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Zhijiang Surrender Memorial 芷江受降旧址Zhǐjiāng Shòuxiáng Jiùzhǐ
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Huaihua, Hunan
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Huaihua
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Zhijiang Surrender Memorial
The site in Qiliqiao village outside Zhijiang town where, on 21 August 1945, a Japanese delegation led by Major General Takeo Imai received the Chinese terms for the surrender of Japan's forces in China, the first step towards the formal surrender ceremony in Nanjing that September. It keeps the 1938 buildings of the Chinese Army headquarters and He Yingqin's office, a memorial museum opened in 1995, and the stone surrender memorial arch first built in 1946–47, destroyed in 1966 and rebuilt from old photographs in 2010.
How to get to Zhijiang Surrender Memorial
About 4 km east of Zhijiang county town beside Zhijiang airport, roughly 40 minutes by road west of Huaihua. Closed on Mondays except public holidays.
Nearby
- Fenghuang Ancient Town 凤凰古城 60 km
Stilt houses leaning over the Tuo River in a town that glows after dark
Also within 20 km: Zhijiang Confucian Temple 芷江文庙 (under 10 km), Zhijiang Tianhou Temple 芷江天后宫 (under 10 km).
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