Former residence of Cai Hesen

Former residence of Cai Hesen

Guangjiatang, the former residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang, is located in Yangqiu village, Jingzi Town, Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province. It is 112 ° 24 ′ 54.4 ″ east longitude and 27 ° 25 ′ 43.6 ″ north latitude. It was built in the late Qing Dynasty with brick and wood structure and a total area of more than 550 square meters. It is the former residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang in their childhood. Cai Chang, the outstanding leader of Chinese women's movement, was born here on May 14, 1900, and spent more than eight years with his brother Cai Hesen.

Overview of former residence

Guangjiatang, the former residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang, is located in Yangqiu village, Jingzi Town, Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province. It was built in the late Qing Dynasty with brick and wood structure and a total area of more than 550 square meters. It is the former residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang in their childhood. Cai Chang, the outstanding leader of Chinese women's movement, was born here on May 14, 1900, and spent more than eight years with his brother Cai Hesen. In 1985, Deng Xiaoping inscribed "Cai Hesen's former residence" with a gold lettered mahogany plaque, which was hung at the gate of his former residence. In June 2003, guangjiatang was announced as a county-level cultural relics protection unit. In January 2011, Hunan provincial government announced it as the ninth batch of provincial cultural relics protection units.

In May 2013, the State Council issued the notice on Approving and publishing the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units, which approved and published the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units (1943 in total) and the projects merged with the existing national key cultural relics protection units (47 in total). Guangjiatang, the former residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang in Shuangfeng County, was selected successfully.

In 1899, Cai Hesen's father, Cai Rongfeng, and his mother, Ge Jianhao, returned to Shuangfeng from Shanghai to buy Guangjia hall and settle down. Cai Chang was born here on May 14, 1900. The two brothers and sisters spent more than eight years of childish time here. The house is located on a small slope, covered by green trees and lush; there are two ponds in front of the door, with banana playing in the water and melon vine growing. The scenery is fresh and beautiful. During his stay in Guangjia hall, two years of misfortunes happened to Cai Hesen's family: his second elder sister Cai Shunxi died young, and soon his elder brother Lu Xian died of illness. As a result, Cai's mother moved her family back to Yongfeng.

The former residence is an ordinary farmhouse in the middle mountain area of Hunan Province in the late Qing Dynasty. It is surrounded by mountains and faces east and West. The plane layout is in the shape of inverted "concave". It is surrounded by a low earth wall, a pond in front of the gate, green spring water, and flocks of geese and ducks playing in the water. The total construction area of more than 500 square meters, brick and wood structure, through the bucket beam structure. It consists of main hall, left and right wing rooms, patio and utility room.

Many of the items on display in the former residence are original objects. The beds, desks and wardrobes in the bedroom, the square tables and benches in the main room, the large water tanks and cupboards in the kitchen, and the stone mills, water carts and large wooden rakes in the farm tools room have all left the marks of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang. It is an important scenic spot in five excellent routes of red tourism in Hunan Province, and the leader of red tourism in Loudi City. By integrating the brilliant achievements and revolutionary spirit of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang with the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, the natural and cultural resources of Shuangfeng, and display art, Cai Hesen's former residence has become a classic of red tourism in Hunan Province. (author: Luo Shaozhi)

Life of the characters

Cai Hesen (1895 ~ 1931) was named runhuan and Zeying. His surname was Cai Lin and his scientific name was bin. He is from Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province. He is an outstanding revolutionist of the Chinese proletariat, one of the early outstanding leaders of the Communist Party of China, a famous political activist, theorist and propagandist, one of the founders of the Xinmin society, and one of the organizers and practitioners of the French work study program. Member of the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth CPC Central Committee, member of the Political Bureau and Standing Committee of the fifth and sixth CPC Central Committee.

In 1913, Cai Hesen came to Changsha and was admitted to Hunan railway special school. He soon transferred to Hunan provincial first normal school and became a close friend with Mao Zedong. In April 1918, he and Mao Zedong organized the Xinmin society. In 1919, he went to France with his mother, sister Cai Chang and girlfriend Xiang Jingyu to participate in the organization of "work study incentive Association" in Paris and accept communism. He studied hard in France, refused to work frugally, and devoted himself to translating foreign works. He was the first to put forward the idea of establishing the Communist Party of China. At the end of 1921, Cai Hesen returned to China and joined the Communist Party in Shanghai after being introduced by Chen Duxiu. In 1922, he was elected as a member of the CPC Central Committee with his wife Xiang Jingyu. He has long hosted the guide, a magazine of the Communist Party of China. Since then, Cai Hesen has also served as a member of the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth CPC Central Committee, a member of the Political Bureau and a member of the Standing Committee of the fifth and sixth CPC Central Committee.

