On July 7, 1937, when the Japanese invaders fired the first shot of an all-out invasion of China, the land of Shenzhou immediately ushered in the darkest period of modern times.
At the beginning of Japan's invasion of China, it was extremely conceited and rampant, and it was called "the destruction of China within three months." It is true that at that time, China's military quality, weapons and equipment, and comprehensive national strength were far inferior to Japan's, but the blood of the Chinese never froze, and for the sake of the nation and the country, they resolutely embarked on the forefront of the anti-Japanese resistance, even if their heads were broken!
The soldiers of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League climbed the ice and lay in the snow, even if they ate cotton wool and ate tree bark, they never gave up resistance;
The generals of the Sichuan Army who went out to fight in Sichuan went forward and followed, even if Jiang Guangtou made various suppression calculations, he never regretted it;
Why?
The reason is only one sentence - the head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the waist pole of the Chinese nation cannot be broken!
Why didn't Japan burn the Forbidden City?
Because under the rising resistance of countless Chinese soldiers and civilians, its attempt to quickly destroy China was completely bankrupt, and the facts proved that China was not so weak, and Japan was not so strong! The Forbidden City, which was built in the Ming Dynasty, has long been blown by hundreds of years of wind and rain and has become the spiritual totem of the Chinese people. The Japanese dare to burn the Forbidden City, and Chinese dare to follow it endlessly, and their children and grandchildren will not give up until the small broken island in Japan is finally turned into white!
Because in Japan's planning, it has never been to fight china with a population of 40 million to the end, enslaving Chinese and making China an important logistics base for its hegemony in Asia and even the world. Another banner of the Japanese invasion of China is to help the Han people restore China, so of course we must not destroy the brilliant legacy of Chinese civilization. According to Japanese postwar research, once China was annexed, Emperor Hirohito was to move the capital to Beijing and ascend the throne at the Taehwa Temple to establish a peace dynasty. At the end of World War II, Japan also planned to move the capital to China (Naito Torajiro (Naito Hunan) "On Theory of China" Yano Renichi (やの じんいち), "History of Modern China", "Ancient China", "New China" Hou Tao compiled the original "Shanghai Translation Newspaper").
In addition, let us not forget that before the fall of Peiping, Japan had already supported the "puppet state of Manchukuo" in northeast China, Peiping as the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and the Forbidden City as Puyi's ancestral residence.
According to relevant documents, before the occupation of Beijing, Japan promised to preserve the Forbidden City in order to make Puyi better serve his life. Although Puyi is a traitor, it is undeniable that he did play a certain role in the protection of the Forbidden City, the Ming Tombs, and the Imperial Palace in Shenyang.
Although the Forbidden City has changed its identity, the supreme power it represents still has an impact on the entire world. It is precisely because of this that when the Japanese surrendered in 1945, the location of the surrender ceremony in the Peiping Theater was finally set in front of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City after thousands of choices.
Therefore, Japan does not burn the Forbidden City because of how kind and kind it is.
As for not robbing the artifacts of the Forbidden City? I can only say that this actor surnamed Zhao is simply a scum, I don't know if you can understand, but you should never talk nonsense! Japanese robbers are notorious for their covetousness of Chinese cultural relics.
When the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, the Headquarters of the Japanese Army, Beihai Jingxinzhai was frantically looted by the Japanese army, and none of the large and small golden Buddhas in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Building were spared. Before the all-out invasion of China, the Japanese plundered a large number of valuable cultural relics in the name of archaeology and exploration by excavating ancient Chinese tombs and other historical sites.
For example, the so-called "Otani Expedition", led by the notorious Japanese cultural relics robber "Tachibana Ruichao", has penetrated into China several times, lasting nearly 6 years, traveling to more than 40 towns in northwest China and stealing a large amount of underground treasure. The ancient books in the Dunhuang Tibetan Scripture Cave, the precious ancient tomb human specimens, the human head and snake body diagram, and the "Li Bai Document" that shocked the world were all stolen back to Japan by this so-called expedition. According to records, in the third "expedition" alone, the "expedition" stole 86 boxes of cultural relics, weighing 6713 kilograms.
