On July 7, 1937, Japan launched the "77 Incident", and the Chinese nation suffered an unprecedented catastrophe.
After the July 7 Incident, various Japanese news agencies followed the invading army into ChinaThey ignore China's sovereignty and use forceSweepDestruction of China itselfof newsletters and newspapers, spread rumors and make trouble, and I can't wait to disturb China, take this as an achievement, and take pleasure in it.
News newspapers, in times of war, almost have the guiding role of controlling the hearts of the people and the people, and are a battleground for both the enemy and us. After the fall of Beijing and Tianjin, the Japanese puppet authorities immediately set up a news management office, stipulating that there were only two authoritative authorities for military reportingPress Administration and Japan Alliance, and absolutely not **Nanjing National** and the CCP's military reports.
Sheng Baotang, the manager of Yishi Baobao, was arrested and tortured to death by the Japanese gendarmerie, and the newspaper was forced to cease publication"Ta Kung Pao" originated in Tianjin, has a high reputation in the Chinese press circles, and has always dared to speak fairly, but because of the Japanese occupation of Tianjin, it had to move to Hankou, and after the fall of Hankou, it went to Chongqing, and gradually collapsed in the midst of displacement.
Yong Pao was bought by the Japanese secret services, and after the July 7 Incident, it directly became the organ newspaper of the North China Invading Army, and it was like the first person in the journalistic cause of the Japanese Invading Army, and under the control of the Japanese, they advocated the so-called "holy war" and "Sino-Japanese cooperation."
The infiltration of Japanese news and communication agencies was only the beginning of their cultural aggression.
After the "77 Incident", the Japanese army marched into China on a large scale, and as long as it went to one place, it would deliberately destroy schools and various cultural and educational scientific research institutions.
In July 1937, Japanese bombers bombed Tianjin for 4 hoursThe target was focused on Nankai University, which has been bombed into ruins and suffered heavy losses"According to the pre-war value statistics, it is more than 6.63 million".
They have particularly badly destroyed China's leading universities, destroying libraries, burning or looting many rare and rare books, and killing or forcing them out of the country if they try to win them over.
These sabotage actions were planned and purposeful, and the education system in the occupied areas was completely destroyed, which was a heavy blow to the local anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese forces. Japan had tried to carry out the colonial rule of "Japan-Korea merger" directly in Korea, which was relatively lenient at first, but later began a high-pressure policy, banning the teaching and use of Hangeul for 30 years, and making it mandatory Xi to learn Japanese.
But in the face of the great China, the Japanese invaders still have cultural fearsThey carried out reactionary "Confucian education" in the occupied areas, because they knew that the Chinese people had a very high sense of identity with Confucianism, and began to advocate the old rites and religions and old ideas, and opposed the new culture and new ideas.
Using backward feudal etiquette to enslave young students in the occupied areas seems to be the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture, but in fact it is an attempt to enslave progressive youth. They are cloaked in the so-called "benevolence," "great harmony," "mandate of heaven," and other ideas, and they are very hidden.
In the occupied areas of Beijing and Tianjin, Japanese language courses began to be offered from elementary schools to various institutions of higher learning.
It was issued by the Education Bureau of the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Maintenance Association on November 1, 1937Japanese language classes are added to each elementary school class every weekInstruction. The Japanese invaders could hardly wait for the invasion of language and writing.
In 1937, after the establishment of the pseudo-** Education Bureau, the first thing was to delete and revise the textbooks. According to the intentions of the Japanese invaders,Delete the content of "hindering Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations", and do not allow the appearance of "national humiliation", unequal treaties, imperialist aggression against China, etc. Under the intervention of the Japanese army, the new textbooks were quickly compiled, and the Japanese puppets would also make it mandatory to check the use of the new textbooks.
The villain book is the beautiful memory of the older generation of Chinese and a cultural carrier loved by all ages. However, after the 77 Incident, the Japanese army began to order the banning of villain books, and the villain books investigated and dealt with were destroyed, and only the villain books they thought could be published and sold.
The masses in the occupied areas began to be frequently told to attend so-called lectures, so-called "touring shows" and exhibitions. Japan used a gradual and orderly method to win over and deceive the masses, suppress the idea of resistance, and strengthen the idea of enslavement.
After the July 7 Incident, the 8th of each month was designated as the "Day of Remembrance for the Defense of East Asia" by the Japanese puppet regime. In the occupied areas, it was required to fly the flags of both China and Japan, not only in government offices and schools, but also in private homes.
People were forced to gather in the auditorium to read proclamations of war and to pay tribute or mourn to Japanese soldiers.
The cultural aggression of the Japanese army was in the service of armed aggressionThey incite internal contradictions among the Chinese, ideologically clamp down on and enslave the people, and discriminate and slander them all the time in an attempt to replace our country's ideological concepts, religious beliefs, and language.
If the armed aggression of the Japanese army destroyed the homeland on which we lived, then the cultural aggression destroyed our spiritual homeland.
Under Japan's high-pressure policy, journalists with patriotic and progressive ideas broke through many obstacles, disseminated anti-Japanese information, and encouraged the people in the occupied areas to join the anti-Japanese resistance. The anti-** journal has not disappeared. The Chronicle is a mimeographed underground newspaper. Gu Jianping was the organizer and secretly found "Ta Kung Pao" reporters Lin Monong and Kong Xiaoru and "Yishi Bao" reporter Cheng Hanhua.
They eavesdropped on the radio to get news, compiled manuscripts late at night, scraped together worn-out equipment to mimeograph, and risked death to distribute them.
The teachers of the school preferred to give up their salaries, but also refused the positions and invitations of the Japanese puppet institutions, and the students constantly rallied and marched to demonstrate against the Japanese puppet ** and denounce Japanese imperialism.
It is undeniable that in the face of famine and war, many people wander on the boundaries of morality, and in the cruel environment, they will choose to give in, become traitors, and believe in the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity" constructed by the Japanese.
Elementary school textbooks for slave education.
But the backbone of the nation will not be crushed like this, and the revolutionaries of the older generation have been calling for the establishment of an anti-Japanese national united front in times of crisis, and they are strong and unyielding, and they are stubborn in their struggle.
The press, the educational circles, and the ordinary people are all indispensable parts of the anti-Japanese national united front. All sectors of society worked together to carry out the anti-Japanese movement in various ways, and issued a powerful roar against the cultural aggression of the Japanese.
As *** said, this war has tempered the Chinese people. The degree to which this war has promoted the consciousness and unity of the Chinese people has not been matched by any of the great struggles of the Chinese people in the past 100 years.