Chapter 80: History Should Not Be Forgotten
Lin Huaizhi and Xu Qiao played Japanese soldiers.
It had to be said that the two’s performance was very vivid. Especially Lin Huaizhi, speaking fluent Japanese and ordering Xu Qiao to carry out indiscriminate bombing of Nanjingâhis face aroused a frenzy of insults in the bullet comments.
The Japanese army advanced on Nanjing, slaughtering a large number of innocent civilians and soldiers who had laid down their arms along the way. There were even barbaric acts like “killing contests.”
November 27.
Two second lieutenants of the 9th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese 16th DivisionâToshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Nodaâlaunched an inhuman “100-person killing contest” (Hyakunin-giri KyĹsĹ) on their march to Nanjing.
Men wearing military uniforms and berets laughed loudly with infant heads skewered on their bayonets.
“Come on! Let’s compete! See who kills a hundred Chinamen first! Whoever does is the final winner!”
By the Yangtze River, the Japanese army used armored cars, machine guns, and infantry artillery to strafe fiercely at the Chinese troops and civilians crossing the river or trapped by the riverbank.
Countless women were brutally raped and killed. The Japanese army even raped them in front of their countrymen to insult the dignity of the Chinese people.
The Japanese army even implemented the “Comfort Women” system.
Women were forcibly arrested, forcibly conscripted in refugee camps, or lured by deceitful words.
While atrocities occurred in Nanjing, the Japanese army also imposed a strict news blockade on the area. Reporters within used photos to record these atrocities. In particular, some foreign journalists reported on these atrocities after leaving Nanjing.
Nanjing not only had atrocities.
It also had resistance.
Chinese soldiers resisted with blood and lives. Women fought against the beasts, preferring death to submission.
In the end, nearly 300,000 compatriots died in this massacre in Nanjing.
Forty-eight hours.
Five groups of guests enacted the Japanese army’s pressing advance starting from the Battle of Shanghai, the Nationalist Army’s retreat, the fall of Nanjing, and various inhuman atrocities.
Finally, the camera focused on the mass grave.
Countless citizens were slaughtered in the great pit, blood and corpses forging a tragic song.
Background narration sounded at this moment.
A voice educated the audience on this history that now lay in the past.
[I’m crying…]
[History should not be forgotten! No one has the right to forgive on behalf of our ancestors! There was actually a place near Nanjing holding a large-scale event promoting Japanese cultural customs before. Anywhere else is fine! But Nanjing is not okay!]
[Current peace was exchanged with the blood of ancestors!]
[There are still many countries at war now! Russia and Ukraine! India and Pakistan! Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen… these places are still suffering the baptism of war! Look at us again! If not for the ancestors, where would our peaceful life come from!]
After a long time.
Dai Keqing stepped forward.
“I know many viewers have questions. We are clearly a romance variety show; why do this kind of program that has nothing to do with romance?”
“But what I want to say is, without a country, there is no home. Without even a home, where would one get the mind to think about romance between sons and daughters? The happy life we possess now, being with the people we like, is all brought by peace.”
“And the reason for choosing this theme for the last episode is also because of the frequent international conflicts recently. Of course, some people say I always engage in romance shows and don’t understand the bitterness of life at all. To this, I only have one phrase: Ptui! My ideological height is nakedly Red!”
The bullet comments instantly burst into laughter.
[I am Red too!!]
[Not to ruin the mood, but you’d better not be doing this just because you didn’t want to watch El date someone else! Finally, I want to say! China is immortal!]
Dai Keqing didn’t look at the comments.
“This episode’s live broadcast ends here. Finally, the program team has booked the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall for every guest. We hope the guests can recognize history from it and respect history.”
[? Pointing at Sun Yunxin?]
[To be honest, I really like Xiao Xiao Xin, and I love the makeup looks she shares. But in a place like Nanjing, she still cosplayed a character from Japanese anime. It makes me feel a little uncomfortable, more or less.]
[Could it be that this theme is targeted at Sun Yunxin! Everyone knows she cosplays Japanese anime protagonists the most!]
[I think the director definitely isn’t that petty. How could he control what clothes Sun Yunxin wears? Besides, I think Sun Yunxin isn’t that oblivious. Estimating that cosplaying this anime character was also an unintentional mistake, not deliberately causing trouble.]
The live broadcast ended.
The five groups of guests visited the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall together.
It has to be said that history is heavy. But only when the things learned in history books appeared so genuinely before one’s eyes for the first time could one truly experience that cruel past.
After exiting the museum, Xu Qiao’s eyes were swollen like walnuts.
When she played the Japanese officer earlier, she acted very vigorously because, in her impression, those dogs were of this virtue.
Of course, seeing history with her own eyes, she realized the truth was even crueler than she imagined. Not long after entering the museum, she had been shedding tears, and she was still shedding them now that she was out.
Hu Xiaoxu, whose own eyes were red, began to comfort her.
The expressions of the others weren’t very good either.
Sun Yunxin was the same. It was true she liked cosplay and liked many Japanese anime characters, but placed before country and hobbies, she could still distinguish priority.
Especially thinking that she cosplayed a Japanese anime character when she arrived, her expression became even worse.
She immediately apologized on her social account. Her attitude of daring to do and daring to admit won the understanding of netizens.
Thinking of her main business on the variety show, Sun Yunxin wiped her face. She walked straight to Huo Chen: “It seems you already know who I am. Why don’t we find a place to talk?”
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