Xiang Jingyu martyrs cemetery

Xiang Jingyu martyrs cemetery

Xiangjingyu martyrs cemetery is located in the west of Guishan mountain, Hanyang District, Wuhan city. The cemetery is located in the East and west of the mountain. It covers an area of about 8 mu and has a construction area of 5300 square meters.

Overview of the cemetery

In May 1978, it was built to commemorate the martyrs Xiang Jingyu, an early outstanding member of our party, a pioneer of the Chinese women's movement and a model woman leader, and those who died during the Agrarian Revolutionary War.

The whole cemetery is surrounded by mountains and rivers, green trees, pines and cypresses, solemn and beautiful scenery. The cemetery is mainly composed of the life of Xiang Jingyu, the statue of the martyr, the martyr's tomb and the red soldier's cemetery.

On August 31, 1989, Xiang Jingyu martyrs cemetery was approved as the national key martyrs memorial building protection unit.

On August 20, 1989, with the approval of the State Council, it was listed as the second batch of "national key units for the protection of memorial buildings for revolutionary martyrs".

In February 1995, it was designated as a national "patriotic education base" by the Ministry of civil affairs.

Life of martyr Xiang Jingyu

Xiang Jingyu, female, formerly known as Xiang Junxian, is a Tujia nationality native of Xupu, Hunan Province. She was born in a merchant family on September 4, 1895. In his early years, he studied in Changde women's normal school, the first provincial women's normal school and Changsha Zhounan women's school.

Xupu women's school was founded in 1916 as the principal. Spread new ideas, new culture and oppose feudal ethics in teaching. In the autumn of 1919, he joined the "Xinmin society" founded by Mao Zedong and Cai Hesen, and went to France to work and study in the same year.

He returned to China in 1922 and joined the Communist Party of China. He was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee and a member of the Central Committee at the second, third and fourth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. After the Fourth National Congress, she was added as a member of the Central Bureau. She was the first woman member of the Central Committee and the first woman minister of our party. She has successively led the strike of "Shanghai women workers' Union of cotton mills". She has published more than ten articles on "the National Conference and women" and "the national revolutionary movement of Chinese women in the future" in women, consciousness and other newspapers. She has put forward such views as "when the world revolution is realized, it is the day of success of labor liberation", "women's Liberation and labor liberation are natural partners" To be an outstanding organizer and leader of women's work in China.

In 1925, he went to Moscow University of the Soviet Union to study. At the beginning of 1927, he returned to China and worked in Wuhan Federation of trade unions, Hankou municipal Party committee and Hubei provincial Party committee. In July of the same year, after Wang Jingwei's rebellion and revolution, the Wuhan National government turned to underground struggle and was in charge of the party journal Changjiang. On March 21, 1928, due to the betrayal of the traitor, he was unfortunately arrested in Wuhan. On May 1 of the same year, he died bravely in Hankou. Yu Ji was only 33 years old.

Statue of martyr Xiang Jingyu

The statue of martyr Xiang Jingyu is located in the middle of the junction of the large and small squares. It is 4.2 meters high and covers an area of 12 square meters. The statue is made of Han white jade with a whole body, a book in hand, a serene look, a slight side of the head, and two eyes gazing into the distance. It shows the martyrs' boundless loyalty to the revolution, full of confidence in the cause, and full of hope for the future. The statue has a black granite facing base and a black marble base at the bottom. Han Baiyu statue was created and designed by Cheng Yunxian, then director of the sculpture room of the Chinese people's Revolutionary Military Museum. It was completed in May 1988.

Xiang Jingyu's tomb

In 1978, the 50th anniversary of Xiang Jingyu's death, the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee and Wuhan Municipal Committee decided to build Xiang Jingyu's tomb in guishantitou, Hanyang District. Comrade Deng Xiaoping personally inscribed "Xiang Jingyu's tomb", which was rebuilt in 1988.

