We should have set up a national public holiday day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre long ago, not only to counter the needs of the Japanese authorities, but also to educate our citizens. For some reason, from 1949 to the early 1980s, the historical term "Nanjing Massacre" was rarely mentioned by all parties. Speaking of Nanjing and the massacre, I only know Yuhuatai, but there is no Nanjing massacre. It was not until 1982 that China scholars came up with the idea of "studying the Nanjing Massacre" under the stimulus of Japanese tampering with textbooks. Then there is the memorial hall for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre built by 1985. Zhu Chengshan, the curator of the museum, once said with emotion: "Without the Japanese denying history, there would be no memorial hall for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre!"
China people often tell themselves with the famous saying that "forgetting history is betrayal" that we should face history squarely, but if we have not done enough in this respect, how can we justly accuse others of forgetting or deliberately obliterating history?
Now, China finally has its first national public holiday day. Its establishment not only shows that the China 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, have the courage and mind to restore the historical truth of the Anti-Japanese War, and show unprecedented openness, generosity and self-confidence.