Purpose: To cherish the memory of the compatriots who suffered in Nanjing, trace the history, and do not forget the national shame.
Time: The large-scale recorded naval invasion of the Chinese Empire by the Japanese was in a state of madness in the late Song and early Yuan dynasties, especially in the middle and late Ming dynasties;
The inevitable reason for the emergence of the Japanese invaders: Japan has a small land area from ancient times to the present, has very limited resources, and often has continuous internal strife, so in order to survive, it can only obtain external resources, and it is carried out in peacetime, and wars are launched during the sea ban period to plunder.
The first generation of the Japanese Invaders: the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, after the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty moved from the Central Plains to the south of the Yangtze River, vigorously developed the sea **, and used the profits to support national defense. The early activities of the Japanese were not military acts in which orders were issued and carried out by the army, but personal conflicts in which individuals and merchant groups used force to achieve their goals when trade was not going well. It is the behavior of a half-merchant and half-pirate who "if it can't be resolved peacefully, I will draw a knife and cut people".
The madness of the Japanese in the early and middle periods: with the failure of the two Mongol expeditions to Japan and the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty adopted a policy of defending against Japanese pirates and armed merchants, private individuals were not allowed to go to sea, and they had to get permission from the Yuan court. The purpose of plundering external resources was to produce a steady stream of pirates. The previous act of being half a merchant and half a pirate has completely evolved into an act of drawing a knife to kill and rob. During the Japanese Civil War, the high-ranking military aristocracy of Kyushu invested their military forces in the operation of the Japanese in order to supplement their own shortage of food, materials and labor during the war. In the early and middle periods, the main targets of the Japanese raids were mainly Korea, which caused great harm to the Korean people; Some of the Japanese also plundered the Liaoning Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula;
Recorded invasion of the Chinese Empire by the Japanese Emperor: In the eighteenth year of Emperor Yuan Shun (1358), the Japanese invaded Liaodong, Jinfuzhou and other places. In the twenty-third year (1363), the Japanese invaded Pengzhou, Shandong, and Liu Xian, the defender of Pengzhou, bravely resisted the enemy and defeated the Japanese invaders; In the twenty-sixth year (1366), Yuelu Buhua, the envoy of Shannan Province, and Jietun, the secretary of Zhongshun Doctor, were completely annihilated by the Japanese near Tieshan in Bohai Bay.
Summary: Japan's invasion of China and the early maritime Japanese are in the same line, and the unjust war for the plundering of resources is hoped that the compatriots will not forget history and national shame.