What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
As we all know, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Japan committed heinous crimes on Chinese territory, and as many as 25 million Chinese compatriots died at the hands of the Japanese army, but in the end China won the war, so our current peaceful life is bought with the blood of martyrs. At that time, our country confiscated all the weapons and equipment from the Japanese army, including a large number of sabers, for the Japanese, the saber is a status symbol, after the end of the war. Because of a saber, Japan is willing to give 1 million US dollars to redeem, but China resolutely refuses, only because the knife has these 9 characters!
In the anti-Japanese war dramas we see every day, along with the appearance of Japanese weapons, high-level officers will also wear a saber, which is the Japanese saber, which is like a two-eight rifle and has become the standard in this war. For The Japanese soldiers, this is not only a saber, but also the honor and life of the soldiers, for them, only when they die or surrender, the saber can leave their masters. The saber we are talking about today is of great significance not only to the Chinese, but also to the Japanese.
This knife, known as the "Hundred People Chop", the reason why it is called so is because the handle of this knife is engraved with the words "Nanjing Battle killed 107 people", in the Nanjing Massacre, this knife was used by the officer Xiang Jing to participate in the "Hundred People Chop" killing competition, when several Japanese officers were mad, agreed that whoever killed more than Chinese, who could win the final victory, according to statistics, at least 500 people died under the knife of these Japanese officers.
In the Nanjing Massacre, under the command of Matsui Ishigen, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, and Gu Shoufu, commander of the 6th Division, the Japanese invading China army carried out an organized, planned, and premeditated massacre and bloody atrocities such as rape, arson, and robbery in Nanjing and nearby areas for 6 weeks. In the Nanjing Massacre, a large number of civilians and prisoners of war were killed by the Japanese army, countless families were torn apart, and the number of victims of the Nanjing Massacre exceeded 300,000. This knife is the evidence of the Nanjing Massacre, god has eyes, and those evidences are left behind. The sabers they used to slaughter the common people were left behind.
In the winter of 1945, Yu Hongcheng, commander of the 22nd Division of the Kuomintang 16th Army, was ordered to go to Dingxian County, Hebei Province, to receive the surrendered Japanese army's military and horse weapons from the Japanese First Brigade, and after the material transfer was completed, a liaison officer of the Japanese army handed over 10 sabers to Yu Hongcheng, of which the blade engraved "Nanjing のの殺 107 people" was among them. Later, the Japanese saber was left and collected by Wei Bingwen, who was then the deputy commander of the 16th Army, and brought to Taiwan, where it was eventually donated to the Taiwan Military Museum.
This is also the reason why the Japanese are so willing to pay a high price for this saber, and now in the face of the evidence, Japan is still pretending to be crazy and stupid, this knife that represents the hatred of the country and the family, the Japanese even want to redeem it with 1 million US dollars, how can China agree? These are all the evidence of the Japanese invasion of China, which is to be properly kept, they belong to the people of the whole country, and no one has the right to return to Japan, so even if the price is high, the saber cannot be redeemed. War brings people only endless pain, we must remember history, do not forget the national shame!