On May 21, Zhao Changfei, an 88-year-old veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, left Qibao's nursing home early in the morning and rushed with his family to The Chunshen Cultural Square in Minhang, xinzhuang. At the scene, he saw hundreds of red literary and artistic works, including the portrait of the martyr Gu Guantao, his father-in-law, and the old man was excited.
The son-in-law and grandson of martyr Gu Guantao looked up at the portrait of the martyr.
On the same day, the 9th "A Hundred Flowers Blooming in the New Era" series of cultural activities and the Shanghai Minhang Red Culture and Art Exhibition in Minhang District opened. The exhibition launched a total of 83 groups of nearly 100 works, divided into three parts: the first part is "Remembering the Glory of the Glory Years and Telling the Red Story", which is mainly the reproduction of historical scenes, historical events, and memorial sites; the second part is "Tribute to the Heroic Martyrs and Dialogue with History", mainly the poems, family letters, portraits of martyrs, etc.; the third part is "Passing on the Century-old Style, Building a Thousand Autumns and Great Causes", mainly the inheritance of the descendants of the heroes and the commemoration activities of all sectors of society.
According to reports, Minhang is located in the suburbs of Shanghai, with a special cultural environment and historical accumulation, and the resources of red culture are very rich. In different revolutionary historical periods, there have been many legendary stories of revolutionary struggle in Minhang, many major historical events in revolutionary struggle, and 288 revolutionary heroes have emerged, which is an indispensable and important part of Shanghai's red culture.
In order to greet the centenary of the founding of the party, the Minhang District Federation of Literature and Art began to prepare for the "Shanghai Minhang Red Culture and Art Exhibition" in the second half of last year, through excavating, collecting and combing the red cultural resources in the Minhang area for artistic creation, using fine arts, calligraphy, photography, paper-cutting, audio, video and other art forms to express them, in order to praise the history of the party, pay tribute to revolutionary martyrs, carry forward red culture, and inherit red genes.
All the works on display are original, the theme is clear, the art is diverse, and the overall concept is full of creativity. Each work is equipped with a detailed text description, revealing the provenance and historical connotation of the work, and the audio and video can also be viewed by scanning the two-dimensional code.
It is understood that after the exhibition in Chunshen Cultural Square, the Shanghai Minhang Red Culture and Art Exhibition will also tour the streets of all towns in the district, which will become a vivid classroom for Minhang citizens to learn and relive the history of the party.
The opening of this exhibition marks the official opening of the ninth "A Hundred Flowers Blooming in the New Era" series of cultural activities in Minhang District, and will successively launch 28 literary and artistic performances, 20 art exhibitions and cultural seminars, and 10 art lectures. According to reports, since last year, the organizers have successively created and arranged five Shanghai operas around the red theme of Minhang, such as "Flying Over the Seventh Bridge" and "Meet Meijia Alley", as well as the drama "Ming Qiang Red Rhyme" and the paper-cut shadow play "Surprise Attack on Hu min Road." On June 18 this year, a concentrated exhibition and performance of "The Centenary of the Founding of the Party, Minhang Has a Drama" will be held at the Zhuanqiao Cultural and Sports Center, and then tour the streets of various towns to publicize the revolutionary tradition, carry forward the red culture, and carry out party history education in the form that the citizens like to hear.
Some of the works——
Pastel painting "Cold Night Tinder" Author: Ma Liming
In the autumn of 1928, underground COMMUNIST Party members Sheng Youxuan and Yang Yifei entered Mingqiang Primary School. In January 1929, after the armed rebellion of the peasants in Fengxian Zhuangxing was defeated, Chen Qiushi and Qian Fen were ordered to transfer to Mingqiang Primary School. In the autumn of 1930, Jiang Wenyuan, Jiang Wenkui, and Song Zhenchang, teachers of Nicheng Primary School who participated in the riot, were transferred to Mingqiang Primary School to teach. Seven comrades-in-arms gathered here, although the environment is dangerous and it is not suitable for publicity and exposure, it still becomes a red melting pot, absorbing principal Zheng Maoru, female teacher Huang Jingzhi, peasant Chen Jinsheng and so on to become a new revolutionary force. In the autumn of 1932, the first underground party branch of the Communist Party of China in qibao was formally established at Mingqiang Primary School, with Jiang Wenkui as secretary.
Comic strip "1940 Summoning Building Incident" by Luo Xixian
【Introduction to the content of the work】In 1940, Wang Boxiang of the Zhongyi Salvation Army and the 51st Regiment of the Puppet Army were stationed in the town of Zhaojialou, and the two forces dominated one side and held each other back, and the situation was mysterious. Gu Zhen led the guerrillas to infiltrate it and set up a secret liaison station at the Taifeng grocery store to watch the situation change and seek opportunities to instigate an uprising. On the night of December 23, Gu Zhen led a short gun squad straight to the Li Geng Tang, surrounded the 51st regimental headquarters of the puppet army, and quickly took control of the puppet regiment leader Zhou Mingfa. The squadron leader of the puppet army tried to resist and was killed on the spot. More than 200 puppet troops were escorted to the Nanzhong family home. Gu Zhen shouted at them: "Brothers, everyone follow me to resist Japan, and be a traitor to death!" More than 200 people have abandoned the dark and cast light. Before dawn, Gu Zhen led a team of more than 240 people, carrying captured guns, to the south and rushed to meet the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Regiment.
Paper-cut "Caobao Road No. 7 Bridge Memorial Site" Author: Zhang Hong
【Introduction】In January 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army prepared to swing its division south and point its sword at the beach. The Nationalist defenders built 34 bunkers in the Qibao area to create no man's land. After the Shanghai Campaign began, the Qibao underground party branch organized forces to observe the terrain on the spot, grasp the enemy's situation, write down materials, draw maps and forward them to the People's Liberation Army.
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