There is a strange stone near Chengshantou, which witnessed the Sino-Japanese War.

Chengshantou Scenic Spot in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province has become a 4A-level scenic spot by virtue of its geographical advantage of "the ends of the earth" and the history or legend of Ritual Day in Hanwu, Qin Huang, attracting a large number of tourists every year.

Little known is that the beach not far from the west gate of this scenic spot is the landing place of Japanese Shandong combat troops in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 1895 Weihai Campaign. There is a half-man-shaped strange stone on the seaside hill, which was specially photographed by the intelligence scouts accompanying the Japanese invaders in those years. It became the only scene theme work in all battlefield photography of the Japanese army from the Korean Peninsula to the Liaodong Peninsula and then to the Shandong Peninsula during the Sino-Japanese War.

Because only, there must be meaning.

This strange stone still exists today, but it is in jeopardy due to reclamation in recent years. It would be a pity if they were dumped and disappeared.

On the 28th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895/KLOC-0, the "intention" behind this old photo completely "refutes" the murderous battlefield atmosphere, and protects this natural creature endowed with special significance by the Japanese invaders, which has multiple meanings of national mourning education and local commemoration.

Rongcheng Bay becomes "Dragon Sleeps in Australia"

Natural rocks bear witness to history.

Longxu Island is located in the east of Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. East and west are long and narrow, surrounded by mountains. It not only becomes a scenic spot, but also forms a headland, embracing a bay-Rongcheng Bay. This bay with concave coastline, fine beaches and wide leeward is a natural anchorage and wharf for local fishermen.

1October 20th to1October 25th,1895,65438+65438+This Leeward Bay is the landing place of the Japanese Shandong Combat Army. Tens of thousands of Japanese troops and their logistics transportation teams are divided into three batches, and more than 30 transport ships of Japanese domestic shipping companies are working back and forth, combatively, from Dalian. In the 37 days up to February 26th, Japanese warships or transport ships braved black smoke on this dark green jade sea, entering and leaving like nobody's business.

The first transport ship was 19, in which army intelligence scouts without guns and with heavy shooting equipment were arranged. This confidence seems to have predicted the direction of the war.

At that time, it snowed heavily.

Except for the shooting and sniper of the Qing infantry on the beach at the beginning, the Japanese army never encountered any resistance after that. At 9 o'clock in the morning, barge operations began. By 7: 00 a.m. on February 19, among the first batch of19 transport ships,10/ship landed with Japanese troops and materials, and the second batch of 12 transport ships also entered Rongcheng Bay one after another, bringing them into Japanese 8 194 and 8966.

2 1 day, the snow continues and the temperature is lower. That is, on the morning of this day, carrying heavy photographic equipment and stepping on the snow, Japanese surveyors climbed the mountain and took a photo from north to south, which was first published in the photo post 1895 of the June issue of Nissin Battle, with the title "Rongcheng Sleeping Bay".

The close-up in the picture is a snowy hillside. The foreground is Rongcheng Bay, where 28 ships or small warships can be counted. Among them, the ships are generally double-masted or three-masted single chimneys, and the images are floating, but we can see that most of these ships are turned off and only a few ships start to emit black smoke. On the coastal beach in the lower left corner, it can be recognized that black tents are lined up from south to north, which is a temporary camp for landing Japanese troops.

As the main body of composition, a strange stone in the shape of half man and half beast was brought into the lens and became the core element of this battlefield photo. The prospect of war power, the close-up snow scene and the prominent presentation of natural rocks make this shooting full of impact and make people feel strange and unforgettable.

Neglected for more than a hundred years

It is in jeopardy because of mountain reclamation.

This is a far-reaching universal language expression.

At that time, the camera was very heavy, not as light as it is now. Firstly, the wooden camera box and tripod are very big, and secondly, the negatives are all ground glass. Photographers often need two or more assistants, one to carry negatives and tripods, the other to carry camera boxes, and even to fix and develop solutions. Like 1894 10 10, the so-called Japanese photographer Tsunami Kamei, who landed at Huayuankou in southern Liaoning with the second Japanese army on October 24th, was originally a vassal in the shogunate period and was very rich. 1894 10 16, Shiming Kamei took a boat from Yupin Port to Huayuankou, bringing about one ton of photographic equipment, 1 1 a large box, five servants and assistants.

Kamei Shiming is an aristocratic volunteer, and the photography class of the Land Survey Department directly under the Japanese General Staff Headquarters is a member of the Japanese army, so they will not be equipped with so many auxiliary personnel. Therefore, they carry heavy photographic equipment, and there must be planning and meaning behind every photo before each operation, not just a shot.

This strange stone still exists today.

The sea is mixed, comrade shan is not. Taking this strange stone on Longxu Island into the lens is the only landscape photo in all Japanese battlefield photography during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Taking this strange stone as the witness of the old Japanese empire "expanding thousands of miles and spreading national prestige in all directions", organizers, planners and photographers had good intentions in those years.

Japanese telegrams and war reports during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and even the official war history published by the Japanese army later, all wrote "Longxu Island" as "Longmian Island" and "Rongcheng Bay" as "Longmian Australia", which is a central reason and has profound significance.

The word "sleep" is highly abstract, but it vividly summarizes the social outlook of China in the late Qing Dynasty.

Wind and sun, fog and rain, bittern 128, even after the large-scale excavation in 1970 s, today, this strange stone that witnessed the shame of the Chinese nation still stands on the mountain and becomes a silent witness.

Silent for more than a hundred years, until I discovered and confirmed it in recent years.

/kloc-After the 1970s, the long beach in Rongcheng Bay has completely disappeared, and it has become a residential building and factory building built along the coast, and the mountain where that strange stone is located is also in jeopardy, and the spatial reference of historical memory is beyond recognition.

There are two groups of rocks in this strange rock in the old photo, between Japanese ships and at the intersection of land and sea. Comparing the old and new photos, it can be confirmed that the shipyard of Longxu Island Fishery Company was built on the basis of these two reefs today, and the breakwater was built by using the rocks extending into the sea in the old photos.

Today, the arc of the gravel road by the sea is roughly the same as the bay coastline in the old photos taken by the Japanese army.

The stones needed for reclamation and paving all come from the southern slope of the mountain where the strange stones are located. Blasting starts at 1975 or 1976. I wonder if it will continue today? Mountaineering observation shows that if you dig and blast one foot to the north, the strange stones that witness history will collapse.

Should we protect this strange stone? Does it meet the current cultural relics standards? I'm not sure, and I'm not qualified to be sure, but I know that it has enough weight to be a witness of the Sino-Japanese War and a witness of national humiliation. Whether a cultural relic meets the standard will not affect its weight at all, and as far as history teaching and patriotism education are concerned, this strange stone also has enough weight.

The grandeur and even falseness of "knowing the world but not being satisfied" often implies that a person or a group should start from the side when they realize the failure logic of their actions, and discover, record and learn, which is more in line with the cognitive law. Take this strange stone as an example, at least local residents should know its value, stop destroying it, keep it and attach importance to it; For outsiders, on the way to Chengshantou Scenic Area, you should at least know that there is such a strange stone on the roadside.

Only by knowing your own feet can you go far.