Don't forget your original intention to follow the party
In all historical periods of the new-democratic revolution, Southern Hubei has always been an important area for the CPC to lead the masses of the people in carrying out revolutionary struggle activities. In the early days of the founding of the Communist Party and during the Period of the Great Revolution, grass-roots party organizations of the Communist Party of China were successively established in various counties in southern Hunan Province, and the revolutionary movement of workers and peasants rose vigorously. During the period of the agrarian revolutionary war, the autumn harvest rebellion in southern Hunan fired the first shot of the national autumn harvest uprising, and successively established the first batch of county-level red regimes in the country, such as the Tongcheng County Labor and Peasants' Government, the Tongshan County Workers' and Peasants' Government Committee, and the Puxi County Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Government. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the anti-Japanese democratic base area in southern Hubei was an important part of the Eyu Border Region, during which a relatively independent Xiang'e-Gansu Border Region was built, which became the rear base for the Southward Detachment of the Eighth Route Army to advance into Xiangyue and return to the Central Plains. During the Liberation War, the underground Communist Party organization in southern Hunan mobilized the masses to wage a struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries, collected enemy intelligence, transported military supplies, actively participated in the war, and cooperated with the People's Liberation Army in liberating the counties of southern Hunan. During the period of the new-democratic revolution, more than 300,000 revolutionary volunteers in southern Hunan (including Yangxin) successively sacrificed their precious lives, including 35 leading cadres at and above the prefectural and divisional levels, who made tremendous sacrifices for the victory of the new-democratic revolution and wrote a glorious page in the history of the Chinese revolution.
In order to carry forward the revolutionary spirit, inherit the red gene, and promote the study and education of party history, a number of revolutionary memorial sites in Xianning City are specially introduced for the vast number of party members and cadres, young people, and all sectors of society to study and pay respects.
01. Site of the Battle of Siqiao in the Northern Expedition
In late August 1926, the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army advanced into Hubei, and Ye Ting led the Fourth Independent Regiment to defeat the main force of Wu Peifu of the Beiyang Army, which was guarding at Tingsi Bridge, with more than 20,000 troops, and took advantage of the victory to go straight down to Xianning County, which played a decisive role in the Northern Expeditionary Army's capture of Wuhan. After the victory of the battle, the fallen soldiers were buried on the west hill of the bridgehead.
The site of the Battle of Siqiao in the Northern Expedition covers an area of 200,000 square meters, and one of the key protected areas is Majia Mountain and the other is Ta'an Mountain. Majiashan covers an area of 20,000 square meters and has a gate tower, a martyrs' memorial pavilion, a monument, a tomb and an exhibition room. Covering an area of 180,000 square meters, there are old iron bridges and ancient stone bridges, pillboxes, forts, forts, trenches, and cat ear holes, which were once an important battlefield for the two sides to fight and compete during the Northern Expedition.
The new memorial hall of the Northern Expedition to Tingsiqiao Battle Site is located in Tingsiqiao Town, covering an area of 6 acres and a construction area of 1400 square meters.
On January 13, 1988, the site of the Battle of Siqiao was announced by the State Council as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units; in 1998, it was approved by the Hubei Provincial People's Government as the patriotic education base of the whole province; and in 2002, it was named the National Defense Education Base of Hubei Province.
Address: Xianning City, Xian'an District, 15 kilometers southwest of the city Tingsi Bridge Town west
02. He Gongwei Martyrs Memorial Park
He Gongwei (1915-1941) was one of the leaders of the "12.9" student movement in Wuhan. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1936. He successively served as a member of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee and secretary of the Wuchang District CPC Committee, secretary of the central county party committee of Xianning (now Xian'an District, Xianning City), secretary of the CPC Special Committee of The Southern Hubei District, acting secretary of the CPC Xiang'e West District Party Committee, and secretary of the CPC Exi Special Committee. In 1941, he was arrested for betrayal by traitors. In prison, he waged an indomitable struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries. On November 17 of the same year, he was secretly killed by the enemy at Fangjiaba in Enshi. After the news of He Gongwei's sacrifice reached Yan'an, all walks of life in Yan'an held a solemn memorial service in the Great Hall of the Eighth Route Army. The Central Organization Department and the Central Youth Commission sent a message to the League, calling it "a model for all young people."
