Xia Qiusheng’s great deeds

He heard about the Japanese invading army killing people, setting fires, raping and looting. Although Xia Qiusheng was young at that time, he also felt the pain of national subjugation and national hatred. On a certain day in the twelfth lunar month of the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China (1938), eight characters "Down with Japanese Imperialism" were written on the wall of the square tower. Soon, he was discovered by the Japanese army. That afternoon, a group of heavily armed Japanese soldiers surrounded Sangong Street and forced residents to hand over the person who wrote the slogan. The Japanese military officers gathered a group of children again and coaxed and threatened them, but no one said anything. He was forced to write, and finally he found out the handwriting. He dragged Qiu Sheng to Huixing Bridge and forced him to tell him who had written it, but he never said a word. In the end, Qiu Sheng was thrown into the river by the Japanese army, but was rescued and brought home by his sister. Japanese officers rushed into the house again and dragged Qiu Sheng under the square tower. He leaned against the tower and faced the south, surrounded by Japanese troops holding bayonets. The Japanese officer pointed his pistol at his chest and threatened Qiusheng in blunt Chinese, asking him to tell him who asked him to do this. Qiu Sheng glared and said nothing. The Japanese army's threats were ineffective, so they stabbed him to death with a bayonet. He was 12 years old.