From the September 18 Incident in 1931, which shocked the whole country, the Japanese army invaded and occupied Northeast China, to the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way;
Then, on August 15, 1945, the Japanese emperor announced his unconditional surrender to the world, and China went through 14 years of arduous anti-Japanese war.
At 9 o'clock on September 9, 1945, the surrender ceremony of the Chinese theater was held on time in Nanjing, the capital of China.
However, at this moment that was destined to go down in history, the reporter's camera captured a scene that made the world indignant: He Yingqin, a high-ranking Kuomintang general who accepted Japan's surrender on behalf of China, was suspected of "bowing" to the Japanese.
Whether it was the people's army led by the Communist Party of China, the so-called regular army of the Kuomintang, or the anti-Japanese contingent spontaneously organized by the common people, they all paid too much blood in this protracted war.
The land of China was full of smoke, the mountains and rivers were broken, and the people were in dire straits.
Whether it was the 731 unit entrenched in the northeast or the Japanese army swinging the butcher's knife at the civilians in Nanjing, they were burdened with a heavy blood debt of the Chinese.
In 1941, the Japanese army arrogantly attacked the US military base in the Pacific, and shells fell from the sky, and the base was instantly plunged into a sea of fire.
The U.S. military, who was not prepared at all, was still immersed in the leisurely comfort of the holiday one second, and the next second they either saw God directly, or they passed by the sickle of death.
Later, the angry Americans also joined the war against Japan, and the War of Resistance against Japan became an important part of World War II.
The participation of the Americans can only be the icing on the cake, and it is our Chinese sons and daughters who are really fighting a bloody battle against the people.
It is undeniable that the assistance of other countries has solved many difficult problems for us, and we still have to rely on ourselves to defend many of our own homes.
However, the two main military forces in this vast land of China to resist the Japanese invasion did not always keep their guns aimed at the Japanese invaders.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's demand that "the outside must first be at home", although many Kuomintang generals at that time also wanted to resist Japan, they still had to go on the battlefield to fight against the Communist army, which was also Chinese.
Despite the efforts of two generals, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party finally reached cooperation again and established an anti-Japanese national united front.
At that time, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek was still on guard against the communist army.
The two-year war against Japan that began in July 1943 finally entered the strategic stage, and the arrogance of the Japanese army was finally suppressed under the patriotic spirit and patriotic spirit of the Chinese who were not afraid of sacrifice.
The Japanese once wanted to destroy China in three months, but a battle of Songhu shattered their dreams and taught them what it means to be delusional.
August 6, 1945 is a day that all Japanese people will never forget, when an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" fell from the sky over Hiroshima, Japan, and a huge mushroom cloud bloomed in Hiroshima.
Three days later, another atomic bomb named "Fat Man" fell on Nagasaki, Japan, and tens of thousands of lives paid for the atrocities of Japanese militarism.
The two atomic bombs finally made the Japanese realize that the tide was over, and less than a week after the Nagasaki incident, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito read his edict to the world through radio.
After 14 years, the Chinese finally defeated the Japanese invaders, and the expulsion of the Japanese invaders from China was just around the corner, and all the invading Japanese troops felt very unbelievable after hearing the broadcast.
And all the Chinese are out of their homes at this moment and come to the streets to celebrate this great victory with everyone, to celebrate the imminent rebirth of China, which has suffered many disasters in modern times.
Although the Japanese emperor has issued an edict announcing the surrender of Japan, and all the Japanese troops have also put down their ** and stopped fearless resistance, surrender is far from so simple.
In addition to putting down **waiting for our side to accept the surrender, a formal surrender ceremony must be held to complete the entire process.
China, as the victorious power, should have straightened its back and accepted the surrender of the Japanese, and we should have done the same for the sake of the people who died in vain in this war, and for the sake of the heroic souls who died on the battlefield.
Although the surrender ceremony was a very serious political activity that attracted the attention of the whole world, and there were strict regulations, it is true that we should not openly accuse and insult the crimes of the Japanese army during the surrender ceremony.
