清明节 and in China, families pays respect to ancestors, Nation Pays Respect to Martyrs, GPGT!

Tony Tan · Apr 3, 2019

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清明节前祭英烈
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4月2日，河北省邢台市的学生在冀南革命纪念馆缅怀革命先烈。
清明节前夕，各地纷纷举行祭奠活动，缅怀英烈。新华社发（宋杰摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，学生们在湖南衡阳抗战纪念城祭奠英烈。新华社发（罗盟摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，在湖南省湘西土家族苗族自治州吉首市烈士公园，少先队员在纪念碑前缅怀先烈。新华社发（刘振军摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，南华大学衡阳医学院的青年志愿者在衡阳抗战纪念城祭奠英烈。新华社发（曹正平摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，太原市第六十一中学校的学生在山西省武乡县八路军太行纪念馆缅怀革命先烈。新华社发（李勇摄）

清明节前祭英烈
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4月2日，安徽省合肥市蜀山区井岗镇蜀山小学的学生在大蜀山文化陵园献花缅怀英烈。新华社发（葛宜年摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，小学生们在安徽省亳州市皖北烈士陵园参加祭扫活动。新华社发（张延林摄）

清明节前祭英烈
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4月2日，河北省唐山市乐亭县古河乡阁楼坨学校的学生在李大钊铜像前举行宣誓活动。新华社发（刘江涛摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，山东省枣庄市山亭区城头镇实验学校的学生在梅花山革命烈士陵园擦拭烈士墓碑。新华社发（李宗宪摄）

清明节前祭英烈
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4月2日，中学生与空军官兵在北京中国航空博物馆祭奠航空英烈。新华社发（周良摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，江苏出入境边防检查总站民警在公安英烈纪念墙前默哀。新华社发（章善玉摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，中学生与空军官兵在北京中国航空博物馆祭奠航空英烈。新华社发（周良摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，河北省张家口市宣化区第一中学学生在宣化革命烈士陵园祭奠英烈（无人机拍摄）。新华社发（陈晓东摄）

清明节前祭英烈
2019年04月02日 20:36:18 | 来源： 新华网

4月2日，在广西全州县湘江河畔，一名民警为在湘江战役中牺牲的英烈献花。新华社发（王滋创摄）

清明节前祭英烈
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4月2日，河北省南宫市第一小学学生在冀南烈士陵园冀南烈士纪念塔前默哀。新华社发（田晓丽摄）

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Before the Ching Ming Festival
April 02, 2019 20:36:18 | Source: Xinhuanet

#(社会)(6) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, students from Xingtai City, Hebei Province, remembered the revolutionary martyrs at the Minnan Revolutionary Memorial Hall.

On the eve of the Ching Ming Festival, various places have held memorial activities to cherish the memory of heroes and heroes. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Song Jie)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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#(社会)(5) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, the students greeted the heroes in the Hengyang Anti-Japanese War Memorial City in Hunan. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Luo Meng)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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#(社会)(3) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, in the Martyrs Park of Jishou City, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, the young pioneers remembered the martyrs in front of the monument. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Liu Zhenjun)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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#(社会)(2) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, young volunteers from Hengyang Medical College of Nanhua University paid homage to Yinglie in the Hengyang Anti-Japanese War Memorial City. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Cao Zhengping)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
April 02, 2019 20:36:18 | Source: Xinhuanet

#(社会)(4) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, students from the 61st Middle School of Taiyuan City commemorated the revolutionary martyrs at the Eighth Route Army Taihang Memorial Hall in Wuxiang County, Shanxi Province. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Li Yong)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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#(社会)(1) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, students from Lushan Primary School in Jinggang Township, Lushan District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, presented flowers in the Dagushan Cultural Cemetery. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Ge Yi Nian)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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#(社会)(9) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2, the primary school students participated in the sweeping activities in the Mausoleum of the Northern Martyrs in Zhangzhou City, Anhui Province. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Zhang Yanlin)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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#(社会)(8) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, students from the Loft School of Guhe Township, Laoting County, Tangshan City, Hebei Province held an oath in front of the bronze statue of Li Dazhao. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Liu Jiangtao)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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#(社会)(12) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, students from the Experimental School of Chengtou Town, Shanting District, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, wiped the tombstones of the martyrs in the Meihuashan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Li Zongxian)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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(Social) (7) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, middle school students and airmen officers paid homage to aviation heroes at the China Aviation Museum in Beijing. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Zhou Liang)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
April 02, 2019 20:36:18 | Source: Xinhuanet

