How can you forget the history today -the 85th anniversary of commemorating the Songhu Battle

Xinhua News Agency, August 12th. On August 13, 1937, the "August 13th" Songhu Battle broke out. The city of Shanghai, remembered the bloody fighting of the suffering in the modern history of the Chinese nation, the bloody fighting history of the Japanese, the history of the Japanese aggression and the crime of war.

In the past 85 years, the earth has already changed the earth. Nowadays, walking through a way, watching a memorial hall, passing through an old school gate ... The ordinary places around you are full of national memories. Revisiting history is not only to remember the martyrs, but also to cherish peace and create the future.

"South Station" that encounters the catastrophe

On August 11, 2022, Shanghai South Station Road. Xinhua News Agency reporter Pan Xu

In the photo, a child cried in the broken wall of the broken wall after being bombed by the Japanese army -this is the iron certificate of the Japanese invitation at the Shanghai Battle. On August 28, 1937, Shanghai South Railway Station was bombed by the Japanese plane. Photography reporter Wang Xiaoting immediately rushed to the scene after hearing the news and took the shocking work. "At that time, Shanghai South Station was located in Nanshi (now Huangpu District) in the old city of Shanghai. It was far from the theater without any military facilities. The bombing of the Japanese army was completely targeted at innocent civilians." Essence

At that time, the air control in Shanghai was almost manipulated by the Japanese army. The book "Japanese War Invasion" has performed statistics. From the outbreak of the battle on August 13, 1937 to late September, the Japanese aircraft used for the Shanghai battlefield had reached 200.

After the fall of Shanghai, the station and the railway were demolished. Today, this is not the same as before. The high -rise buildings are lined and the car is horse. However, the road names such as the South Station Road and the station branch also tell this painful history, reminding people not to forget.

Cultural architecture full of war fire

Nowadays, people come and go at the image building of Changhai Hospital in Shanghai. If you don't look closely at the inscription in front of the door and the lettering on the wall, it may be difficult to find that it was once a Shanghai Museum. In 1937, shortly after opening the museum, it was caught in the fire of the Songhu battle. It had to be closed because of the war, and the building was also damaged in the war.

Some experts said that every time the Japanese army captured a city, they burned publishing institutions, destroyed universities, occupied academic institutions, plundered books, cultural relics, and intellectuals ... "If you want to kill your country, you must destroy the history; It must be destroyed first. "

According to statistics from relevant parties, a total of 272 primary and secondary schools that suffered direct wars during the Battle of Songhu. Before the war, there were more than 100 public libraries in Shanghai, only more than 10 large libraries that still existed after the war, with a total of 400,000 losses.

Shanghai Laobei Station, which witnessed history

The Shanghai Railway Museum shot on June 18, 2020. (Photo by Xiao Mingliang)

The Shanghai Railway Museum, located in Jing'an District, Shanghai, was built on the original site of Shanghai Laobei Station. Shanghai Laobei Station was put into use with the Shanghai -Nanjing Railway in 1909. The main body is a 4 -storey British building, integrating office, waiting, and ticket sales. In the 1930s, the Japanese army invaded Shanghai twice, and Shanghai Laobei Station was bombarded. During the "August 13th" Battle of Songhu, the station building and auxiliary facilities were severely damaged under the bombing of the Japanese army, and many passengers were killed and injured. After the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, it was once renamed the "Shanghai Post" for military transportation.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Laobei Station undertook a large number of land passenger tasks in Shanghai. It was not until the Shanghai New Passenger Station in 1987 that the old North Station only withdrew from the historical stage. In 2004, the railway department built the Shanghai Railway Museum at the original site of Laobei Station.

The Grand Field Town of Zeng Cheng ruins

Grand Field Town was one of the important battlefields in the Battle of Songhu. After the outbreak of the Songhu Battle, the Japanese bombardment in Shanghai was extensive, almost every day. On October 25, 1937, the Japanese aircraft bombed the big field, and 150 Japanese aircraft participated in the bombing. After the large field and other places lost, the Chinese army guarding the large field defense line was ordered to cover the four -line warehouse on the north bank of the Suzhou River to cover the main forces to withdraw west overnight. Under the heavily surrounded by the Japanese army, the Chinese army guarding the four -line warehouse fought alone and repelled the enemy's dozens of offensives under the cover of airplanes, tanks, and artillery.

Today, Baoshan District Grand Field Town has vitality, focusing on information technology, artificial intelligence and other technology industries, and fully enhances the concentration of science and technology and economic density.

From the Songhu Anti -Japanese War Memorial in Baoshan District, Wusongkou has no view, endless in the Yangtze River Skyrim, nearby international cruise ports, Jiangnan shipyards on Changxing Island in the distance. Lujiazui.

This is Shanghai, China, Shanghai, China. (Reporter: Xiao Chunfei, Zhou Lin, Pan Xu, Wu Zhendong, Guo Jingdan, Jia Yuanzhang, Zheng Juntian)

[Editor in charge: Liu Yang]

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