Japanese occupation of Tsinghua University: A military dog wounding competition was held in the auditorium.

"This is irrefutable evidence of the Japanese occupation of Tsinghua University!" Wang Jinsi's eyes widened when he saw the old photos of Tsinghua Auditorium. Recently, this folk collector bought two photo albums taken by Japanese soldiers who invaded China from Japan, many of which recorded the Japanese activities in tsinghua campus.

photo source: I bought it from Japan for 2, yuan.

Wang Jinsi has been collecting materials and relics of the Anti-Japanese War for more than ten years. Three months ago, his friend in Japan sent a message saying that two photo albums of Japanese soldiers who invaded China were found in the collection market. Wang Jinsi immediately asked a friend to buy it for a total price of 2 thousand yuan.

When the photo album was sent from Japan, Wang Jinsi found many images of the Japanese-occupied campus in Beijing and even Tsinghua University. The reporter saw that although after more than 7 years of ups and downs, the album as a whole is still well preserved. Each album with dozens of pages has nearly 1 old photos. On the cover of one of them, there are also images of Japanese soldiers and the words "jihad".

The reporter saw that the words "Cang Qiao Mao" were written with a brush on the back cover of both albums, and the time was marked as the fifteenth year of Showa (194). Wang Jinsi judged that this is the owner of two photo albums. The photo album contains a "Certificate of Replenishment", which records that Cang Qiaomao is a native of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and enlisted in the seventh year of Showa (1932), and is stamped with the seal of the commander of Japan's Jiafu United District.

Wang Jinsi believes that the date of taking a photo cannot be determined only by the time marked on the back cover (194). In the old photos, there is also the slogan "Celebrating the Fall of Singapore", which should have happened around 1942. "The formation of the photo album should have spanned a long time".

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In some old photos of the suspected wounded soldier's rehabilitation site in the west playground, there is a scene of Japanese soldiers in white coats standing in line in the open space. After identification, Mr. Liu from Tsinghua School History Museum said that it was basically certain that the open space in the photo was a playground on the campus of Tsinghua. Another person familiar with the Tsinghua campus said after seeing the photos that the houses in the background are very similar to the famous "Ba Zhai" in Tsinghua, so the shooting place may be the west playground.

Because Tsinghua was once turned into a field hospital by the Japanese army, Wang Jinsi concluded that it might be a Japanese wounded soldier wearing a white coat who was undergoing rehabilitation training on the playground.

The Meteorological Observatory was used by the Japanese army to raise military horses and dogs.

In the background of many old photos in the photo album, a building similar to a "water tower" appeared. According to Teacher Liu, it is the Tsinghua University Meteorological Observatory. According to the records of Tsinghua Archives, the meteorological observatory was used by the Japanese army as a place to raise military horses and dogs during the Japanese occupation period, which was greatly damaged. In the photo album, you can also see the "Meteorological Observatory" brand in the background of a Japanese photo.

Later, the damaged meteorological observatory was designed and restored by Academician Guan Zhaoye of the Department of Architecture, and a white octagonal building was added. Teacher Liu said that the Meteorological Observatory has been renamed as the "Observatory", but its function has always been to observe the weather.

There was a military dog wounding competition in front of the Auditorium

It was the landmark auditorium in Tsinghua University that was first recognized by Wang Jinsi. An old photo in the photo album clearly records the whole picture of the auditorium during the Japanese occupation period. This photo was also confirmed by Teacher Liu.

In addition to this panoramic photo, many old photos of Japanese troops were taken in front of the auditorium.

Compared with then, the main entrance of the auditorium remains the same. In the summer of 194, the Japanese army held a "Military Dog Competition Conference" in front of the Tsinghua Auditorium, in which military dogs were allowed to bite China people. Dozens of China people were all killed in the square in front of the Auditorium.

Yang Ruohe, an expert on the history of the Anti-Japanese War in China Renmin University, told this reporter that these two photo albums reflected some situations when the Japanese invaders occupied Beijing (then called Beiping). Tsinghua University, as the Japanese garrison, also confirmed this historical fact in the photos.

Yang Ruohe talked about the reason why the Japanese army occupied Tsinghua instead of choosing the neighboring yenching university (where Peking University is now located). "There is a saying in the history circle that the Japanese army made this choice when considering its relationship with the great powers." She explained that in the face of the interests of other powers in China, the Japanese army appeared to be lacking in confidence. At that time, there was no war between Japan and the United States. In order to avoid disputes with the United States, the Japanese army avoided yenching university with American management background.

Yang Ruohe believes that these two photo albums objectively reflect some situations during the Japanese occupation of Beijing, including Tsinghua University, so they have certain research significance, and the comparison between history and today can better reflect the importance of some historical remains.

The article "tsinghua campus under Japanese Occupation" written by Zhu Junpeng of Tsinghua Archives mentioned that on July 29th, 1937, Japanese troops began to invade tsinghua campus. On October 13th, Mudaguchi troops of the Japanese army who launched the Lugouqiao Incident entered on a large scale, and tsinghua campus was completely occupied.

In the spring of 1939, No.152 Hospital of Japanese Army Field Hospital was stationed in Tsinghua. The Japanese army changed all the departments and libraries into houses for the sick and wounded, and the objects in the museum were occupied, sold and destroyed. The library was converted into a hospital treatment room and an operating room, the gymnasium was converted into a stable, and the new South Hospital became a Japanese military prostitute hall.

The Japanese army designated the north of the school river as the activity area for the left-behind people in Tsinghua University, while the south of the school river belonged to the Japanese. The Japanese army once dug a big hole in the ground of Tsinghua Library to pour excrement and urine and dispose of medical waste.