Along the Tunlan River, head west to Guantou Village, Chakou Township, Gujiao City, which is the former site of the Eighth District of Jinsui. In the winter of 1942, due to the Japanese army's encirclement and division of the periphery of the Jinsui Eighth Sub-district and the brutal "sweeping" of the surrounding guerrilla areas, the party, government, and military organs of the Jinsui Eighth Sub-district were finally collectively moved to Guantou Village. The Eighth Sub-district of Jinsui is the southern gate of northwestern Jin, and is the main traffic route leading to Yan'an, Jin-Cha-Ji, Jin-Ji-Luyu, East China, and Central China Anti-Japanese Base Areas. As a barrier to protect Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, the Eighth Sub-district of Jinsui played a major role during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, successively transporting personnel and materials between Shaanxi, Gansu, and Jin-Cha-Ji, Jin-Ji Luyu, East China, and Central China. According to statistics, Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi and other central leading comrades, as well as more than 3,000 deputies to the Seventh National Congress and other cadres were safely escorted, and they were known as the "iron and steel corridor". Today, the smoke of gunfire that filled the air over the Eighth Division of Jinsui had long since drifted with the wind, but the loud military trumpets of the past still seemed to echo.
"Victory Fulcrum" Three Changing Sites, Passionately Defending the "Steel Corridor"
The former site of the Eighth Route Army's office in Jin is the site of the Anti-Japanese War
Green brick and gray tiles, the courtyard is deep. Surrounded by high-rise buildings on Baling Street in Xinghualing District, Taiyuan City, a small courtyard is quietly telling a period of glory. Once the eighth route army's office in Jin, the courtyard is now a patriotic education base in Shanxi Province and a red tourist attraction.
The Eighth Route Army's office in Jin was located in Taiyuan Sanyi. As early as October 1936, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China officially sent Peng Xuefeng as a plenipotentiary to Jin, and later established a secret liaison station in the backyard of the Christian Youth Association on Shouyimen Street in Taiyuan; in March 1937, in order to facilitate the use of radio, Peng Xuefeng rented a courtyard house in Taiyuan Xinmancheng Street under a pseudonym, called "Peng Mansion" to the outside world; in late August 1937, with the increasing workload of the liaison station, the number of personnel in the Northern Bureau continued to increase, and the liaison station was moved to Baling South Street. In November 1937, Taiyuan fell, and the office in Jin was moved to Liucun Town, a western suburb of Linfen. With the development of the situation in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the office in Jin was ordered to be abolished in February 1938.
At present, there is a memorial hall in the former site of the Eighth Route Army Office in Jin, with a total of 4 exhibition areas, which are mainly pictures and text introductions. Walking into the first exhibition room, I was greeted by the five big characters of "The Fulcrum of Victory". The Eighth Route Army's office in Jinjin consolidated and developed the anti-Japanese national united front with a flexible and diverse art of struggle, and made immortal contributions to the Eighth Route Army's march to Shanxi, the realization of the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation in the War of Resistance, and the opening up of anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines. In addition, there are some precious historical images and historical artifacts donated by collectors.
In 2019, Taiyuan City identified the protection, repair and display and utilization project of the old site of the Eighth Route Army Office in Jinjin as a key project, and the Taiyuan Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau took the lead in completing the repair, allocating 425 cultural relics and opening them to the public free of charge on September 25 of that year. Since its opening, the number of visitors has exceeded 100,000.
The Memorial Hall of the Former Site of the Eighth Route Army Office in Jinjin undertakes the tasks and functions of publicizing revolutionary deeds, carrying forward the spirit of patriotism, and inheriting the red gene, and has become a good red revolution education base, and has carried out hundreds of party sex education activities, youth education activities, revolutionary traditional education activities, etc.
Taiyuan Huangpo Martyrs Cemetery The west bank of the Fenhe River commemorates heroes and martyrs
In the west of Yijing Village, on the west bank of the Fenhe River in Taiyuan, more than 400 revolutionary martyrs are buried. They sacrificed their precious lives for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Battle of Taiyuan Hexi, which deserves everyone's memory and remembrance.
The place where the revolutionary martyrs sleep quietly, that is, the Huangpo Martyrs Cemetery in Taiyuan City, was founded in 1959, and is the national defense education base of Shanxi Province, the patriotic education demonstration base of Shanxi Province, the party history education base of Shanxi Province, etc., as well as the first batch of provincial red cultural sites, the moral education bases listed in more than 30 primary and secondary schools in Taiyuan City, and the key scenic spots of "Red Tour , Taiyuan Trip".
After more than 40 years, the cemetery has built 407 marble martyrs' tombs, 1 Hanbai Jade Martyrs' Monument, 2 large-scale exhibition halls, and 2 patriotic celebrity calligraphy corridors. At the same time, more than 40,000 trees, 2,500 square meters of lawn and 1,500 meters of hedges were planted in the cemetery. Today's Huangpo Martyrs Cemetery in Taiyuan City, pine and cypress are evergreen, full of flowers, pavilions and pavilions, reflecting each other; elegant style, beautiful scenery.
