In the outskirts of Zunyi City, there is a famous Door Wang clan "Bai Family", to Bai Jiesheng's generation, because of the lawsuit with people, lost the land can not make a living, had to go into the city to rent a façade house, began to run a sauce garden. People near and far want to buy soy sauce and vinegar, always have to go to Bai's house to buy, Bai Jiesheng according to the meaning of "every day smooth", the sauce garden named "Bai Tianshun".
Bai Jiesheng has a good business, is kind to people, and is also prosperous. He had seven sons and two daughters under his knees, the most outstanding of which was his second son, Bai Huizhang.
In 1921, in order to avoid his son being smoked as a Strong Ding, Bai Jiesheng sent the 20-year-old Bai Huizhang to Guiyang and entered the Guizhou Daowutang Cavalry Section. After graduation, he entered the Qianjun Army, and was soon appreciated by Wang Jialie, becoming Wang Jialie's concubine unit, and was promoted from a squad leader to a division commander.
After Bai Huizhang became a guru, he wanted to honor his ancestors, so he sent the more than 30,000 silver dollars he had accumulated to his brother Bai Yuzhang, who helped his father run the sauce garden at home. Bai Yuzhang had seen bungalows in Shanghai, and in 1924 he also bought back film equipment from Shanghai and opened the first theater in Zunyi, which caused a sensation in the city.
The Bai Mansion, designed by Bai Yuzhang, is a two-story building facing north and south. There are ten coupon arches between the columns under the eaves of the building, which retains the structural style of China's ancient architecture "through the Ming Dynasty"; the upper floor is designed as a Western-style shuttle door and window, the doors and windows are painted in ochre, inlaid with colored glass; it is a brick and wood structure building with a combination of Chinese and Western styles, with a total construction area of 620.18 square meters. Covered with small gray tiles, a "tiger window" is opened on the roof of the mountain, there is a hugging building, surrounded by carved wooden corridors, carved flowers and wood worms and fish on the roof, flying cornices, and the curved platform, which is very elegant.
After the house was built, Zunyi was the best one at that time, and it was also a local scenery.
At the back of the building there is a cypress garden surrounded by a quiet and elegant garden. Entering the gate and passing through the hall, you are greeted by a huge brick archway with colored porcelain fragments inlaid with words, the former is "Comfort Lu" and the latter is "Prudent Du".
In January 1935, the Red Army in the Long March forcibly crossed the Wujiang River and occupied Zunyi, where it was repaired. The Bai Mansion became the headquarters of the Red Army. From January 15 to 17, the famous Zunyi Conference was held in this building.
This meeting was an important turning point in the history of the party, abolishing the supreme military command of Bogu and Li De, and deciding that the principal responsible persons of the Central Military Commission, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, would still take command of the military, and Zhang Wentian would replace Bogu in taking overall responsibility. During the march, a three-man military command group composed of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Wang Jiaxiang was set up to command the Red Army's actions in a unified manner.
The Zunyi Conference was a life-and-death turning point in the history of the Communist Party of China and an important symbol of the CPC's infancy to maturity. The Zunyi Conference actually established Mao Zedong's leading position in the Party Central Committee and the Red Army, began to form the first generation of central leading collectives with Mao Zedong as the core, and opened a new stage in the Party's independent solution of the practical problems of the Chinese revolution.
After the Red Army withdrew from Zunyi, the building was returned to the hands of the Bai family. In May 1935, Bai Huizhang accepted the reorganization of the 102nd Division of the central government in Weining, Guizhou, and served as the first division commander. After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Bai Huizhang became a famous anti-Japanese general and participated in the famous Battles of Songhu, Nanchang, Xuzhou, changsha and other battles.
Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall was established to commemorate the Zunyi Conference, is one of the first 21 revolutionary memorial halls established after the founding of New China, opened in October 1955, in November 1964, Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the memorial hall "Zunyi Conference Site" six big characters. With rich and informative exhibits and materials, the memorial hall allows visitors to stand on the historical node of the "great turning point" of that year and feel the deep pulse of history.
On August 2, 2021, the day after the 94th Founding Day, I had the privilege of visiting here, facing this exquisite environment, a simple office and living room, a piece of historical materials, pictures, real scenes, etc., listening to the narrator's description, plus my own previous preparations, the scene seems to reappear in front of me.
We should think about the difficulties of a peaceful and stable life now, strive to do our jobs well, and contribute to the new era.