Today's story begins with two pandas.
On September 25, 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was invited to visit China.
On the 29th, the heads of state of China and Japan met several times, and with the signing of the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement" in Beijing, Sino-Japanese relations began to break the ice in an all-round way.
At that time, Sino-Japanese relations were hindered by historical influences and the influence of the United States and Taiwan, which were straddling between China and Japan, and the process of normalizing Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations was full of obstacles. Therefore, For a long time, Sino-Japanese diplomacy needs to be promoted by the help of bilateral non-governmental diplomacy between China and Japan.
As a result, the new situation of Sino-Japanese people-to-people diplomacy, which began with panda diplomacy, became a new trend in Sino-Japanese diplomacy at that time.
It was against this background that in the early morning of October 28, 1972, a Japanese plane carrying bamboo and apples flew to Beijing.
At 12:30 noon on this day, the plane arrived in Beijing, and then carried the pandas Kang Kang and Lanlan donated by China and flew directly to Tokyo, Japan.
At 6:50 p.m., Kang Kang and Ranran's special plane, escorted by a formation of Japanese Self-Defense Force fighters, landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
Then, as the police opened the way and thousands of reporters flocked to follow, the convoy of airport, Kang Kang and Lan Lan drove into the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan.
Later, from 2012, Ueno Zoo will be designated as Panda Day on October 28 every year.
The Japanese obsession with pandas may be far beyond our imagination.
According to legend, Kang Kang and Lan Lan arrived at the Ueno Zoo, rested and adapted in a closed situation, and then, on the day of meeting tourists, the streets and alleys of Tokyo were full of tourists holding small bunting flags that read "watch pandas" and rushed to the Ueno Zoo...
Kang Kang and Lan Lan arrived in Japan, igniting Sino-Japanese people-to-people exchanges to a peak. Under the Cold War pattern at that time, People-to-people exchanges between China and Japan were active, which naturally effectively curbed the tension in bilateral relations.
It seems that Sino-Japanese relations are trending in a positive direction.
In the blink of an eye, it's ten years.
The Japanese TV series "Volleyball Girl" swept the country, and according to Ma Yun, he was also a fan of Junko Xiaolu at that time.
By 1983, with the popularity of Japanese movies, cartoons, TV series "Hunt", "Astro Boy", "The Emperor of the Forest", "Volleyball Girl", "Blood Doubt", "Ashin", etc., the extremely affinity of Mayumi, Astro Boy, Leo, Junko Oga, Sachiko Oshima and other Japanese teenagers swept China, and Chinese teenagers gradually stepped out of the fixed thinking of those ugly Japanese devils in revolutionary movies.
Chinese teenagers generally began to have curiosity and good feelings about Japan.
However, turning to the Japanese side, the results are very disappointing.
At that time, the Japanese people's understanding of China was still quite dull.
At that time, the Japanese media surveyed the favorite countries of Japanese teenagers in China, and the first place was basically developed countries in Europe and the United States, followed by Australia, South Korea, etc., without the shadow of China.
Objectively speaking, China's long-term national closure, Japanese teenagers know little about China, of course, no interest.
There was so little exchange between China and Japan that it was so embarrassing.
In order to break the situation of People-to-People Exchanges between China and Japan, especially to guide Japanese teenagers to understand and understand China, on November 26, 1983, Hu Lao, who was visiting Japan, delivered a speech at the NHK Television Hall in Tokyo, and immediately issued an invitation to Japanese teenagers:
In order to strengthen the understanding of the young people of the two countries and develop the friendship between the young people of the two countries, on behalf of the Chinese people and young people, I would like to extend an invitation to all friendly youth groups in your country.
We hope to get the support of your government and friendly friends from all walks of life.
As the words landed, The Japanese officials and NHK tv employees present were surprised and discussed.
According to legend, The Japanese Prime Minister Who accompanied the scene, Yasuhiro Nakasone, asked the translator many times in a row, whether it was three hundred or three thousand?
The tv station is broadcasting live, and the audio-visual of Hu Lao's invitation to 3,000 Japanese teenagers to visit China has long been spread throughout Japan and the world...
