The Liulianling Martyrs Cemetery Monument is located in the Liulianling Martyrs Cemetery in Liulian Village, Hele Town, Wanning City, Hainan Province. In 1961, the People's Government of Wanning County established the Liulianling Martyrs Cemetery Monument to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs who died in the Great Revolution, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation in Hainan. On the left side of the monument in front of the monument, there is the "Martyrs Wall of Hainan Liulianling Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery", which is engraved with the names of 1,861 martyrs in Wanning City. The monument is made of steel, cement and granite, in the form of a square tower, the monument is 14 meters high, the monument base is 2.66 meters wide, the double pedestal, and the surrounding railings are divided into two layers. The front of the stele is engraved with Mao Zedong's handwriting: "Revolutionary martyrs are immortal" 8 big characters. The back of the monument is engraved with an inscription poem written on January 22, 1957 when Zhu De inspected Wanning, Hainan Province, as the Liulianling Revolutionary Base Area: "Colorful clouds appeared on Liulianling, the Red Flag Revolutionary Army was erected, and the people of Hainan made meritorious contributions in guerrilla warfare for more than 20 years." There is a granite tablet on the rear base of the monument, engraved with the words 1927.5-1950.5, symbolizing the 23-year red flag of the Liulianling Revolutionary Base in Hainan, and the inscription is as follows:
The majestic Liulian Ridge, reading the history of the Qiongya Revolution, and the solemn Martyrs' Garden, relying on the loyal soul through the ages. Recalling the smoke of war, blood and tears, the sons and daughters of Wanning faced internal and external troubles, terror and killing, fearless of strong enemies, put life and death out of the way, for the happiness of the people, for the liberation of Qiongdao, for national independence, threw their heads and shed blood, insisted on fighting on the isolated island, and created the 23-year red flag of Liulianling with firm faith and unyielding backbone, and created an immortal monument of the revolutionary spirit of Liulianling!
Time flies, the mountains and rivers are still there, the relics are still vague, the heroes have passed away; looking at the present, the sun and the moon are new, the meritorious deeds will last forever, and the spirit will run through the rainbow! Therefore, I would like to erect this monument to comfort the heroic souls, and remember the words of the people, and those who come will always remember!
The inscription on the monument reads as follows:
Comrades who have sacrificed their lives in the struggle for a long time in Liulianling:
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and in accordance with Chairman Mao's thinking on people's war, you have waged an indomitable struggle against enemies at home and abroad, and have made indelible contributions to the liberation of Hainan Island without falling the red flag for 23 years.
The people's heroes are immortal!
Wanning Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China
Wanning Municipal People's Government
It was established in the autumn of 1961
It was re-established in the spring of 2013
The inscription recalls the eventful years of the Wanning War, highly praises the achievements of the "23 years of the Red Flag of Liulianling", and clarifies the meaning of the monument of "comforting the heroic souls, remembering the words, and remembering the comers". Reading the inscription, the kapok cried blood, the pine and cypress were in tears, remembering the martyrs, and the thoughts were myriad, and I deeply felt that the red regime was not easy to come by.
Hainan was formerly known as Qiongya. In June 1926, the first congress of the Communist Party of China Qiongya was held in Zhulin Village, Haikou City, and the local committee of the Communist Party of China was elected, which was a great event of epoch-making significance in the history of the people's revolutionary struggle in Hainan. Since then, under the leadership of the party, the people of Hainan have embarked on a course of revolutionary struggle that has been fought bloodily, indomitable, and arduous.
The Liulianling Revolutionary Base Area is one of the longest and largest revolutionary base areas in Hainan under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and has made major contributions to the victory of the Qiongya New Democratic Revolution. In April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, and at the critical juncture of the revolution, the Qiongya Party organization resolutely took up the gun and established its first armed force, the Qiongya Rebel Revolutionary Army (later renamed the Qiongya Workers' and Peasants' Red Army). On September 23, in accordance with the spirit of the August 7 Conference, the Qiongya Special Committee of the Communist Party of China launched and led the battle of Coconut Village, fired the first shot of the Qiongya revolutionary armed resistance against the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, opened the prelude to the Qiongya Revolution and the general armed uprising, and began to establish the Liulianling Revolutionary Base Area. From June 1928 to 1932, the Kuomintang Cai Tingkai and Chen Hanguang successively "encircled and suppressed" the Liulianling Revolutionary Base Area. During this period, Yang Shanji and Wang Wenming, pioneers of the Qiongya Revolution who made great contributions to the establishment of the Qiongya Party organization, the revolutionary base area and the people's armed forces, all sacrificed, but the white terror and bloody massacre of the reactionaries did not shake the will of the revolutionaries, and the only 27 comrades on the Liulian Ridge still held on and persisted in the struggle in a difficult environment.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army occupied Wanning, wantonly killed, set fires, raped and looted, implemented the "three lights" policy, and created "uninhabited villages" and "houseless villages". The Wanning County CPC Committee resolutely implemented the party's policy of the anti-Japanese national united front and led the people in waging an extremely arduous struggle against Japan. In June 1940, an anti-Japanese armed short rifle team was formed by six fighters, including Fu Zaizhi and Fu Ming. With the cooperation of the anti-Japanese masses, after half a year of military operations against the Japanese, puppeteers, and stubborn troops, this unit expanded its military influence, and its ranks continued to grow and develop, and the ninth squadron of more than 100 people was built. By the summer of 1942, this people's anti-Japanese armed force had developed into the third detachment of more than 900 people, and became the main anti-Japanese force in the eastern district of Qiongya. The Liulianling base area became the base camp of the anti-Japanese struggle in the eastern district of Qiongya.
During the War of Liberation, from March 1946 to May 1947, the Kuomintang army repeatedly "cleared" the Liulianling Revolutionary Base Area, and the military and civilians in the Liulianling Revolutionary Base Area used the natural barrier on the ridge to maneuver with the enemy, and adopted guerrilla warfare such as mine warfare and sparrow warfare to smash the enemy's "clean-up" plan again and again. On April 23, 1950, the Chinese People's Liberation Army crossed the sea to fight, and on April 27, Wanning County was liberated.
From the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927 to the liberation of Hainan Island in 1950, the Hainan People's Revolutionary Armed Forces fought on an isolated island far away from the Party Central Committee, far away from the main force, with very little foreign aid, and a huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, creating a glorious miracle of the Red Flag not falling for 23 years. In particular, under the leadership of Feng Baiju and other communists, the people of Hainan, under the leadership of Feng Baiju and other communists, adhered to the party's ideological line of seeking truth from facts, carried out their work independently and independently in light of Hainan's actual conditions, handled a series of complicated and important issues well, survived the most arduous period in Hainan's revolutionary history, and wrote and interpreted their loyalty to the party with blood. At the beginning of 1949, Zhou Enlai, then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, pointed out when he met with Li Duqing, a representative of the Qiongya District Party Committee who reported on work in Xibaipo: The struggle in Hainan has persisted for more than 20 years, and the red flag has not fallen, which is a great achievement.
During the 23 years of revolutionary struggle, tens of thousands of people in more than 100 villages under the Liulian Mountains threw themselves into the revolution, and they were not afraid of sacrifice and went forward one after another, sacrificing more than 2,000 people one after another. They used their lives and blood to cast a magnificent picture scroll of revolutionary history, left behind the red memory of majestic mountains and rivers, established indelible historical feats, and tempered, sublimated, and condensed to form the Qiongya spirit of "firm faith, persistent struggle, seeking truth from facts, courage to take responsibility, national unity, and common struggle".