"The First Shot of the White Sand Uprising": Inheriting the Spirit of Struggle and Continuing the Red Bloodline
Under the towering Parrot Ridge, the scenery is beautiful and the people are brilliant, and the commemorative statues in the memorial garden of the old site of the "First Shot of the Baisha Uprising" stand majestically, imprinted with the red genes of the old revolutionary areas of that year, which makes people awe-inspired.
"The First Shot of the White Sands Uprising" Memorial Garden
78 years ago, it was here that the Compatriots of the Li and Miao nationalities in Hainan sounded their horns and fired the "first shot of the Baisha Uprising" with rudimentary weapons such as powder guns, creating conditions for the establishment of the revolutionary base area in the center of Wuzhishan and the liberation of Hainan.
Exhibition room
Walking into the exhibition room, you can see the powder guns, sharp knives, horn powder canisters, grenades, iron forks, as well as rebel flags, marching rice bags, cloth shoes, etc. that heroically killed the enemy, looking at this precious old revolutionary object, following the narrator Wang Hongni's story, and his thoughts were pulled back to the era of war...
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"The First Shot of the White Sand Uprising": Inheriting the Spirit of Struggle and Continuing the Red Bloodline
Uprising ahead
The "first shot" was fired first in Xiangmin Village
After the Japanese invaders occupied Qiongya, the Kuomintang diehards, in order to preserve their strength, gradually retreated from Ding'an County to the Wuzhi Mountains. They brutally ruled and oppressed the local Li and Miao people, and the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were like cattle feathers, which aroused great anger among the people.
In 1942, Wang Guoxing and other Li leaders used Hongmao Township as a base to carry out the brewing and co-ordination of the uprising. Around the Spring Festival in 1943, Wang Guoxing held two meetings of li chiefs in Hongmao Township at Delun Mountain and Shizhai Mountain, and invited The Miao leader Deng Mingren to participate in it to discuss the armed uprising. The meeting decided to launch an uprising on August 17, and unanimously elected Wang Guoxing as the commander-in-chief of the uprising.
At the beginning of August 1943, the Kuomintang Baisha County Government held a meeting of the bao chiefs of the first district of Baisha, which limited the security to pay all the taxes and materials stipulated by the 15th of that month, and also to draw strong ding, when there was not enough, the only son also had to draw, and the lack of a quota had to pay 500 pieces of Guangyang.
Faced with such a situation, Baisha and Yacha Township chiefs Wang Yafu, Wang Yayi, Fu Yayou, wang Dingjiang, and others immediately met to discuss countermeasures, and unanimously agreed that an uprising should be launched in advance on August 12. In this way, on August 12, 4,000 Dori and Miao people in Baisha, Yacha, Yuanmen and other townships, under the leadership of Wang Yafu and others, rose up and attacked the Kuomintang stationed in Xiangmin Village and Yinmei Village with primitive weapons such as bows and arrows, hook knives, and powder guns, known as the "first shot of the Baisha Uprising". Since then, the prelude to the uprising has been unveiled.
From August 12 to 26, the Baisha uprising lasted for half a month, and more than 20,000 Li and Miao people participated in the uprising, killing and wounding more than 300 Kuomintang military and political personnel, and seizing 1 machine gun, more than 90 rifles, and a batch of ammunition and materials. Almost all of the Kuomintang military and government organs and troops stationed in Baisha County were expelled from the country, and the uprising won a preliminary victory.
Look for the Communist Party
Turn over a new chapter in the struggle for national liberation consciously
More than a month later, the diehard Kuomintang faction, unwilling to accept defeat, launched a counterattack against the insurrectionary masses. Since this uprising was a spontaneous uprising of the Li masses, lacking a correct program of struggle and a strict fighting organization, with rudimentary weapons and insufficient ammunition, under the attack of the superior strength of the Kuomintang army, after a period of resistance, the troops suffered heavy casualties. The leaders of the uprising, Wang Guoxing, Wang Yujin, Wang Yafu, Wang Dingjiang, and Wang Gonghu, in the absence of all aid, led the rebel masses to retreat to the Parrot Ridge and Shihan Mountain to persist in the struggle.
In the days of the struggle, the leaders of the uprising and the masses remembered the rumors about the Communist Party in peacetime and decided that they were a poor man's army and that in order to save the Li people, they must find the Communist Party. In October 1943, Wang Guoxing sent Ji Youli, Wang Wencong, and Wang Gaoding to look for the Communists. It took more than a month and all kinds of hardships to find the CPC Lindanlian County Party Committee and the county anti-Japanese democratic government at the junction of Danxian and Lingao.
Since then, the Compatriots of the Li and Miao nationalities in the Wuzhi Mountains, under the leadership of the Communist Party, have turned a new page in the struggle for national liberation consciously.
Consolation to the martyrs
The construction of a memorial garden inherits the spirit of patriotism
The Baisha Uprising was a just and great struggle of the Li and Miao compatriots against oppression and for survival and freedom. It inherits and carries forward the glorious revolutionary tradition and the arduous spirit of struggle of the Li people against rape, and is of far-reaching historical significance in the history of the revolutionary struggle of ethnic minorities throughout the country.
Over the past 78 years, the spirit of the Baisha Uprising has always encouraged the sons and daughters of all ethnic groups in Baisha to brave the strong enemy, unite and fight hard, and bravely move forward, which is a valuable spiritual wealth of the people of all ethnic groups in Baisha.
In order to commemorate the glorious history of the "first shot" fired by the Baisha Uprising, the Baisha Li Autonomous County Cpc Committee and the county people's government built a memorial garden at the site of the "First Shot of the Baisha Uprising" on the site of the first shot of the Baisha Uprising in that year, xiangmin Village, in order to comfort the martyrs, educate future generations to inherit the revolutionary legacy, and always maintain revolutionary integrity.
Wang Hongni, a narrator, told reporters that since the official completion of the memorial garden, every important festival, many units in all regions of the province will come to visit the memorial garden in an organized manner, commemorate the great achievements of the martyrs, inherit the culture of the Red Revolution, carry forward the spirit of patriotism, further strengthen the confidence of not forgetting the original intention and creating the future, and arouse the pride and ambition of loving the party, the country, and the hometown.