Memorial Hall of Anti Japanese War

Memorial Hall of Anti Japanese War

The full name of the Anti Japanese War Memorial is the Chinese people's Anti Japanese War Memorial. Located in Wanping City, southwest of Beijing, the museum is located in the former Wanping county government. On July 7, 1987, the memorial hall was opened to the public. It was one of the top ten buildings in Beijing in the 1980s. It covers an area of more than 30000 square meters, with a total construction area of nearly 20000 square meters. The main building is divided into three parts: main hall, data center and North South courtyard.

The (Chinese people's) anti Japanese War Memorial Hall is the only large-scale comprehensive memorial hall that comprehensively reflects the history of the great Anti Japanese War of the Chinese people. It is a national first-class Museum, a national excellent patriotism education demonstration base, a national defense education base, one of the first batch of clean government education bases, one hundred red tourism classic scenic spots, and one of the first batch of national anti Japanese War Memorial facilities Shi, site, is the international World War II Museum Association, the Secretariat of the Chinese Anti Japanese War history society, China Museum Association Memorial committee chairman unit.

Historical frontier

The memorial hall of the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japan now covers an area of more than 35000 square meters, with a construction area of more than 36100 square meters and a display area of more than 13590 square meters. After three transformations in 1997, 2005 and 2015, it has achieved three major leaps. At present, it has nearly 30000 cultural relics (sets), including 117 first-class collections (sets). "Great victory" held in 2015 The large-scale theme exhibition of "historical contribution" focuses on historical pictures and objects, supplemented by landscape, oil painting, sculpture, phantom imaging, film and television and other display means. It shows the glorious history of all nationalities, all classes, all parties, all social organizations, patriots from all walks of life, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese Resisting Japanese militarist aggression in a panoramic way, highlighting the Chinese battlefield As the main Eastern battlefield of the world anti fascist war, it has made great historical contributions to the victory of the world anti fascist war.

Since its establishment, the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japan memorial hall has successively launched more than 90 special exhibitions, such as the exhibition of historical facts of Taiwan compatriots' anti Japanese struggle, the glorious model the construction of the Party style and clean government of the Communist Party of China during the Anti Japanese War, and the great contribution the anti fascist war between China and the world. These special exhibitions not only supplement and deepen the basic display, but also play an important role in further strengthening patriotism education. The memorial hall of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese war is an important window for people all over the world to understand the history of China's Anti Japanese war. Since its opening in 1987, the museum has received more than 800000 visitors from more than 80 countries and regions, including Japanese Prime Minister tomichi Murayama. He has successively held special exhibitions on the theme of Anti Japanese war in Japan, the United States, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and regions, signed cooperation agreements with World War II museums in Russia, Ukraine, South Korea, Poland and other countries and regions, and strengthened exchanges and cooperation with these countries and regions. As of October 2018, the memorial hall of the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japan has received more than 33 million domestic visitors.

architectural composition

The main hall highlights the arch style characteristics of Chinese national characteristics. On the left side are the north and South quadrangles, and on the right side are the data center and office area, which are imitated by the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They are in line with the style of Wanping ancient city and set off with the main hall of the memorial hall.

Architectural appearance

In the middle of the main body of the archway style building, there are granite steps 42 meters wide and 39 meters long. On the upper part of the steps are thick white granite railings decorated with 1.5m wide vertical strips. A 4.5-meter-high Bronze Lion stands on the platform, symbolizing the Chinese nation's majestic spirit. The outer wall of the memorial hall is decorated with white polished granite and covered with gray glazed tiles. Between the white stone wall and the tiles is a tan aluminum alloy daylighting belt. Eleven gold-plated characters with a height of more than 2 meters, inscribed by Deng Xiaoping, are inlaid on the broad granite stone gate on the front of the memorial hall.

Interior design

From the steps on both sides of the preface hall, through the wide and narrow ring corridors, six basic exhibition halls and half view gallery are connected. The walls of the prelude hall are decorated with white marble, and the battlements of fine mushroom stone are made at the bottom, which echo with the giant relief in the center of the prelude hall reflecting the theme of the national anti Japanese War, forming a profound theme: "build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood.". The ground is made of dark green polished marble from Pingshan County, Hebei Province, a revolutionary base, which means that the Chinese nation's spirit of resisting foreign invaders will last forever. In the 15 wide square caissons on the ceiling, eight antique bronze bells are regularly hung, symbolizing the long history of the Chinese nation and containing the deep meaning of the alarm bell. On the walls leading to the ring gallery and the exhibition hall on both sides of the East and the west, there are inlaid with the lyrics and music scores of "March of the volunteers" and "March of the Eighth Route Army".

Venue composition

The memorial hall has six main exhibition halls, one half view gallery and two temporary exhibition rooms of siheyuan.

