This paper focuses on the death of Zhang Jilun and his subsequent burial event to discuss the collective memory of the martyrs journalist how to be shaped,shared,inherited and reconstructed in contemporary China. In the specific context of Anti-Japanese War, the death of Zhang Jilun became an arena, all forces play in it. At the same time, Zhang Jilun’s funeral ceremonies also ?68 become a channel sharing and strengthening the collective memory. On this basis, Zhang Jilun is accepted as a symbol of patriotic journalist.In contemporary China,the collective memory of Zhang Jilun’s death is also being inherited, updated and reconstructed through mass media, journalists'association, local governments, and Universities.