Chinese militia weapons and equipment exhibition hall

Chinese militia weapons and equipment exhibition hall

Located at the source of Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, Tongzhou District, Beijing, the Chinese militia weapons and equipment exhibition hall was inscribed by President Jiang Zemin himself. In 1991, the ground was broken, covering an area of more than 100000 square meters, with a construction area of more than 12000 square meters. In October 1998, it was built and officially opened to the public. In the same year, it was named "Beijing national defense education base" by Beijing Municipal People's government.

More than 10000 pieces of cultural relics are collected in the museum, including more than 5000 pieces of guns, swords and other weapons from 23 countries. The quantity and variety of the exhibits can be regarded as the Grand View of the world's weapons display. It is the best place for weapon lovers to study, study and appreciate various weapons and an ideal place for national defense education.

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The exhibition hall covers an area of about 100 mu, with an indoor display area of 4500 square meters. It includes the outdoor field artillery field. The exhibition hall collects more than 10000 pieces of ground equipment and weapons of 23 other countries in the world that have gone through the Anti Japanese War, the war of liberation, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and even the modern Chinese army since the Chinese revolutionary war. The exhibition hall is characterized by sound and light effects Multimedia display mode, hoping to increase the impression of visitors.

The museum is composed of 14 parts: Weapons Exhibition Center, people's War History Museum, mountain field artillery array, simulated shooting range, national defense education base, orthopedic cold treatment hospital and environmental art. Chen Shi's swords and so on. The environment of the museum is quiet, elegant, fresh and pleasant. The main building of the Great Wall is covered with crenels, the mountain artillery array is built by field fortifications, and various weapon systems are simulated. There are more than ten centimeter long pen pistols, engraved and gilded craft pistols, world famous guns with a long history and few surviving World Wars I and II, and so on

And so on. In the museum, there are the main building with the crenels of the great wall embedded in the roof, the mountain artillery array built by the field fortifications, the simulated weapon systems, the live ammunition shooting places for various weapons, the rippling fish pond and the lush grass. It is the best place for the majority of weapon lovers to learn, study and appreciate various weapons, and the ideal place for national defense education.

Entering the gate of the exhibition hall, you can see the crenels of the great wall outside the main hall. Behind the main hall is a artillery position built by field fortifications, which is integrated with the surrounding environment. In order to make the Chinese militia weapons and equipment Museum an important military education base, it has been strongly supported and concerned by the Central Military Commission and the chief of the general staff since the beginning of preparation. Jiang Zemin also personally inscribed the name of the museum. Zhang Wannian and Chi Haotian, vice chairman of the military Commission, also gave many instructions.

Exhibition hall introduction

When you enter the hall on the first floor, you will first see a copper relief of Mao Zedong and the militia. This relief is made of a combination of copper casting and copper tapping. The project is quite large. On both sides of the hall, large light boxes are displayed. The content is the guide record of the three generations of leading core of the Communist Party to the militia.

Development history Hall

The exhibition is based on the history, combined with some physical equipment, coupled with large-scale landscape, sand table model and so on to make a detailed description, so that visitors can experience the replay of historical reality. This part shows 232 weapons, 25 equipment, 88 knives and 163 stationery.

The first was the workers' picket team and the people's self-defense army during the northern expedition. In January 1922, the first workers' picket team was formed at the Hong Kong Seamen's Congress. In August 1924, the first people's self-defense army was established in Guangyu County, Guangdong Province, which was the predecessor of the Chinese militia.

The weapons on display include all kinds of knives, Chinese made 12mm, 14mm, 18mm powder pre firing charge guns, 1988 style 7.9MM rifles, Republic of China style rifles, domestic made 7.9MM Mauser horse guns, domestic made 13mm, 9.6mm, 11mm powder pre firing charge guns and so on. Among them, the gun marked as lifting gun is particularly noteworthy. It does not indicate the age of production, and its barrel is longer than ordinary guns A lot of them. One is the front mounted gun, the other is the rear mounted gun. The gun is a heavy-duty shotgun of the Qing Dynasty. It is a Huohou gun that China seems to have come from Europe.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, China's military technology had always been in the leading position in the world, because China used gunpowder, artillery and muskets made of metal half a century earlier than Europe. After this technology was introduced into Europe through Arabia in the early 14th century, European technology developed by leaps and bounds. On the contrary, China's development was gradually slow or even stagnant until the Qing Dynasty China's gun making technology has lagged far behind that of Europe. With the invasion of European colonialism, advanced technology came back to China. China began to improve its original technology and equipment. Therefore, in this period, there were not only backward production equipment, but also relatively new equipment from Europe. This situation lasted for quite a long time. Therefore, unless the date of manufacture is marked on the body of the gun, it is difficult to determine the age of its emergence. The existence of such guns reflects the transformation of China's military technology Weak and the fact of gradual development over a long period of time.

