Mei Lanfang contributions to the earthquake in Japan since Thanksgiving

Sichuan to shake the earth shocked Japan, with considerable media coverage for reporting the disaster areas, but also introduced readers to many Japanese earthquake in China's sympathy and concern and spoke highly of Japan's contribution to China's rescue team. Recently, China and Japan on humanitarian assistance between the two countries, the Japanese people of insight in the newspapers write articles, in particular, praised Beijing Opera master Mei Lanfang for the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake义演launched, of which 10,000 donation to the ocean donations To the Japanese Imperial Theatre's reconstruction. Story of this period of history, the Japanese celebrities Daisaku Ikeda expressed the deep respect of Mei Lanfang. He said: "When Meng was informed that Japan's Kanto earthquake occurred, to be held in China义演for the relief of the victims of Japan and visiting Japan several times in the second year of performance, to encourage action by the affected people of Japan, which is A section must not forget the full Enqing history. " Kobe Overseas Chinese to settle the famous writer Mr. Chen Shunchen "Yomiuri Shimbun" published an article entitled "Feng Yue same day," the column, he wrote: "At the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake losses from overseas to have the Jiuyuan Chuan Arrived in the port, the ship arrived in the first of which is China's new-ming, and contributions to the Japanese is the first person to master Mei Lanfang. " Japan's Kanto earthquake occurred on September 1, 1923, magnitude 7.9, strong waves coverage Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Shizuoka, Saitama, Yamanashi Prefecture, such as a six counties, 90,001 thousand people dead, 10,000 missing Three thousand people, completely damaged housing about 470,000, causing direct economic losses that year in Japan and about the same as the average income is four times the national budget around