In December 1937, at the beginning of fall of Nanjing city, the refugees like tidewater flooded to escape including thirty thousand unarmed soldiers and twenty thousand civilians, and gathered on the beach of Yanziji in order to cross the river in the north. Unfortunately, they were closed off by the Japanese warship, then were surrounded by a large body of Japanese armies following the sweeping by machine-gun. All of them were massacred accounting to over fifty thousand.

This gravestone is located in the Yanziji Park near the Yangtze River.