A Study On The Memorial Inscriptions Of The Anti-japanese War In The Southeast Of Shanxi

There are abundant inscriptions of Anti-Japanese War in the southeast of,compared with other areas of Shanxi,the number,the continuity of time and the universality of space distribution of the Anti-Japanese War inscriptions in this area are outstanding.The southeast of Shanxi Province was the main activity area of the Communist Party of China during the Anti-Japanese War.Combined with the information and the history of the anti-Japanese War,the research focus on the anti-Japanese war inscriptions in the southeast of Shanxi Province,taking the inscriptions as a kind of anti-Japanese war text to study.This paper mainly collects,statistics and classifies the inscriptions of the Anti-Japanese War in the southeast of Shanxi Province,and discusses the commemorative objects,the characteristics of setting up space and time,and the commemorative connotation of the Anti-Japanese War reflected by the inscriptions of the Anti-Japanese War.The southeast of Shanxi has a profound history of anti-Japanese war.After collecting and collating the inscriptions of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanxi Province based on the published data collection and field investigation,it is found that the inscriptions of the Anti-Japanese War in the southeast of Shanxi Province are very representative.From the perspective of quantity,according to the 821 inscriptions of the Anti-Japanese War collected in Shanxi,541 of them are in the southeast of Shanxi.From the time of erection,there are inscriptions of Anti-Japanese war in different historical periods,from the Anti-Japanese War,the War of Liberation,to the founding of the People’s Republic of China,after the reform and opening up till now.In terms of space,there are 15 counties in the southeast of Shanxi with a wide range of inscriptions of the Anti-Japanese War.Anti-Japanese War inscriptions have various physical forms and text forms,they are illustrated.The combination of the decorative pattern and the inscription on the tablet can better prove the political identity of the commemorative object and the political expression of the person who created the tablet.There are various types of the inscriptions of the Anti-Japanese War in the Southeast of Shanxi.According to the contents of the inscriptions,there are four categories of tablets: the characters of the Anti-Japanese War,the deeds of the War,the markers of the buildings about the War and the inscriptions related to the War.Martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War belong to the characters inscriptions,which occupies a large proportion in the southeast of Shanxi Anti-Japanese War inscriptions.In the memorial object of the heroic monument of the Anti-Japanese War in the southeast of Shanxi,the martyrs of the Communist Party of China accounted for the vast majority,the other martyrs are from the Kuo Min tang and North Korea.During the Anti-Japanese War,in order to appease the public and achieve maintenance,the Japanese invaders would also build monuments for Chinese heroes.After the founding of the People’s Republic of China,the main body of the tree steles for the martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War mainly included the state and local governments.In addition to the local government,families and individuals also appeared in the activities.The establishment of Anti-Japanese War inscriptions can also reflect the relationship between memory and space.The location of the Anti-Japanese War inscriptions is open and public.Because some spaces and places bear the function of commemorating the Anti-Japanese War,people’s historical memory of this space will also change.The memory of the Anti Japanese war has the regional attribute,and the local people have a deep memory of the history of the Anti-Japanese War in the region.Changing the place name to commemorate the martyrs is a shaping of the collective memory of the local people.The memory of the villains during the Anti-Japanese War is also a part of the Anti-Japanese War memory.The records of Zhen-kui Ji on the Anti-Japanese War inscriptions in Gaoping area show the hatred memory of the people in the area.The choice of the time to set up the Anti-Japanese War inscriptions is related to the Anti-Japanese War Memorial Day and the Martyrs’ Day.In addition to the National War Memorial Day and the Martyrs Memorial Day,the locality will also have its own Martyrs Memorial Day.In Huguan County,the southeast of Shanxi Province,we can see that the local people will set the traditional folk festivals as the martyrs’ day.For the martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War,the monument itself is a kind of commemorative activity.In the southeast of Shanxi,the Communist Party of China is the absolute leader in holding Anti-Japanese War commemorative activities.The Chinese Communist Party of China will hold commemorative activities for the same heroes of the Anti Japanese war in different periods.Due to the different background of the times,the reasons and political connotations of the commemoration activities held by the CPC for the same heroes of the war are also different.During the Anti-Japanese War,Shi-min Wu,a senior general of the Kuomintang,died in Qinshui.The commemorative activities of Shi-min Wu in different periods of the Communist Party of China can best reflect the different connotation of commemorative activities of Anti-Japanese martyrs in different periods.The Anti-Japanese War inscriptions not only record the history of the war,but also reveal the understanding,evaluation and memory of those who set the inscriptions.These contents are conveyed to the public through the open inscriptions.