Xi’an Incident Memorial Day
Recently, our campus is filled with bands which read “Remember the history, remember the insult forced upon our mother land.” It’s because December 12 is the anniversary of the Xi’an Incident that took place in 1936.
The incident is also known as the Double Twelfth Incident. After the Incident of September 18, 1936, the Japanese imperialists seized the three provinces northeast of
Yet Jiang Jieshi persisted doggedly in carrying out his reactionary policy “domestic tranquility is a must for the resistance against Japanese invades,” and commanded the Northeast Army and Northwest Army, respectively headed by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, to attack the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Inspired by our Party‘s policy “let us stop the internal war and unit to resist the Japanese aggressors,” those two generals made to Chiang Kaishek the proposal of forming a united front with the Communist Party for the resistance. Not only did he reject the proposal, but flew to
We should not forget the history of course. But what we’re going to do with the shames and insults is only to develop our country quickly into a prosperous one so as to defend herself against any kind of opress. Moreover, time is changing and people have to treat history correctly and shouldn’t always bear resentment against each other. Or it will be very hard for us to have a peaceful and harmonious world to leave in. History is a mirror from which we can learn lessons from so that we can avoid similar mistakes. It is not a revenge booklet at all.