Former Residence and Memorial Hall of Marshal Xu Qianqian: Inheriting the Red Gene and Playing the Role of an Education Base

On July 1, Zhao Yongqiang, secretary of the Wutai County CPC Committee, awarded veteran party members the 50-year medal of honor at Xu Shuai's former residence. (File photo)

Comrade Xu Xiangqian is a loyal communist fighter, a staunch Marxist, a tried and tested proletarian revolutionary and military figure, one of the founders of the People's Republic of China, an outstanding leader who has long held important leading positions in the party, the state, and the army, and is deeply respected and loved by the whole party, the whole army, and the people of all nationalities throughout the country.

Marshal Xu Qianqian's former residence and memorial hall is subordinate to the Former Residence Service Center of Marshal Xu Qianqian, as a red education base, it welcomes hundreds of thousands of tourists who come to visit and study every year, especially in the party's mass line education practice activities, "two studies and one doing" study and education, study and implementation of the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Party, "do not forget the original heart, keep in mind the mission" theme education and party history study and education play an important role.

Recreate the classics and let the red history "come alive"

After the death of Marshal Xu Qianqian in 1990, in order to commemorate his great achievements and carry forward his revolutionary spirit, the local people imitated Xu Shuai's former residence as it was, which was officially opened to the public in 1992, named the national patriotism education demonstration base in 2005, named the national red tourism classic scenic spot by 14 ministries and commissions such as the Central Propaganda Department, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the National Tourism Administration in the same year, and was awarded the national key cultural relics protection unit in June 2006 and the national defense education demonstration base in November 2009 In 2019, it successfully created a national AAA-level tourist attraction.

In 2009, the local government started construction of the new Marshal Xu Qianqian Memorial Hall in Yong'an Village, Dongye Town, and held an unveiling ceremony on November 16, 2011 on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Xu Shuai's birth and officially opened to the public.

Entering the memorial hall, a central axis runs from south to north, symmetrical from east to west, high and low, novel and unique, and in turn, the square, the observation deck and the main exhibition hall of the memorial hall. Chen Zhan displays a large number of historical photos, texts, cultural relics, scene paintings, sculptures and modern high-tech sound and photoelectric art means, vividly and comprehensively reproducing the great achievements of Xu Xiangqian, the founding father of the People's Republic of China.

In the prologue hall of Xu Qianqian Memorial Hall, a large relief sculpture facing a height of 9 meters is particularly eye-catching. The main body of the relief is a horseback statue of Xu Shuai galloping on the battlefield, and the background relief is the four mountains of Dabie Mountain, Daba Mountain, Qilian Mountain and Taihang Mountain that Xu Shuai fought in his lifetime. On both sides of the prologue hall are several groups of reliefs reflecting the important events of Xu Shuai's life, reproducing Xu Shuai's arduous struggle.

Innovative development, continue to enhance the influence of the memorial hall

Marshal Xu Qianqian has left a precious spiritual wealth to the Chinese nation and is an example for the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation to learn from. In order to comprehensively carry forward the spirit of Xu Shuai, The Former Residence Service Center of Marshal Xu Qianqian asked the interpreters to continuously change the content of the explanation according to different tourists. For example, for students in school, the focus is on the stories of Marshal Xu Qianqian's hardships and simplicity, diligence and thrift, and maintenance of unity; for party members and cadres, it focuses on Marshal Xu Qianqian's honesty and honesty, loyalty to the party, and courage to take responsibility. In addition, in the process of explanation, the docent is also required to play a good role in setting up suspense, on-site questioning, exchange and interaction, etc., to stimulate the tourists' interest in visiting and learning.

In order to better play the role of the education base, inherit the advanced culture and fine traditions of the Chinese nation, and facilitate the majority of tourists to deeply absorb the red gene, the former residence service center of Marshal Xu Qianqian has beautified and brightened the former residence and memorial hall, and built a visitor reception center and parking lot. Actively promote reform and innovation in safety and security, publicity and education, cultural relics protection, academic research, interlibrary exchanges, etc., learn from the experience and practices of other advanced scenic spots, promote creative transformation and innovative development, and strive to form a modern scenic spot management and operation system with a lively system, new mechanism, high efficiency, strong guarantee and sustainability.

Nowadays, the former residence and memorial hall of Marshal Xu Qianqian are more orderly, beautiful and generous, solemn and solemn, the atmosphere of the party sex education base is more intense, and the comprehensive service level and influence are constantly improving.

We will help farmers with tourism and make every effort to promote rural revitalization

In recent years, Marshal Xu Qianqian's Former Residence Service Center has targeted poverty alleviation in Yong'an Village and strengthened the implementation of responsibility. Among them, experts from the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences were invited to guide and popularize advanced technologies and products, strive to increase crop yields, and through extensively publicizing the spirit of the party's various policies, adhere to the combination of poverty alleviation with the support of wisdom and aspirations, and gradually enable the vast number of villagers to change their concepts, enhance their confidence in poverty alleviation, and improve their development capabilities.

This year, relying on the education base of Xu Shuai's former residence scenic spot, the Former Residence Service Center of Marshal Xu Qianqian further developed the historical and cultural resources such as the Memorial Garden of Marshal Xu Qianqian's Inscription, the Ancestral Hall of Xu Clan, the Governor of Liangguang, Fujian in the late Qing Dynasty, the mausoleum of Xu Jishe, the mausoleum of The Prime Minister of The Imperial Household, the ruins of the Ancient Great Wall of the Warring States in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Agricultural Culture and Folk Customs Museum, and the Mahogany Furniture Exhibition Hall, so as to attract more tourists to visit here, thus driving the sales of hotel services and agricultural and sideline products, driving the local people to increase their income, and realizing the consolidation and expansion of the results of poverty alleviation and the effective connection with rural revitalization.

In 2020, Marshal Xu Qianqian's former residence and memorial hall received more than 80 batches of various theme education practice activity teams, more than 80 batches of social groups, and more than 10 batches of minors and school student teams. The total number of tourists in the whole year reached 240,000.

"In the future, we will continue to give full play to the function of the red education base and the national AAA tourism scenic spot, make good use of the precious spiritual wealth and red cultural resources left to us by Xu Shuai, and unremittingly carry out publicity and education on the core values of socialism." Liu Guoxiang, head of the former residence service center of Marshal Xu Qianqian, said.

Li Meixia, chief reporter of this newspaper

(Editor-in-charge: Chu Jialin, Liu Yang)