the memorial square is facing north and south, with three arches in the west column, built with blue bricks, plastered with cement and embedded with Yuanzhou stone. Inscriptions and couplets of Jiang Zhongzheng, Li Zongren, Yu Youren, Sun Ke, He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, the military and political dignitaries of the Kuomintang, are engraved on the surface of the square. There is a 26-word inscription on the back of the memorial workshop "The Memorial Workshop of Zhijiang's Surrender".
On August 15th, 1945, the Japanese government accepted the Potsdam Proclamation and declared its unconditional surrender. On August 21st, 1945, Deputy Chief of Staff Takeo Imai and his party, representing millions of Japanese invaders, flew from Nanjing to Zhijiang for talks on begging for surrender, handed over the deployment map of troops in China, and accepted a memorandum of order for the army, navy and air force to disarm and surrender. "The surrender of Zhijiang" declared the complete failure of the Japanese invaders and wrote a glorious page of China's first complete victory against foreign invasion in modern history. In order to commemorate this important historical fact, in February 1947, the National Government built a memorial workshop for surrender. In 1985, the Zhijiang County People's Government approved the restoration and opening up of the workshop. In 1995, the exhibition hall commemorating the victory of the Anti-Japanese War was expanded and built. China People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Victory Memorial Hall is a "key cultural relic protection unit in Hunan Province" and a "patriotic education base in the whole province". In 1996 and 1997, it was rated as "the best tourist attraction in Hunan Province" for two consecutive years, and it was well-known at home and abroad. The main attractions are:
Memorial Square of Surrender: built in February 1946, it is a symbol of the victory of China people's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a great and immortal historical monument of the Chinese nation, an important historical witness of the victory of the world anti-fascist war, and one of the six Arc de Triomphe (Rome, Berlin, Milan, Paris, Zhijiang and Pyongyang) in the world. Jiang Zhongzheng, Li Zongren, He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Yu Youren, Sun Ke, Wang Dongyuan, Juzheng, Wang Yunwu and other military and political dignitaries and the 26-word inscription "Zhijiang Surrender Workshop" are engraved on the workshop. The literary grace, antithesis and allusions of the inscriptions on the workshop have intriguing appreciation value.
Former site of surrender: Built in 1938, it consists of three fish-scale double-deck wooden bungalows: the surrender venue, the Chinese Army General Command and the He Yingqin office. From August 21 to September 8, 1945, He Yingqin held a Japanese surrender ceremony here, which shocked China and foreign countries, issued 24 memorandums containing detailed surrender orders, and deployed the surrender work of 12 disarmament points in the 16 surrender areas across the country; Received and handled more than 4 telegrams with Chiang Kai-shek, Okamura Nintz, Leng Xin and others; The specific terms of Japan's surrender, the time and place of signing the surrender were determined, and all the substantive work of receiving the Japanese surrender was completed. Tables, chairs and sofas displayed indoors are all original objects.
Exhibition Hall to commemorate the victory of the Anti-Japanese War: It was built in 1995 to commemorate the 5th anniversary of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory. With a building area of 1,5 square meters, it is divided into two floors. There are three exhibition halls in the museum, namely "Eight Years' Anti-Japanese War", "China's Surrender" and "Never Forget History". There are 214 cultural relics from World War II, 291 photos, charts and telegrams, and a batch of weapons from China, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, Germany, Czech Republic, France and Japan during World War II. The display of cultural relics is precious, the information is complete and the letter is unique, which can be called the "Anti-Japanese History Expo Hall" in China.
information exhibition room: * * * displays 98 pictures, which show the activities of celebration, respect, construction and evaluation of Zhijiang's surrender in the past half century, integrating documentary, historical materials and appreciation, and inspiring people after viewing.
Inscription and calligraphy exhibition room: The works displayed in the room are the treasures of the inscriptions of famous ancestors, which are the essence of Chinese and foreign celebrities' calligraphy and couplets of anti-Japanese war poems, making the memorial hall shine and worthy of a reward.
The surrender memorial hall is full of lush vegetation, birds and flowers, unique cultural relics and special charm, attracting friends from more than 5 countries and regions around the world to visit and pay their respects. It has been listed as "The Arc de Triomphe in China", "The Great Name of the Eight-year War of Resistance Against Japan" and "The Historical Monument of the Anti-Japanese National War" by newspapers at home and abroad, and has become a patriotic education base to commemorate history, show future generations, inspire the Chinese people, and carry forward the national spirit, linking the fine friendship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, bridging the friendship between China and the United States and a tourist attraction.