Longling War of Resistance Memorial Hall 龙陵抗战纪念馆

About Longling War of Resistance Memorial Hall

The museum's main building covers 486 square metres over two floors: the ground floor hosts rotating short-term themed exhibitions, and the upper floor holds the permanent display on the Longling and Songshan campaigns and wartime relics. After a September 2015 renovation the museum's content grew richer, combining text, photographs, artefacts, models and audio-visual material under the exhibition title 'Righteousness Between Heaven and Earth, a Monument of Flesh and Blood', built around the tense standoff between Chinese and Japanese forces and divided into a Japanese-occupied zone, covering the devastation under occupation and the fortifications and equipment of the Songshan garrison, and a Chinese counteroffensive zone, covering the Expeditionary Force's weapons, daily life, commanders and Longling's three major campaigns; the museum also holds material on the Longlu Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force, American military equipment and the Yunnan-Burma road.

The Songshan campaign it documents came near the end of the War of Resistance, when the Expeditionary Force fought with extreme brutality to destroy the Japanese garrison dug in at Songshan, reopening the Yunnan-Burma corridor and beginning China's strategic counteroffensive against Japan; Longling county still holds extensive remains of the Songshan battle site, which the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office designated Yunnan's fourth nationally recognised cross-strait exchange base in 2018, after Tengchong's Guoshang Cemetery, the former Southwest Associated University site in Kunming, and the Yunnan Army Military Academy.

What to look for

• The museum's permanent second-floor exhibition, 'Righteousness Between Heaven and Earth, a Monument of Flesh and Blood', divided into Japanese-occupied and Chinese counteroffensive zones.
• The large relief wall, bunker of the invading Japanese army and war sculptures surrounding the museum building.
• The museum's material on the Longlu Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force, American military equipment and the Yunnan-Burma road.
• The Songshan battle site in Longling county, Yunnan's fourth nationally recognised cross-strait exchange base.

Location & getting there

Getting to Longling War of Resistance Memorial Hall

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