Hu Lao's words were exported, nine words, three hundred invitations and three thousand invitations, naturally there was no need to confirm.
In fact, Elder Hu did not say it casually with a moment of excitement.
At that time, China's reform and opening up urgently needed Japan's help and in-depth cooperation with Japan. Therefore, strengthening and promoting people-to-people exchanges between the two countries is naturally the key to breaking the diplomatic situation between the two countries.
In fact, long before Hu Lao's visit to China, China's diplomacy twice submitted plans to invite 30,000 Japanese teenagers and 10,000 Japanese teenagers to visit China.
In 1984, a newlywed married man photographed in Yunju Hutong near Beijing's Qianmen.
Unfortunately, after detailed demonstration by the relevant departments, with the national conditions at that time, even if all the hotels, hostels and guest houses in Beijing and Shanghai were integrated at that time, the guests with the highest reception capacity in each city were only around three thousand.
Especially in terms of transportation, There are not enough buses in Beijing, and shunting from Tianjin can only meet the needs of thousands of people in the city.
There is more than enough and not enough.
The plan to invite 30,000 and 10,000 people was immediately terminated, and the pragmatic plan of 3,000 people surfaced.
What people don't know now is that as the most developed and powerful central cities in China at that time, Beijing and Shanghai are also the dull image of green military uniforms, blue police uniforms, and trouser belts rooted in military belts.
Bicycles ring constantly on the streets of Beijing, and occasionally horses and ox carts drive by...
The same is true in Shanghai, because there is no complete drainage system and gas supply, people get up early, often unkempt and poke the honeycomb coal in the corridor, and then line up under the public faucet at the entrance of the alley, take water to wash, wash the toilet.
This year, Reagan and the American media sang and reconciled, squeezing their eyebrows and aiming at the Soviet Union to play a super rogue magic called "Star Wars".
The Soviet Union has entered the countdown to death.
This year, Teresa Teng held a 15th anniversary concert tour at the Hongkan Stadium in Hong Kong, with six performances, the venue was full, the audience reached 100,000 people, and the Hong Kong citizens chased the new trend to the peak.
This year, Zhang Haidi frequently took photos.
At that time, the oak trees that were still on campus, and more oak trees that were still on campus, did not know how to sing hope on the field, lined up in accordance with the requirements of the teacher, and plucked their hearts and lungs to be touched by zhang Haidi's glorious deeds of the disabled Zhijian...
The outside world is unconsciously undergoing earth-shaking changes, and we have inadvertently witnessed this era of change.
Just after Hu Lao's lecture on his visit to Japan, the preparations for receiving three thousand Japanese teenagers to visit China were immediately in full swing and quietly and in full swing.
Because it took the initiative to invite 3,000 Japanese teenagers to visit China, China bore the main costs for this, with a total budget of 8 million yuan, which was quickly funded by the Ministry of Finance.
——8 million yuan, the weight of the weight in 1984, which shows the determination of the country to open the door of the country.
The ladies of Shanghai Lane Tangkou in 1984.
Under the leadership of the regiment cadres in Beijing, reception personnel were selected from organs, undertakings, and colleges and universities throughout the country according to the unified criteria of political performance, ideological character, and thick eyebrows and big eyes.
To receive 3,000 Japanese teenagers, as many as 300 people are needed.
However, in China at that time, people had almost no opportunity to learn Japanese except to watch movies and learn the Eight Grids. Yes, the Beijing regiment cadres rummaged through the country and transferred almost all the relevant teachers, engineers, technicians, etc. who knew Japanese to support.
According to legend, at that time, the Japanese teachers and professional students of Luoyang Foreign Language Institute and Beijing Second Outer Were almost exhausted, so that Japanese language classes were suspended for almost half a year.
In order to improve the Japanese level and external image of the reception staff, the reception and interpreters wore uniform tailors, mechanisms, and ill-fitting white suits and blue suits in accordance with the grade standards.
It was a time of urgent need for make-up lessons and learning.
From admiring the ballet dancing barefoot to the naked confession of I love you in the movie "The Hunt", the youth at that time needed to learn too many new things after pushing open the window.
Tie, wear a suit, is one.