Xiang Jingyu's tomb is located in the middle of the small square behind the statue, with a total height of 1.5 meters and an area of 16 square meters. The base is made of white cement imitation stone. The tomb is built in the middle of the base, in the shape of a platform, with a red polished granite veneer. The top is decorated with a bronze Party emblem. Four Euonymus japonicus balls are planted at the four corners of the tomb.

Red soldier cemetery

"Red soldier cemetery" is located in the center of the square. It is a combination of Steles and tombs. It is like a mountain and covers an area of 30 square meters. The tomb is 1 meter high and in platform shape, with white marble and red polished granite veneer. The top is decorated with a copper cast five-star wreath pattern with a diameter of 1 meter. The monument is 5.2 meters high and 6.7 meters wide. The upper part of the monument is a party emblem surrounded by a copper cast wreath with a diameter of 0.8 meters. In the middle of the monument, the white marble is engraved with six gold pasted characters of "red soldier cemetery" inscribed by Comrade Peng Zhen himself. The back of the monument is inlaid with gold The red marble inscription is decorated with a copper five-star pattern with a diameter of 1m in the center of the red marble below.

The red soldier cemetery buries Chinese Communists and revolutionary masses killed by Kuomintang reactionaries during the Agrarian Revolutionary War. On July 15, 1927, the KMT rightist group headed by Wang Jingwei revolted openly in Wuhan. It put forward the bloody slogan of "it is better to kill one thousand in vain than to let one person escape the net", killing the Communists and the revolutionary masses crazily. In the face of white terror, the Communists have no fear. With the heroic spirit of "it doesn't matter to behead, as long as the doctrine is true", they lead the revolutionary masses from all walks of life in Wuhan to fight against the enemy. Thousands of revolutionaries were killed by Kuomintang reactionaries. Xiang Jingyu, Xia Minghan, Huang Wuyi, Ren Kaiguo, Wei Renjing, Ma Junsan, Huang Chiguang, Deng Yasheng, Li Hanjun, Zhan Dabei, he Yudao and so on are famous among them.

After the martyrs died, some of their bodies were claimed and buried by their families, relatives and friends. Some of the unclaimed bodies were buried by social charity departments, and the other part were buried by Communist Party member and seaman Chen Chunhe and his brother-in-law Wang zhaigong, who risked their lives in the dead of night. They were buried in secret near Buqian Pavilion at the foot of Guixi mountain, and their names were recorded. Later, Chen Chunhe and Wang zhaigong were also killed by Kuomintang reactionaries, and the list of martyrs was lost. We only know that hundreds of martyrs were buried there, including outstanding communist party members Xiang Jingyu, Ma Junsan, Zhao Shidang and Chen Qike. Later generations remember these martyrs and call them "Red soldiers".

In 1955, due to the construction of Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, the martyr Zhonggu was buried in the south slope of biandanshan cemetery in Hanyang. In October 1986, the people's Government of Wuhan moved the red soldier cemetery from biandanshan cemetery in Hanyang to xiangjingyu cemetery. Comrade Peng Zhen inscribed "red soldier cemetery" in his own handwriting and set up a monument to commemorate it forever.

Traditional education base

Xiang Jingyu martyrs' cemetery is one of the important revolutionary tradition education bases in Wuhan. For more than ten years, with the direct concern and support of the CPC Wuhan Municipal Committee, the Municipal People's government, the CPC Hanyang District Committee and the District People's government, it has been playing an active role in revolutionary tradition education and promoting the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

Every year, tens of thousands of young students, PLA officers and soldiers, cadres, workers and people from all over the country come to pay homage to the martyrs' graves and remember them. Hubei provincial Party committee and provincial people's government, Wuhan municipal Party committee and municipal people's government, and various people's organizations hold various forms of commemorative activities in the cemetery every year.

Address: No.5 Guishan North Road, Hanyang District, Wuhan

Longitude: 114.267961

Latitude: 30.554606

Tel: 027-84713530 (Guishan)

Ticket information: no ticket required. Included in Guishan scenic spot ticket 15 yuan

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