Every year on the anniversary of the September 18 Incident, Hu Shizong will go to the "9.18" Historical Museum to stand and meditate in front of the Monument of the Remnant Calendar, remembering the memories that the people of Shenyang will not forget.
He Zhongling used two architectural models made from two wooden fossils obtained in the early years of The Northern Pass.
Hu Shizong visited Mr. He Zhongling (right) in Wazigou, Liaoyang, and listened to him tell the story of the design of the "Residual Calendar Monument".
Hu Shizong
Whenever the anniversary of the 9/18 Incident comes, I go to the "9.18" Historical Museum, and I especially stand silently in front of the "Monument to the Remnant Calendar" with unique design, unique shape, tall and solemn, quietly thinking, and deeply moved.
In daily life, the calendar we see can be read at will, and we can write down a little impression of life on it. However, this "residual calendar stele" is huge, Friday, September 18, 1931, the seventh day of the first month of August in the lunar calendar, this day, this historical symbol, has been magnified countless times, and the "Taiwan Calendar" stone stele that marks the day of the incident in front of us is 18 meters high, 32 meters wide, and 11 meters thick. It was born in 1991 and will permanently stand on the site of the September 18 Incident. It was on this day, and it was here that the Japanese began to invade our country in a frenzied manner, burning and looting, and doing all kinds of evil. It is recorded on the "Monument to the Remnant Calendar": "At about ten o'clock in the night, the Japanese army blew up the Wicker Lake section of the South Manchuria Railway, falsely accused the Chinese army of its actions, and then attacked and occupied the north camp. Our northeastern soldiers retreated bitterly under the order of non-resistance, the national disaster came, and the people rose up to resist. ”
The designer of this "Residual Calendar Monument", Mr. He Zhongling, is a professor at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and a famous contemporary Chinese sculptor, and his son inherited his father's business to engage in sculpture. However, his father He Jun was a clay sculpture, and he was a stone sculpture. In the 1951 movie "White Haired Girl" that we have seen, there is the statue of grandma that He Jun sculpted for the grandmother temple in the play, which shows how he Jun has artistic strength.
Mr. He Zhongling talked to me about the origin of the "Residual Calendar Stele" and him, which originated in the early years when he first obtained two wooden fossils in the northwest of Liaoning, and he connected these two broken calendar-like wooden fossils with two rusty iron rings and wrote september 18, 1931 on the calendar, which became the original shape of the "9.18 Residual Calendar". Later, he made an architectural model similar to the appearance of this monument with plaster, and was selected for the first National Urban Sculpture Scheme Exhibition, which was well received and attracted the attention of the academic community.
In 1991, mr. Wang Shenglie, a painter and CPPCC member who was famous for his huge Chinese painting "Eight Women Throwing the River", proposed to build a museum to commemorate the September 18 Incident, and He Zhongling's "Residual Calendar Monument" came out on top among the 62 plans collected, and in 3 months it was quickly cashed in at the place where the incident occurred. Become a new coordinate of the city.
Mr. He Zhongling, who was eight years older than me, showed me his original design sketch, including all the words on the "Monument of the Residual Calendar", which mostly cashed in on this finished product, which made him feel extremely pleased. Only there are two smooth stone bricks behind the stele, which were originally engraved for the name of his designer, but he resolutely denied it. He said that there is no need to engrave my name, and engraving my name dilutes the theme, which is not like a small work that can be signed; The subject matter is too big, and too many people participate in the original and production. He said, you see the monument to the people's heroes in Beijing, those predecessor sculptors, which one left their names on it? Nothing. The two stone bricks were still blank in the end.
I looked at Mr. Zhongling, who was physically strong, clear-thinking, and quick-talking, and I remembered the profound feeling that I had stood in front of the "Monument to the Remnants" of the "Remnant Calendar" that was well formed and had gone to the world and was called "a masterpiece in the history of sculpture art" by experts: We are an invincible and invincible heroic Chinese nation, and there are countless people in our land who can sing and cry, and we must and must - remember history, remember the martyrs, cherish peace, and create the future!