In December 1937, after the Japanese invading troops occupied Nanjing city, a large quantities of unarmed soldiers and innocent civilians near the Shangxinhe totaling twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty people were all slaughtered here by the Japanese troops. The massacre means adopted by the Japanese invading troops was extremely cruel, including drowning, burning alive, chopped by stab and shot by machine-gun. The Japanese invading troops used extremely cruel and infrequence means, from women to young girls, all first raped and then killed. So made the corpses accumulate like mountain and the blood into river. After the civilians met with the disaster, two lumber merchants Sheng Shizheng and Chang Kaiyun from Hunan province witnessed the miserable situation and couldn't bear the feeling, so buried a batch of corpses through individual donation. Afterward, from January to May in 1938, Nanjing Red Cross buried fourteen batches of victims' corpses adding up to 8459 near Shangxinhe.

This gravestone is located at Shangxinhe town in the western Nanjing.

The picture shows the clustered graveyards in the north influx of Shangxinhe.

The burial ground at Erdao Gengzi near Shangxinhe.

The burial ground at Erdao Gengzi near Shangxinhe.

According to the investigation by court-martial for Japanese war criminals in 1946, during December 1937, the invading Japanese troops slaughtered 28,730 Chinese innocent civilians.