Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial City

"Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial city" scenic spot is built to commemorate "Hengyang defense war". In order to open up a land transportation line to Vietnam, the Japanese army spared no effort to invade Hengyang on June 22, 1944. The army and people of Hengyang fought hard for 48 days, which was called "Moscow defense war in the East". In August 1948, the Chinese government erected a monument at the top of Yueping park to commemorate the brave men who died in the Hengyang war and promote the spirit of patriotism. On August 12, 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong highly praised "the soldiers guarding Hengyang are brave" in the editorial of Jiefang Daily.

Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial City

On December 18, 1946, the chairman of the national government, Jiang Zhongzheng, officially named Hengyang City as "Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial city", which had made the most sacrifice and contribution in the Anti Japanese war. Since then, Hengyang has become the only named Anti Japanese War Memorial city in China.

Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial city was built to commemorate the heroes in the "Hengyang defense war". Now the memorial city is mainly composed of Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial Monument, memorial hall, memorial archway, memorial service pavilion, Zhongyong Pavilion, Peace Bell, anti Japanese cultural wall, Hengyang defense war bronze statues and other memorial facilities. In 2002, it was announced as a key cultural relics protection unit in Hunan Province, and in 2014, it was announced as the first batch of national anti Japanese War Memorial facilities and sites.

Construction history

In view of the tragic Anti Japanese war in Hengyang, the second session of the first session of the Hengyang Municipal Council decided that a delegation, headed by speaker Yang Xiaolu, composed of deputy speaker Ou Bingkun and senators Wang Jiwu, Wan Heng and Wang chichang, would be invited to build Hengyang as a memorial city for the anti Japanese War and go to Nanjing to petition. Yang Xiaolu wrote a petition for this.

On October 20, 1946, the petitioner group left Hengyang, and the central news agency immediately followed up the whole process and issued telecommunications to both domestic and foreign countries. On October 31, he went to Hankou to pay a visit to Cheng Qian, director of Wuhan camp, chairman of the national government. He was highly praised by calling on Song Ziwen, premier of the national government, Wu Dingchang, civil servant chief of the national government, Bai Chongxi, Minister of national defense, Chen Cheng, chief of the general staff, Minister of the interior and the Supreme Council of national defense to give strong opinions. Cheng also promised to introduce himself to Chiang Kai Shek when he was in Jinjing. On November 6 in Nanjing, more than 100 people from Beijing gathered for a banquet, which was very warm. All newspapers in Beijing and Shanghai published news and advocated it. After that, Yang Xiaolu and others paid a visit to the senior members of the party state and the heads of the departments in Beijing one by one. On December 5, Yang Xiaolu presided over and delivered a speech, and held a grand Beijing Shanghai press conference. Zhao hengti, Zhang Jiong and other representatives of the press attended the speech. They all expressed their willingness to promote their success and perform their meritorious deeds. Since then, all the newspapers in Beijing and Shanghai have published news, special issues or editorials in a prominent position, showing their solidarity. On December 10, Yang Xiaolu and his party went to the national government to petition. In addition to the petition, they also presented the loss of Hengyang during the Anti Japanese War, the construction plan and the first phase of the construction outline, which should be met by Wu Dingchang, the chief civil servant. On the same day, 132 NPC deputies, including Zuo Shunsheng, Gu Zhenggang and Hu Shuhua, jointly submitted a petition to Chiang Kai Shek, chairman of the national government, for early approval.

After receiving the petition, Chiang Kai Shek attached great importance to it. On December 15, 1946, Jiang summoned Yang Xiaolu and issued three orders on December 18. In addition to approving the naming of Hengyang Memorial city for anti Japanese War, he also ordered the Executive Yuan, Zuo Shunsheng of the National Congress and other joint representatives on the same day to allocate a huge amount of construction funds by the central government to rebuild Hengyang.

In the second half of 1948, the KMT and the CPC civil war entered into a decisive battle of life and death, and the political situation changed dramatically. In 1952, all the celebrity inscriptions in the memorial hall and Jigong Pavilion were destroyed; on the victory archway, the word "victory" inscribed by Yang Xiaolu was changed to "liberation"; on the memorial tower, the inscription "Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial city" inscribed by Jiang Zhongzheng was removed and changed to "Hengyang liberation memorial tower". In 1982, the original name of Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial city was restored. In 2007, the existing memorial buildings of the Republic of China were repaired and the inscriptions inscribed by Chiang Kai Shek were restored.

geographical position

Yueping Park, Yanfeng District, Hengyang City, Hunan Province.

Introduction to the memorial City

Main buildings

Hengyang Anti Japanese War Memorial Monument, memorial hall, memorial square, anti Japanese war memorial archway, merit recording Pavilion, Zhongyong Pavilion, Peace Bell, anti Japanese cultural wall, Hengyang defense bronze statues.

Hero City

Hengyang has become the only Anti Japanese War Memorial city named by the Chinese government, which is not only the city brand and historical glory worthy of the local people, but also the spiritual wealth and collective glory of the Chinese nation. To regain the memory of a city is also to reconstruct the complete memory of a country.

