During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although the ground troops of the Japanese invading forces failed to directly enter Lichuan (on April 28, 1942, Japanese aircraft flew into the air over the county seat of Lichuan to bomb Xinfengqiao, but did not explode), the people of Lichuan actively responded to the Communist Party's anti-Japanese ideas and set off a climax of the salvation movement in the anti-Japanese rear.
Solidarity with the anti-Japanese front
After the formation of the anti-Japanese united front of the whole nation, the Lichuan people's anti-Japanese movement vigorously unfolded. The masses of Lichuan set up the "Lichuan Anti-Enemy Theater Troupe", and the students of Xinyuan Middle School, Zhanggong Middle School, Jiangxi Middle School, Linchuan Middle School, Linchuan Simple Normal School, and Nancheng Rural Normal School, who were relocated from the Japanese-Occupied Areas to Lichuan, jointly established the "Shakespeare Troupe", performed "New Female Shopkeepers", "State Supreme", "Put Down Your Whip", "Ma Baiji", "Fighting the Orient", and "Wisely Capturing Japanese Spies" and other plays in various parts of the county, and united Lichuan intellectual youth, in-service teachers, and exiled students in northeast and Anhui to paint murals, write slogans, and publish special posters. Holding rallies and speeches, performing street dramas, organizing singing and singing meetings, and other forms of propaganda to resist Japan and save the country.
In order to resist Japan and save the country and protect their hometown, many patriotic young people in Lichuan voluntarily stepped onto the front line of the anti-Japanese resistance. In 1936, Tu Chengping (later renamed Cheng Ping), a 16-year-old young man in Lianhe Village, left his hometown alone and went to the anti-Japanese base area led by the Communist Party, arrived in Yan'an in 1938, joined the Communist Party, and actively engaged in the work of resisting Japan and saving the dead. Cai Guisun, a young man in the fifth district, resolutely left his old mother and young wife at home and volunteered to go to the front line to kill the enemy.
In order to strengthen the anti-Japanese support work, in 1939, the "Lichuan County Anti-Japanese Support Association" composed of people from all walks of life in Lichuan was established, and its main work was to receive anti-Japanese troops who had been transferred from other places to garrison and reorganize lichuan, prepare barracks for the troops, allocate and purchase grain, provide daily supplies for military supplies, do a good job in social service work for the wounded and sick in the army hospitals stationed in the county, organize organs, units, schools, and mass organizations to carry out activities to comfort the army, collect anti-Japanese news from various localities, provide propaganda materials for various organs, schools, and barracks, and encourage the confidence and enthusiasm of the anti-Japanese resistance. Coordinate the handling of relations between the command organs of the garrison and the organs of the county administrative authorities, mediate the relations between officers and soldiers, residents, and refugees, and ensure order and stability in the anti-Japanese rear areas.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the people of Lichuan responded to the call for "having money to pay and make a strong contribution" and enthusiastically supported the front line. In early May 1940 alone, more than 40 people in the county donated more than 400 yuan of silver yuan. Some people carried pork, eggs, and pastries to the rear hospital of the army stationed in Lebanon to comfort the anti-Japanese wounded and sick. The Anti-Japanese Support Association elected deputies to form the Anti-Japanese Frontline Consolation Group, and with the funds and materials collected from the donations and thousands of letters of condolence written by civil servants of various organs and teachers and students of the school, they went to Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, to comfort the anti-Japanese troops and give encouragement to the soldiers in the front. In 1941, more than 1,000 people from all over the county went to Nancheng County to build national defense fortifications and provided a large amount of timber free of charge. In 1942, when the Japanese invaded Nancheng County, the Lichuan masses destroyed all the roads and bridges leading to Nancheng in the northern part of the county, which played an important role in preventing the Japanese from invading Lichuan.
Shelter and help refugees
From 1938 to 1939, the Japanese invading Japanese army successively occupied nanchang, Jinxian, Fengcheng, Fuzhou, Nancheng and other cities and counties in Jiangxi Province, and the residents of these enemy-occupied areas fled in large numbers to Lichuan, the rear areas that had not yet been occupied by the Japanese Kou.
In order to accept and resettle refugee compatriots in the occupied areas, all walks of life in Lichuan set up the "Lichuan County Refugee Shelter Committee" and set up a "refugee shelter" as a daily full-time office, organizing all walks of life to raise funds, purchase materials, plan the area, and set up thousands of bamboo and wooden simple shacks in the county town of Tangjiazhen (now Dongfanghong Avenue) and Xiama Road, so that more than 10,000 refugees who have fled to Lichuan can live in peace.