There are many more such examples: the so-called folklorist Torii Ryuzo of the University of Tokyo, the Hamada Kosho of Kyoto Imperial University, and others who have excavated many Han tombs in Lushun in the past few years; the excavation team of the Japanese East Asian Archaeological Society has excavated the ruins of Kyolongquan Province on the Bohai Sea; and Yamanaka, the Yamanaka of the Japan Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, has colluded with Chinese profiteers to loot the Tianlongshan Grottoes in Taiyuan.
In addition, many Chinese cultural relics and monuments, such as the Mausoleum of Yelü Abaoji of Liao Taizu, the Longmen Grottoes of China, as well as the ruins of Pingcheng City of Northern Wei, the City of Zhao Wangcheng in Handan, the Ancient City of Qi, the Ruins of Lu Lingguang Hall in Qufu Han, the ruins of Zhoukoudian and the Ruins of Yin Ruins, have all been "patronized" by so-called Japanese expeditions, societies and other organizations.
It is no exaggeration to say that during that time, the footprints of Japanese cultural relics robbers can be described as all over China.
After the "918" incident, those so-called Japanese expeditions and societies simply took off their disguises and began to collude with the army to carry out planned and targeted open plunder. For example, after the occupation of Shenyang, the Japanese army immediately entered the Shenyang Museum, and the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" of the Qing Dynasty Wen Shu Ge was plundered at this time.
It is precisely because of the shamelessness and greed of the Japanese that when Beijing was about to fall, in order to protect the national treasure, the Palace Museum began the world-famous "Great Migration of Cultural Relics".
The difficulty of this "great migration" is self-evident. You know, it is not dozens of hundreds of treasures, but 19816 boxes of 72 packages of 15 pieces and 13 pieces of calligraphy and paintings, bronzes, porcelain, jade masterpieces and ancient books and rare books. The transfer of cultural relics on such a scale, even in peacetime, must worry about whether they will be stolen and robbed, whether they will suffer accidents such as fires, not to mention the chaos of war.
However, at that time, the Palace Museum still escorted many national treasures to embark on the "migration road". And this walk, that's 11 years. In the past 11 years, although the treasure team has faced many difficulties such as bombing, injury, treachery, and car accidents, it has never thought of giving up.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after inspection, the great migration of treasures in the Forbidden City finally ended perfectly without losing a single piece, which is a legend!
Unfortunately, because of the limited conditions, the cultural relics that the Palace Museum's treasure protection team can take away are only a part of the countless treasures of the Forbidden City, and the remaining ones that cannot be taken away have indeed been plundered and poisoned by the Japanese...
In June 1937, under the pretext of banning anti-Japanese propaganda materials, the Japanese army entered the Taimiao Library of the Forbidden City and snatched and tore up more than 10,000 books; in August of the same year, the Japanese army broke into the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, and a large number of cultural relics were robbed again;
Later, in the so-called "Copper Sacrifice Movement" (the Japanese army collected copper and iron to cast guns and bullets), the Forbidden City was robbed again, losing 54 Ming Dynasty copper cylinders, 3 bronze cannons, and 91 copper lantern pavilions.
In fact, after the Japanese army occupied Beijing, the plundering of many cultural relics and monuments, including the Forbidden City, far exceeded people's imagination. After the golden silk nan wooden pillar of the Lama Temple was replaced by the Japanese army with cement pillars, it was directly transported back to Japan; the ancient city wall of the Great Wall was damaged by the Japanese army for 45 kilometers, and the complete wall tiles that were removed were also directly packaged and transported back to Japan!
All in all, The history of Japan's invasion of China is a catastrophe of Chinese culture and Chinese cultural relics, and countless treasures and historical materials were stolen, plundered and destroyed by the Japanese army in this catastrophe, which became the eternal pain of Chinese. According to unesco's incomplete statistics, tens of millions of cultural products have been sent abroad in China's history, and Japan is the largest country of exile.
It is everyone's freedom to join the nationality of other countries, but remember that if you still think of yourself as a descendant of Yanhuang, you should not touch the bottom line of Chinese.
It doesn't matter if a person's appearance is ugly, but if a person's mind is ugly, even if he is cloaked in the cloak of an angel, it is a pile of stinking garbage!
The heinous crimes committed by the Japanese invaders in those years brook no glorification! The sufferings that the Chinese nation has suffered cannot be forgotten!