Today is July 7, the 87th anniversary of the outbreak of the July 7 Incident. Many friends commemorate in WeChat groups and circle of friends: "The alarm bell rings", "Remember history", "Don't forget the national shame", "My generation should be self-reliant".
However, on such a day, a certain father-in-law expressed a refreshing opinion. He did not say a word about the cruelty, cunning and heinous crimes of the Japanese invaders, and he also turned a blind eye to the rampant right-wing forces in Japan, and instead hoped that the Chinese would come out of 1937.
He argued that China's GDP is already more than three times that of Japan, that we are a nuclear power, that our technology is already strong, and that China is full of high-speed railways and highways......
There seems to be nothing wrong with his words at first glance, but the more you taste it, the more wrong it becomes. Together we are strong, forget the past hatred? That's not what Master Confucius said, he taught us that "the revenge of ten generations can be avenged".
This product is still a soft bone in essence, and he does not dare to mention Japan's atrocities, for fear of affecting Sino-Japanese relations. Last time, Hu Youping, a woman from Suzhou, acted bravely and saved the Japanese children. He went so far as to comment that Hu Youping had largely resolved a diplomatic crisis between China and Japan.
It means that an ordinary criminal case, just because the victim is Japanese, will cause a diplomatic crisis for the Chinese. The implication is that we have to take care of the foreign people in China, and we have to be careful in every way, and it is best to provide for them, isn't this the contemporary "friendly surprise theory".
It is conceivable that if he had been born in the Republic of China, he would have commented on the July Seven Incident - a disaster that could have been avoided. According to his line of thinking, as long as the Chinese defenders allowed the Japanese army to enter the city to search for the missing soldiers, there would be no 77 incident.
The correct posture to commemorate the July Seven Incident must first remember history, and then face reality. To remember history, we must relive the atrocities of the Japanese army, we must revisit the blood feud, we must remember the heroes and martyrs who sacrificed their lives to resist Japan, and we must praise their great achievements.
In the face of reality, we cannot avoid the growth of Japan's right-wing forces and the rise of Japanese militarism. Not only does Japan not reflect on its history of aggression, but on the contrary, it has also sent the ranking of Class-A war criminals to the Yasukuni Shrine for worship, and politicians often pay their respects. The more they do this, the more we must remember history seriously.
The July 7 Incident was the beginning of Japan's full-scale war of aggression against China. Japan's war of aggression brought profound and unprecedented disasters to the Chinese nation, with 35 million Chinese military and civilian casualties and incalculable losses (economic losses of $500 billion).
Beginning with the July 7 Incident, the arduous all-out War of Resistance began (the local War of Resistance began with the September 18 Incident). Therefore, in a sense, the July 7 Incident is not a national shame, but the beginning of the Chinese nation's shame and courage.
It should also be noted that the cruelty of the Japanese fascists is also unmatched by other fascists, and it is one of the best in human history. Compared with the Japanese army, the Nazi German army and the Israel Defense Forces are simply civilized divisions.
I suggest that Jews must not be allowed to visit the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre Victims of the Japanese Invasion of China, let alone the Museum of Evidence of Unit 731 of the Japanese Invasion of China, otherwise the Palestinians will be in bad luck.
And Unit 731 is only the most notorious of Japan's many biochemical units. Similarly, there are Unit 100 of the Kwantung Army headquartered in Changchun, Unit 1855 headquartered in Beijing, Unit 1644 headquartered in Nanjing, and Unit 8604 headquartered in Guangzhou......
The rest of the Japanese army is also inferior to beasts, often taking pleasure in torture and torture, which can be said to be psychopathic to the extreme. In this case, once it fell into the clutches of the Japanese army, death was a relief.
Here's an example. Once, a team of Japanese soldiers captured a 15-year-old female nurse alive, and the Japanese squadron leader became ill-willed. After tying up the female nurse, they cut open her belly alive, took out a uterus the size of an egg, and roasted it on a fire.
