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The former site of the Hengshan Primary School Branch is located in Tai'an Fort, Tangkou Town, Yangxi County, which is the first party branch in Jinheng District, witnessing the history of the party leading the people of Liangyang to struggle hard for national independence and the liberation of their hometown. Today's "Red Mark" series of reports will take everyone into the Hengshan Red Culture Base - Tai'an Fort, and feel the original intention and mission of the communists together.
Reporter Li Yang: Tai'an Fort was founded in the Qing Jiaqing period (1807 AD), covering an area of more than 6,000 square meters, with a history of more than 200 years. The Liu Clan Ancestral Hall in the ancient castle is the original Hengshan Primary School, and it is also the former site of the first party branch in Jinheng District, the Hengshan Primary School Branch of the Communist Party of China. At present, in order to strengthen the protection of red culture, the ancestral hall is being renovated. Diagonally opposite the ancestral hall, there is an ancient well built at the same time as the ancient castle, which nourished generations of masses and revolutionaries, and was called the "source of revolution" by posterity.
In 1940, the focus of the party organization shifted from the city to the countryside. In August of the same year, the Yangjiang County CPC Committee arranged for Liao Shaolian to serve as the principal of Hengshan Primary School through united front relations and carry out underground party work in the area of Jinbao in Yangchun County and Hengshan in Yangjiang County. In September, the first party branch in Jinheng District, the Hengshan Primary School Branch, was established in Hengshan Tai'an Fort, with Lin Yuanxi as the secretary of the branch. Since then, the party's underground work in the countryside has been carried out with a spark of fire.
Liu Zaijiong, a veteran party member of Hengshan Village: At that time, the party organization assigned him (Liao Shaolian) to teach here, and in the name of teaching, he hid the seeds of revolution, trained students, and propagated Marxism-Leninism. When the Japanese invaded China, he organized and led a self-defense force to organize the people to assist in the anti-Japanese resistance. In order to expand its strength, the party organization sent Lin Yuanxi from Yangjiang City, who had just returned from studying in Shaoguan and was directly assigned back as the secretary of the branch. During the civil war, many difficult days were also experienced, and the seeds of revolution were hidden in this place, which was equivalent to the people of hengshan area being the protective force of the revolutionary fire.
Huang Jiali, deputy chief of the Party History Compilation and Research Section of the Party History Research Office of the Municipal CPC Committee: After the establishment of the Hengshan Party Branch, on the one hand, it carried out united front work in the local areas and united and won the support of social progressives for revolutionary work; on the other hand, it mobilized the masses in depth, ran peasant literacy classes, organized literary and art propaganda teams, went through villages to publicize the anti-Japanese resistance, and mobilized the masses to participate in the anti-Japanese struggle.
In December 2017, Hengshan Village was listed as the second batch of provincial "red villages". Tai'an Fort became the education base for party members and patriotic education in Yangjiang City. In recent years, the General Party Branch of Hengshan Village has taken the construction of the "Red Village" party building demonstration project as an opportunity to invest more than 6 million yuan to build the Yangjiang Hengshan Red Exhibition Hall, repair the revolutionary site Tai'an Fort, and build the Hengshan Branch of the Party School of the Yangxi County CPC Committee, closely integrating the construction of rural grass-roots party organizations with the protection and utilization of red resources, activating red resources, inheriting the revolutionary spirit of "Tai'an Beacon Fire", and releasing new momentum for development in the old revolutionary areas.
Chen Huaqing, secretary of the general branch of the party in Hengshan Village: At present, the Liu Clan Ancestral Hall is being repaired, and after completion, the exhibition hall will be arranged inside, and in the next step, we will make full use of the red resources of Tai'an Ancient Castle to develop characteristic rural tourism and help rural revitalization.
Text: Liu Yimin, Mai Yuexian
Camera: Dong Junhui