Former residence of martyr Lu BINGSHU

Former residence of martyr Lu BINGSHU

The former residence of martyr Lu BINGSHU is in Gongguan lane, Liangduo Town, Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province. There are three main rooms, three East rooms, three West rooms and three suites in Dongtai City, which are well preserved.

Brief introduction to Lu BINGSHU

Lu BINGSHU, named Yuheng, was born in 1902. His father, Lu Shaoxiang, was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. He edited Dongtai county annals. Lu BINGSHU was smart, studious and progressive since childhood. He graduated from Nantong College of traditional Chinese medicine founded by Zhang Jian and worked as a doctor in Shanghai Far East Hospital. He had a close relationship with GE Gongzhen. He worked as a special reporter in GE's "times" Museum, and hosted progressive publications such as "common people" and "comics". In the autumn of 1934, he served as head of the Chinese Consulate General in Manila, Philippines. He loves overseas Chinese and is willing to work for them, so he is deeply loved by them.

Life story

After the July 7th incident in 1937, the Anti Japanese war broke out in an all-round way. Lu BINGSHU and eight other officials of the Consulate General raised donations from patriotic overseas Chinese to support the domestic anti Japanese war. Some of them were handled by German friend Anna Wang and sent to Yan'an and the rear of the Eighth Route Army. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor of the United States, that is, carried out air raid on Manila, and the citizens fled to the antipolo mountains. Qiu Tianyou, Lu BINGSHU's wife, is the daughter of an overseas Chinese businessman. His brother Qiu Zonghai drove to Lu BINGSHU's residence twice, and took his sister and brother-in-law to seek refuge in the mountain area. Lu BINGSHU, as a Chinese envoy abroad, has the sacred mission of protecting overseas Chinese. How can he live a leisurely life and thank him politely? He wrote Wen Tianxiang's poem: "who has no death in life since ancient times. To show our determination to stick to our post, we should "keep our heart and shine on history". Earlier, when U.S. commander in the Philippines MacArthur withdrew, he also advised eight envoys including Lu BINGSHU to go together, and reserved seats on the special plane, which was also declined by Lu BINGSHU and others.

On December 15, 1941, Japanese troops began to land in the Philippines. On January 4, 1942, the third day after the Japanese army occupied Manila, they blackmailed Lu BINGSHU into donating 24 million Philippine dollars to the Kuomintang government in Chongqing on the ground that the Chinese Embassy in Manila had raised 12 million Philippine dollars. In order to safeguard the dignity of the motherland and the national dignity and personality, Lu BINGSHU and his colleagues severely rejected the unreasonable demands of the Japanese army, so the Japanese side flagrantly trampled on public international law and imprisoned the embassy personnel. In prison, the Japanese army inflicted all kinds of torture, but they could not make them yield. Japanese military police commander OTA hated them to the bone and decided to kill them. At about 1:00 p.m. on April 17, 1942, the Japanese army secretly escorted eight Chinese diplomats, including Lu BINGSHU, to the depression in the southeast of Huaqiao Yishan (cemetery) and lined up beside the previously dug earth pit. Lu BINGSHU denounced the Japanese army for risking the world's great injustice and destroying public international law, which would accelerate their own demise. The head of the Japanese army ordered to shoot. The executioner's heart was empty and his hand trembled. The bullets were fired at random. Eight diplomats poured into the pit one after another. Fearing that they would not die, the enemy stabbed them with bayonets. Eight outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese nation died in this way.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Japanese chieftain OTA and Yamashita Fengwen (commander-in-chief in the Philippines) were sentenced to hang after public trial. The citizens of Manila and the majority of overseas Chinese applauded. On July 7, 1947, the national government sent a special plane to welcome back the remains of eight martyrs. Together with the remains of consul Zhuo Huanchun, who was killed by the Japanese army in shandagen, they were buried in Juhuatai, adjacent to Yuhuatai, outside the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing. In 1982, the Nanjing Municipal people's government allocated a huge sum of money to rebuild the tombs of nine martyrs and issued the "certificate of revolutionary martyrs" to the relatives of the martyrs.

Commemorating Lu BINGSHU

In order to commemorate these eight martyrs forever, the overseas Chinese in the Philippines spontaneously raised funds and built a tall monument and a solemn martyr's hall at the martyrdom of overseas Chinese Yishan martyrs. Every year, the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines also goes to the Tomb Sweeping Day.

Address: Gongguan lane, Liangduo Town, Dongtai City

Longitude: 120.37310028076

Latitude: 32.764766693115

Chinese PinYin : Lu Bing Shu Lie Shi Gu Ju