The state carries out public sacrifices and worships my compatriots.
December 13, 2023.
It is the 10th National Memorial Day for the victims of Nanjing in China.
Today. In the name of the country, we mourn the deceased!
Source: Xinhua News Agency.
February 27, 2014.
The decision was adopted at the seventh meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress.
December 13 was established by legislation.
National Memorial Day for the Victims of Nanjing.
In the form of a national memorial.
Commemorates the more than 300,000 compatriots who died in Nanjing.
This is the scene of the national memorial ceremony for the victims of Nanjing Da** taken on December 13, 2021 (photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiang).
86 years. This national pain.
Never forgotten. People are going through a variety of ways.
Strive to remember this history.
Tengchong, Yunnan Province held a commemorative event for the National Memorial Day of the victims of Nanjing (Chuncheng Evening News-Kaiping News Data Map).
More than 300,000 December 13, 1937.
The invading Japanese army barbarously invaded Nanjing.
created a tragic Nanjing Da**.
More than 300,000 compatriots were killed.
Countless women have been ravaged and mutilated.
Countless children have died.
A third of the building was destroyed.
A great deal of property was plundered.
** by the river (Source: CCTV News).
More than 300,000 living beings.
Flesh and blood compatriots!
And so it solidified into a string of names.
Engraved on the wall of history.
Zhong Shan wept, Qin Huai cried blood!
The picture shows a scene taken by the Japanese army in Nanjing: the executioners are stabbing our compatriots to death with bayonets. Source: Xinhua News Agency.
More than 40 days**.
More than 300,000 lives.
Can it also be lost to time and forgotten by history?
Of course not!
We can't forget, and we don't dare to forget!
The "Wailing Wall" is located in a corner of the Memorial Hall of the Japanese Invasion of China in Nanjing.
This wall is a common tombstone for the 300,000 compatriots who died.
The 10,665 names are their common inscriptions.
The "Wailing Wall" (partial) located in the Memorial Hall of the Compatriots Killed in Nanjing of the Japanese Invasion of China (photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Qiu Bingqing).
When it was first established in 1995.
It is 43 meters long and 3 meters high5 meters.
It is engraved with the names of 3,000 Nanjing Da** victims.
For 28 years. The "Wailing Wall" has undergone several additions.
The number of names increased to 10,665.
The length has also been about doubled.
On December 10, 2018, representatives of college students from some colleges and universities in Nanjing came to the Memorial Hall of the Compatriots Killed in Nanjing University of the Japanese Invasion of China to add paint to the names of the victims engraved on the wall of the list of victims to express their condolences. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Shen).
Recently. The "Wailing Wall" is extending more and more slowly.
However, the relevant research team has not given up.
In order for every compatriot to "find" the name.
People are still trying.
Nanjing big ** survivor.
He was the most powerful witness to this atrocity.
But the witnesses of time are withering.
1984 year.
For the first time, Nanjing counted the local survivors.
At that time, there were 1,756 registered survivors.
1997 year.
The number of registered survivors has been reduced to more than 1,200.
Year 2006.
Dramatically reduced to more than 400 people.
End of 2017.
There are fewer than 100 registered survivors.
The survivors' wall (part) in the Memorial Hall of the Japanese Invasion of China in Nanjing, a reporter of the United States (photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Qiu Bingqing).
So far this year.
12 survivors of Nanjing University have left us.
Only 38 survivors are currently registered as survivors.
The average age is over 93 years.
On April 13, 2022, the Memorial Hall of the Compatriots Killed in Nanjing of the Japanese Invasion of China held a "lights-out" memorial ceremony for the survivors of the Great ** who passed away this year. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo).
The survivors withered.
But the sins of the invaders will not drift away with the wind.
Remember the name of each survivor.
Remember their faces.
Remember the national suffering too.
Build a strong country and comfort those who travel far away!
Efforts to safeguard historical truth and inherit historical memory.
It's still ongoing. Rely on the inheritance of family memories.
is being seen as an important avenue.
August 15, 2022.
The first batch of 13 inheritors of Nanjing's historical memory took up their posts.
August 15, 2023.
The second batch of 10 inheritors of Nanjing's historical memory took up their posts.
Among the people who participated in the memorial service.
The number of gray-haired old people is decreasing.
But in the ranks of the inheritance of memories.
There are more and more young figures.
On December 13, 2021, the Young Pioneers saluted in front of the Monument to the compatriots killed near the Great ** North Pole Pavilion of the Japanese Invasion of China. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Liu Jianhua).
Now. High school students in Nanjing who are preparing to study abroad.
You have to walk into the memorial before you go.
Relive the history of national suffering.
Take a good "pre-departure lesson".
19.30 thousand
Since the beginning of this year. Memorial Hall of the Compatriots Killed in Nanjing of the Japanese Invasion of China.
1,103 pieces (sets) of cultural relics and historical materials were newly collected
Including the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army Reporting Department, the Central China Front Special Service Department Kimura Nakasa's "Military Log" and so on.
A number of important cultural relics and historical materials have been put into storage.
The "Diary of the Army" by Kimura Nakasa, the Reporting Department of the Shanghai Dispatch Army of Japan and the Special Service Department of the Central China Front Army (courtesy of the Memorial Hall of the Compatriots Killed in Nanjing of the Japanese Invasion of China).
This year's new collection of cultural relics and historical materials.
and Mr. Lu Zhaoning, a Chinese-American.
125 U.S. newspapers searched in the United States.
Including The New York Times, Chicago Daily Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle and 14 other kinds.
It reported on the early days of Japan's full-scale war of aggression against China.
Japanese attacks on places such as Shanghai and Nanjing.
The atrocities of the Japanese army and the War of Resistance in China.
On December 8, 2023, Chinese American Lu Zhaoning (left) donated 125 copies of American newspapers to the Memorial Hall of the Compatriots Killed in Nanjing of the Japanese Invasion of China. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo).
It has been 38 years since the museum was established.
The total collection of the museum has reached 1930,000 pieces (sets).
It records the historical truth that cannot be changed by any dilution, whitewashing, distortion, or denial.
Source: Xinhua News Agency.
Message" in the feelings of home and country.
In the memorial hall of the compatriots killed in Nanjing, the Japanese army invaded China.
A spectator stood in front of the guest book for half an hour.
Write "I cherish the hard-won now".
A 6-year-old child.
Write it in immature pinyin.
shì jiè hé píng (world peace)".
If the motherland needs it, it will be recalled if it is called".
Soldiers for peace".
And here it is, the contemporary military.
The most solemn promises to the Motherland and the people were written.
There are many more messages.
Written yes. Remembering history and revitalizing China".
Tell the past, be wary of the future!
Remember history, don't forget the national shame!
Curated by Yang and Hui.
Chuncheng Evening News-Kaiping News reporter Mao Enbo sorted out the report.
Part of the content is synthesized from Xinhua News Agency, CCTV News, Yangtze Evening News, etc.
Editor-in-charge: Cat Enbo.
Responsible proofreader: Guo Yi.
Editor-in-chief Wu Xizhi.
Final Review: Editorial Board Member Li Rong.