In the Songpa district of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, there is a vacant lot where a stone monument stands. On the front of the stele, the inscription is full of Manchu and Mongolian bilingual translations; on the back of the stele, the main text of chinese characters is inscribed, and the inscription "Monument of Merit and Virtue of the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty" is engraved on the forehead.
The experience of this monument is quite difficult. It has been artificially pushed down several times, buried in the ground, and repeatedly washed out by floods, and has been revealed according to providence. The Koreans were both angry and entangled in this "national shame monument", so they scribbled on the stele to vent their anger.
Why do Koreans have the pain of "losing power and humiliating the country" on this stone stele, and repeatedly bury it? Unfortunately, the heavens did not fulfill the wishes of the Koreans. The stone stele has been buried deeply, and it has been repeatedly washed out by floods and broken ground, leaving Koreans helpless.
In 1963, South Korea was devastated by floods, many houses were washed away by floods, and trees that had been washed away for decades and centuries were washed away by floods, while a huge stone stele with a height of 5.7 meters, a length of 3.95 meters and a width of 1.4 meters was washed ashore. After the flood waters faded, this huge stone stele attracted everyone's attention. The stele is engraved with the 7 characters "Monument of the Merits of the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty". Seal Chinese characters, very eye-catching, how can the merit monument of the Qing Emperor appear in Korea? Which Qing emperor established it? It turned out that this emperor was the founder of the Qing Dynasty: Huang Taiji.
Because Lee's Korean name and crown were all given by Daming, he also helped Korea to fight off Japanese aggression at the expense of national strength during the Wanli Years, and treated Korea like a parent. Therefore, after the rise of Jin in the late Ming Dynasty, Li's Joseon also supported Daming, posing a great threat to both Later Jin and the later Qing Dynasty. After crossing the river, huang taiji only took 12 days to hit the foot of the capital of the Li Dynasty. At that time, the monarch of the Li Dynasty, Li Qian, panicked, thought twice, and made the decision to surrender since he could not fight. However, in the spring of the following year, Li Qiang, the lord of the Li Dynasty, performed a three-kneeling and nine-kowtowing gift to Emperor Taiji, willing to be dispatched by Emperor Taiji.
The Qing Dynasty official Ma Fuda proposed to Injo of Joseon that a monument be erected at Mitadu to commemorate the merits of emperor Taiji. Where did Joseon Injo dare not obey, so he ordered people to rebuild the Mita Ferry Temple and lay bricks to build a pavilion to enshrine the stone stele. In 1913, nearly 20 years after the Sino-Japanese War, the monument was re-erected for another 43 years. The demolition was already after the surrender of the Japanese fascists at the end of World War II, because the Korean Minister of Culture and Education considered the monument a symbol of national shame and ordered it to be demolished. I didn't expect that in 1963, the flood was swept out again, which had the scene mentioned at the beginning, no wonder experts called shame after studying!
It is no wonder that in modern times, Hu Shi said that "history is a little girl dressed up by others", Koreans are willing to live in the history they think they are, and we have no right to interfere. However, in the face of such a solid ironclad evidence, it is really a bit unspeakable to choose to forcibly deny it.