The girl's blood and intestines flowed all over the ground, but she did not die, and in fear she watched the hideous demons, take out their organs and roast them on the fire, and after they were cooked, they were eaten by the Japanese squadron leader.
This is not made up by the Chinese, this is what the Japanese parties themselves said, it is a fragment from the memoir "Female Spy" dictated by Miyamoto Miji, a veteran of the Japanese invasion of China, who served in the 38th squad of the 34th team of the 230th Wing of the 38th Division of the Japanese invasion of China.
When he was alive, these things were kept hidden in his heart and he didn't dare to say it. His own explanation is that he can't face his sons and grandsons by speaking out. When he reached the advanced stage of liver cancer, he was so guilty that he knew that his time was running out before he spoke out.
In his memoirs, he recorded that he raped a total of 34 Chinese women during the war of aggression against China, killed 8 with his own hands, and maimed 3. His squadron leader's name is Kitaro, and eating the womb of a girl is one of his habits.
Miyamoto's memoirs also record how the Japanese army tortured Chen Huiqin, a female teacher of anti-Japanese soldiers. Chen Huiqin is one of the thousands of anti-Japanese heroes. If it weren't for this memoir, her heroic deeds might have been drowned in history forever. The memoir writes:
Noyama tied her hands behind her back, then used a large iron hook to go through her chin under her jaw and hang directly from the chain hanging from the ceiling, leaving her feet on the ground with only toes. It made a mess of blood all over her mouth and neck.
She threw her head back miserably, and the tip of her chin strangely became the highest point of her whole being...... Chen Huiqin was tortured and yelled, and even passed out for a while, but she didn't say a useful word......
Chen Huiqin had already been subjected to torture such as hanging and whipping, nailing bamboo sticks, pouring water, electric shocks, inserting copper rods into the lower genitals to electrify, scorching her whole body with iron, pouring chili sauce, and hanging on the wall. Electrocution seems to be civilized, but it is actually the most painful and cruel.
At this time, death is actually a kind of relief, the problem is that these Japanese devils will not let you die easily, they just want to take pleasure in it, that is, let you live worse than death, the more miserable you are, the more fulfillment they have.
To tell the truth, there are some cruel truths that I don't have the courage to face myself, such as the documentary movie "Black Sun 731" I didn't have the courage to watch it myself, I just turned off the sound, dragged and watched some clips, and it was uncomfortable for a long time.
Long-term research on Japanese atrocities is extremely risky. Zhang Chunru, a female writer from Huai'an, had a nervous breakdown because of her long-term research on the Nanjing Massacre. In 2004, she shot herself at the age of 36 when she had been campaigning for more than 300,000 souls in Nanjing for many years.
Throughout the War of Resistance Against Japan, our ancestors suffered unimaginable hardships. The reason why it is said that treason is hateful because the traitor stands with the devil and becomes an accomplice of the devil and the enemy.
Some time ago, someone had a lot of bad money, and they wanted to overturn the case of their ancestors by making the movie "Reinforcements Arrive Tomorrow", which was called running out of ammunition and food, isolated, and quoting the terms of the West to allow surrender, which is a big mistake.
First of all, we need to understand the Western culture of surrender, which originated in Europe. That's because the royal families and nobles of European countries are actually relatives. European countries have been fighting for thousands of years, in fact, it is a big family fighting for family property.
There are some things in Europe that seem incomprehensible to us. For example, England ousted its own king in 1688 and seconded a king from the Netherlands, William, the ruler of the Netherlands.
What's even more unbelievable is that this incident happened during the 100-year struggle for hegemony between Britain and the Netherlands, and the two countries were still the main enemies. But when I think about it differently, it suddenly becomes clear that this William is actually not an outsider, but the son-in-law of the previous king.
There are many other cases similar to the United Kingdom seconding kings from the Netherlands, Sweden borrowing kings from France, and Norway borrowing kings from Denmark. In the 19th century, Greece also borrowed two kings from Bavaria and Britain.
Between relatives, it's not good to quarrel at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed. Today they are fighting each other, and tomorrow they may be pushing the cup and changing the lamp to join forces against their uncle or uncle. For the common people of Europe, they are actually just tools for the aristocracy to fight for family property.
