Majestic Jinling, mighty river, Zhongshan flower rain, thousand autumn fragrance, 1937, disasters descended from heaven... In 1982, the survivors are withering away, and as of now, only 78 survivors of the Nanjing Massacre are registered.
History will not pass away, and the voice will be eternal.
On the eve of the sixth National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, Jiangsu News Broadcasting & ISu Network launched a special plan for the National Memorial Service, paying tribute to the people who have run to protect and inherit the historical memory of the Nanjing Massacre, and to pay tribute to every indomitable soul.
Frozen memories, we have not forgotten
In 2005, Wu Weishan, an international sculpture master and director of the National Art Museum of China, was invited to create a large group of sculptures in the expansion project of the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre victims of the Japanese invasion of China. Knife slashing, stick strikes, stick knocks, hand sculptures, the speed and strength formed by grief and anger, silently shouted in the fighting room space. The solidified language seems to resurrect these unjustly dead souls, telling the whole world in misery about the suffering that our people have suffered.
The theme sculpture is 11.5 meters high, showing the image of the humiliated mother who is extremely grief-stricken, powerlessly holding up her son in distress, crying numbly to the sky, humiliating and not yielding.
There are 10 groups of themed sculptures, counting 21 figures, which were created by Wu Weishan with tears and anger, and feeling the grief of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese army invading China.
Silent sculpture,
That's an indictment of war.
it is a memory of suffering,
It is also a desire for peace.
The declaration of the nation, we must not forget
On December 13, 1994, Nanjing held its first ceremony to mourn the compatriots who were killed. On December 13, 2014, the siren sounded for the 21st time over Nanjing, this time as a national memorial service.
On December 13, 2014, Nanjing lowered its flag to half-mast to welcome the first National Day of Public Sacrifice.
The national public festival activities have transcended one city and one country, and are changing the historical cognition at home and abroad, and gradually forming a world consensus. Every year on the National Public Festival Day, in addition to Nanjing, beijing Chinese min Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, Shanghai Jinshanwei Anti-Japanese War Site Memorial Park, Shenyang 918 History Museum and other places, there are national public ceremonies.
In the name of the nation, we mourn
Remember
It's not just the pathos of the nation
There is also the admonition that backwardness must die
commemorate
Never complain about preaching revenge
Just to make a wish for revival.
Persistently asking, we should not forget
In Japan, there is an old man over seventy years old, searching for historical materials of the Nanjing Massacre for more than 30 years, and unswervingly spreading them in Japan, she is also known as the "Conscience of Japan", she is the nanjing massacre history researcher, Japanese retired teacher Matsuoka Ring.
Matsuoka huan introduced and appealed to the Japanese people to watch his own documentary about the Nanjing Massacre
In the past 30 years, nearly 100 trips between China and Japan, just the camera that recorded the testimony, Matsuoka Ring used 7 sets. In the face of the obstruction of the investigation by the Japanese right-wing forces, Matsuoka Huan once received more than 100 abusive phone calls in two days, and emails filled her mailbox with all kinds of embarrassing words... But none of this could destroy the convictions in her heart.
What emerges from history is family memory
It is national memory
It is the memory of the world
Unyielding resistance, we should not forget
Beginning in 1984, Nanjing Massacre survivor Xia Shuqin brought scholars, experts, and foreign friends back to the site of her murder to restore history, but was smeared by Japanese right-wingers. In 2004, at the Xuanwu District People's Court in Nanjing, Xia Shuqin's lawsuit against Higashi Nakano Shudo and Nippon Kosaisha for the right to reputation was officially heard.
Talk about Zhen and Xia Shuqin old man
Tan Zhen, one of the Chinese lawyers representing Xia Shuqin in the reputation infringement case, recalled that the Japanese defendant did not come to Nanjing to respond to the lawsuit at that time, but filed a lawsuit in Japan a year later to deny the reputation infringement against Xia Shuqin. In 2006, Tan Zhen and other Nanjing lawyers accompanied Xia Shuqin to Japan to face this ridiculous lawsuit. In November 2007, the Tokyo District Court of Japan ruled, and Xia Shuqin won the case.
After 9 years of litigation, Xia Shuqin finally won the lawsuit, safeguarded her reputation, and safeguarded history
Walk from Nanjing to Tokyo
From one victory to another
The truth of history must be preserved
This is spiritual wealth
The value of sound, we dare not forget
In 2014, 26 days before the first National Day of Public Commemoration, a special program by Jiangsu News broadcast reporter Guo Lili to contact, select materials and write articles was officially launched, broadcasting the testimonies of 30 Nanjing Massacre survivors to the public with voice.
Guo Lili interviewed Xia Shuqin, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre
Through a piece of precious audio historical materials, the testimony of survivors resounded throughout the land of Jiangsu, and the historical truth gradually emerged.
Guo Lili told young reporters about the experience of interviewing survivors of the Nanjing Massacre that year
Zhang Xianwen, a historian who has studied the history of the Nanjing Massacre for half a century, presided over the compilation of 72 volumes and 40 million words, which laid ironclad evidence for the atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre committed by the Japanese army invading China.
Run for memories
Put our voices
Spread farther away
The echoes that we will not forget
Ge Fengjin, the second son of Nanjing Massacre survivor Ge Daorong
Beginning in the 1980s, survivors of the Nanjing Massacre embarked on a journey to Japan to testify, and the elderly Ge Daorong walked hard, and his second son, Ge Fengjin, acted as his crutch. When her father could no longer walk, Ge Fengjin ran around instead of her father and spoke up.
In Japan, there are a group of descendants of the Japanese army that invaded China, who are also trying to reveal the ugly truth of their father's invasion of China and the massacre of the people of Nanjing. Toshio Yamamoto's father, Takeshi Yamamoto, was sent to the Shanghai battlefield after the start of the war of aggression against China and participated in the Nanjing Massacre.
Toshio Yamamoto
After returning home after defeat, Takeshi Yamamoto spent his life in guilt. Toshio Yamamoto resisted the tremendous pressure to hold exhibitions in Hiroshima, Japan, and other places, revealing the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre to the world, and apologizing to the Chinese on behalf of his father and the Japanese army invading China.
In this land we love dearly
Together, we will join the ranks of the inheritance
With our war-torn but still unyielding ancestors
Make the testimony shine and the echo loud:
"Peaceful development, the theme of the times,
National rejuvenation, generations of dreams.
Dragon Pan Tiger, Yi Xun Ding Ming,
Carry on the past and forge ahead, never forget. ”