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The site of the Great Patriotic War - the four-corner pavilion in front of Songpa Building
The Suyong Hui Holy Mosque is the supreme place for maintaining Hui customs and habits, and is the theocratic institution of the spiritual beliefs of the Hui people, but all Hui people must absolutely abide by the family rules and canons. From the fifty-seventh year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1718), when a group of Hui people entered Sichuan and settled in Xuyong, to the second year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1737) when the Hui people raised funds to build a mosque in the nanmen Lane lamp grass field in the city, more than two hundred years have passed, and the mosque has always been the main backbone in the minds of the Xuyong Hui people, and is the spiritual force guiding the Xuyong Hui people to defend their homeland and build a beautiful homeland.
According to the elders, in the fourth year of the Republic of China (1915), Yuan Shikai rebelled against the people and claimed the title of emperor, and General Cai Yi erected a banner to "protect the country and seek Yuan", raised troops from Yunnan into Sichuan, reached the border city of Xuyong County, the border city of the three provinces, through the Xueshan Pass of the southern gate of Sichuan, set up a headquarters at the Zhonglie Palace in Hedong, Xuyong City, commanded the generals of the defending army to attack Luzhou, and sent the Hui ma brigade commander (name unknown) to the "Xuyong Mosque" in the three provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan to contact the Grand Imam and the township elders' association to support the act of defending the country and seeking Yuan.
The head of the Township Elders' Association, Ma Tu, was a Qing Dynasty Wenxiucai named Jiucheng, who had studied in Japan and was a member of the League. After returning to China, he served as the supervisor (i.e. principal) of the "Yongning Middle School" in Xuyong County. At that time, there was a battalion of Hui officers and soldiers in the defending army, called the "Hui hui camp". Ma Guangzhong, the Grand Imam, and Ma Tu, the head of the township elders' association, summoned members Ma Wuqing, Ma Zunxuan, Ma Songshan, Ma Zhaohe, Ding Xiecheng, Zhang Yuezu, Ma Shicheng, Su Mingxue, and Su Mingqing to immediately set up a "Xuyong County Muslim Ambulance Team" to support the nationalist army in attacking Luzhou and accompany the team to rescue the wounded on the front line in the Cotton Slope battlefield.
The site of the Great Patriotic War - Songpa Building
The "Battle of Cotton Slope" in the Battle of defending the country was fought very fiercely, and the "Xuyong Muslim Ambulance Team" was brave and fearless, braving the rain of bullets and bullets to transport the wounded, deliver ammunition to the defending army, bury the fallen soldiers, shuttle through the smoke of gunfire, and rescue the wounded soldiers in the frontline battle. The elders of the Xuyong Mosque vacated the great hall, study, ear room, etc., and established a "Muslim rescue and treatment center" to treat the wounded transported from the front line, and strongly supported the Defending Army in attacking the "Battle of Cotton Slope" in Luzhou. At that time, the remains of the Hui soldiers who had died on the front line were transported back, and ma Guangzhong, the grand imam, and Ma Tu, the head of the township elders' association, presided over the burial of these Hui warriors according to Hui customs. On the cemetery of the "Huimin Mountain" of the Seven Societies of Xinhua Village, a former peasant township in the south of Xuyong County, the tombstones of Hui soldiers who were closely buried next to each other were all Chinese Hui warriors who sacrificed their young lives in order to overthrow Yuan Shikai and restore the imperial system and shed their blood.
They fought to defend the motherland, sacrificed heroically to defend the motherland, and sacrificed their young and precious lives in order to "please Yuan to protect the country", which can be regarded as a good son of the famous city of Xuyong. In order to commend their patriotism and loyalty, General Cai Yi personally ordered the then commander of the Zhao Army to present a color plaque to the Xuyong Mosque, which read, "Share the enemy' grievances, repay the country and the truth" in eight large golden flashing characters! This plaque highlights the spirit of loyalty and patriotism of the Hui people in Xuyong County, and hangs on the large forehead of the grand and solemn main entrance of the "Xuyong Mosque" in the former South Gate Lane of Xuyong County. Ma Xinpei, commander of the "Huihui Camp" of the National Guard Army, was also ordered to record the historical fact that the Hui people in Xuyong County saved the country with blood and "repaid the truth of the country", and recorded the fearless spirit of the Hui people of Xuyong County who deeply understood the great righteousness and bravely went to death.
Glorious traditions are passed on from generation to generation; they work hard to serve the country with enthusiasm. The Hui people of Xuyong County are loyal and righteous, and the loyal souls of the "Huimin Mountain" cemetery in Xuyong County will always exist. (Sun Xue)