So on the European battlefield, surrender is not such a shameful thing. To put it another way, surrender is also tantamount to defection. In addition, after all, they have fought each other for thousands of years, and victory and defeat are common things, and if you make an agreement to treat the captives preferentially, you may be able to leave a way back for yourself.
Even what Nazi Germany did was not a big deal in the eyes of Europeans. For many European countries, Hitler just did what they wanted to do, or they did it, but they didn't do it as much as Hitler.
Anti-Semitism has a long history in Europe. From the time the Jews came to Europe, there was anti-Semitism in Europe. Mass murder of Jews has also occurred in European history, so Europeans can forgive Germans (and of course Germans have a better confession).
But the war between China and Japan was not like that. Japan is mad and blood-indebted to China, similar to the massacre of Indians by the Americans, the Jews by the Nazis, and the massacre of the Palestinians by Israel.
The Japanese invaders killed people (tortured and killed) not because someone fought them with weapons, but simply because he was Chinese, even if it was an unarmed woman and child. They ultimately want to achieve physical enslavement, spiritual destruction and cultural extermination of the Chinese.
Our national anthem, "March of the Volunteers", is actually an anti-Japanese song. One of the most deafening and alarming sentences is that "the Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time," and this danger comes from the aggression of Japanese imperialism.
In the most dangerous time, surrender when you encounter some difficulties? When the nation is in peril, is it difficult to run out of ammunition and food, and to be isolated? Or the guerrillas sang well: there are no guns, no artillery, the enemy makes us.
Fang Xianjue encountered difficulties, which are negligible compared with those encountered by the Red Army, the Eighth Route Army (New Fourth Army), the People's Liberation Army, and the Volunteer Army. The army under the leadership of the party is often besieged by strong enemies and often fights alone.
The Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation climbed the ice and snow in the deep mountains and old forests, and with the most ferocious enemy Zhou Xuan, there was no logistical supply. Yang Jingyu once met Zhao Tingxi, a villager who was chopping wood, in the old forest.
At this time, Yang Jingyu had not eaten for several days, lost one cotton shoe, and had frostbite on his face, hands and feet. He said to Zhao Tingxi and a few other villagers, go down the mountain and help me buy a few steamed buns, and then buy a pair of cotton shoes, give you money, don't tell the Japanese.
Zhao Tingxi said to Yang Jingyu: "I think it's better to surrender, now Manchukuo does not kill those who surrender." Yang Jingyu was silent for a while and said to Zhao Tingxi: "Fellow countryman, we Chinese have all surrendered, is there still China?" ”
There are also good examples in the Kuomintang, such as Wang Mingzhang, the general of the Sichuan Army. In the Battle of Taierzhuang, he led two divisions to hold Tengxian County, blocking the enemy army ten times his size and well-equipped.
And when he learned that the reinforcements were Chiang Kai-shek's descendants, Tang Enbo's troops, he knew that he was already alone. In this way, after holding on for several days and nights under extremely difficult conditions, he almost ran out of food.
According to Fang Xianjue's standards, he could also surrender. If he surrenders, there will be no Taierzhuang victory. After Wang Mingzhang was martyred, the remaining Sichuan soldiers continued to fight, and no one surrendered.
There is also General Zhang Zizhong, who was surrounded by the Japanese army in the Battle of Zaoyi, but he still took the lead and fought to the death against the Japanese Kou. After several days and nights of fierce fighting, the troops had run out of ammunition and food, so they fought with the Japanese with bayonets. Japanese war correspondents recorded the scene before General Zhang Zizhong's martyrdom:
Private Fujioka of the 4th Detachment, with a bayonet, rushed towards the tall officer who looked like the enemy's supreme commander, and this man suddenly stood up from a pool of blood, his eyes fixed on Fujioka, and Fujioka was stunned for a moment.
