pass, and the Kunlun Pass Campaign ended in victory.
Although today's Kunlun Pass has become a scenic garden that can be visited, the achievements left here seem to let us see the smoke of the past history. With a heart of remembrance, pay tribute to the soldiers who have appeared.