On Chinese TV screens, TV dramas on the theme of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression have emerged one after another, and many of them attract audiences with heroic images of anti-Japanese heroes and fierce battle scenes. However, in many TV dramas, in order to cater to the audience's tastes and pursue ratings, the heroes are sometimes given overly fashionable shapes and smart costumes, which is in stark contrast to the difficult background of that era. This kind of fictional treatment often downplays the authenticity of history and the cruelty of war, and ignores the great sacrifices made by countless martyrs in reality.
In 1945, Japan finally announced its surrender, ending the 14-year war of aggression against China, behind which was the tragic course of the Chinese people's perseverance and bloody struggle. In this process, the "three-light policy" pursued by the Japanese army was a military campaign to exterminate humanity advocated by the Japanese officer Tada Jun, and it was wildly staged in China's northeast region and even in the Taihang Mountains and Taiyue base areas, causing immeasurable damage and suffering. The Japanese army carried out as many as 109 large-scale sweeps, and the goal was not only to eliminate the Eighth Route Army, but also to completely destroy the foundation on which the Chinese people depended, and to carry out ** against ordinary people, regardless of men, women, old and children, burning houses, robbing food, and even destroying water sources, creating a human purgatory.
In film and television dramas, we may see that the Japanese army is portrayed as a stupid and ridiculous image, but this is far from historical facts. In fact, Japanese soldiers were generally well-trained and extremely sustainable, relying on a powerful material supply system to maintain combat effectiveness, in stark contrast to the difficult living conditions of the Chinese Eighth Route Army. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army did not have glamorous clothing, let alone the so-called "fashionable hairstyles", they wore shabby military uniforms, endured hunger, but held on to their beliefs in despair, and used incomparable perseverance and wisdom to carry out guerrilla warfare against the well-armed and cruel Japanese army.
The existence of Japan's Unit 731 reveals the darker side of the Japanese army's atrocities, and the hellish herbarium on earth records that gruesome history. The memories of former Unit 731 veterans such as Hideo Shimizu reveal the experiments and behaviors of the Japanese army that lost their conscience, which is undoubtedly an indelible stain in the history of war.
The history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is not only a battlefield scene filled with gunpowder, but also a painful memory of countless families being broken and their homes destroyed. The real War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is more cruel and complicated than any TV series, it witnessed the unyielding struggle of the Chinese people on the edge of life and death, and embodied the great spirit of the Chinese nation. Film and television dramas should respect history and show the true face of war, rather than just fictional plots for entertainment effects, only in this way can we better remember history, cherish peace, inherit the heroic deeds of the martyrs, and inspire those who come after us not to forget the national shame and be determined to rejuvenate.