Upstream News. Chongqing Evening News slow news reporter? Wang Yufeng? Bi Keqin? Photographic reporting
On December 26, the 10th branch of the Chongqing Jianchuan Museum Cluster, the Chongqing Civil Air Defense History Exhibition Hall, was officially opened.
Chongqing Jianchuan Museum is the country's first cave anti-war museum settlement. There are 55 existing air raid shelters in its location, which was once the site of the First Arsenal of the National Government's Ordnance Industry Bureau. As the tenth branch of the Chongqing Jianchuan Museum Cluster, the Chongqing Civil Air Defense History Exhibition Hall is built with 4 air raid shelters and an area of 2,000 square meters. The museum exhibits 1680 cultural relics, including 16 national first-class cultural relics such as the escort air defense porcelain kettle, the air raid attention and prevention copy of the Ministry of Military Affairs transferred from the clothing factory to the Quartermaster's Bureau, and the diary of The Metamorphosis.
The opening ceremony also invited three representatives of survivors of the Chongqing bombing.
▲Citizens visit
Artifacts can talk
Four units allow you to learn about the real history of air defense.
It has been learned that the exhibition of the Chongqing Civil Air Defense History Exhibition Hall is divided into four units: the history of air raids, the people's casting defense, the prevention of troubles before they occur, and the thinking of danger in times of peace.
The first unit, The History of Air Raids, reviews the events of air raids in human history and their destructive effects.
The second unit, the people casting defense, tells the history of air defense and popularizes the knowledge of civil air defense.
The third unit, Prevention before Problems Occurs, focuses on the use cases of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in war and basic protection knowledge.
The fourth unit, thinking of danger in times of peace, science and technology safety protection knowledge.
After the opening ceremony, under the leadership of director Fan Jianchuan, everyone visited the Chongqing Civil Air Defense History Exhibition Hall.
The story of a roster
"We have more than 4,000 cultural relics this time, and only more than 1,600 are currently on display, and the exhibits will be rotated regularly in the future." Fan Jianchuan introduced that among these cultural relics, there are 16 national first-class cultural relics, 1 second-class cultural relics, and 10 third-class cultural relics.
Among them, Director Fan especially told the story of a third-class cultural relic. A roster of the Chongqing Air Defense Commission's excavation and burial brigade numbered several hundred people.
"When I saw this, I was heartbroken." Fan Jianchuan's face was bitter. He said that once, when interviewing an old man in the roster, the old man's words shocked him.
The old man said that some people died in the war, and there was no crane and other equipment at that time, so the body could only be exhumed with bare hands. Many times, digging a person, it may take more than a dozen people to dig together, and it will take a long time to dig, and the burial brigade has existed for five or six years.
Fan Jianchuan said that the story of this cultural relic fully illustrates how much disaster and loss it brought to our lives and property during the war in that year. "Now, I especially hope that more young people will come to the museum to see, we must cherish the current peaceful life, always be prepared, think of danger in times of peace, in order to have a happier future."
▲From 1939 to 1940, the Ministry of Military Affairs was transferred from the Clothing Factory to the Quartermaster Department for Air Raid Attention and Prevention Copy (First-class Cultural Relics)
▲A corner of the exhibition hall
During the bombing of Chongqing, people took shelter in air raid shelters.
▲ Cultural relics on display