In March 2019, the headline search "Looking for the Descendants of Martyrs" public welfare project officially cooperated with the Chahar Martyrs Cemetery in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, to use the technical advantages of today's headlines to find descendants for the 6,703 martyrs who have not yet contacted their relatives on the British list of the Martyrs Memorial Hall of the Cemetery.
Yang Yongsheng, head of the Chahar Martyrs' Cemetery, said: "A considerable number of these 17,000 martyrs died in the 1946 Zhangjiakou Defense Battle and the 1948 Pingjin Battle of the New Security Annihilation Battle, and there are 6,703 famous martyrs, most of whom have not yet contacted their relatives and descendants." I always feel that it is our responsibility to find the relatives of martyrs and to comfort the heroic souls of martyrs, and it is also a very urgent task. ”
This time, we will search for the descendants of the following martyrs:
Martyr's name: Li Min
Martyr's place of origin: Shuo County, Shanxi Province (present-day Shuocheng District, part of Shuozhou City) Southeast Street
Date of birth and death: 1927-1948
Place of Sacrifice: Ying County (subordinate to Shuozhou City)
Posthumous position: Warrior
Position: 363 columns in the first two rows on the left of the central hall
Chahar, the old provincial-level administrative region of China, on January 15, 1949, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the North China People's Government decided to merge Beiyue District and Jirecha District to form Chahar Province, with jurisdiction over the three cities of Zhangjiakou, Datong and Xuanhua and the three special districts of Yanbei, Chanan and Chabei, with a total of 32 counties. In order to commemorate the 17,000 martyrs who died throughout the province, the Chahar provincial government decided to build a Chahar Martyrs Cemetery in the zhangjiakou urban area of the provincial capital.
Chahar Martyrs Cemetery is located in Qiaodong District, Zhangjiakou City, the cemetery began construction in February 1949, officially completed on April 10, 1951, is the earliest preparation in North China, the large scale of construction of the martyrs cemetery. The main buildings in the park are composed of the Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Tower, the Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall, the Chahar Revolution Memorial Hall, the Martyrs' Tomb, and the Archway.
Chahar Martyrs Cemetery
On the 1-meter-wide, 800-meter-long Ying-listed tent in the Chahar Martyrs' Memorial Hall, 6,703 is not an ordinary set of numbers—they are Chahar nationals who died from the period of the Great Revolution to the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the 6,703 revolutionary martyrs who died in Chahar Province. It took 10 months from the collection of the list to the transcription of the fly-headed letters by local calligraphers in Zhangjiakou to the English catalogue.
The List of Martyrs
The Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Tower is 28 meters high, the tower covers an area of about 3700 square meters, and the martyrs' memorial hall is built in the tower. On the tower are the seven big characters of "Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Tower" inscribed by Zhang Su, former chairman of the Chahar Provincial People's Government, and on both sides of the tower are written "Dying for the interests of the people is heavier than Mount Tai" and "We die for the people, that is, we die for what we deserve."
The Pagoda of Revolutionary Martyrs corresponds to the solemn and solemn Meritorious Arch, and on both sides of the archway are engraved the horizontal plaques inscribed by Zhang Su, former chairman of the Chahar Provincial People's Government, and Lu Fu, vice chairman of the former Chahar Provincial People's Government, "Great Duke, Great Courage, Immortality" and "Selflessness, Fearlessness, And Death Still Alive", which is a portrayal of the noble spirit of the martyrs.
Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Tower
After decades of construction, the Chahar Martyrs' Cemetery has become an educational base for the vast number of local cadres and young students to remember the revolutionary martyrs and strengthen their ideals and convictions. Chahar Martyrs Cemetery is a national key martyrs' memorial building protection unit, a national red classic tourist scenic spot, a patriotic education base named by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and a cpc history education base.
Remember the historical statue of Chahar
Because of their age and the lack of information left by the martyrs, the 6,703 martyrs had almost no relatives to worship. "Today's headlines have technical advantages and platform advantages, and I hope that this cooperation with the headlines to find the 'looking for martyrs' project can find as many martyrs' relatives as possible." The revolutionary ancestors sacrificed their precious lives to resist aggression and strive for national independence and establish a people's republic, and their deeds and spirit are always worth inheriting and carrying forward. Yang Yongsheng said.
To commemorate the exploits of the martyrs, comfort the heroic souls of the martyrs, inherit the red gene, and tell the red story well; the headline search launched the "Search for the Descendants of the Martyrs" project, and cooperated with the Chahar Martyrs Cemetery in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province to "find the descendants of the martyrs". In the past successful cases, the media relay search for the descendants of martyrs, played a great role, the headline search for people sincerely invited media across the country to participate in the "search for martyrs descendants of the media volunteer service group".
If there are clues related to the descendants of the martyrs, please contact the headlines to find people (email: [email protected]; tel: 010-83434440, 010-83434485), there will be special staff to verify the information and follow up.