In addition, with the development of decades, the park has been built into a comprehensive visiting and education position mainly to praise martyrs. The main platforms for praise and visiting are martyrs' monuments and memorial squares, celebrity calligraphy monument galleries, Wan bolin children's anti-Japanese memorial hall, liberation taiyuan memorial hall, liberation taiyuan documentary memorial wall, national defense education exhibition hall, heroes and martyrs basic information and deeds rolling display column, heroes and martyrs protection law and interpretation of publicity column.
In recent years, the cemetery has received an average of more than 36,000 people per year to carry out patriotic education, revolutionary traditional education, national defense education, party sex education and other practical activities such as patriotic education, revolutionary traditional education, national defense education, and party sex education. It has played an active role in strengthening moral cultivation, party spirit, patriotic education, and carrying forward the red culture and inheriting the revolutionary spirit of the vast number of cadres, the masses, primary and secondary school students, and patriotic personages.
Jinsui Eighth Sub-district Organ Memorial Hall "Steel Corridor" was born in the fire
The Eighth Subdistrict is the southern gate of the Jinsui base area and the main communication route from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region to the anti-Japanese base areas. As part of the anti-Japanese base area of the Eighth Sub-district, Guantou Village, Gujiaochakou Township, where the organs of the Eighth Sub-district of Jinsui is located, has left a page of great color in the history of the Eighth Sub-district. Here, the military and people of the Eighth Sub-district went forward and fought bloodily, completed the arduous tasks of transporting the wounded, grain, ammunition, documents, and other arduous tasks, and safely escorted more than 3,000 central leaders and other central leaders and other cadres such as Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, Chen Yi, Liu Bocheng, and Deng Xiaoping, and were praised by the party Central Committee as a "steel corridor."
The former site of the Jinsui Eighth Sub-district office was originally a village temple, called "Leaving the Courtyard Temple" in ancient times, and was founded in the Ming Dynasty. In order to protect this revolutionary site, the local government established a memorial. The exhibition area includes 7 exhibition halls, including 6 in the memorial hall courtyard and 1 in the village Kannon Hall. The theme of the exhibition in the 7 exhibition halls is "Red Juntou Jinsui Military Soul", and the content revolves around the red battle course of the eighth sub-district, which is divided into "Birth in the Flames", "Growth in Battle", "Jinsui One Banner", "For New China", "Stars Shining Border Area", "Eternal Feelings" and "Guantou Rectification Site".
In 2020, in accordance with the principle of "protecting cultural relics, retaining the original appearance, and upgrading the grade", the local government upgraded the memorial hall of the jinsui eighth sub-district organ, aiming to re-create a new type of pavilion with novel and active forms, diverse means of exhibition and accurate political positioning through the upgrading of the original exhibition.
Nowadays, it has become the national defense education base of Shanxi Province, the party history education base of Shanxi Province, the patriotism education base of Taiyuan City, etc., and it is also a provincial and municipal cultural relics protection unit, and has been included in the on-site teaching point of party sex education in Taiyuan City for centralized construction.
Miyu Town Battle Site Annihilation Battle famous in the Jinsui Border Area
In the history of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a war of annihilation took place in Miyu Town, Loufu County, Taiyuan City, and was well-known in the Jinsui Border Region.
In 1940, the Japanese army that invaded Shanxi readjusted its military deployment, formulated a plan to invade the anti-Japanese base areas in northwestern Jin, and mobilized troops from all walks of life to launch a "sweep." When He Long, commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, learned of this situation, he transferred the 358th Brigade and surrounded the enemy in the area of Miyu Township. After three days and two nights of bloody fighting, the invading enemy army was successfully eliminated.
In 1995, General Yang Xiushan, who had participated in and commanded the battle of Miyu Town, returned to Lou Fu and inscribed the name of the "Miyu Town Battle Monument". Before the Qingming Festival in 1997, the mausoleum of the revolutionary martyrs in Miyu Town was built on the martyrs' rock in Xishan Mountain, Guolian Village, where the bones of martyrs were buried. After that, on the basis of the original monument, the Miyu Town Battle Monument Monument Pavilion was built. In 2003, the "Tomb of General Yang Xiushan" was built in the cemetery. In 2005, a stone sculpture of the heroic image of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army was built, "Monument to the Anti-Japanese Martyrs of Lou Fu County".
Guolian Village still retains the battle site of Miyu Town, which is composed of 8 brick and stone caves and brick and wood structure gates, and the bullet craters and scorch marks on the site are still clearly visible, attracting tourists who love red culture to trace the red mark of Taiyuan.
Source: Shanxi Youth Daily (Picture is a file picture)