introduction
There is a dialogue in the Analects of the Constitution: "Or: 'How is it to repay grievances with virtue?' The Son: "Why repay virtue?" Repay grievances with directness, and repay virtue with virtue. "In many people's inherent concepts, repaying grievances with virtue is a good quality. But in the eyes of the sage Confucius, he has always disapproved of the idea of repaying grievances with virtue, and he believes that after repaying grievances with virtue, what will be used to repay noble virtues? Therefore, the most correct attitude should be to use integrity to repay resentment, and to return kindness with kindness.
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In many of today's film and television works about the anti-Japanese resistance, we can often see scenes of Japanese soldiers entering the village and being ambushed by our Chinese soldiers. Even if the Japanese invaders had achieved brief success at the very beginning, they would eventually be wiped out by our Chinese soldiers and the Chinese people. But will this really be the case? Compared to many people, they already have the answer in their minds. After all, in that era, the weapons and equipment of the Japanese and the individual combat ability of soldiers were definitely not as bad as they appeared in film and television works. Not only that, according to the recollections of He Yingqin, the commander-in-chief of the army of the Republic of China government at that time.
At the beginning of the war, almost four or six Chinese soldiers were able to exchange the life of a Japanese soldier. Even in the later stages of the war, this data only dropped to 2:1, and in terms of individual combat capabilities, the Chinese soldiers at that time were indeed inferior to the Japanese because of the gap in weapons and equipment. Therefore, like many of today's film and television works, the Japanese soldiers who seem so unbearable are indeed not real, so what does the real devil enter the village look like? When a set of photos came to light, former veterans couldn't help but shed tears.
A few years ago, a group of photos of Japanese devils entering the village during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression appeared on the Internet. And these photos are completely different from what we imagined, there was no massacre, no looting, but just these Japanese walking on the path of the village, but also let us feel the sense of oppression of the Chinese people in that era. In modern film and television works, we can see that many ordinary people can still live a relatively peaceful life before the arrival of the devil.
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But in fact, when Japanese soldiers appeared around the village, this calm was completely non-existent. And many of us in modern times will also imagine that in those days, people seemed to be able to use the advantage of their mastery of the terrain to ambush Japanese soldiers and cause them to suffer heavy losses. People who did not personally experience that era can only imagine after all. When the Japanese soldiers entered the village with guns and tanks, how many simple and kind Chinese people really dared to resist. Even if you are willing to give up your life, what should you do with your own family and your relatives?
If he did succeed in assassinating the Japanese soldiers, then what awaited the villagers was the crazy and inhuman retaliation of the Japanese army. How many villagers will survive this act of revenge. In this photo of Figure 3, we can also see that many people in Chinese villages have the Japanese flag under their eaves, which makes people feel very depressed, because the flag represents the spirit of a country after all. However, this does not mean that these ordinary people are traitors, in that era, almost every capable Chinese was running for the cause of resistance against Japan.
Like the young and middle-aged people in the village, most of them have joined the army to fight the Japanese, what can the old and weak women and children who stay in the village do? Even if they don't want to, their children want their parents to fly the Japanese military flag to at least keep themselves safe. As long as they endured the bitterness of this moment, the Chinese soldiers would eventually be able to drive the Japanese out of the land of China completely. Later, the Japanese implemented the so-called "Three Lights Policy," which directly caused us countless rural areas in China to suffer extremely heavy damage.
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At that time, Japan's own military supplies were extremely scarce, but the Japanese still did not repent. Even though they knew that they had no spare energy to continue to support the war, the Japanese still chose to resist in the way of war. The young adults in the village were either slaughtered or taken to work as cheap labor. The women in the village, on the other hand, ended even more tragically, being raped and killed by the Japanese army. Looking back at the history of that era, each of us can't help but feel sad. Even after a hundred years, this hatred is still unforgettable.
If someone had asked us to Chinese to complain in this matter, we would probably have been strongly despised by all our Chinese. Not to mention them, even ourselves, what right do we have to forgive the japanese for the crimes committed by the Japanese on behalf of our ancestors? And what we have to do now is to repay the grievances directly, further strengthen our country, and at the spiritual level, directly deter other countries that still have ulterior motives.
epilogue
The Chinese civilization is the oldest and greatest civilization in the world. In the history of our civilization, there have been glories and humiliations. But no matter what kind of history, it is worth remembering with each and every one of us. Only the true reproduction of the glory of the Chinese nation is the best commemoration of history.
Reference: Analects and Constitutional Questions