However, this does not mean that we can put the humiliation of more than ten years behind us in our hearts, and we can maintain due etiquette in diplomatic occasions and reflect the bearing of our country of etiquette in China.
Hatred does not need to be spoken, but history must be remembered.
However, as a person who accepted Japan's surrender on behalf of China, how did He Yingqin, a high-ranking general of the Kuomintang, show the so-called great power bearing?
From the ** taken by the reporter, we can see that He Yingqin's waist leaned forward more than the Japanese representative, and stretched out his hands to accept the surrender document handed over by the other party.
Although some people interpret it as the relatively wide table used by He Yingqin and other Chinese representatives that day, coupled with the obstruction of the square microphone in front of He Yingqin, the action of submitting the surrender document deviated from what was expected.
Moreover, He Yingqin's height was shorter than that of the Japanese representative who was responsible for delivering the surrender document, so when He Yingqin had no choice but to get up and accept the surrender document, he visually had the illusion of "flattery" and "groveling."
Regardless of the height difference between the two people in **, whether it is the reason why people feel that He Yingqin is detrimental to the national prestige when they see this **, as far as his own expression and state in ** really can't see the bearing of the victorious country.
If we didn't know that the scene in this ** was the surrender of the instrument of surrender during the surrender ceremony, it would not be contrary to us to say that this ** was handed over official documents to each other by two equal countries.
The Japanese have committed countless crimes of beating in China, and even if they want to maintain dignity on important occasions, it shouldn't be like this, right?
As a celebrity around Chiang Kai-shek and a high-ranking general of the Kuomintang, He Yingqin is not a person who has not seen the world, and as a soldier, he is not a person who does not know the evil deeds of the Japanese army.
But in this **, I really can't see that He Yingqin sees the dignity of the victorious country**.
On such occasions, it is possible to suppress anger against the Japanese army in consideration of diplomatic interests, but it is not possible to hide the backbone of the Chinese together.
Height, venue setting, and international etiquette are not excuses, some things seep out of the bones from the inside out.
There are not no relatively short leaders in the ranks of our Communist Party, and the *** comrades who led the reform and opening up did not lose their momentum at all in the face of the "Iron Lady" Thatcher.
If He Yingqin bent down to accept Japan's surrender on purpose, it would be unfair.
At that time, he represented the entire Chinese people, and openly expressing goodwill and friendship to the Japanese army was bound to be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
After signing a series of unequal treaties on behalf of China that humiliated the country, Li Hongzhang's stigma could not be washed away no matter how much effort he made later.
Li Hongzhang's experience is still in front of him, compared to He Yingqin, he really does not dare to do this, even if he himself is really a pro-Japanese faction, he does not dare to risk the world's condemnation to make such a move.
It is not entirely unreasonable to say that there were some special factors in the surrender ceremony that caused He Yingqin to "courteously" the Japanese, and many unexpected things did happen that day.
First of all, on September 2, the U.S. and Japanese forces had already held a surrender ceremony aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri docked at the pier in Tokyo Bay.
So when the surrender ceremony was held again in the Chinese theater, some aspects changed.
For example, although as representatives of the defeated country, Okamura Ninji and others had to shave their hair to show that they accepted defeat and were willing to surrender to our side, and at the same time, they also held a knife offering ceremony to show that they had surrendered.
However, because a surrender ceremony had already been held, this part of the surrender ceremony held in Nanjing was cancelled, which was also a situation that had already occurred before the entire surrender ceremony began.
There was also a problem with the layout of the venue, because the Chinese side was going to use a round table, but with the intervention of the Americans, it was replaced by a square table, and in order to visually distinguish between the victorious and the defeated countries, the table of our representatives was wider.
Nor did we forget to make similar differential arrangements in the arrangement of military caps and seats, in order to show the difference in status between the victorious and the defeated countries.
There was nothing in all this, but when the surrender ceremony was carried out and the instrument of surrender was handed in, when the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army invading China, Okamura Ninji, personally handed over the instrument of surrender to He Yingqin, the representative of our country, he was temporarily replaced.
