Kirin Tower-Sin Tower

In the last century, a huge building stood near the original shooting range in Guangzhong Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai. People around you call it Kirin Tower, but they don't know its origin. After a long time of understanding, the author roughly understands its ins and outs. It turned out to be closely related to a Japanese aggressor named Shirakawa Ji Ze.

1932 65438+1On October 28th, the Japanese attacked Shanghai after the September 18th Incident, extending the war to the Yangtze River valley in China. Among them, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Legacy Army is General Shirakawa, a swordsman whose hands are stained with the blood of China people. 1932.4.29 The Japanese invaders celebrated Tianchang Festival (the birthday of the Japanese emperor) in Hongkou Park, Shanghai. Yin Feng, a righteous man of North Korea, was ordered by the leader of the Korean Zionist movement to take up the assassination task. At the beginning of the celebration ceremony, Yin threw a bomb in a lunch box at the viewing platform, killing and injuring several Japanese people on the spot, while Zai Shirakawa died a few days after being seriously injured. Yin was arrested on the spot and later escorted to Tokyo to die heroically. Luxun Park (formerly Hongkou Park) still has a memorial site for Korean heroes. There is another important person who has to be mentioned. More than ten years later, on the battleship Missouri, General MacArthur accepted Japan's surrender. There was a guy in a hat and a tuxedo limping along. His name was Shigemitsu Mamoru, and he was in charge of Japanese diplomacy at that time. His leg was blown off in the assassination of Hongkou.

Kirin Tower is a memorial tower built by the Japanese for Shirakawa, located near the original harrow field in Guangzhong Road. This tower is large in scale, complex in structure and firm in foundation stone. When I was a child, I often climbed up to play, but there were no unicorns on it. It must have been demolished after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Because the tower was so big, the surrounding bunkers were demolished long after liberation, and this big guy stayed there all the time. During the Cultural Revolution in 1967 and 1968, I often climbed up to hang my shorts while swimming in the surrounding rivers. I don't know which year after the reform and opening up, this evil tower was finally demolished. It should be sealed in the boundary of Shanghai University there now.

I just never understood why it was called "Kirin Tower". There should have been a bronze carving of Kirin on the tower, why did you put it on? I have never found the answer. It was not until more than half a century later that the answer was found. The annotation of the Japanese mystery "The Mystery of Kirin" (the title of which is unclear) says: Kirin is the first beast in Japanese belief. I see.

I carefully observed the tower from top to bottom. It is about four stories high, all made up of huge stones and staggered platforms. Some of those huge stones are about one cubic meter, which are perfectly matched with each other, but some don't look like rocks, like concrete, and should be composed of rocks and concrete. The original entrance and exit on the tower have been sealed. But from some small holes, you can spy inside. It is dark in the middle of winter and there is a lot of space. When I was a teenager, I always wondered why such a huge thing stood in an unknown place. For what purpose? With the growth of age, through consulting the information, I realized that it was originally built by the Japanese invaders for you damn fool Shirakawa. Because of the prominent position of Shirakawa, the exquisite materials for the tower body and the scarcity of large stones in the south of the Yangtze River, concrete was used instead, but it was not ordinary concrete, or from today's perspective, its cement grade and quality were extremely high. As we all know, the cement label of the bunker is very high. The cement of this monster is definitely better and stronger than that of the bunker, which is why the surrounding bunkers have been demolished one after another and it has been there. The pickaxe is useless to it. I'm sure it must have been demolished by directional blasting technology. As for when it was demolished, there were different opinions, but I climbed all the way to the summer of 1968, that's for sure.

1937 After Japan's full-scale invasion of China, many generals and generals died. However, due to the tension of war and the exhaustion of resources, it is impossible to build any memorial tower in the war zone. Therefore, this Kirin Tower is probably the only memorial tower of aggression besides the memorial tower of Lushun World War I, a tower of aggression, a tower of sin, and a tower of sucking fat from the people of China. We can't tear it down and forget it. It is necessary to set up signs and notices, like some former sites of comfort women in Shanghai, as negative teachers to educate citizens, especially teenagers, in patriotism.

The design drawings and construction scheme of this tower must be filed in Japan. It is suggested that Professor Su Zhiliang of Shanghai Normal University (the first person to study comfort women) and Sassou experts go to Japan to dig deep into this matter and educate the people. Forgetting the past means betrayal!