Tianqian Anti-Japanese Martyrs' Cemetery

Tianqian Anti-Japanese Martyrs' Cemetery

The Tianqian Anti-Japanese Martyrs' Cemetery serves as a patriotic education base.

The Tianqian Anti-Japanese Martyrs' Cemetery was built to commemorate the 93 soldiers of the "Anti-Japanese Allied Forces" who sacrificed their lives fighting against the Japanese invaders during a breakout battle at the local Red Building on September 20, 1941 (the first day of the eighth lunar month). The Cultural History Museum is located on the left side of the cemetery. Upon entering the museum gates, the first thing you see is a memorial statue of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. Together with several indoor paintings—such as "Victory Against Bandits," "Fierce Battle in the Suburbs," "Bloody Battle at the Red Building," and "Rescue by Civilians"—it recreates the intense scenes of the soldiers’ battles on Zhelang Peninsula during the war of resistance. Several display cabinets contain relics of the martyrs, including military trousers, caps, bugles, fragments of military flashlights, and metal buttons from water bottles. The historical materials exhibited here are mainly provided by the National Second Historical Archives in Nanjing, while the martyrs’ relics come from eyewitnesses and survivors of the Tianqian Battle, as well as items recovered during the excavation of the soldiers’ original gravesites.