At that time, many receptionists wore suits for the first time in their lives, the first time they wore ties, their hands and feet were stiff, their hearts were flustered, and even when they slept at night, they did not dare to untie their ties, for fear of getting up the next day and forgetting to tie them.
There are also rumors that the staff participating in the preparations, although enjoying an enviable binary standard meal every day. However, according to the regulations, they also have to bear part of the vegetable money and a pound of food stamps every day.
In 1984, it was quite common for monthly salaries to be no more than one or twenty yuan.
One day, you will eat two dollars, which is indeed the luxury of beating a swollen face and being fat.
In short, before the Japanese youth delegation arrived in China, the Chinese reception staff was already neatly prepared to welcome the young people of friendly countries with water in their clothes:
China and Japan are friendly neighbors with water and water and remain friendly across generations.
The Japanese passage where everyone at the reception must pass means:
China and Japan are friendly neighbors with one heart and one mind, and they must continue to be friendly from generation to generation.
In 1984, Chinese and Japanese youth in exchange.
At that time, in addition to this Japanese phrase, which must be memorized, another discipline that all receptionists must observe is:
Let's not talk about the political vocabulary of communism and socialism.
To this end, at that time, the senior management personally instructed the staff to understand a truth:
What is politics?
Friendship is the greatest politics.
Speaking of this, thinking back to the past when the chief designer personally pleaded with Matsushita Konosuke for help in the early days of reform and opening up, it shows that the predecessors really paid great efforts to open the door of the country in that year.
It is indeed not easy for the country to open.
In order to invite the 3,000 Japanese youths to visit China, the cadres and diplomatic departments in Beijing issued more than 300 piping invitations to Japan.
Unlike China, Japan has no counterpart liaison units at all levels of government departments from Tokyo, provinces, prefectures, and prefectures, and various political parties, societies, and youth teams are more loose. In order to accurately submit these invitations, Chinese diplomats have made great efforts with sincerity and sincerity.
For this reason, the Japanese government and civil society are deeply moved.
According to legend, wherever the invitation went, none of the Japanese friends refused.
The delegation said that it was invited by representatives of Japanese teenagers, but with the opening of the invitation work, many Japanese friends who were not teenagers were also enthusiastic to sign up for the visit.
Representing the youngest of them, there are 12-year-old Ayako Kobayashi, who played the teenager Ashin in the TV series "Ashin", and 2-year-old Yami, who is still in her mother's arms.
Xiao Yami's mother is a Japanese national singer Who sang "Song of Four Seasons" by Seri Yoko.
In 1984, Hu Zong and Uzui Ken
Like Yoko Seri, who is also a Star in the Japanese show business, in the popular mainland TV series "Blood Doubt", Uzui Ken, who played the father of the heroine Sachiko Oshima, was 53 years old and was also invited to visit China.
According to legend, after Uzui Ken arrived in Beijing, between every dinner, the Beijing group cadres and reception staff all witnessed Shigeru Oshima and came forward to toast...
Of course, the visiting group is certainly not only an invitation to Japanese performing arts stars.
Many powerful figures from all walks of life in Japan's political and business circles also participated in the delegation.
At that time, the 87-year-old elderly, president of the Japan Aviation Association and founder of All Nippon Airways, Okazaki Yoshihira, was invited to visit China, and later, the old man had a very good impression of China and frequently visited China.
He is considered to have played an important role in the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations.
At that time, Okazaki Yoshihita told a Chinese diplomat about Sino-Japanese relations with infinite feelings:
The friendship between China and Japan is pinned on the young people of the two countries.
China is developing rapidly now, and its future development will surpass Japan, China is strong, and I hope you will not bully Japan.
In the 1980s, China's GDP was only 10% or 20% of Japan's GDP.
How easy is it to catch up with Japan?
However, around 2010, China's GDP did surpass Japan's to become the world's second largest economy, and how many Chinese can remember Okazaki's words? Know?
Every year, the Hengdian Divine Drama is turning over and over to concoct the Divine Drama, but unfortunately, people now are immersed in the Divine Drama, and how many people can distinguish the difference between the Japanese devils during the War of Resistance and the modern Japanese?