In the eight years of Anti Japanese War, Hengyang was one of the only 18 provincial cities in China at that time. Because it is located in the center of the highway network leading to the southwest, its airport is the intermediate station of the southeast and southwest air routes, and it is the largest air force base of the US Army in China. Moreover, because it is located at the junction of the Guangdong Han railway and the Hunan Guangxi Guizhou railway, it is the only railway channel to the west of Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, so it is the gateway and military throat of the southwest.

Since the fall of Wuhan in the second year of the Anti Japanese War (1938), Hengyang has become one of the three major central cities in wartime China, with Chongqing and Kunming in parallel. Its tax revenue ranks second in the country, because it is known as "little Nanjing" and "little Shanghai". Nanyue became the commander-in-chief of the national anti Japanese war. Chiang Kai Shek held four famous "Nanyue military conferences" here. In addition, the Nanyue tour class cooperated by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was set up here, and the largest "martyr's temple" and the general shrine of Anti Japanese soldiers and soldiers were also built at the foot of the mountain. At the same time, Hunan Province, with Hengyang, an important town in southern Hunan, as the center of the war, dragged the Japanese troops who tried to invade the southwest and Southeast Asian countries in Northern Hunan for six years after the fall of Wuhan. In the past six years, Hengyang City, as the most advanced central city and strong military fortress in the Chinese battlefield of World War II, stood upright in the world. For many years, Hengyang City was bombarded by Japanese aircraft, and staged a series of powerful and magnificent live dramas in which Chinese and Allied aircraft groups took the air to fight against the enemy, and took the initiative to attack Wuhan, Shanghai and other enemy occupied areas.

These are not enough to show the glory and tragedy of Hengyang in the history of Chinese Anti Japanese War and modern history.

In 1944 and 1946, the eyes of the whole world turned to Hengyang and shuddered at the pathetic city of Hengyang. In 1944, the year before the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Hengyang was the first target of the Japanese "No.1 battle plan" to open up the traffic line in Southeast Asia. In late June, there was a city fortress battle that shocked both China and foreign countries, which was called "Hengyang defense battle" in history. The patriotic soldiers and Hengyang people of the 10th army of the National Revolutionary Army (Junchang xianjue) went to the national calamity together. They fought for 48 days with the enemy 10 times as much as ours. They broke out thunder and lightning, breathed down mountains and rivers, and cried for ghosts and gods. Mao Zedong wrote "the soldiers guarding Hengyang are brave", while Chiang Kai Shek wrote "the rare miracle in the world". This battle is known as "the contribution to the defense of Stalin". In the battle of slaughtering the city, only five of Hengyang's nearly 50000 houses remained intact. It was the only city in China that was completely destroyed by Japanese artillery fire. It was the most destructive city in World War II, as was Hamburg, Germany. Not only that, but also a bad year. From the victory of the Anti Japanese war in 1945 to the following year, Hengyang suffered another drought that had not happened in a hundred years. Chinese and UN officials recognized "Hengyang disaster is the first in the world". Southern Hunan, with Hengyang as the center, is full of starving people, which is the most concentrated group of 2 million starving people on the earth after the war, including 440000 people in Hengyang City and county.

This is one of the greatest heroic cities in the national Jihad, and also the most tragic Huxiang cultural city and the ancient capital of the Millennium civilization, which was razed to the ground during the war and was on the verge of extinction after the war.

(for more information, please refer to the entry of "Hengyang defense war")

Zhang Shizhao wrote a Book

Hengyang Jigong stele

Beside the kiosk, there is also an inscription on Hengyang's achievements written and handwritten by Zhang Shizhao, a famous Xiang resident. It was written by Yang Xiaolu on a special trip from Beijing to Shanghai. The article says: in the seventh year of the state's resistance to the invaders, when the invaders were on the sea, they worked hard to reach the southwest by land, and Hengyang was the right place to hit. Hengyang is located in Dawei, with the South vein in front of it. It is elegant and good at the situation. It has no solid to bear and no danger to defend. The so-called four war area is like Xingyang Chenggao in the Central Plains. It was also a battle. The enemy divided the city into ten divisions and attacked them around the city. The sound of guns was incessant day and night. However, the number of our soldiers was extremely high, and we could not get enough equipment. Only the disabled soldiers of the tenth army and the dead enemies who fought with the residents were treated with flesh and blood. When the tigers and wolves continued to grow, we had a stalemate for forty-eight days. Compared with Tang JuYang, who covered the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers with a lonely city without the help of the ants, the courage of the southern people of Rao Xunyuan, and the pain of killing his concubine Yi Zi, his heroism is almost beyond description. The commander-in-chief, Jiang Gong, was called Zhuo Jue Naier. He had a deep influence. He was one of the officers in the Pacific Ocean. He was at the turn of the century. He was the general of the whole world. He was shining in the future! What a purpose! On August 10, the 36th year of the Republic of China, Hengyang Shifu was ordered to change the name of the city to the commemorative city of the Anti Japanese war. Shi Zhao was born in this land and wandered outside. When the people of the state saw the news, they regretted that it was a matter of resistance. They did not stop to observe the ceremony, and they were glad to praise it. They often wrote the following words: Chuanshan was a righteous man, Dunru Su was a good man, and Lao Peng was a upright man, and turned into a South man

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