Today is the 8th National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre. I heard that some compatriots fainted from watching related exhibitions, but in fact, I may not be able to bear it myself. I remember that when I watched Zhang Yimou's "The Thirteen Pieces of Jinling", my feelings were very complicated. I hate the crimes of the Japanese, and I am even more saddened by all the suffering experienced by my compatriots in Nanjing. But the film's rendering of the suffering of the Chinese people and the brutality of the Japanese army cannot but make people think that in the War of Resistance Against Japan, we were a nation without major contributions, just a group of poor and helpless hostages, watching our country being ravaged, watching our compatriots being killed, watching our own women being raped, and waiting for the great American priests to save China ("Jinling Thirteen Chao"), or waiting for the conscience of Japanese soldiers to discover ("Nanjing!"! nanking! 》）。 I think that if we do not have the understanding of the truth of this period of history, China will certainly not be able to become a country with a strong attitude, to sum up the past and look forward to the future.
A group of Qinhuaihe women, with their own bodies, replaced twelve unborn female students, I don't think this is something worth singing, because they are all people, they are all women. Why trade prostitutes for virgins? Who is a prostitute? Or Zhang Mazi said it well: a prostitute is the daughter of a poor family. In the future, when we make films and television works on the theme of anti-Japanese resistance, it is best to clearly explain the greatness of the Chinese people and the incompetence of Japanese militarism, and then people will think that the Japanese are the victors, or that China's victory was brought about by the United States.
It is precisely for this reason that the plot of the Japanese officer playing the piano in the church makes me completely unacceptable: the Japanese are elegant and civilized, and more than 300,000 innocent souls outside the church died in this "elegance"? The Japanese are actually very stupid. We call them "Little Japan," and there's nothing wrong with that.
In modern times, the two eastern nation-states of China and Japan have the most reason to cooperate and be friendly, and China's population and resources and Japan's technology were originally complementary and mutually beneficial. For the West, Sino-Japanese cooperation is a nightmare. On the Chinese side, it is incapable of provoking Japan, and it is also very desirable to cooperate with Japan in order to develop the economy and jointly resist the aggression of Western imperialism. However, Japan, an island nation that has an extreme sense of historical security, has a high degree of admiration for strength, and in the early twentieth century, because China was in a historical period of division and weakness at that time, China's aggression and bullying against Japan were tolerated in every way, and the result was to arouse the aggressive ferocity of This nation that eats hard and does not eat soft, and under the misleading and control of the officers of the Japanese army's young and strong faction, It will carry out endless division and encroachment on China. Therefore, because of China's weakness, Japan's short-sightedness, and the West's provocation of dissension, it finally led to China and Japan becoming a life-and-death feud, and finally an all-out war, and both sides were severely damaged, which was indeed a historical tragedy and catastrophe.
The Japanese General Staff Headquarters originally regarded the Soviet Union as an imaginary enemy in the war of arms, and the founder of the Imperial Japanese Army, Yamagata Aritomo, regarded it as the "ultimate decisive battler" of the Imperial Army, but under Stalin's repeated hard-hitting style, the Japanese army did not dare to take the initiative to take decisive action against the Soviet Union, and even did not dare to take advantage of the historical opportunity of the overall defeat of the Soviet Red Army in the early stage of the German-Soviet War to fight against the Soviet Union, but instead chose China to fight with the United States, and as a result, it was easily defeated by the Soviet Union in the later stages of the war.
In the whole Sino-Japanese War, the most difficult to accept fact is that the Japanese army often exhibited the kind of burning and plundering without military discipline, because of the Japanese army's widespread atrocities against prisoners of war and civilians in China, so that the Japanese army in many times more like bandits and robberies than the army to fight, especially in the Nanjing Massacre, they showed in China worse than the beasts of war, so that the Nanjing government has no possibility of peace talks. Japan decided to "go to war, but it could not completely mobilize and seek victory on China's battlefield; Japan decided to "peace" and was preoccupied with the small profits it had made; in the end, Japan was painstakingly calculating, and no matter the strategy of peace and war, there was no way to solve the Chinese incident, and Japan could not fight with its great enemy in history, the United States and the Soviet Union, and in the final decisive battle, Japan threw its troops into South China, only creating a historical opportunity for the Soviet Union. Maybe this is the culture and mentality of the island country, and there is no open heart and vision.
In terms of combat strength, if Japan had gone all out to fight under the guidance of the correct strategy, Japan would have been able to defeat China on the battlefield, but Japan had never carried out such an all-out total attack, and Japan repeatedly believed that China was about to collapse and surrender, and as a result, China was able to hold out until the last moment, and finally dragged Down Japan. However, china still tried its best to support it in the face of exhaustion in the face of germany, thus dispersing Japan's national strength and military strength, and laying a strategic structural foundation for the victory of the allies.
Up to now, the Japanese government still superficially believes that they have not lost to China in the battle of the Chinese theater, so of course Japan is not willing to accept the fact that China is the victorious power. If the Japanese army had not failed strategically on the Chinese battlefield, Japan would not have launched the Pacific War at all (Hirohito, in his declaration of war against the United States, all blamed the United States for threatening to stop selling war resources to Japan in order to protect China), and if the absolute defense circle of the Japanese army had not been severely cracked on the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army would not have put the last strength into China for the first battle, but would have caused the Japanese army to suffer a crushing defeat on the Kwantung Army front in the Pacific and northeast China. It shows that Japan is only a nation that worships power, lacks sufficient historical depth and breadth, and cannot reflect on the basic reasons that determine the success or failure of history.
Reviewing the history of the entire war, Japan will be defeated again and again in the Chinese theater of operations, leading to the exhaustion of national strength and the inability of combat strength to bear the needs of strategy, and it will finally embark on the road of total rout. The strategic defeat against China is the fundamental cause of Japan's overall operational failure, and as for some victories and defeats on the battlefield, it is only a phenomenon of process and appearance. However, the Japanese Government does not dare to admit this fact, which has a bearing on the fundamental victory or defeat of history, and has gone so far as to set the key to determining the outcome of the war on the battlefield rather than the basic level of strategy and political strategy.
The Japanese's refusal to admit the mistakes and defeats of the entire war of aggression against China may be a new starting point for the contradictions and conflicts between China and Japan in the next century. The territorial issue may be said to be a problem in the corners, but how we face history and the future is really a big problem for our confidants. Judging from the "Thirteen Pieces of Jinling", we still have a long way to go.