12.Mourning square and Copperplate road

Here we see a composite sculpture - "The Disaster of the Ancient City". It is made up of broken walls, broken sabres, the heads and arms of the victims and the pebbles that symbolize the bones of the victims. Now we walk through what is called the bridge of history. This means standing on the bridge of history, looking back at the ancient city of Nanjing in the 1930s, Here we see a composite sculpture - "The Disaster of the Ancient City". It is made up of broken walls, broken sabres, the heads and arms of the victims and the pebbles that symbolize the bones of the victims. Now we walk through what is called the bridge of history. This means standing on the bridge of history, looking back at the ancient city of Nanjing in the 1930s, a scene of human tragedy! a scene of human tragedy. Crossing the bridge of history, we came to the memorial Square. Face to see the stone wall engraved with Comrade Deng Xiaoping's handwritten inscription of the name of the museum, "Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre of the Invading Japanese Army". This is a copper-plated road named "Footprints of Historical Witnesses", which was completed on December 13, 2002. It is 40 meters long and 1.6 meters wide, with 222 footprints of Nanjing Massacre survivors and important witnesses. The two bronze sculptures on the Copperplate Road are Ni Cuiping and Peng Yuzhen, two elderly people who survived the Nanjing Massacre. Ni Cuiping was 11 years old when the Japanese army shot her parents dead, she was shot in the left shoulder, which broke her shoulder blade, leaving a large scar on her body, and her arm can never be lifted because of the wound. Peng Yuzhen, 19 years old, was shot by the Japanese army in the right hip, causing her right calf to be seriously deformed, her knee was raised, disabled for life, and she had to walk with a crutch. The Memorial Hall adopts this unique form to rescue the historical witness materials of the Nanjing Massacre and the painful history of the Nanjing Massacre is engraved here forever. This is not only an eternal memorial to the 300,000 compatriots who died, but also a powerful disclosure of the Japanese aggression atrocities. To the west of the memorial square, there is a bronze statue. This is a bronze statue of Iris Chang, a Chinese female writer. It was made and donated by the China Human Rights Foundation and designed by Wang Hongzhi, president of the Nanjing Oil Painting Sculpture Design Institute.