In January 2022, Toutiao Tracing partnered with the Mabian Yi Autonomous County Martyrs' Cemetery to help the martyrs buried in the cemetery find their loved ones.
This time, we will search for the following martyrs:
Martyr's name: Zeng Yonglin
Sacrifice time: 1956
Martyr's place of origin: Pingshan, Yibin, Sichuan
Position of the troop: Mabian Supply and Marketing Cooperative
Sacrifice: Electrocution sacrifice in the counterinsurgency struggle
In order to commemorate the People's Liberation Army, advanced ethnic elements and task force members who died in the liberation war and democratic reform of Mabian Yi Autonomous County, in January 1965, the autonomous county government concentrated the remains of martyrs in Guangming Village, built a martyrs' cemetery, and buried a total of 142 revolutionary martyrs.
On October 31, 1988, the cemetery was approved by the Leshan Municipal People's Government as a municipal martyrs' memorial protection unit. In 2012, with the consent of the autonomous county government and the civil affairs department at a higher level, the county development and reform bureau approved the project to relocate the martyrs' cemetery to group 4 of Hongchun Village in Laodong Township, and rebuilt the park and erected a monument to the admiration.
The newly built Martyrs' Cemetery covers an area of 22 acres, which is an urban green belt planning area, surrounded by water on three sides and facing Lotus Mountain. The tall archway stands at the entrance of the cemetery, solemn and majestic. Walking up the stone steps is a 1250-square-meter memorial square, lined with 20-meter-long relief walls, on which are carved the battle scenes of plausible soldiers, cadres of organs, and Yi activists uniting and forging ahead, vividly reproducing the real picture of the liberation period and the historical witness of the unity of the Yi and Han dynasties to liberate Mabian.
Directly above the square is the Monument to revolutionary martyrs, which is 14.2 meters high, representing the 42 revolutionary martyrs buried in the park, engraved with Comrade Mao Zedong's handwritten font: "The people's heroes are immortal." Along the square, walking along the 50-meter leisure path is 198 neatly arranged martyrs' tombs, during which 142 martyrs were actually buried, including 13 commanders and fighters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who sacrificed to liberate Mabian; 118 martyrs who sacrificed for the democratic reform and suppression of rebellions in ethnic minority areas; 1 people's Liberation Army soldier who sacrificed to maintain social order and save people's lives and property; and 9 people's armed police, cadres, workers, and militiamen There was 1 PLA soldier who died in the Sino-Vietnamese self-defense counterattack.
The newly built Martyrs' Cemetery is a sacred place for people to remember the heroes and mourn the heroic souls. In September 2013, it was rated as "Leshan Patriotism Education Base" by the Leshan Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Leshan Municipal Working Committee for Caring for the Next Generation.
Remember the deeds of the martyrs, comfort the heroic souls of the martyrs, inherit the red gene, and tell the red story well; the headline searcher launched the "Looking for the Descendants of the Martyrs" project, cooperating with the Mabian Yi Autonomous County Martyrs Cemetery and other institutions to jointly find relatives for the martyrs. In the past successful cases, the media relay to find the descendants of martyrs, played a great role, the headline search for people "looking for the descendants of martyrs" public welfare project team sincerely invited media from all over the country to participate in the "search for martyrs descendants media volunteer service group".
If there are clues about the descendants of the martyrs, or the media who wish to jointly participate in the search for the descendants of the martyrs, please contact the headline search (email: [email protected]; tel: 010-83434440, 010-83434485).