Mosey Catholic Church

Moxi Catholic Church is a landmark building with European style. When Mao Zedong passed by this place during the Long March, he stayed here for one night and became one of the unique landmarks in Moxi town. Against the background of blue sky and white clouds, the majestic snow mountains, beautiful rural scenery, rich ethnic customs, simple streets, French church buildings, Tibetan hotels and Chuandou wooden dwellings constitute the landscape of Moxi town.

Mosey Catholic Church

Moxi Catholic Church is located in Moxi Town, Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province. It was founded by French missionaries in 1918. The architectural style is a combination of Chinese and western. In 1935, the red army passed by on the long march and held a "Moxi conference" in the church building.

brief introduction

Moxi Catholic Church is located in Moxi ancient town. It stands at the entrance of the ancient street in the architectural style of Chinese and western. It has gone through countless ups and downs, even bloodbath.

Moxi Catholic Church is a Chinese and Western courtyard building, with a construction area of 289.7 square meters. It has a sutra hall, a bell tower, a priest's building and dormitories for boys and girls. The interior of the church is elegantly decorated with 12 columns, each of which is decorated with wood leaves and a small amount of patterns. The Watchboard is painted with roses, which is very romantic in the West. The bell tower has three floors. The top of the tower is hexagonal with six columns. The windows are peach pointed, and the second floor is quadrangular. The eaves are supported by square long brick columns. There are square windows and arched gates. There are columns on both sides of the door, and they are painted with decorative patterns. It has a very oriental classical architectural style.

The priest's building is a two-story, three straight brick and earthen house. There is a white granite stone tablet in front of the building, which is engraved with such words as "key cultural relics protection unit of Sichuan Province", "Moxi Catholic Church", "former address of Comrade Mao Zedong". When you walk into the priest's building, there are some articles used by the Red Army on display, including Comrade Mao Zedong's house and Moxi's conference room. The most important thing is that some of the indoor displays vividly introduce the activities of the Red Army in Moxi, the historical events of the Red Army crossing the Dadu River, seizing Luding Bridge and the Red Army in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and preserve the inscriptions that some red army generals visited in those years.

history

background

As early as the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Catholicism became one of the powerful sects in Moxi because of its political and social background

During the Sino French war of 1884-1885, the defeated China and the French government signed the Sino French Treaty of humiliation. Together with the unequal treaties and clauses previously signed, France has gained privileges in China, such as trade, missionary, consul and railway construction. From then on, all kinds of French forces, including Catholicism, entered China. In particular, the Western Christianity expected to preach in the eastern mainland of China, which became the persistent dream and pursuit of many missionaries. After 1850, the famous French missionary lenu (pseudonym Lorena) cheated the living Buddhas, chieftains and leaders of Yunnan, Tibet and Kangba regions as a businessman and traveler, and began to preach in these Tibetan areas. By about 1856, lenu's missionary activities in eastern Tibet had improved. They set up a missionary base in Kangding area of Sichuan Province - "Tibetan diocese", with Kangding as the center, and began to expand to the neighboring counties of Danba, Kangding and Luding. Moxi, the intersection of "tea horse road" and "Jianchang road", is one of the first targets of "Tibetan parish".

Around 1892, a French missionary Peng was killed while preaching in Danba, and he was compensated 2000 liang of silver. His younger brother used the money to buy land in Moxi to prepare for the construction of Moxi church. Peng Di Chu came to Moxi to rent a folk house with the surname of Tang, set up a church to preach and develop believers.

establish

Peng presided over the construction of the Moxi Catholic Church in 1918, completed the priesthood in 1922, and completed the bell tower and scripture hall in 1926.

event

Shortly after the completion of the church, the workers' and peasants' Red Army led by Mao Zedong began the 25000 Li Long March. On May 27, 1935, Mao Zedong started from Anshun square, passed through Haierwa, Tianwan, pusagang, and menghugang, and made his way to Moxi and Luding. On the evening of May 29, the red army arrived in Moxi. Due to the heavy rain and dark weather, the mountain road leading to Luding was full of cliffs. Mao Zedong and his army stayed in Moxi at night, and they lived in the priest building of Moxi Catholic church that night. At 10:00 p.m., Mao Zedong convened a meeting of Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Wang Jiaxiang, Zhang Wentian, Chen Yun, Deng Xiaoping, Qin bangxian, Lin Biao and others in the temple building, which was known as the "Moxi meeting" in history. The meeting decided that: the Red Army would not go to Kangding because its soldiers and grain could not be replenished; the Red Army was informed to pass the Luding Bridge in an orderly manner, passing people first and then passing horses; Chen Yun's opinions were solicited, and the Central Committee was prepared to send him out of Sichuan to Shanghai to restore the party organization destroyed by the enemy, and then to the Soviet Union to report the Chinese revolution to the Communist world; the army was informed to pay close attention to raising supplementary grain. Moxi meeting is the preparatory meeting of Luding Bridge meeting, which played an important role in the Red Army's passing through Luding Bridge. At 4 a.m. the next day, when Mao Zedong and others left Moxi church and marched to the hillside of mogangling, they received the news that the Red Army had successfully won Luding Bridge. According to records, when he was in church, a missionary made western food for Mao Zedong.

After the liberation of Moxi in March 1950, the foreign missionaries returned to China, the church property was returned to the government, and the land was returned to the farmers. Catholic activities stopped for a time.

After the victory of the liberation war, the French missionaries in the Church of Moxi were expelled back to China. In January 1988, the Patriotic Catholic Association was established in Luding County, Sichuan Province. The government allocated 30000 yuan to repair the Moxi Catholic Church and the priest's building as a designated place for the concentrated activities of Catholics in the county. In 1999, Moxi Catholic Church was rated as a state-level cultural relic protection unit by Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In 2004, "Moxi conference site" was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province.

Moxi Conference

At about 10 p.m. on May 29, 1935, Comrade Mao Zedong, who had been marching for three consecutive days, camped in the priest's room of Moxi Catholic Church. That night, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Wang Jiaxiang, Zhang Wentian, Qin bangxian, Chen Yun and Deng Xiaoping, who arrived in Moxi on the same day, were called "Moxi meeting" in the history of the long march. The Moxi meeting laid the foundation for the Luding Bridge meeting on May 30 and played the role of preparatory meeting.

Address: Moxi Town, Luding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 102.1257094875

Latitude: 29.6423986781

Tour time: two hours is recommended

Traffic information: [self driving]

Chengdu Ya'an expressway: Chengdu Tianquan Erlangshan Tunnel lengqi Moxi town

[shuttle bus]

1. There is a direct train from Chengdu Xinnanmen station to Moxi ancient town. The departure time is 7:30, the fare is about 113 yuan / person, the total length is 322 km, and the journey is about 7 hours

2. Take the coach from Chengdu West Railway Station to Kangding and get off at Luding station

[chartered car]

It's about 20 minutes' drive from Luding to Moxi ancient town

Upon arrival, the church is in the middle of Moxi town

Ticket information: 10 yuan per person

Opening hours: all day

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