Anti Japanese War Memorial Hall in western Yunnan

Anti Japanese War Memorial Hall in western Yunnan

On July 7, 1945, the Anti Japanese War Memorial Hall in western Yunnan was completed. During the Second World War, the people of Tengchong built a martyr's cemetery to commemorate the Anti Japanese soldiers and people of the 20th group army of the Chinese expeditionary army. It is mainly composed of gate, corridor, martyr's temple, martyr's tomb, exhibition hall and memorial tower.

From the date of resumption of business to December 31, 2020, the scenic spot will be open to the front-line medical staff of epidemic prevention and control for free.

geographical position

The Anti Japanese War Memorial Hall in western Yunnan was built in 1944 at the foot of Laifeng mountain in the southwest of Tengchong County. During the Second World War, the people of Tengchong built a martyr's cemetery to commemorate the Anti Japanese soldiers and victims of the 20th group army of the Chinese expeditionary army. It is mainly composed of gate, corridor, martyr's temple, martyr's tomb, exhibition hall and memorial tower. It is the first Anti Japanese martyr cemetery built in China during the Anti Japanese war. It is well preserved and unprecedented in scale. It is now a key cultural relic protection unit of the state.

Major exhibitions

Martyr's temple

Along the stone steps, it goes up to the second step retaining wall embedded with the stone inscription "blue blood for thousands of years" written by Li Gengshu by Jiang Zhongzheng. Along the two sides of the wall, it goes up to the second step, and there is a martyr's temple. On the front door of the ancestral hall is hung a plaque written by Yu Youren, a veteran of the Kuomintang and a great calligrapher. On the inside and outside columns of the ancestral hall are hung couplets of he Yingqin and the leaders of the 20th group army and division of the expeditionary army. On both sides of the corridor is a notice of the military committee of the national government signed by Jiang Zhongzheng to protect the national war cemetery He Kui Zhang's "summary of the Tengchong battle" and "stele" and other inscriptions. The front of the temple is the statue of Sun Yat Sen and his will, and the walls on both sides are inlaid with steles inscribed with the names of the dead soldiers, with a total of 9618 people.

At the back of the martyr's Shrine is a small conical slope with a relative height of 31 meters. From bottom to top, there are many small steles. Under the steles, there are urns of dead officers and soldiers. On one side of the gate of the cemetery, there is a "Japanese tomb", in which the Japanese corpses are buried. Mr. Li Gengen inscribed the stone name "Japanese tomb" to show the failure of the invaders.

Memorial Tower

The memorial tower was built on the top of the slope. On the slope, green pines and cypresses, green grass and yellow flowers, accompanied by 3168 orderly arranged and upright steles, each of which is engraved with the name, native place, military rank and position of a martyr who died in the siege. On the west side of the cemetery, the water of the Daying river is surging, and the huge roar of the dripping waterfall responds to the sobbing of the pines in the cemetery. On the longguangtai opposite to the stream, the four characters "sword sweeps wind and smoke" written by Deng Zilong can be seen faintly. Fengling Qinggang is on its east side, and the towering writing tower corresponds to the memorial tower. Looking south, the beautiful Heshun hometown of overseas Chinese is surrounded by smoke and snow; The famous Stilwell Road, the "main artery of the Anti Japanese War" defended by the heroes, meanders past it. In front of the slope is the memorial hall of the Anti Japanese heroes. There are inscriptions of "the will of the prime minister" and "the world is for the public" in the hall

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Reasons for establishment

The first stage of the Anti Japanese War

From February 1942 to January 1945, in the early 1940s, a patriotic war of resistance against Japan broke out in Baoshan, Dehong, Nujiang, Lincang and other places in Southwest China, which aimed at protecting the international passage between Yunnan and Myanmar and safeguarding the national territorial sovereignty. This is the world-famous war of resistance against Japan in Western Yunnan. The bloody war started with the Japanese army's attack on Burma and Western Yunnan, which are the sea passage in the southwest rear of China. It lasted for about three years. The war process can be roughly divided into three stages: from February 1942 to early May 1942. During this period, the Japanese army marched northward from Southeast Asia and invaded Myanmar. The Chinese government sent 100000 expeditionary troops abroad to resist Japan in order to protect the international passage between Yunnan and Myanmar and the security of the southwest rear. However, due to the improper command and coordination of the allies, the Burmese and British troops fled without fighting. As a result, the Japanese army gained the first advantage and cut off our way after the expedition. Our 100000 soldiers and soldiers were determined to kill the enemy and were unable to return to the sky. The massive aid operation ended in failure, and the whole territory of Myanmar and large areas of our country, such as Dehong, Longling and Tengchong in western Yunnan, fell into enemy hands one after another.

The second stage of the Anti Japanese War

From the middle of May 1942 to the first ten days of May 1944 was the stalemate stage. During this period, in order to curb the Japanese invasion, the western Yunnan garrison bombed Huitong bridge on the Yunnan Burma highway in time and blocked the enemy in the west of Nujiang River. At the same time, it sent troops to Tengchong, Longling and other places to organize the people in the occupied areas to launch a massive guerrilla war behind the enemy, which greatly consumed the enemy's effective strength.

From the middle of May 1944 to the last ten days of January 1945 was the period of Sino US alliance's counter offensive. During this period, in order to break the Japanese blockade and reopen the international transportation line between Yunnan and Myanmar, the Chinese government reorganized the 200000 Chinese Expeditionary Army headed by general Wei Lihuang, took advantage of the favorable opportunity of the turning point in the international anti French war, crossed the Nujiang River with the full support of the American allies and the people of all ethnic groups in western Yunnan, launched a comprehensive counter offensive against tens of thousands of Japanese invaders who occupied western Yunnan, and fought bloody battles for more than eight months Finally, on January 20, 1945, he drove all the aggressors out of the country and won the final victory of the Anti Japanese war in western Yunnan.

After the recovery of Tengchong, under the advocacy of Mr. Li Gengen, the supervisor of Yunnan and Guizhou, all parties raised funds to build a national war cemetery at the foot of the beautiful Laifeng mountain and the majestic Bank of the Dieshui River, so as to protect the loyal souls. The project was completed on July 7, 1945.

Address: at the foot of Fengshan in the southwest of Tengchong City, Baoshan City

Longitude: 98.481635

Latitude: 25.026223

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