Naoto Kan was elected 94th Prime Minister of Japan in 2010.
Of course, the Japanese celebrities who participated in the visit of 3,000 teenagers to China were not only Mr. Yoshihira Okazaki.
Naoto Kan, a member of the House of Representatives at the beginning of his political career, was also a representative of the delegation.
At that time, no one expected that Naoto Kan, who had been invited to visit China as a representative of a small Party called the Social Democratic Alliance in Japan, would become the 94th Prime Minister of Japan twenty-five years later.
Since returning to China that year, Kan has chosen one day a year to invite 50 Chinese students from his alma mater, Tokyo Institute of Technology, to dinner with him for decades.
During the formation of the cabinet, he attached particular importance to diplomatic relations with China. He is the most pro-China Japanese prime minister in the past two decades.
At that time, watching The snowflakes of China's invitation letters fluttered, and more Japanese parliamentarians and political party cattle people were hot-eyed.
They have made suggestions to the Chinese diplomatic side one after another, holding that since the Chinese side attaches so much importance to it, it will simply cancel the qualifications of civilians from joining the delegation, and Japan will send more senior and status members of the National Assembly, parties, and business groups to visit China.
In order to improve the status of Japan's representatives, some people even proposed that two former Japanese prime ministers should be sent out as advisers to the delegation to lead the team to visit China.
However, these demands were politely rejected by the Chinese side.
Infiltrate the concept of Sino-Japanese friendship into the grassroots, sprout and grow...
At that time, Chinese diplomats were relatively pragmatic and purposeful.
They have seen the aura floating on the surface of Japanese politics, and have left the extremely valuable qualifications for joining the regiment to real non-governmental parties, associations, institutions, etc., and even ordinary Japanese.
For the first time, the Japanese saw the sincerity, tranquility, credibility, and moderation of Yangyang China.
Before the visit began, around New Year's Day in 1984, China suddenly became one of the most concerned buzzwords in the Japanese newspaper media.
Since then, the visit has been set from September 24 to October 6.
The reason for choosing this time is that the senior management of that year was indeed well thought out.
- This time period can avoid the dates of the extremely sensitive events in The history of China and Japan, such as 918, 128, 77, and 813, but also catch up with the 35th anniversary of the National Day.
Finally, it is said that representatives of Japanese youth are invited, because all walks of life in Japan have enthusiastically signed up, and the delegation has become a japanese friends delegation with a main focus on teenagers.
The members of the delegation were identified, including 3,017 representatives from hundreds of japanese civil society organizations, parties, groups, and units, as well as 65 journalists accompanying the delegation.
In 1984, the Beijing Youth who ascended Badaling and the Youth of Tokyo, Japan.
According to China's arrangements, 3,000 Japanese friends visited China, divided into 220 delegations, divided into four routes, to visit Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Xi'an, Wuhan and other cities.
At that time, the Japanese side was still a little wary, worried that we would brainwash and put forward the request that each regiment be equipped with a policeman, and it was quickly agreed by the Chinese side.
Thus, in practice, the total number of missions was 3,302.
According to the visit plan, before October 1, 1984, the teams of all walks of life returned to Beijing to assemble, and then participated in the 35th anniversary of the National Day activities.
Beginning on September 24, 1984, 3,302 Japanese friends, journalists, and policemen arrived in China in batches.
At that time, before the arrival of 3302 Japanese people, everyone got their own schedule, clearly knew their daily activities, places to go, and even clearly knew which room they lived in, the room phone number, and the license plate of the car.
The time of the schedule is precise to the hour.
In addition, all the writing on the calendar is a traditional script familiar to China and Japan.
At that time, japanese friends who visited China got the schedule and were all amazed by the seriousness, meticulousness and profound cultural heritage of the Chinese.
However, they did not know that in the era when there were no computers and printers for printing letters in Beijing, in order to prepare this beautiful and meticulous schedule, the cadres and volunteers in Beijing at that time relied on mimeograph machines, one by one, to push mimeographs, one by one, and paid great efforts for this.
This is a history of the unity, enthusiasm and dedication of the whole people to push open the door of the country.
