On December 27, 1937, the headquarters of the War Department of the Japanese army invading China announced that the city of Jinan was occupied, and the shandong provincial capital had fallen into the hands of the enemy.
A few months later, the Japanese could not wait to direct a farce in the newly fallen Jinan, holding a so-called "Shandong Provincial People's Games", the real purpose of which was not to advocate sports and strengthen the people, but to invite people's hearts and minds and external propaganda needs.
On April 2, 1938, the "Shandong Provincial People's Games" was held outside the Nanwei Gate in Jinan. This group of pictures truly records the entire process of this farce, and the photographer is Aoyuan, a journalist of the Japanese army invading China.
"Shandong Provincial Stadium", also known as "Shandong Provincial First Public Stadium", is located under the Thousand Buddha Mountain, was built in April 1924, originally for the 12th North China Games. As can be seen from the words on the upper floor of the gate in the picture, the so-called "Great Games" were held for a total of two days.
At the behest of the Japanese, the local traitor organization vigorously promoted and publicized the game in advance, and coerced the public to come to the scene. Forced by the obscenity of the Japanese, many ordinary people had to come to the stadium against their will. The picture shows the audience in the stands next to the podium.
Some of the boys were handing out "pro-Day" leaflets, and they were all dressed up as clowns to attract attention. Near these children, there are traitors with plaster flags and armbands at their disposal and surveillance.
The "race" staff standing next to the car, dressed in uniform and wearing weird hats, looked very happy in front of the camera. The two Chinese girls may have just forced a smile on their faces, because there were a lot of Japanese soldiers standing next to them, and they had to do so.
A team of Chinese women, dressed in uniform costumes and draped in shoulder straps that read "Japanese-Chinese Goodwill, Bright Shandong", lined up to the stands.
They are the protagonists of the Games, both the actors who performed the show at the opening ceremony and the athletes who participated in the competition. The traitors arranged for them to come here for only one purpose: to do propaganda for the Japanese.
At the opening ceremony, these women, clad in shoulder straps and holding small flags, lined up to enter and prepare to perform group exercises. I don't know what the real identities of these women are, but one thing is for sure, many people may not be willing to come and have to come. Man-made knife tricks, I for fish meat, no other choice.
They waved "plaster flags" and five-colored flags, posed in various formations, and occasionally showed a cheerful look. The five-color flags in their hands represented the "Provisional Government of North China" at that time, a puppet regime supported by the Japanese army invading China, which was established in Beijing on December 14, 1937.
Since it is a demonstration of the so-called "Japanese-Chinese goodwill", the Japanese naturally have to participate, and a group of Japanese women in kimonos are guided by the service staff to the performance venue.
The group of Fancy-dressed Japanese women sneaked into the middle of the venue and began performing their traditional show. Some of the women squatted in a circle to play the piano and drums, playing various instruments, and another group of Japanese women twisted and turned in circles.
The Chinese women stood in a large circle, encircling the Japanese women in the middle, and the two sides sang and danced. In order to create an illusion of harmonious coexistence, the programming of the program can be described as hollowing out the mind.
These are primary school students in Jinan, and the child on the far right is from Jinan Chenggen Primary School. At the behest and coercion of the traitorous organizations, all primary schools were asked to organize students to attend this ridiculous opening ceremony.
In order to cater to the tastes of the common people and deceive more people to come to watch, a juggling performance was also arranged at the opening ceremony. This form of performance was called "trick play" in the past, and it is a kind of folk art that is very popular with the people.
The old lady held up a parasol and brought her grandson to see the liveliness. For the elderly, it may just be a simple look at the hilarity, and the real impact is these children, who only see the false "happy" scene in front of them, and do not know the reason behind it, and when they grow up, they are likely to have a wrong understanding of this humiliating history.
Judging from the live photos of the stadium left by the Japanese, the contestants who participated in the competition at that time were still the women who had just performed, and everyone did not even change their costumes, tucked the hem of the cheongsam, and put on the shoulder straps and went directly to the arena
The Japanese sitting in the stands, although wearing military uniforms, but not carrying weapons, they were all Japanese employees of the Jinan Railway Station, belonging to the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. at that time, and the following year it belonged to the North China Transportation Co., Ltd., using rail transportation to rob China of resources in large quantities.
Winners will receive their prizes at the awards office. Looking at the whole process, the so-called "Shandong Provincial People's Games" did not have many people participating at all, saying that it was a competition, more like a farce of a good director. As absurd as it may be, the purpose of the Japanese in holding this congress is sinister.