#(社会)(10) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2, the police of the Jiangsu Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station stood in front of the public security Yinglie Memorial Wall. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Zhang Shanyu)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
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(Social) (6) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, middle school students and airmen officers paid homage to aviation heroes at the China Aviation Museum in Beijing. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Zhou Liang)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
April 02, 2019 20:36:18 | Source: Xinhuanet

#(社会)(13) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, students from the First Middle School of Xuanhua District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, paid homage to Ying Lie (unmanned aerial vehicle shooting) at the Xuanhua Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Chen Xiaodong)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
April 02, 2019 20:36:18 | Source: Xinhuanet

#(社会)(11) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2, on the banks of the Xiangjiang River in Quanzhou County, Guangxi, a civilian police officer presented flowers for the heroic sacrifices in the Xiangjiang Campaign. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Wang Zichuang)

Before the Ching Ming Festival
April 02, 2019 20:36:18 | Source: Xinhuanet

#(社会)(7) Before the Ching Ming Festival

On April 2nd, students from the First Primary School of Nangong City, Hebei Province, mourned in front of the Minnan Martyrs Memorial Tower in the Minnan Martyrs Cemetery. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Tian Xiaoli)

Hypocrite-The · Apr 3, 2019

Do they pay respects to those killed during the Great Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square incident etc?

laksaboy · Apr 3, 2019

Sinkieland should have a Japanese Shinto shrine to commemorate the dead of WW2.

Tony Tan · Apr 4, 2019

清明节 PLA solemn ceremony to bring home remains of Korean War Martyrs from Kim-Chi-land war graves. GVGT!

http://www.xinhuanet.com/photo/2019-04/03/c_1210099373.htm

第六批在韩中国人民志愿军烈士遗骸回国
2019年04月03日 21:41:29 | 来源： 新华网

4月3日，在沈阳桃仙国际机场，礼兵将殓放志愿军烈士遗骸的棺椁从专机上护送至棺椁摆放区。
当日，第六批在韩中国人民志愿军烈士遗骸由我空军专机护送从韩国接回辽宁沈阳，10位志愿军烈士英灵回到祖国和人民怀抱。新华社记者杨青摄

第六批在韩中国人民志愿军烈士遗骸回国
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4月3日，运送志愿军烈士遗骸的空军专机准备降落沈阳桃仙国际机场。新华社记者杨青摄

第六批在韩中国人民志愿军烈士遗骸回国
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4月3日，在沈阳桃仙国际机场，礼兵手捧志愿军烈士遗骸棺椁。新华社记者杨青摄

第六批在韩中国人民志愿军烈士遗骸回国
2019年04月03日 21:41:29 | 来源： 新华网

4月3日，在沈阳桃仙国际机场，礼兵将殓放志愿军烈士遗骸的棺椁从专机上护送至棺椁摆放区。新华社记者杨青摄

第六批在韩中国人民志愿军烈士遗骸回国
2019年04月03日 21:41:29 | 来源： 新华网

4月3日，在沈阳桃仙国际机场，礼兵手捧志愿军烈士遗骸棺椁。新华社记者杨青摄

第六批在韩中国人民志愿军烈士遗骸回国
2019年04月03日 21:41:29 | 来源： 新华网

4月3日，我空军两架战斗机为志愿军烈士遗骸护航。新华社记者杨青摄

tanwahtiu · Apr 4, 2019

Let start a crying memorial services for the 2 old fart Lee, dishornable Leeders, false flag cries... lol...

Father cry for the country separation, son cry for his father Will to resist demolish of his house...

Hypocrite-The · Apr 4, 2019

Wat about the victims of Mao Zedong? Got respect or services for them?

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Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'

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Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday.

Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with the economy of the Western world, he was responsible for overseeing "one of the worst catastrophes the world has ever known".

Mr Dikötter, who has been studying Chinese rural history from 1958 to 1962, when the nation was facing a famine, compared the systematic torture, brutality, starvation and killing of Chinese peasants to the Second World War in its magnitude. At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years; the worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55 million.

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Mr Dikötter is the only author to have delved into the Chinese archives since they were reopened four years ago. He argued that this devastating period of history – which has until now remained hidden – has international resonance. "It ranks alongside the gulags and the Holocaust as one of the three greatest events of the 20th century.... It was like [the Cambodian communist dictator] Pol Pot's genocide multiplied 20 times over," he said.