At this time, a gunshot rang out from behind Fujioka, and the third squadron leader fired a bullet that hit the officer in the head. At the same time, Fujioka also threw all his strength into the tall body with a bayonet raised. The tall body could no longer support it, and it collapsed to the ground like a mountain.
In this way, General Zhang Zizhong was martyred. When the bad news came, his wife, Mrs. Li Minhui, was overwhelmed with grief and followed General Zhang after a seven-day hunger strike. The husband and wife were buried together at the foot of Meihua Mountain in Chongqing. To tell you the truth, I think General Zhang Zizhong is the most handsome of the generals of the national army.
In the war of resistance of the whole nation, countless heroes of resistance against Japan have emerged, and they deserve our eternal memory and tribute. We have a quiet life today, and we want to thank them for their bloody battles, heroic perseverance and martyrdom.
After paying a huge price and sacrifice, we won the war of resistance. However, it is a pity that due to the protection of the United States and the compromise of Chiang Kai-shek, Japanese militarism was not liquidated.
The very simple fact is that the heinous and notorious Ishii Unit (Unit 731) was taken by the U.S. military to the Fort Detrick Biochemical Laboratory. Many executioners stained with the blood of the Chinese not only get away with it, but also live a nourishing life.
I think the biggest war criminal is Japan's Tonko. Except for Tim Huang Hirohito, the other 23 members of the royal family, although they are also heavily indebted, are all protected by the US military, and none of them have been prosecuted (not amnesty).
Among them was the first executioner of the Nanjing Massacre. On December 13, 1937, the first person responsible for signing the Nanjing Massacre order was Army General Hatohiko Asakanomiya.
He was Hirohito's uncle, and on December 2, 1937, he was appointed commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, with the rank of lieutenant general, succeeding Matsui Ishine as temporary commander-in-chief of the Japanese occupation of Nanjing.
On the day of the capture of Nanjing, he successively issued a series of killing orders, the simplest and most direct was only four words: "kill them all", and his orders were conveyed layer by layer and thoroughly implemented.
Later, on the grounds that "there were not enough camps outside the city" and "there was not enough water to use", the Japanese troops who had planned to camp outside Nanjing were moved into Nanjing, which made the massacre even more rampant.
According to the article "The Nanjing Massacre Recorded in the Manchurian Archives", it is confirmed that "444 cases of murder, mass killing, rape, arson and robbery were proved to be related to Hatohiko of Asakanomiya".
After the war, Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya escaped punishment by virtue of his special status as a member of the imperial family, and his subordinates, Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, Takashi Takamori Osa, and Major General Mamoru Iinuma were not punished in any way, and they all lived to the age of 80 before dying.
And Hatohiko himself did not show any remorse or feel uneasy about his conscience, and lived a leisurely life every day until he was 94 years old (1981).
Not only that, but only 7 of the 28 Class A war criminals were executed, and the rest were released after a few years in prison and re-entered the Japanese government to hold key positions, and some even became prime ministers, such as Abe's grandfather Nobusuke Kishi.
More sassy operations are yet to come. In 1978, a number of Class A war criminals who were executed or died of their own illness were sent to the Yasukuni Shrine by the Japanese government to worship them (including the executioners of the Nanjing Massacre).
Seishiro Itagaki, Mijiro Umezu, Hyotaro Kimura, Kuniaki Koin, Toshio Shirara, Kenji Dohihara, Shigeru Dan, Hidetaka Toshijo, Osamu Nagano, Koichiro Hiranuma, Hiroki Hada, Ishine Matsui, Yosuke Matsuto, Akira Muto.
It is precisely because the ghost of Japanese militarism is still lingering that we should all the more "keep history in mind and heighten our vigilance." To forget history is to betray it. If we forget history and ignore the rise of Japan's right-wing forces, we will not be able to face the martyrs who died in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the tens of millions of compatriots who were slaughtered.
Sino-Japanese relations are not good, and it is Japan that should be reflected. If the Chinese have to reflect on it, it would be if Chiang Kai-shek had not given up the garrison at that time, if only we had an atomic bomb at that time, if only the Great Ivan had bombed Japan.