19.Zijin Grass Garden

This is the Zijin grass garden. purple goldZijin grass grows under the Zijin Mountain in Nanjing, Nanjing people call it "February orchid".In the spring of 1939, a Japanese army doctor, Kotaro Ichi Yamaguchi, came to Nanjing. He saw the ruins and devastation everywhere in Nanjing. One day, he accidentally found Zijin mountain in full bloom of small wild purple flowers, he did not expect in the desolate land, there could be such an unknown purple flower stubborn bloom. So he picked the seeds and brought them back to Japan to plant. Yamaguchi Seitaro did not remember the name of "February orchid", but remembered the purple mountain in Nanjing, so he named this small flower "Zijin grass".

After the war, Yamaguchi Seitaro, out of remorse and repentance for the war of aggression against China, devoted himself to promoting the planting of shikoshi throughout Japan. Since then, Every year, he would fill a cloth bag with flower seeds, take a train, and scatter them out of the window along the way, hoping that the purple grass would bloom throughout Japan. Today, shikimia blooms all over Japan and is considered the "flower of peace."In August 2007, Mr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi, son of Seitaro Yamaguchi, She was donated to build this "purple grass garden", and purple grass returned to its hometown. These flowers of peace, which embody the wishes of the Chinese and Japanese people for peace and friendship, bloom here year after year and bear seeds year after year. In 2008, peace and friendship people in Japan once again proposed and donated money to build a bronze statue of the "Purple and Golden Flower Girl" in the Purple and Golden Grass Garden. The bronze statue is 1.17 meters high, showing A little girl of seven or eight years old from Nanjing, her thin body standing on a rock surrounded by purple and gold flowers, looking at this once-war-torn city with wide eyes, and her naive face covered with a layer of light sadness.