In August this year, Shanghai writer Sun Ganlu's masterpiece "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" won the Mao Dun Literature Award. The heroic stories of the hidden front are once again presented to the reader in a thrilling text narrative, and the place where these stories take place is actually all around us, in the streets full of fireworks.
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On the occasion of the Shanghai Tourism Festival, on the afternoon of September 20, a citywalk (city walk) through the alleys and exploring the original heart road was opened in the Hengfu Style District.
From the former residence of Qian Zhuangfei in Lane 117 of Jiashan Road, to the Shanghai Office of the New Fourth Army in Lane 140 of Jiashan Road, the former site of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee at No. 66, Lane 291, Yongjia Road, and then to the pocket park Jialanting that is popular with residents after urban renewal, and the former site of the Nanguo Art Institute founded by Tian Han, No. 371 Yongjia Road, it is more than an hour of walking, the space span is not large, but the historical thickness and the wonderful story behind it are evocative.
"Hai Kao" A "lurking" past in an alley Photo by Zhang Wenjing
Qian Zhuangfei (1895-1935), a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang, together with Hu Di and Li Kenong, was known as the "Three Masters of Longtan" on the intelligence front. In early 1928, he came to Shanghai and was admitted to the Shanghai Radio Training Class with the first place, and then entered the Shanghai Radio Administration. At the end of 1929, he entered the Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Organization Department of the former Kuomintang Central Committee and served as Xu Enzeng's confidential secretary. On April 25, 1931, Qian Zhuangfei was not afraid of danger, risking his death to inform the Party Central Committee of the top-secret news of Gu Shunzhang's defection, making a significant contribution to safeguarding the security of the CPC Central Committee.
Wu Feipeng introduced that Qian Zhuangfei later mysteriously disappeared while crossing the Wujiang River south on the Long March, and after joint investigation by the Party History Department, it was confirmed that he died heroically on April 1, 1935. Today, in Bijie, Guizhou, the tomb of the martyr Qian Zhuangfei and the exhibition room of the martyr's deeds of Qian Zhuangfei have been named the "National Security Education Base", attracting future generations to admire and remember. Qian Zhuangfei's daughter Li Lili (formerly known as Qian Hao Hao) is a famous movie star in the thirties and forties of the last century, and has cooperated with Ruan Lingyu, Zheng Junli, Wang Renmei, etc., and in 1991, won the "Special Honor Award" of the China Film Performing Arts Society; Qian Zhuangfei's son Qian Jiang later directed the movie "Jinling Night", bringing his father's story to the screen.
Xinxing Shunli, where Qian Zhuangfei's former residence is located, was built in 1927 as a residence in Shikumenli. On August 17, 2015, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government announced Xinxing Shunli and the adjacent Yongsheng Li as outstanding historical buildings in Shanghai. On March 9, 2021, the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism announced that this is the first batch of immovable revolutionary cultural relics in Shanghai.
The former site of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, located at No. 66, Shenchengli, Lane 291, Yongjia Road, this three-story Shikumen house with brick and wood structure, the entrance is the patio, the entrance is the guest hall, the provincial party committee meeting was held in the guest hall downstairs. In order to adapt to the characteristics of secret work under the White Terror, every Party member has an open and legal social occupation and identity, takes root among the masses, and lurks for a long time.
At No. 371 Yongjia Road, not far from here, Tian Han (1898-1968), the lyricist of the March of the Volunteers, the founder of the Chinese revolutionary film and drama movement, and the pioneer of the opera reform movement, lived on the ground floor, founded the Nanguo Art Institute here, and served as the heads of literature, drama, painting and other departments with Ouyang Yuqian and Xu Beihong to promote the new drama movement.
Following the footsteps of "Shanghai School Urban Archaeology", walking through the well-connected lanes, the turbulence of the former hidden front seems to be around; The invisible wars, through the brick walls and alleys that have stood for a hundred years, tell the heroic stories that happened here. Unexpected legends, and unimaginable blood and tears, are in this neighborhood with a rich red history.
Reporter: Zhang Wenjing, Lu Haijie
Editor: Ning Pingying
Proofreader: Chen Haixiao
Reviewer: Wei Li