Now Qufu
Qufu is now a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province and is managed by Jining . It is the hometown of Confucius. It is also the birthplace of Yellow Emperor, the former capital of Shennong and the homeland of Shang and Yin. It is an important birthplace of oriental culture and is known as the "Holy City of the East" and also known as the "Jerusalem of the East".
Qufu is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, connected to Surabaya to the east, yanzhou to the west, Zoucheng to the south, and Mount Tai to the north.
Qufu was the capital of Lu State in ancient times. It has a profound cultural heritage and is one of the first batch of 24 historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council. The world cultural heritage Confucius Temple , Confucius Confucius Confucius " Three Kongs " are timeless, and Nishan Holy Land , Confucius Museum, Confucius Research Institute "New Three Kongs" are also flourishing.
The Fall of Qufu
After the "July 7th Incident", Japan began an all-out invasion of China. At the end of 1937, the Japanese army crossed the Yellow River and marched southward, occupying Jinan and Tai'an. When the Japanese army occupied Tai'an, Qufu County Magistrate Meng Xiangang fled Qufu with his family. On the evening of January 3, 1938, the vanguard of the Japanese army invaded Beiguan, Qucheng. The Kuomintang Qufu County government and its subordinate agencies collapsed with the arrival of the Japanese army.
The Japanese army entered Qufu
html On the morning of November 4th, Qufu City's big landowner Wu Tingyu and the big capitalist Wang Guansan made Japanese plaster flags to welcome the large Japanese troops into the city, and they couldn't wait to become traitors. After the Japanese army entered the city, they immediately appointed Wu Tingyu as the president of the "Maintenance Committee" and organized the pseudo-Qufu County Office and the pseudo-Qufu County Guards to implement the Baojia system and brutally rule and oppress the people of Qufu.
The Japanese army occupied Qufu, a famous historical and cultural city in China, without any effort. The Qufu authorities surrendered without a fight, and Qufu fell. It is so sad!
The crimes committed by the Japanese troops in Qufu
1, The massacre of Dongchenjiacun
On January 11, 1938, the Japanese troops arrived in Qufu city. Dong Chenjia Village in the southeast plundered, brutally killing 8 innocent villagers Kang Boxhen and Zhang Qingchen, including Zhang Xuejin, and injuring 4 people including Zhang Xuejin. They also set fire to the houses in the village. The fire burned for three days and nights before it was extinguished. More than 180 houses in Dongchenjia Village were burned down.
After burning, killing, and looting in Dongchenjia Village, the Japanese troops immediately rushed into the three nearby villages of Xiaozhongji Village, Guanzhai Village, and Liyuan Village in Xizou Township to burn, kill, and loot. They brutally killed 9 innocent villagers, including Kong Lingqin, and arrested 9 villagers, raped 1 woman, and set fire to more than 50 houses.
2, Xiaoxue Village Massacre
On February 14, 1938, two battalions of the 757th Regiment of the 127th Division of the 22nd Group Army of the Kuomintang ambushed the Japanese army in Xiaoxue and Fu Village on both sides of the Qu and Zou roads. The Japanese army was attacked and suffered many casualties. The Japanese army became angry. On the 15th, the Japanese army retaliated against innocent villagers in Xiaoxue and Fu villages. They rushed into Xiaoxue village and killed three villagers, including Sun Xiushan, and burned more than 1,000 villagers' houses. Killed five villagers including Meng Xianling, Meng Qingbao, and Meng Liuyin in Dongfu Village.
3. Songjialin Massacre
On February 19, 1938, 13 Japanese troops stationed at Yaocun Railway Station in Qufu arrived at Songjialin Village in Yaocun Town, Qufu, north of the station, to loot. One of the soldiers climbed over the wall to Song Zhaoyu's house and attempted to rape a woman. He was found by Song Jingrong, Song Mingzhe and others, beaten to death with a wooden stick and buried in a well. For three consecutive days, the Japanese army went to Songjialin Village and the neighboring village Cuijiazhuang to burn, kill and loot innocent villagers in retaliation. They successively used various cruel methods to kill 6 villagers including Wang Guiyou, and burned down more than 110 houses in Songjialin Village and Cuijiazhuang.
4. Burning of Nanxingbu Village
In June 1938, the Japanese army surrounded Nanxingbu Village and set fire to more than 200 houses in the village in order to "clear out" the anti-Japanese armed forces. 5. Loot Qufu’s mineral resources. In June 1940, Japan's Broadcom Company excavated coal mines in Babaoshan, east of Qufu City, selectively selecting the best and thinnest, forcing migrant workers to work, without setting up safety measures, and stationed a Japanese military squad in the coal mine to supervise the labor of migrant workers and force mining. By August 1945, 120,000 tons of raw coal from Qufu had been looted.
6. Stealing and excavation of underground cultural relics in Qufu
After the Japanese army invaded Qufu, from September 1942 to 1943, archaeologists from Tokyo Imperial University in Japan conducted two destructive excavations in the name of archaeology at the ruins of the Western Han Dynasty Lingguang Hall near the Zhougong Temple in Qufu, and stole a large number of precious cultural relics.
7, control Qufu Fragrant Rice
There is a paddy field in Nanquan Village outside the south gate of Qufu. The fragrant rice produced is very famous. The Japanese army directly controlled more than 300 acres of fertile land here in 1942 and forced farmers to grow rice for it.
8. Forced labor
The Japanese army used deception or coercion in Qufu to bring a large number of villagers to Qufu to dig coal mines and build fortifications for the Japanese army. They also forced the villagers to leave their homes and go to Northeast China, Anhui and even Japan to engage in physical labor such as road construction and coal mining, and to labor the Chinese people. According to incomplete statistics, during the Anti-Japanese War, more than 5,200 villagers in Qufu County were forced to work as laborers by the Japanese army.
