On the morning of November 13, 2018, the special activity of "Reviewing History, Striving Forward -- the 80th Anniversary of Changsha Wenxi Fire" was held in the Centennial Changsha Old Photos Exhibition Hall, Nanping 1st Building, Tianxin Pavilion.This event is hosted by Sina Hunan.

Centenarian Zhang Jingwu (who witnessed the Wenxi fire) was invited to lay flowers and observe a moment of silence under the alarm bell on the west gate of Tianxin Pavilion.In 1931, he recalled, the family moved to Changsha, where they lived at 10 Baisha Street. In 1934, they enrolled in Changjun Middle School.On November 1, 1938, Wuhan had fallen, the Japanese army had captured Yueyang, the Chinese and Japanese armies in Yueyang Xinwall River confrontation, Changsha in danger.Zhang Jingwu and more than 200 students volunteered to form the "Hunan Student Field Service Group", which Zhang Zhizhong renamed the "Hunan Provincial People's Anti-Japanese War Unified Committee Working Cadres Brigade".On the evening of November 12th, Zhang Jingwu prepared to return to the station in Hexi after the working cadre brigade meeting in Changsha Education Association (now the Agriculture Department).The fire broke out during a short stay at Juzizhou.The Tianxin Pavilion, the tallest building in Changsha at that time, caught fire immediately, and in less than two hours, the whole city was ablaze.Later, Chen Xianshu and Liang Xiaojin from Hunan Institute of Literature and History, and Liu Su from Hunan University School of Architecture, discussed the tragic fire 80 years ago from three aspects: the background and process of the fire, the cultural and economic losses, the buildings destroyed by the fire and the reconstruction after the disaster.The activity lasted for one and a half hours. After the conversation, the organizer collected three questions from offline to ask the three guests about this topic, and the three teachers also gave detailed answers.