Red Army builds revolutionary martyrs memorial garden

In 1984, the Red Army tree Memorial Park was built. In recent years, the memorial park has been named as one of the provincial key protected revolutionary sites and one of the top ten patriotic education bases in Jingzhou City. It is the patriotic education base for many primary and secondary schools.

Red Army builds revolutionary martyrs memorial garden

Located in Taohua mountain, Shishou City, Hubei Province, it is an important red tourist attraction along the border of Hunan and Hubei. It is a comprehensive martyr memorial park integrating commemoration, admiration and patriotism education. It is also an important position to remember revolutionary martyrs, carry forward revolutionary spirit and carry out traditional education. There are three old yellow core trees in the park. These three yellow core trees are the Red Army trees named by he long.

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Red Army tree, its original name is huangxinshu. The longest tree is more than 350 years old, about 30 meters high, and the trunk needs two people to surround. There were seven Red Army trees in Taohua mountain, but only three remain.

The origin of the name

In October 1930, Deng Zhongxia and he long led the second Red Army Corps to the south. The headquarters of the Corps was located in tiaoguan. The troops were carrying out intensive military expansion activities in the area, making full preparations for the war. One day, he long, Deng Zhongxia, Zhou Yiqun and their entourage rode to Taohua mountain to inspect the expansion of the army. They rode to the tiger's paw. They saw red flags fluttering here. People were crowded and bustling. They came forward to check the situation and found that it was the people of Taohua mountain who had selected a group of recruits from the red guards to support the Red Army's southern expedition. They were training here and attracted local people I'm looking around.

Deng Boxun, the Secretary of the district Party committee who led the team, was very excited to see he long personally come to inspect and guide the army expansion work. He rushed forward to report to he long and other leaders the touching scene of young farmers in Taohua mountain actively signing up for the army. He long nodded as he listened to the report. Seeing that all the more than 100 recruits were strong and energetic, he praised the expansion of the army here.

After talking about his work, he long walked to the yellow core tree. He was attracted by the shady tree and the striking slogans on the trunk. He long said happily: "among the slogans I saw, this is a masterpiece. That's a good idea! The Red Army in Taohua mountain area started from here in batches. I think these trees are called "Red Army trees"! We should protect the Red Army tree in the future! The success of the revolution is a good education for young children! " Thus the Red Army tree got its name.

Historical development

In December 1927, Li Hengjiu and Qu Yangchun, the leaders of Shishou workers' and peasants' revolutionary army, led more than 300 rioters to attack Tashi post from jiufogang. When passing by, rioters Liu daomin, Yang Laoliu and others scraped the bark off the yellow core tree and wrote "fight local tyrants and divide the fields!" And so on. This is the first time that revolutionary slogans appear in Taohua mountain area.

In March 1928, Zhou Yiqun, the person in charge of Xiangexi special committee, came to Taohua mountain and selected huangxinshu as the gathering place to establish the first underground Party branch in Taohua mountain area headed by Fu Chaozheng.

In October 1930, on the eve of the second Red Army's southern expedition, the small mound where Huang Xinshu was was was an important training ground. One day, he long, Deng Zhongxia, Zhou Yiqun and others came here to inspect the "Red Army expansion" work. When they saw the well-trained Red Army recruits under the tree and the striking Red Army slogans on the tree trunk, he long happily called these trees "Red Army trees".

The Red Army tree is a living historical witness for the people of Taohuashan Soviet area to follow Helong's revolution.

In March 1974, the then Jingzhou administrative office listed the Red Army tree as a key cultural relic and allocated 15000 yuan to build the memorial Pavilion. On June 3, 1985, according to the will, a part of the ashes of lieutenant general Dun Xingyun, former deputy commander of the armored forces of the Chinese people's Liberation Army and member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, were buried under the Red Army tree. In 1999, the Red Army tree was listed as the patriotic education base of Hubei Province.

In August 2007, with the care and support of General Liu Jingsong, former president of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, and major general he Jiesheng, daughter of Marshal he long, Hong Kong Silver International Group donated 1 million yuan to expand the Red Army tree revolutionary martyrs memorial park. In April 2008, the project was completed. The Red Army tree revolutionary martyrs memorial park, with a total investment of more than 6 million yuan and an area of 28.6 mu, is an important red tourist attraction at the junction of Hunan and Hubei provinces, including the mausoleum of Shishou founding general, monument, Red Army square, relief wall, corridor, multi-functional exhibition hall, fountain, ancient trees and famous trees.

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