One of the main venue activities of "May 18 International Museum Day" in Jiangsu Province in 2018

      Exhibition time: May 16 to June 10, 2018

      Exhibition place: Xuzhou Museum, Xu Peichen Art Museum

      Sponsors: Xuzhou Municipal Bureau of culture, radio, film and television, and Xuzhou Municipal Archives Bureau

      Organizer: Xuzhou Museum, Xuzhou archives

      Supported by: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee library

      Research Center of cross cultural exchange, China University of mining and technology

      Lu Xun said:

      For the forgotten memory

      I didn't understand before

      Since I want to forget

      Why to commemorate

      Today I want to understand

      For history

      We need to remember his heaviness

      I can't carry this heavy forward

      May 19, 1938

      The fall of Xuzhou

      80 years later

      The beacon has gone

      The hatred also gradually blurred

      But now Xuzhou people should know

      How terrible was the war then

      How hard is it for people to live under the iron hoof

      Eighty years ago, Xuzhou was a strategic place for the Japanese to invade China and the front line of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese struggle. In the eight years of the fall of Xuzhou, people's lives and property suffered heavy losses. Japanese invaders committed numerous crimes in Xuzhou. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people of Xuzhou share the same hatred and fight hard. The Anti Japanese armed forces are surging. The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army march forward to Xuzhou. They have successively established five base areas, including Huxi, Pisuitong, Lunan, Xiaosu copper and Musuhai. The army and the people of Xuzhou were tenacious in the Anti Japanese War, and many heroic figures emerged, writing a glorious chapter for the victory of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese war. Xuzhou people's war of resistance has been justly reported and supported by Chinese and foreign journalists, and selfless humanitarian assistance from international friends.