| Sun Yat-sen Memorial is an important historical and cultural phenomenon which continues in the modemn history of China.The Sun Yat-sen Memorial was launched on amassive scale after his death.Since Sun Yat-sen’s death,the Kuomintang,the CPC Central Committee and various places have launched such commemorative activities as Sun Yat-sen’s birthday,death,Mongolian disaster,Feng’an,and Premier’s Memorial Week.The organizers of these commemorative activities deepen the worship of SunYat-sen by reading the will,bowing to the national flag,the party flag and the portrait of the Prime Minister,observing three minutes of silence,giving wreaths,giving speeches and so on,so as to construct the symbol of Sun Yat-sen.Among the local subjects commemorating SunZhongshan,Shanxi occupies an important position,among which diffrent politial forces,such as the Kuomintang,the Communist Party and the powerful faction headed by Yan Xishan,have launched a series of memorials to SunZhongshan.Before the War of Resistance against Japan,Sun Yat-sen Memorial became an important field in the struggle of political forces in Shanxi,the most important of which was the struggle between the Kuomintang,the Communist Party and Yan Xishan.In the course of struggle,the parties build their own legitimay,consolidate the rule of political power,establish political authority,and show their relationship with other political forces in different periods,so as to convey Shanxi’s position and attitude.People,as participants in Sun Yat-sen’s memorial activities and ceremonies,virtually accepted the ideology conveyed in the memorial process.In the anti-japanese war,in the face of the deep national crisis,all parties have common enemies,and the memorial of sun yat-sen has mainly become an important field of anti-japanese mobilization,and sun yat-sen has risen to the national symbol of mobilizing the whole nation against Japan,encouraging people’s anti-japanese morale.In Shanxi,Yan Xishan’s Shanxi Suiyuan Army also accepted the leadership of the national government and was compiled as the seventh and eighth regiment army.At the same time,Yan Xishan put forward the slogan of "National Revolutionary War" and United the eighth Route Army of the Communist Party to resist Japan together.But during the period of cooperation against Japan,Yan Xishan launched the Qing Communist Movement in the later period,and persecuted the Communist Party extensively.That is,there is still a fight between he parties.After the War of Resistance against Japan,Chiang Kai-shek openly launched a civil war andused the Sun Yat-sen Memorial to further strengthen his orthodoxy and thus compete with the Communist Party for national power.Yan Xishan and Shanxi Kuomintang people followed closely,also tried to use Sun Zhongshan memorial in Shanxi to launch a fierce struggle with the Communist Party,seize Shanxi’s ruling power.All in all,through the political operation of Sun Zhongshan Memorial,the political forces of all parties shape themselves as the successor of Sun Zhongshan,and shape Sun Zhongshan as the symbol of the country,so as to instill their own ideology into the people,so as to strengthen the people’s political identity and national identity. |