By chance, I knew several young people who had gone through that foreign affairs event. The youth of that year is now in his sixties and seventies. When they talk about the past, they are honored to recall the beginning, and they have a lot of sighs:
At the beginning of China's reform and opening up, it was indeed unimaginable without the help of Japanese friends.
Being able to infiltrate the concept of Sino-Japanese friendship into the grassroots and let him sprout and grow up is all about being able to contribute to that year, which is the well-being left by their generation of senior leaders and young people for future generations.
The largest friendly visit to China by modern and modern Japanese friends began.
Back to the point.
In that year, the Chinese side carefully arranged for these more than 200 delegations to visit the route, specifically to visit a school, a factory, a rural area...
According to legend, just by visiting the school, more than 100 were arranged and a lot of ideas were also carried out.
For China, which has only just emerged from the shadow of the Cultural Revolution, such as Chinese and Japanese students using each other's language to make lecture competitions, model performances, exchanges of philatelic enthusiasts, go friendly matches, etc., are almost all carried out for the first time.
In 1984, a Chinese-Japanese youth who joined the shanghai park.
It is said that during the visit of Japanese friends to China, they are also happy to be arranged to eat and visit ordinary peasant households; visit factories and eat factory canteens; and visit schools and eat in school canteens.
At that time, There was nothing to be upset about Chinese food.
The delegation to Shanghai participated in the Sino-Japanese friendship party held in Hongkou Park, Shanghai youth and Japanese youth danced together, friendship, and had fun, after the Japanese youth were thirsty, because of the domestic drinking tap habits, they unscrewed the Chinese tap to drink tap water directly, causing many people to have diarrhea.
On the way to Nanjing, Japanese friends made unexpected demands, they asked to visit the site of the Nanjing Massacre.
At that time, Nanjing excavated and found the site of the mass grave massacre outside the Jiangdong Gate, and the memorial hall of the compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre was under construction.
At the same time, in the early 1980s, the Revision of the Textbook on the History of The Invasion of China by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology became a new problem facing Sino-Japanese diplomacy. The Japanese delegation made this request during this sensitive window, and the Nanjing side immediately called Beijing for instructions, and finally received instructions:
Let them visit.
During this visit, the Chinese reception staff did not have much explanation.
Japanese friends accompanied them, witnessing the remains of the victims of that year, the corpses were arranged very neatly, and many of the bones still had obvious bullet holes, knife marks, and remnants of leather boots, wine bottles and belt buckles left by the Japanese army, and finally became extremely impulsive.
According to the nanjing reception work briefing that was later disclosed:
A certain Japanese person fell to his knees in front of the mass grave site and cried bitterly.
A Japanese person apologized to the Chinese staff on the spot, saying that we were sorry for China...
After visiting the Site of the Nanjing Massacre, a Japanese youth named Hotaru Kazunari suddenly suffered from acute stomach bleeding, was unconscious, and in urgent need of surgery.
Upon hearing the news, Beijing immediately contacted his relatives in Japan, and after obtaining consent, he quickly arranged surgery and saved Hotaru's life.
The sincerity and dedication of Chinese to the Japanese man was rewarded with kindness in the years that followed.
Not only did Hotaru say many times that his second life was given by China, but after the visit, Hotaru and his wife moved to China for a long time, receiving only symbolic remuneration, and taught Japanese to China for many years.
On October 1, 1984, a Japanese delegation watched the military parade up close from the viewing platform in front of Tiananmen Square.
Beijing, the last stop for the visit.
In addition to organizing a tour of the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, they were also invited to visit Zhongnanhai and boat on the lake with Chinese leaders.
This is the first time that Zhongnanhai has been widely opened to the public, and it is also the only one open to Chinese and foreign tourists so far.
At that time, not long after the Cultural Revolution, the world was still under the cold war pattern, and the Chinese staff not only arranged in advance, stipulated the places that could and could not go, divided the red line, and set up sentries, the Japanese embassy was also like a great enemy, taking turns on duty 24 hours a day, and maintaining direct contact with the Japanese delegation.
However, the day's activities unfolded in an orderly and pleasant atmosphere.
During the day's event, more than 3,000 Japanese people did not have any accidents, and they did not even lose a single package or luggage.
