By Zhou Mian
CHANGSHA, Dec. 14 -- The Memorial Hall of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Acceptance of the Japanese Surrender in Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, announced the new collection of 31 cultural relics on December 12.
The collection includes some battlefield relics and confiscated items, such as Japanese military equipment and some daily necessities during the war against Japanese aggression.
Wu Jianhong, curator of the Memorial Hall, introduced that several items were collected from Japan, including the Japanese Zhijiang battle map, and the memoirs of Zhijiang battle "The Final Defeat of the Central China Front" and "Deadly Reversal" written by Morikin Chiaki, a Japanese veteran of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
"These cultural relics scattered in the battlefields are evidence of the Japanese invasion of China, and also a historical testimony to the fact that the Japanese military expansion will be eventually destroyed," Wu said. The Memorial Hall has collected more than 5,000 precious cultural relics and materials from home and abroad in recent years, including 31 Class A, 36 Class B, and 135 Class C cultural relics.