37 to 45 years, eight years of anti-Japanese war. The Japanese occupation of Yantai also used the puppet Manchu rule.
1945 On August 5, the Japanese government announced its unconditional surrender. At dawn on the 24th, Yantai was successfully liberated. Yantai was liberated, killing more than 500 Japanese puppet troops/KLOC-0, and 89 Eighth Route Army soldiers died heroically. In order to commemorate the anti-Japanese heroes who died in the liberation of Yantai, the Yantai Municipal People's Government, according to the instructions of the Jiaodong Administrative Office, built the "Anti-Japanese Martyrs Monument" on the west side of the Yantai Mountain Martyrs Temple in May 1946. The monument is 8 meters high, in the shape of Wuling cylinder, and is made of ivory granite. Just south of the monument are the eight red characters "Immortal National Heroes", and the names of 89 martyrs are engraved on the back. 1July 6, 979, this monument was announced as a municipal cultural relics protection unit. Now it is the base for Yantai military and civilians to carry out patriotism and revolutionary tradition education.