What is the "Three? One Anti-Japanese" parade in Seoul like?

There is Deoksugung Palace in North Korea. The palace has painted buildings, carved beams, cornices and brackets, with five steps to the first floor and ten steps to the pavilion. On January 22, 1919, King Yi Xi of Korea, who was deposed by Japan and imprisoned for a long time, died in Deoksugung Palace. News soon spread that Li Xi was poisoned by Japanese agents.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, Japan obtained the "right to protect" Korea. Ri Xi was named King of Joseon in 1896, and Emperor of South Korea the following year, with the reign title Gwangmu. In fact, the Japanese are just showing off to the world. Their purpose is to make Li Xi act as Japan's puppet. However, Li Xi, the Korean emperor, did have great ambitions. Seeing that Japan had actually become the emperor, he felt very uncomfortable, so he secretly contacted European and American forces in an attempt to get rid of the situation of the emperor. In 1905, war broke out between Japan and Russia again, and Li Xi took the opportunity to campaign for the independence of Korea. As a result, Russia suffered a defeat, and Li Xi, who was seeking independence, ran into a wall. He had no choice but to flee to the Russian Embassy to seek political asylum, but was captured by the Japanese. Li Xi was so angry that he vomited blood. He was monitored in the palace and was not allowed to go out. He sighed all day long.

Not long after, the Second Peace Conference of All Nations was held in The Hague, Netherlands. After hearing the news, Li Xi turned his worries into joy and secretly sent a secret envoy to The Hague to appeal to international public opinion at the Peace Conference of All Nations to help North Korea abolish Japan's "guardianship" and restore North Korea's independence. Tanikawa, the Japanese governor in Korea, learned that the emissary was sent by Li Xi. He became furious and led his troops into the palace. He pushed Li Xi off the emperor's throne and ordered that Li Xi's throne be abolished and that another prince named Li Tuo be replaced. Be an emperor.

The deposed Li Xi was imprisoned in Deoksugung Palace. From then on, Li Xi was imprisoned in Deoksugung Palace for 12 years. Li Xi's life in Deoksugung Palace was not bad, and he was still surrounded by palace maids. After taking a short break every day after dinner, he would sit in the Buddhist hall and chant sutras and chant the Buddha's name. After chanting, the palace maid will offer him a cup of Chinese black tea as usual. Li Xiping’s favorite drink is black tea.

In 1917, the Russian October Revolution won victory. The people of various Asian countries saw the hope of national liberation in it. Under the influence of the October Revolution, Kemal launched a revolution in Turkey; the Wafd Movement occurred in Egypt; and in China, which borders North Korea, the patriotic movement is booming.

Japan couldn't help but panic when seeing this situation, fearing that North Korea would also take the opportunity to cause trouble for independence. Tanichuan thought that although Li Xi was imprisoned in a high-walled palace, he was still a living god in the minds of the Korean people. Besides, Li Xi himself dreams of rejuvenating the country every day. If the current situation changes, he will definitely be another banner for North Korea to oppose Japanese rule. Therefore, Japan decided to get rid of Li Xi, a close enemy.

On the evening of January 4, after dinner, Li Xi was chanting sutras in the Buddhist hall again. A palace maid offered him a cup of black tea as usual. Li Xi happened to have a dry mouth at the moment, so he took the tea and took a big sip. Just when I was about to praise the fragrance of the black tea, I suddenly felt unbearable cramping in my stomach. I screamed and fell to the ground. The palace maid was so frightened that she rushed out the door and shouted for help. However, before the imperial physician arrived, Li Xi had already bled to death from his seven orifices. After a while, Japanese guardians, doctors and military police appeared in the palace, as if they had been prepared in advance. The Japanese military police claimed that Ri Xi had died of a sudden illness and immediately arrested all Korean officials, maids and servants in the palace. Then, they announced their mourning, claiming that Li Xi had died suddenly due to cerebral hemorrhage. The Japanese Governor-General in North Korea announced that a state funeral will be held for Ri Xi on March 3 in accordance with Japanese etiquette.

The real cause of Li Xi’s death was the long-planned murder of the Japanese government. Japanese agents took advantage of Li Xi's habit of drinking black tea at night and secretly dropped highly toxic arsenic into the tea. Tanichuan believed that this matter was kept confidential, and no one else would know the secret. However, the fire could not be contained in the paper. Within a few days, the news that Japan had poisoned Li Xi spread throughout North Korea like it had wings. The murder of Ri Xi deeply hurt the national sentiments of the Korean people and triggered a nationwide anti-Japanese struggle in North Korea.

Sun Byung-hee, the leader of the Korean Cheondo Sect, took action and contacted 33 Korean national representatives to draft the "Declaration of Independence."

Patriotic students held an anti-Japanese march to support Sun Bingxi and formed an anti-Japanese alliance with representatives headed by him. The whole country gathered to launch an anti-Japanese demonstration on March 3, the day of the state funeral.

On February 8, North Korean students in Japan took the lead in revolting and held a meeting of thousands of people in Tokyo to issue a declaration demanding North Korean independence. On March 1, the anti-Japanese struggle was launched in advance. Thousands of Seoul students flock to Tapdong Park in the city center. Workers from Seoul and other cities came, and even farmers from remote mountainous areas came in droves driving ox carts or riding donkeys. Student leaders climbed onto the hexagonal pavilion in the center of the park and solemnly read the Declaration of Independence in front of a sea of ??people.

After the rally, 300,000 people, holding high the Korean flag and waving slogans and flags, poured into the streets. A grand demonstration began. Hundreds of thousands of people raised their arms on the long street and shouted: "North Korea is North Korea for Koreans!" "Go back, Japanese bandits!" "Long live Korean independence!" The parade rushed through the streets and alleys of Seoul like a surging tide of worship. . Japan's ruling institutions in Seoul were suddenly paralyzed.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Tanichuan hurriedly sent a large number of troops, police, military police, and spies stationed in North Korea to suppress it. The unarmed people launched a desperate struggle with the Japanese colonists. The Japanese bandits used machetes to chop them, whip them with horse whips, and use ropes to trap them. They were extremely cruel. A female student holding a national flag fearlessly faced the butcher knife of the Japanese military police. The military police chopped off her right hand holding the flag. Regardless of the severe pain of the wound, she raised the flag with her left hand and walked forward again...

The March 1st Parade in Seoul shocked the whole country. The next day, a wave of business closures, market strikes, strikes, school strikes and boycotts of Japanese goods broke out across North Korea. Angry people in many places took up homemade weapons, rushed into the Japanese government offices, and stormed into the Japanese governor's office. A group of Japanese officials, pro-Japanese spies and local bullies were executed on the spot.

In the nine months since the March 1st Parade, two million North Koreans participated in anti-Japanese riots. In these nine months, tens of thousands of demonstrators died tragically at the hands of the Japanese invaders. Some of them were nailed to crosses with iron nails and hacked with axes and knives, and some were doused with kerosene and burned alive. . However, in a series of struggles, the heroic Korean people showed their unyielding spirit and determination to fight the enemy to the bitter end.