The gun usually weighs about 1500g and has a length of 2-3.3m. It can only be used when it is carried by two people. Therefore, it is called the gun. It was the main weapon of the Qing Dynasty in the Opium War and the war against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it was still used until the invasion of the Eight Allied forces. In Australia's infantry Museum, there is also a 2.3m long gun which was abducted from China at that time.

The militia exhibition area during the Anti Japanese War

The weapons on display include American made, national made, Japanese made and British made, including Japanese 38 type 6.5mm rifle, 44 type 6.5mm horse gun, Belgian M1924 7.9MM Mauser horse gun, American made 0.45in Thomson submachine gun, British mk19mm submachine gun, 7.62mm Stan submachine gun, etc.

Tunnel show sand table

Only the theme song of "tunnel war" and the explosion of mines were heard. Then the village model on the sand table rose slowly, and the profile of the tunnel also appeared in front of the visitors. After a while, the village dropped slowly, and everything was quiet again. A Japanese soldier who once participated in the war of aggression against China wrote to the militia museum after visiting the tunnel war exhibition of Jiao Zhuanghu. The letter detailed the course of their attack during the war of aggression against China. It was only after visiting the tunnel war exhibition that he suddenly realized. On the other side, there are the shotguns, knives, spears, pine cannons and other related cultural relics used in the tunnel war. During the Anti Japanese War, the militia created a variety of irregular tactics against the Japanese, such as tunnel warfare, land mine warfare, sparrow warfare and so on.

Militia exhibition area after the founding of new China

At that time, the militia had invested 5 million people to support the Pingjin and Huaihai campaigns. Then it entered the militia exhibition area after the founding of the people's Republic of China. The weapons displayed included 54 Type 7.62mm submachine guns made in China, 43 type 7.62mm submachine guns, 712 type 31896 type 6.3mm box guns made in Germany, etc. later, the militia supported the artillery exhibition area in Jinmen. From August 1958 to November 1961, the militia participated in 480000 battles, trained 32000 gunners, more than 20000 gunners and made contributions There are 413 members, who have done 30 meritorious deeds in groups. Later, there are pictures and cultural relics of the Sino Soviet, Sino Indian and Sino Vietnamese campaigns.

Light weapons exhibition area

There are more than 5000 pistols, rifles, submachine guns and light machine guns produced in more than 50 countries around the world on display. The number of light weapons in the exhibition hall is the largest. In addition to the general ones, there are also special handmade collection pistols and special pistols, which are numerous. Pistols include automatic pistols, revolvers, special pistols, craft pistols and so on. There are two exhibition areas for Mauser pistols alone. To talk about the history of firearms in early China, we have to talk about the Mauser m1896 series pistols, which are known as "shell rifles" and "box guns". In 1921, Mr. Jiang Bo, an expert in German ordnance industry, brought back the production technology of Mauser pistols and took the name of "ten-year style" It seems that this type of pistol has been one of the main weapons of the Chinese army since the 1920s and even during the Anti Japanese war. According to statistics, there are 33 kinds of Mauser pistols in the world, and more than 10 kinds are produced and used in China alone. Many Mauser pistols are collected in the Chinese militia weapons and equipment exhibition hall, becoming the most convincing "witnesses" in the era of China's light weapons development.

1st floor gun Hall

The exhibition center of the gun hall is a 25 mm small caliber antiaircraft gun with two tubes developed by ourselves in 1984. On the east side, there are 12 107 mm rockets and mountain guns used by Japan during its invasion of China. In addition, there are about 300 retired or active mortars, anti armor weapons, observation equipment and ammunition.

Outdoor gun field

On a small hill, there are 27 kinds of artillery, including Chinese 1955 type 57mm artillery, Canadian Mk V type 57mm artillery and Japanese 47m artillery

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