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Turning the first page of China's modern history, Humen sold cigarettes and played a righteous song of the modern Chinese people to resist foreign humiliation. Humen in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, still retains rusty ancient cannons, ancient forts that have been swept through vicissitudes, and smoke ponds soaked in sediment, all of which seem to tell the beginning of China's modern history full of war. Looking back at China's modern and contemporary history, the birth of the Communist Party of China has brought hope and strength to semi-colonial and semi-feudal China. Walk into the Humen Opium War Museum, let us learn the history together, review this unforgettable national history, and greet the centenary of the founding of the party.
In the 1830s, the import of opium increased dramatically, and the trade status of China and Britain completely changed. The opium epidemic not only caused a large outflow of silver, but also greatly damaged the health of the people. In order to crack down on the import of opium, Lin Zexu, the minister of Chincha, led officers and soldiers to destroy a large amount of opium in public at Humen Beach in Guangdong Province, which lasted for a total of 23 days. The sale of cigarettes at Humen became the fuse of the Opium War, and as a result, Britain launched the Opium War of aggression against China, blasted open the gates of China with naval cannons, forced the corrupt and backward Qing government to submit, and concluded the first unequal treaty in China's modern history that lost power and humiliated the country, the Sino-British Treaty of Nanking. The Opium War became the beginning of China's modern history, after which Western invaders flocked to china and launched one war of aggression after another with great ferocity, pushing China step by step into the abyss of semi-colonization.
Walking into the Opium War Museum in Humen Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, the museum restores many scenes of national heroes such as Lin Zexu, Deng Tingzhen and Guan Tianpei engaged in fierce battles with British colonists, and the roar of artillery fire in modern warfare seems to be in your ears. Since its official opening to the public in 1958, the Opium War Museum has become the most visited museum in Guangdong. It is not only a thematic museum, but also responsible for managing and protecting the former sites of Lin Zexu's Xuyan Pond and Humen Fort and carrying out patriotic education. The Opium War Museum has carried out various anti-drug special education and modern history education for young people, and has become a national patriotic education demonstration base.
On the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of the Communist Party of China, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has actively carried out various party history study activities of "Striving for a Hundred Years", leading party members and cadres to draw wisdom and strength from party history, inherit red genes, and promote the "14th Five-Year Plan" to start a good situation and make a good start. Based on the strategic opportunities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Dongguan City has continuously innovated ways and methods to combine the study and education of party history with doing practical things for the masses, and once again embarked on a new journey.
Looking back at the past, the sale of cigarettes in Humen opened the prelude to China's anti-aggression struggle in modern times, and the people of the Chinese constantly accumulated strength in the long historical river of resisting foreign humiliation. Based on the present, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has opened a new chapter in the Chinese dream with high-quality development. Let us draw strength from the history of the country and the history of the party and continue the spiritual bloodline of the revolutionary struggle. Learning from the past, we always remember that the correct path is not easy to come by, and the relay runs towards national rejuvenation. (Reporters Zhou Yu, Sun Bing, He Weiqi, Chen Huiting, Liu Fan, Zhang Yifan)