On this night, Elder Hu personally attended the China-Japan Gala Dinner, and gave the youngest guest, Xiao Yamei, three gifts of small jackets, milk candy, chocolate... At that time, Qin Yangzi sang "Song of Four Seasons" with a Chinese female singer.
The song is swirling around, and the dinner party is full of joy...
On October 1, 1983, the Japanese delegation was invited to participate in the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China and watched the military parade for the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which pushed the entire Japanese 3,000 people to visit China to the climax.
At that time, in front of the Tiananmen Observatory, the Chinese side specially used wood to erect the grandstand to watch the ceremony for more than 3,000 friends of the Japanese delegation.
This is china's second large-scale military parade in Tiananmen Square after 25 years since the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1959.
After the phalanx of tanks, armored vehicles, missile launchers, etc., the Second Artillery Unit, which had never been displayed before, and various new weapons that had never been announced before, such as the Dongfang 1-5 intercontinental missile, also participated in the review.
At that time, the Japanese media attending the ceremony wrote in a report sent to China:
The sheer number of missiles that shines means that China will have the ability to participate in any war.
At that time, China's high-profile display of its armed forces in the National Day military parade was affirmed by the Government and the opposition of Japan, which was as wary of the North as China, and with the Soviet Union, which was constantly arguing for the four northern islands.
The strategic goal of establishing diplomatic relations between China and Japan and jointly resisting the Soviet Union has greatly promoted the advancement of Sino-Japanese diplomacy.
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On October 1, 1984, Chinese and Japanese youth danced in Tiananmen Square.
On this night, tiananmen Square began to hold a Sino-Japanese youth dance after the fireworks were set off.
Chinese and Japanese youth gathered in the square, sang and danced, and rejoiced, so that when the activity ended at 2:00 a.m., the Chinese and Japanese youth were still excited, and when they bid farewell to each other, many Japanese friends were intoxicated in Tiananmen Square to dance and play, and they almost lost themselves in the sea of people.
Until all 3,302 Japanese friends returned to their hotels, hostels, and guest houses, many of them also had no intention of sleeping, humming the friendship song composed by Chinese composers for this grand foreign affairs event:
It's all black hair, it's all black eyes, you come and go door to door, we're close neighbors.
People are young people, hearts are young hearts, the song of friendship flies to the 21st century, that is our young voice...
Later, Kan Naoto once recalled the pomp and circumstance of the night:
Tiananmen Square gathered 100,000 Chinese youth and 3,000 Japanese youth, dancing and setting off fireworks together, like celebrating a grand festival together.
The scene is still vividly remembered today.
At that time, 7 Japanese reporters from Japan's NHK Television station recorded the whole process, and finally sorted out and edited a documentary on the visit of 3,000 Japanese friends to China.
The tears are real, not fake.
Sincerity and understanding have brought this unprecedented foreign affairs event to a perfect conclusion.
Undoubtedly, as an extremely successful diplomatic plan in China's modern history, the visit of three thousand Japanese friends to China in 1984 not only promoted the exchange and understanding between the young people of the two countries at that time, but also sowed more than three thousand fiery seeds for the Sino-Japanese folk friendship that has continued to this day.
After this foreign affairs activity, the friendship between China and Japan has gradually entered the hearts of the Chinese and Japanese people for generations, and since then, both the government and the people of China and Japan have officially entered the honeymoon period.
In the early days of reform and opening up, most of the valuable funds, technology and management experience rolled in from Japan.
After the mid-1990s, Sino-Japanese diplomacy cooled, Sino-Japanese people-to-people exchanges continued to develop, Japanese super enterprises have shifted their production bases to China, and in 2006, Sino-Japanese trade exceeded $200 billion, surpassing Japan-U.S. trade.
Since then, China has become Japan's largest overseas investor.
Japan has also made tremendous achievements in China's reform and opening up and has made real contributions.
Undoubtedly, this is the well-being left by the foresight of the predecessors for future generations.
In a flash, it was another thirty-six years.
The past is over, looking back today, only Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower, chanting, but also a vast world, indescribable feeling:
The people of the past have gone by the Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here.
The yellow crane is gone, and the white clouds are long in the air.