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The cultural relics to be told today are the screens of thanks from the Korean people to the Chinese Volunteer Army and the Chinese people and the signature book. The 1.2-meter-high and 2-meter-wide lacquered screen is engraved with the full text of the "Letter of Thanks from the Korean People to the Officers and Men of the Chinese Volunteer Army and the Chinese People." Treasured along with it in the National Museum of China, there is also a signature book from the North Korean people. Behind this thank-you letter, how does it carry the memories that the people of the two countries cannot forget? Let's go back to where the story began.
Don't forget your original intention and keep your mission in mind
△ "Letter of thanks from the Korean people to the officers and men of the Chinese Volunteer Army and the Chinese" screen
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, which lasted for two years and nine months, forced the invincible aggressors to sign the armistice agreement on July 27, 1953. Peng Dehuai, then commander of the Volunteer Army, said with emotion:
Peng Dehuai: It eloquently proves that the days when Western invaders could occupy a country for hundreds of years with just a few cannons on a coast in the East are gone
Patriotic and innovative
△ On September 12, 1953, Peng Dehuai delivered the "Report on the Work of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" at the 24th meeting of the Central People's Government Committee.
After the end of the war, in order to show his sincerity in promoting the peaceful settlement of the Korean issue, on February 14, 1958, Premier Zhou Enlai led a delegation to visit the DPRK and issued a joint statement with Prime Minister Kim Il Sung on behalf of the Chinese and Dprk governments to announce to the world that the Chinese Volunteer Army would all withdraw from Korea by the end of 1958.
Documentary Recording: Zhou Enlai, on behalf of the Chinese government, expressed his full support for the Dprk government's peaceful proposal to withdraw all foreign troops from Korea, and soon the Chinese Volunteer Army began to withdraw and return home.
On March 16, 1958, the first returned volunteer military vehicle drove into Dandong from the "China-North Korea Friendship Bridge". At the bridgehead and the platform of the station, the citizens of Dandong formed a welcome team of thousands of people and waited eagerly. The welcome lasted for 8 months.
△ Chinese returnees arrived in Dandong City and were warmly welcomed at the station
The writer Lao She once wrote a poem for this scene - the Yalu River gushing, the Triumphal Arch of Rizhao. Wang Jianxue, honorary president of the China Modern and Contemporary Historical Materials Association and professor at the Party School of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, said:
Wang Jianxue: Welcoming the volunteers back to China is mainly in Dandong, Shenyang and Beijing. The scene was unprecedented. "Welcome to the heroes who return home, welcome the loveliest people." It was the slogan they shouted at the welcoming ceremony.
△ The Triumphal Arch on the "China-DPRK Friendship Bridge" that year
On October 24 of the same year, Park Jong-ae, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, handed over the "Letter of Thanks from the Korean People to the Officers and Men of the Chinese Volunteer Army and the Chinese" to Guo Moruo, head of the delegation of Chinese, and General Yang Yong, commander of the Chinese Volunteer Army.
The original text of the "Thank You Letter":
"The officers and men of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, together with the Korean people, overcame all kinds of difficulties and waged a heroic struggle, dealing a devastating blow to the enemy. The Korean Armistice, realized as a result of the victory of the Chinese and Korean peoples, was the epoch-making event in history in which Western imperialists bowed their knees before the people of the East and admitted defeat, and it was also a sign of the arrival of a new era in the East. ”
Together with the thank-you note, 228 signature books were also transmitted. Opening the thick signature book, Kim Il Sung's autograph appears on the first signature bit of the first signature book. Li Chun, Collections Of the National Museum of China:
Li Chun: A total of 6847439 North Koreans signed this letter. These signatures were all spontaneously initiated by the Korean people. Many of them can't even write their own names, but each of them is afraid of falling behind their own names, and even if they can't write, they have to find someone to sign instead. It represents their hearts and also represents the Korean people's heartfelt respect and love for the volunteer soldiers.
△ The scene of the Korean people sending the Chinese Volunteers back to China
October 25, 1958, was the eighth anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and it was also the day when the last volunteers withdrew from Korea. In the article "Relying on other feelings", the writer Wei Wei reproduced the scene of the volunteer army and the North Korean military and people when they returned home.
Excerpt from "Affection for Others"
"At this time, the ranks are no longer divided into ranks, soldiers and civilians, men and women, staggered, colorful, holding each other, crying while talking, crying and walking. What a team this is! Maybe it's not like a team, but it's the most powerful team in the world, a great stream of heart-to-heart, shoulder-to-shoulder friendship! This great current, marching, marching, crossing one water after another, one mountain after another, marching in the red-hot mountains of MapleWood, marching in the socialist East..."
Four days later, the enlarged joint meeting of the NPC Standing Committee and the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference adopted the "Resolution on the Report on the Work of the Chinese People's Volunteers on Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea over the Past Eight Years," which pointed out: The Chinese People's Volunteers have brilliantly fulfilled the glorious mission entrusted by the people of the motherland, and they are worthy of being outstanding sons and daughters of the great Chinese people.
△ On March 28, 2014, the first batch of 437 Chinese the remains of martyrs of the Chinese Volunteer Army and related relics took a special plane to embark on the road home
In this battle, the mountains and rivers were unharmed, the home and the country were peaceful, and the spirit of the Chinese people was played. In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, more than 2 million volunteer soldiers successively entered the Korean War, and after two years and nine months of bloody struggle, a total of more than 700,000 enemy casualties were killed and wounded, and 366,000 volunteers suffered combat casualties. Among them, 197653 volunteer soldiers sacrificed their precious lives in the land full of Jindalai flowers. Most of them were under 30 years old at the time of their deaths, with the youngest being only 17 years old.
Many years later, the veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea look back on this unforgettable past:
Shi Yi, then propaganda officer of the 108th Division of the 60th Army of the Volunteer Army: When our volunteers arrived at the front, they were not afraid at all, and they felt that US imperialism could be defeated. As it turns out, we did beat them.
At that time, he was a member of the Volunteer Army's Engineer Corps Cultural and Labor Corps: From now on, no country will dare to bully us, invade us, or bully us again.
Gu Benshan, then confidential secretary of the Volunteer Army Command: The more I think about it now, if I hadn't won the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, would I have today? Can there be peace today?
The smoke of war is gone, and the heroic feats of the "loveliest people" who fought in blood and forgot their lives and forgot their deaths have inspired and infected generations of enthusiastic young people to fight for "this warm land, there is a sunshine of peace everywhere".
Lu Xiaolin: My name is Lu Xiaolin, and I am 23 years old this year. He is now a narrator at the National Museum of China. Looking back 71 years ago, the heroic Chinese Volunteer Army cherished the motherland and the people and rushed to the battlefield for peace and justice. The soldiers of the Volunteer Army used their lives to compose the great spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and as our precious and precious wealth, they guided us to be majestic and energetic, and to continue to march forward courageously toward the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.