Refugee shelters also work with food associations to take care of the supply of food rations for refugees so as not to cause famine. The Shelter Committee consults with the Prefectural Chamber of Commerce, the Prefectural Shop Staff Union, and the Prefectural Porters' Union to provide employment opportunities for refugees. Nanchang's Jintai, Dalong, Siyoubu Shop, Fuzhou Hengchunsheng Pharmacy, DaoxiangCun, Southeast Cake Family South Goods Store and some tea houses also joined the refugee team and came to Lichuan to do business, and the reception committee arranged stores in the old street of the county town for them to open stores. Refugee children are entitled to tuition fee waivers when they attend school. The members of the county refugee shelter committee and the staff of the refugee shelter also often visit the refugee concentration points to solve the problems of production and life in a timely manner for the refugees and to enable the refugees to survive the war smoothly.
Placement of anti-Japanese wounded
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 1000th Rear Hospital of the Kuomintang Army and the Headquarters of the 75th Division of the Kuomintang Army, Zhang Wenqing, deputy commander-in-chief of the 25th Group Army of the Kuomintang Army, and military personnel of the institutions directly under his command were stationed in Lichuan, and the 44th Rear Hospital of the Kuomintang Army and the 17th Military Station Hospital of the Army were also located in Lichuan County. In order to resettle these two hospitals for wounded soldiers, people from all walks of life in Lichuan chose the Confucius Temple, the Guo Ancestral Hall and the Yang Family Temple (behind the old printing house on the north side of today's Shuanghao Supermarket on Feng Road and diagonally opposite the alley) as the hospital sites. The administrative officers, medical personnel and wounded of the two hospitals numbered in the thousands, and the supply of materials was procured by representatives from all walks of life in the county in coordination with the logistics personnel of the troops from all townships and towns in the county. On every major festival, people from all walks of life in the county bring consolation materials to the hospital to visit and comfort the wounded and sick, and the middle and primary schools rehearse anti-war literary and artistic programs to the hospital to offer condolence performances. The people of Lichuan regarded the preferential care and consolation of the anti-Japanese soldiers as a practical action to actively support the War of Resistance Against Japan, and they were very enthusiastic.
Develop rear education
By the mid-1930s, Li Chuan had not yet opened secondary education. In the autumn of 1938, when the Japanese invading army occupied Nanchang, the private Jiangxi Middle School originally located in Nanchang was moved to Lichuan under the leadership of the founder Yang Gengsheng and set up the "Jiangxi Middle School Lichuan Branch". The relevant people in Lichuan enthusiastically supported and selected the Tang Family Temple on Moshi Street in the county town and some nearby houses as the school site, and assisted the school in preparing for enrollment and opening. In the same year, the private Zhanggong Middle School, which was originally located in Nanchang, was also moved to Lichuan and was arranged to be located in the Yang Family Temple at the Xiaobei Gate of the county town. After the fall of Fuzhou, the "Provincial Linchuan Middle School" and "Linchuan Simple Normal School" originally located in Fuzhou were successively moved to Lichuan, and were located in Xiaqiao Village, Louxia Street and Zhongxian Township, respectively. After Nancheng was occupied by the Japanese, the "Nancheng Rural Normal School" originally located in Nancheng County moved to Lichuan, and the school site was located in Hengcun. These schools have junior high school and high school classes, each school has hundreds or even thousands of students, in addition to recruiting students from the county, most of them are foreign students who have moved with the school, which has increased a large number of population and material burdens for Lichuan in the short term. The people of Lichuan have done their best to solve the problems of the school, and have tried every means to organize the supply of goods to ensure the daily work and living supply of the school, so that all schools can smoothly adhere to the school and maintain normal teaching order.
In mid-July 1939, the "Lichuan County Junior High School Preparatory Committee" was established. All sectors of society elected Yang Jingluo, Tu Zongnai and other highly respected gentlemen to be responsible for the preparatory work. At that time, the Japanese invasion, the country was in deep trouble, the people's livelihood was poor, the Kuomintang government was still embarrassed to maintain primary education financially, and it was even more difficult to establish secondary education. With the strong support of all sectors of society, the "Lichuan County Junior High School" was officially opened in August 1941, and was approved by the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education in December to file a case. This is a middle school born in extremely difficult years, and it is also the earliest self-founded middle school in the history of Lichuan. At the beginning of the establishment of the school, the school building was located in the Guo Family Ancestral Hall in the city, with 4 rooms as classrooms and teachers' offices, and under the eaves of the hall was the canteen for teachers and students, and the equipment was very simple. In 1942, after the first principal Tu Zongnai repeatedly negotiated with the county authorities, the school moved into the Confucius Temple where the former Army Hospital was stationed, and the conditions of the school building improved. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the secondary schools moved from other places were gradually moved back to their original locations, and the Lichuan County Junior High School was still retained.