In 1925, he went to Moscow as head of the CPC delegation to the Comintern. In 1927, he returned to China as the propaganda minister of the Central Committee and was elected as a member of the Political Bureau at the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. At the critical moment of the failure of the great revolution, Cai Hesen supported Mao Zedong's opinion and advocated an independent armed struggle. In 1928, he went to Moscow for treatment. In 1931, he returned to Shanghai to support the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and then went to Hong Kong. On June 10, 1931, when he attended the Hong Kong Seamen's conference, he was arrested by the traitor Gu Shunzhang and other undercover agents, and then extradited to the Guangdong warlord by the Hong Kong British authorities. On August 4, he was shot dead in Guangzhou.

In a talk in Yan'an, Comrade Mao Zedong said, "what a communist should do, He Sen has done." Comrade Zhou Enlai also said: "Comrade Hesen is always worthy of our memory." Especially since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, Nie Rongzhen, etc. have written inscriptions for Cai Hesen, and highly praised his revolutionary life and dedicated life. On September 27, 1979, Comrade Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription for the collected works of Cai Hesen: "Comrade Cai Hesen was one of the early outstanding leaders of our party. He made great contributions to the Chinese revolution, and the Chinese people will always remember him."

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Former residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang

Published in May 2013

Guangjiatang, the former residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang, was built in late Qing Dynasty with brick and wood structure, with a total construction area of more than 550 square meters. In 1899, Cai Hesen's father, Cai Rongfeng, and his mother, Ge Jianhao, returned from Shanghai to buy guangjiatang and settle down in Shuangfeng. Cai Chang, the outstanding leader of Chinese women's movement, was born here on May 14, 1900, and spent eight years of childhood here with his brother Cai Hesen.

Scope of protection: 10M from the fourth boundary to the outer wall, and 200m around it is the construction control zone.

Surrounding landscape

Zeng Guofan's former residence, Yuelu Mountain, Fuhou hall, Baiyu hall, Cai Hesen memorial hall, Qiu Jin's former residence, GE's ancestral hall, Ge Jianhao's tomb, nujie square in Shuangfeng County, Lieshan Park in Shuangfeng County

Features of scenic spots

Features: ancient residence, blue stone setting sun, pavilions and eaves, green tile wall. The former residences of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang display the furniture and sundries used in that year and the literature of revolutionary deeds. It is an important scenic spot and the leader of red tourism in Hunan Province. The former residences of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang are red tourism classics in Hunan Province.

Local specialties

Yongfeng spicy sauce spiced dried tofu Guofan Xiyan Jiufeng cured fish cured meat qingshuping Huaishan Yongfeng lantern pepper fat barbecue stewed silver carp small hill bamboo shoots chicken

Driving route

Changsha direction:

Changsha → (along Jingzhu G4) → Zhuzhou → (take Jingzhu line) → Hengshan County → (go down Hengshan Baiguo toll station) → (take 314 provincial road) → the best route of former residence, only 1.5 hours from Changsha to the scenic spot

Changsha → Zhuzhou or Xiangtan → Xiangxiang → Xiangxiang → G320 → Shuangfeng → s314 → former residence

Changsha → (take S41, Beijing Zhuhai G4, Changsha Zhuzhou S21 Expressway / 107 National Highway) → Zhuzhou or Xiangtan → (take G60, Shanghai Kunming Expressway) → Shuangfeng County → (leave from Shuangfeng toll station) → (take s314) → former residence.

At the junction of daojingzi town and Heye town in 314 Hunan Province, the sign of "former residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang" is quite striking.

Memorial Hall

There are more than 140 cultural relics, photos and works of Comrade Cai Hesen from his hard study in his youth to his lifelong struggle for the Chinese revolution on display in the museum, with six exhibition halls. The hall displays a half length bronze statue of Cai Hesen, which was donated by his granddaughter Cai Yu (daughter of CAI Bo) and his son-in-law Xu Longsen in 1988. The bronze statue is 1.15 meters high and 2.68 meters high, with Deng Xiaoping's inscription on September 27, 1979 as the background. Outside the museum, there are group sculptures of "Comrade Cai Hesen's brilliant family", including Cai Hesen, Xiang Jingyu, Cai Chang, Ge Jianhao, Cai Luxian and Li Fuchun.

The exhibition hall of Cai Hesen's life stories is divided into six parts: determined to "create a new environment" (1895-1918), organized work study program in France (1918-1919), systematically put forward the idea of Party building, led the workers and peasants to fight against imperialism and feudalism (1922-1925), adhered to the correct line of the Party (1926-1930), and the people always remember him.

Wide Cai Hesen square

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