Museum exhibition traces China's war of resistance against Japanese aggression
發佈日期: 2025-08-15 19:52
TVB News
In Beijing, a variety of exhibits are currently on display in the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
The No. 3 boiler plaque of the battleship U.S.S. Missouri, a Grade One Cultural Relic, is exhibited for the first time in the museum, as today marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War Two defeat.
It was aboard the deck of the Missouri in Tokyo Bay where Japanese envoys signed the instrument of surrender in 1945.
Other exhibition zones recreated the scenario of the persuant Japanese surrender ceremony for the China War Zone held in Nanjing at 9 a.m. on September 9th in the same year.
Details of the historical event were vividly portrayed in this oil painting.
A museum official said there were over 200 figures in the artwork but one chair was left empty - an artificial creation based on history - meaning the martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the war also attended the surrender ceremony.
This low cabinet showcased five sets of war booty seized from Japanese troops.
Meanwhile, China Communist Party members and veterans laid flowers to commerate fallen soldiers at the Fuziling Battle Memorial Park in Anhui Province.
A ceremony was held this morning at a Memorial Hall in Nanjing to mourn tens of thousands of victims in the massacre, with the attendence of historians, descendents of survivors and other representatives.
In Shenyang City, capital of Liaoning Province, a special exhibition is underway in the September 18th Historical Museum which introduces the open trials of 45 Japanese war criminals at a Chinese court 60 years ago.
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan's Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and another on the city of Nagasaki three days later.
Japan announced its unconditional surrender on August 15th the same year.
