Battle of Nanjing

A report on the battle of Nanjing began. Said the Japanese army decided to make a full-scale invasion of China. Japan abandoned their army and Manchuria, which is a large area conquered by Japan, and established a base there. In November 1937, Japan first occupied Shanghai, one of the most important ports of China. Following the following month, the Japanese arrived at the outer wall of Nanjing on December 9th. Chinese said the Japanese army flew flyers into the city by airplane.

The court of Qing admitted Gabriel Tibetan Buddhist school. In the early days of the Taiping Rebellion, the armed forces of Taihei Heaven were targeted to Buddhism. In Nanjing's battle (1853), the Taiping Army massacred thousands of monks in Nanjing. But from Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 's rebellion, leaders of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took a more gentle attitude and urged monks to obtain a license. About 1900 Buddhists in other Asian countries had raised interest in Chinese Buddhism. Anagarika Dharmapala visited Shanghai in 1893, intending to "invite Chinese Buddhists to visit China, send missionaries to India to restore Buddhism, then promote the world." Japanese Buddhist missionary who is active in China at the beginning of the 20th century

Nanjing (Nanjing) Nanjing is the Chinese "capital of the south". There are several names in the history of the city named Nanjing, and this name is attached to some other cities in China. It is located on the southern shore of the Yangtze River (Yangtze River), a rich agricultural area close to the sea. When China broke up in three ways after the Han Dynasty collapsed in the 220's, one of the provinces was called Kure to rule the eldest son's basin and the southern coast established the capital in Nanjing. The Chinese turmoil brought ongoing invasion of nomads known as Xiongnu (Xiongxiong) and Tosu (T'o-pa) who destroyed the two capital of the Han Dynasty, Luoyang (Luoyang) 316. During the next two centuries and a half century, China broke, Sion Nu and other nomadic tribes dominated the north, Chinese refugees from the north established the dynasty south.

There were many battles along the river. In particular, there was a red cliff battle of 208 AD. In politics, Nanjing repeatedly became the capital of China, but most of the time, during the Three Kingdoms era, covered the southeastern part of China such as Kure, Dongyun morning, North and South morning, Five kingdoms, Ten provinces . The capital was later transferred to Beijing but only Ming Dynasty occupied the majority of China from the capital Nanjing. The capital of the Republic of China is located in Nanjing in 1911-1912, 1927-1937 and 1945-1949.