Between 1958 and 1962, a war raged between the peasants and the state; it was a period when a third of all homes in China were destroyed to produce fertiliser and when the nation descended into famine and starvation, Mr Dikötter said.

His book, Mao's Great Famine; The Story of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, reveals that while this is a part of history that has been "quite forgotten" in the official memory of the People's Republic of China, there was a "staggering degree of violence" that was, remarkably, carefully catalogued in Public Security Bureau reports, which featured among the provincial archives he studied. In them, he found that the members of the rural farming communities were seen by the Party merely as "digits", or a faceless workforce. For those who committed any acts of disobedience, however minor, the punishments were huge.

State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond; parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.

Mr Dikötter said that he was once again examining the Party's archives for his next book, The Tragedy of Liberation, which will deal with the bloody advent of Communism in China from 1944 to 1957.

He said the archives were already illuminating the extent of the atrocities of the period; one piece of evidence revealed that 13,000 opponents of the new regime were killed in one region alone, in just three weeks. "We know the outline of what went on but I will be looking into precisely what happened in this period, how it happened, and the human experiences behind the history," he said.

Mr Dikötter, who teaches at the University of Hong Kong, said while it was difficult for any historian in China to write books that are critical of Mao, he felt he could not collude with the "conspiracy of silence" in what the Chinese rural community had suffered in recent history.

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Sideswipe · Apr 4, 2019

Mao Zedong, Founding Father of the People’s Republic of China, Conspired with the Japanese Army

On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The achievement of Mao Zedong as founding father of the PRC is, indeed, great. If we focus attention on this achievement alone, Mao Zedong can be described as “a man of great stature” who deserves to be respected.

It should be noted, however, that the PRC is a state that was ultimately created through victory in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) forces led by Chiang Kai-shek and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China (CPC) and is not by any means a state created by defeating the Japanese Army in the Sino-Japanese War.

The proof of this is that Japan announced defeat on 15 August 1945, but it was 1 October 1949 that the PRC was founded. During this four-year period, the KMT and the CPC waged a fierce civil war. Accordingly, the PRC’s claim that the PRC is a state created by defeating the invading Japanese army is factually incorrect. Also, the myth that CPC forces fought valiantly with the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese War is untrue.

On the contrary, during the Sino-Japanese War, Mao Zedong concentrated his efforts on conspiring with the Japanese army to weaken the KMT forces. He planted communist spies such as Pan Hannian in the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s local agency Maison Iwai and sold KMT military intelligence obtained from the National Government in Chongqing through the KMT-CPC Cooperation to the Japanese at a high price, creating an environment in which it was easy for the Japanese military to deal blows to the KMT forces.

And that is not all.

Mao Zedong sent Communist spies to make direct contact with the Japanese army, even going as far as to propose a truce between the CPC forces and the Japanese army.

This paper compares and contrasts Japanese sources, such as Memories of Shanghai, the memoir of Iwai Eiichi, and Chinese sources to examine questions such as “what did Mao Zedong do during the Sino-Japanese War?” and “how did the CPC forces grow stronger?”

On this theme, Xie You-tian, who, after studying at the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, became a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in the United States, wrote The Communist in China’s War Against Japan (1931–1945) (Mirror Books) in 2002, explaining how the Communists grew stronger and telling the hidden truth about China’s war against Japan. This book was written based on truly admirable detailed examination, but unfortunately there were no conclusive Japanese sources.

To fill in the gaps, I scraped together evidence that corresponds to primary Japanese sources as much as possible and corroborates the analysis of Xie You-tian. This resulted in the publication of my book Mao Zedong: The Man Who Conspired with the Japanese Army (Shincho Shinsho) in November 2015. Hearing about my book, a reporter from the UK’s BBC Zhongwen (Chinese) interviewed me and uploaded an article to the BBC Zhongwen website as a Christmas present on December 25.[1] As a consequence, many Chinese people outside mainland China came to know about my book. I would like to give an outline of my book in this paper from the objective standpoint of “looking squarely at the history” of mankind.

https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/archives/diplomacy/pt20160517095311.html

tun_dr_m · Apr 5, 2019

21 Gun Salute to Returning Martyrs after 60 years in Kim-Chi-land Korean War Graves! 祖国 is superpower strong after you fought to deaths! Enemies are Beggars close to death today! Your deaths are not in vain. Salute! Honor & Pride belong to you!

http://slide.mil.news.sina.com.cn/l/slide_8_62085_71274.html#p=1

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