Comprehensive Hall

The historical facts of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese struggle from September 1931 to August 1945 are displayed with photos, cultural relics, oil paintings, huge light boxes and written materials. In the first Hall of the exhibition hall, the relief "build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood" and the huge light box "defend the Great Wall" and "defend the Yellow River" show the battle scenes of the Eighth Route Army's conquering Niangziguan in the great victory of Pingxingguan, Taierzhuang and the hundred regiment war, as well as the construction of the Anti Japanese base area behind the enemy lines and the opening up of the battlefield behind the enemy lines. In the second Hall of the exhibition hall, light boxes and photos are used to show the world people's support for China's Anti Japanese war in the middle of the Anti Japanese War, the limited offensive of the Japanese army in the front battlefield and the expansion of the battlefield behind the enemy, the development of the Anti Japanese guerrilla war, as well as examples of sparrow war, village war, tunnel war, siege war, etc. The content of the huge light box is the mass production movement. In the third Hall of the exhibition hall, the international situation in the late period of the Anti Japanese war is displayed with huge light boxes, pictures, objects and landscapes. The final victory of the Anti Japanese war in the late period of the front battlefield and the counter attack of the expeditionary army in northern Myanmar and Western Yunnan is displayed. In the exhibition hall, the landscape of "conquering Songshan" describes the scene of the Chinese Expeditionary Army conquering Songshan and recovering Longling in the counter offensive operations in northern Myanmar and Western Yunnan. The exhibition hall shows the scene of Japan's unconditional surrender with a large screen expansion film entitled "victory", and the large light box "schematic diagram of China's contribution to the world anti fascist war" shows China's contribution to the victory of the anti fascist war. The last group of pictures in the exhibition hall shows Mao Zedong's meeting with then Japanese Prime Minister Kazuo Tanaka in Zhongnanhai on September 27, 1972, reflecting the friendly exchanges between the people of China and Japan after the war.

It is one of the basic displays in the memorial hall of Japanese army atrocity. From bombing, looting, massacre, burning, creating "no man's land", destroying women and children, setting up "comfort houses", maltreating and killing labor, carrying out bacteriological warfare and gas warfare and other aspects, this paper reveals the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army on Chinese land, and reproduces history with historical photos and documents. The time span is from September 18th Incident in 1931 to August 1945. The museum is supplemented by a large number of sound, light, electricity and other modern display means. The whole display is lifelike, vivid and vivid, making the audience feel like they are on the scene.

People's War Museum

It shows the flexible forms of armed struggle of the army and the people in the base area during the Anti Japanese War, and reproduces the history by means of modern science and technology. ① Tunnel battle landscape. Tunnel warfare was founded in the North China Plain. The display uses specially made light-weight brick like materials to reproduce farmhouses, living rooms, grinding plates, windlass wells. Under these buildings, simple cellars are excavated as the secret battle base. The tunnel warfare landscape in the exhibition hall is from Ranzhuang, Hebei Province. It mainly reproduces the villages and tunnels where the people of Ranzhuang, Hebei province carried out tunnel warfare. With a total length of 70 meters, it extends to the underground, and is equipped with lookout, shooting, bunker and other facilities. For the convenience and safety of the visit, only about 10 meters is exactly the same as the tunnel at that time. ② Landmine warfare landscape. Mine warfare is a kind of mass guerrilla warfare. The masses in the battlefields behind the enemy's lines used local materials, made all kinds of land mines, and laid mines on roads, railways, villages and at the gates of their homes. In terms of display techniques, the combination of physical objects and landscape is adopted to make the audience fully understand the fighting scenes at that time. ③ Water guerrilla landscape. Water guerrilla warfare is a kind of guerrilla warfare method which makes use of the natural conditions favorable to combat, such as rivers, lakes, harbors, forks and bays. In terms of display technique, the large-scale oil painting of "Baiyangdian" painted by computer and wooden boats used by guerrillas in those years are used to form the scene of "guerrilla warfare on water". The multi-media projection technology is used to show the rowing shape of boats in the lake, with music and commentary.

Anti Japanese martyrs Hall

On the west wall inside the hall of the Anti Japanese martyrs' hall is inlaid with Mao Zedong's inscription: "thousands of martyrs have died bravely in front of us for the benefit of the people. Let's hold high their flag and march forward with their blood.". There are four groups of reliefs on the walls on both sides of the north and the South: two groups of reliefs for the Anti Japanese generals, patriotic soldiers and the masses who died during the Anti Japanese War; the other two groups reflect the specific scenes during the Anti Japanese war. The eastern half of the hall is a semicircular ring wall, which is composed of 14 red marble tablets. The stele is engraved with a list of 296 martyrs at brigade level or above who died in the Anti Japanese war. Under the list, there are 14 Han white jade book shaped stone carvings, on which are engraved the names of 1228 martyrs at regiment level. All the stone inscriptions are filled in in the shade

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