Editor's note: These women, living in the countryside now, had made special contributions to Anti-Japanese War. Having suffered from pains of wars, they witnessed and promotes the history.

China commemorated 69th anniversary of victory in the anti-Japanese war on Sept. 3, 2014. This is a moment to celebrate and to stay alert. A series of women shared their experience, indignation and sorrow.

Zhao Yulan (CNS/Wu Ting)

Zhao Yulan joined the Children's League at 10. “I did not know exactly what the league was for. I was only aware that I had to carry messages for grown-ups,” says Zhao.

At that time, regulations required that Zhao had to keep her identification as a league member secret, so that none of her family, not even her parents, knew what was she doing.

Later Zhao became a member of the underground. In order to avoid being discovered by Japanese soldiers, Zhao and her colleagues usually met at midnight. Zhao lied to her husband that she was going to visit neighbors so that she could get out without being questioned. Her husband often complained about her absences. It was not until the liberation that he discovered that Zhao was a party member.

A group of armed landlords returned to her village, killed a party member and interrogated Zhao fiercely as to whether she was a party member, their bayonets in her face. Fearing for her life, Zhao managed to keep her silence.

As she was being threatened by the bayonets, the leader of the armed group, an apprentice of Zhao’s uncle who was a skilled martial arts practitioner, happened to pass by. He said that Zhao was his niece and “was a child who did not know anything”. His intervention saved Zhao's life.