The person who submitted the surrender instrument was replaced by Kobayashi Asaburo, the general staff officer of the Japanese invasion of China, although this change will not have an impact on the normal holding of the surrender ceremony, still less will it change the fact that Japan was defeated and surrendered.
However, in the hearts of every Chinese, this kind of behavior is the unwillingness of Japan to defeat Japan, which makes everyone who learns the news indignant.
Although He Yingqin should have subconsciously taken it for the sake of letting the ceremony go on normally, perhaps it was his own upbringing that made him feel that he should not take the surrender document with one hand on such an occasion.
However, at that time, there was no stipulation that the Chinese representative had to get up and surrender, and He Yingqin's behavior was his personal behavior, not a ritual regulation.
No matter what he thought about it at that time, in the eyes of the Chinese, it was Commander-in-Chief He of our squadron that bent his waist more than the Japanese devils.
* It may only capture the moment when He Yingqin leaned forward, but it did hurt the feelings of many Chinese people, and the humiliated Chinese people did not accept such "courtesy" to the prisoners who hurt us.
In fact, if He Yingqin did not have much hatred for the Japanese at this time, it was not groundless, as the ** of the Kuomintang, his role in this surrender was not just as simple as attending a ceremony.
After Japan's surrender, the Kuomintang began to be busy arranging a contest with the Communists, and they wanted to borrow the hands of the Japanese to strengthen their own power rather than accept Japan's surrender and punish war criminals.
After Japan's surrender, the Kuomintang contacted the Japanese army to demand that it was necessary to continue the security work in the Japanese-occupied areas and wait for the Kuomintang troops to accept their surrender.
Okamura Ninji, the number one war criminal of Japan's invasion of China, should have been the first to be brought to court for trial, but under the "operation" of the Kuomintang, this war criminal who was full of evil was able to return to China safely.
Even Okamura Ninji himself didn't expect that he would have a chance to be acquitted, and this demon whose hands were stained with the blood of our Chinese compatriots was judged "not guilty" by Chiang Kai-shek**.
And Okamura Ninji's "Looking at the ** Team from a Hostile Position" for Chiang Kai-shek was also praised in front of Chiang Kai-shek, perhaps because of this, the people repeatedly did not allow the CCP to participate in the handling of Japan's surrender.
The prime minister's ceremony on September 9 was not the only time He Yingqin treated Okamura Ninji with courtesy, after which he also had a free conversation with Okamura Ninji, and the content of the conversation was mainly about the United Japan**.
It was also this conversation that gave Okamura the idea of "self-help", and after that, he wrote the opinion letter to Chiang Kai-shek and won life for himself.
If it is said that this conversation between He Yingqin and Okamura Ninji has nothing to do with the policies and principles of the Kuomintang, there is no way to convince anyone, and it is obvious that the Kuomintang was ready to unite with the Japanese before the surrender ceremony was held.
I am afraid that it is precisely because of the plan to unite the Japanese that He Yingqin did not care about the temporary change of personnel arrangements on the Japanese side when accepting the surrender of Japan on behalf of China.
The Japanese representative, Kobayashi Asaburo, did not hand the surrender to a position where he could receive it, and He Yingqin did not seem to care.
However, no matter from the point of view of ** or from the perspective of life experience, it is not completely impossible to hand over the surrender to the place where He Yingqin can receive it.
At least judging from the moment when ** freezes, He Yingqin's body leaned forward more than Kobayashi Asaburo.
If the Japanese really had the attitude of admitting their mistakes, shouldn't they have handed the instrument of surrender to the Chinese representatives?
Even if He Yingqin stood up for excusability, it is also a fact that the Japanese are unwilling to lose, and it is also a fact that the Kuomintang has hidden evil intentions.
It is really not convincing enough to judge that a person is very pro-Japanese with a **, but after seeing He Yingqin's correspondence with Okamura Ningji after the surrender ceremony, I have to doubt his behavior at the surrender ceremony.
Although we can't accuse He Yingqin just on the basis of a **, we all know that the reason why we accuse this kind of courteous treatment and even groveling to the aggressor is rooted in our patriotic feelings.
History needs to be remembered, and hatred can be restrained but not forgotten.