In Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China, there is a national cemetery, also known as the Western Yunnan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, which has become a land that makes many Japanese people uneasy.
This is because in this cemetery, there are actually four stone statues depicting four Chinese soldiers kneeling to face the sacrifice of their lives for the country.
What's even more striking is that there is also a "Wazuka" in the cemetery, which is set up for Japanese soldiers who once invaded China.
The four statues have always upset the Japanese and have repeatedly demanded their demolition.
However, the three demands made by China in the last negotiations made the Japanese side dejected.
The National Memorial Cemetery was built to commemorate the Battle of Tengchong, which took place in 1942, when Japanese forces brutally attacked the city, killing thousands of innocent people.
In this cemetery, not only the heroic soldiers of China are enshrined, but also there are "Japanese mounds" and four kneeling statues, so that the invaders will always bear the shame of history.
In 1997, a Japanese company came to China and proposed to invest 1 billion yuan in the name of foreign investment, on the condition of demolishing the statue in the National Memorial Cemetery.
However, the Chinese side firmly rejected this ridiculous proposal.
Behind this is the Chinese's adherence to history and their unwillingness to trade humble ways for short-term economic gains.
The first of the three conditions put forward by China in the negotiations is to stop enshrined war criminals, especially Class A war criminals.
The distorted attitude of Japan's top brass toward history has always been unacceptable to China. The second condition is to revise Japan's history textbooks and face up to the history of aggression.
The third condition is a public apology to the Chinese people and an admission of responsibility for war crimes.
The introduction of these three conditions made Japanese companies unacceptable, and finally chose to leave in disgrace.
The Chinese remember history and are unwilling to forget the sacrifice of every martyr in any way. The existence of the National Memorial Cemetery is not only a memory of history, but also a wake-up call for the invaders.
We must defend the dignity of the motherland with a firm attitude and not let the scars of history be underestimated.