The importance and historical significance of the National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre is comparable to World War II remembrance days and memorial days established around the world, including the "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" established by the United Nations in 2005, Poland The anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Germany's Holocaust Victims' Memorial Day, Russia's Victory Day in the Patriotic War, Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day, the United States' Pearl Harbor Incident Memorial Day, etc. The greatest value of these anniversaries is It means that the perpetrators, victims and their descendants should not forget history, respect life and cherish peace.

It is long past time for us to establish a national memorial day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, not only to fight back against the Japanese authorities, but also to educate our own citizens. For some reason, from 1949 to the early 1980s, the historical term "Nanjing Massacre" was rarely mentioned by all parties. When talking about Nanjing and the Massacre, people only knew about Yuhuatai and did not know about the Nanjing Massacre. It was not until 1982, stimulated by Japan's tampering of textbooks, that Chinese scholars thought of "conducting research on the Nanjing Massacre." Then, there was the "Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre" built in 1985. Zhu Chengshan, the director of the museum, once lamented: "Without Japan's denial of history, there would still be no memorial hall for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre!"

Chinese people often use the famous saying "forgetting history means betrayal" to warn themselves that they must face history squarely. , but if we ourselves have not done enough in this regard, how can we justifiably accuse others of being forgetful or deliberately erasing history?

Now, China finally has its first National Memorial Day. Its establishment not only shows that the Chinese government and people will always remember the more than 300,000 compatriots who died, but also shows that we have broken through the shackles of ideas and have the ability to restore the history of the Anti-Japanese War. The courage and broadmindedness of the truth demonstrate unprecedented openness, generosity and confidence.