Completed in September 1990, the Ho Kung Wai Martyrs Memorial Park is located on a hill in the middle of Nakata, about 150 meters from Ho Kung Wai's former residence. Originally a small local garden, next to the then Nakata Elementary School, Xiaoshanbao was the place where Ho Gongwei read and played when he was a child. There is a monument, a memorial pavilion, and a forest of steles with inscriptions from Leaders such as Wang Renzhong, Fang Yi, and Guo Shushen.
In 2009, Xian'an District underwent a large-scale renovation of the memorial garden on the original site. On November 17, 2002, the former residence of He Gongwei was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit of the province by the Hubei Provincial People's Government.
Address: Xianning City, Xian'an District Guihua Town Baidun Village Zhongtian Fa (13 groups)
03. Qian's Heroic Martyrs Memorial Hall
Qian Ying Road, Xiaoqiao Village, Hot Spring Office, Xian'an District, was founded in 2007 and opened free of charge in January of the following year, and is the only folk memorial hall in Xianning with the theme of patriotic education, mainly introducing the deeds of qian Ying and nearly 60 other Qian revolutionary ancestors.
Qian Ying (1903.5 - 1973.7), formerly known as Qian Xiuying, Jingxia, also known as Han Song, was pseudonym peng Yougu, Chen Ping, etc. He was born in Maqiao Lijiazhuang, Xianning County, Hubei Province (now Xiaoqiao Village, Wenquan Subdistrict, Xian'an District, Xianning City). At the age of 10, he went to Qianjiang Zhoujiaji with his father to study. In 1922, in order to rebel against his parents' arranged marriage, he secretly ran to Wuhan alone, thus embarking on the road of revolution. In 1931, Qian Ying was sent to the Honghu Revolutionary Base Area, where he successively served as secretary general of the Standing Committee of the Trade Union of the Soviet Union, director of the Organization Department of the Qianjiang County CPC Committee, and secretary of the county party committee. In 1933, she was arrested and imprisoned for informing traitors, and in prison, she and Shuai Mengqi and Xia Zhixu organized and led the prisonmates to carry out 4 hunger strikes and won victories. Released from prison in September 1937, he successively served as the director of the Organization Department of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the acting secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and the director of the Organization Department of the Chongqing Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. After the founding of New China, he successively served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Central and Southern Bureau of the CPC, director of the Organization Department, deputy secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, and director of the Supervision Department of the State Council.
The memorial covers an area of 5.3 acres, with a construction area of 800 square meters, and the first phase of investment is about 1 million yuan (16,000 people surnamed Xian'an and Chibi Qian people donated about 800,000 yuan, the provincial finance allocated 150,000 yuan, and the relevant units sponsored 80,000 yuan). On the second floor of the antechamber of the memorial hall, the upper left mural publicizes Qian Ying's deeds, and the right side introduces Qian Yishi's deeds. The lower level introduced the deeds of more than 60 revolutionary martyrs such as Qian Yuanjing. The middle hall is an activity hall, which is composed of yanglian, plaque, family training and Qian Ying's resume. The back hall is the Wuyue Qian Clan Cultural Hall.
In the past 12 years since its establishment, as a revolutionary traditional education base and a red tourism base, the Qian's Heroic Martyrs' Shrine has received nearly 50,000 visitors from all over the country, and has become an activity venue for new party members to take the oath and old party members to "not forget the original heart, keep in mind the mission" theme education, and in 2018, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection will take the Qian's Heroic Martyrs Memorial Hall as a clean government education base, which is well received by the society.
Address: Xianning Xian'an District Hot Spring Office Xiaoqiao Village Qianying Road
Source: Xianning Historical Research Center