Former residence of Xu Guangda

Former residence of Xu Guangda

Xu Guangda's former residence: located in Guihua Village, Huangxing Town, Changsha County, Hunan Province, it was built in 1908. The former residence had two entrances, with a total of 14 houses. Shangjin collapsed in the flood in 1954.

In March 2020, it was named the fifth batch of patriotic education bases in Hunan Province by the Propaganda Department of Hunan provincial Party committee.

Main landscape

There are nine pictures of Xu Guangda's life in the hall of his former residence. There are beds, wardrobes and other objects in two bedrooms. One kitchen has a traditional butterfly stove, and the other room has spinning wheel, coir raincoat and mixing barrel. Xu Guangda is an outstanding proletarian militarist. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955. When Xu Guangda learned that he would be awarded the rank of general in 1955, he took the initiative to write to Chairman Mao Zedong and asked to be demoted. Therefore, among the ten generals, he was the only one with a rank of five.

In order to commemorate Xu Guangda's great achievements in his military life and carry forward his modest and generous revolutionary feelings, in addition to restoring the original buildings, renovating the surrounding environment and building a new exhibition hall of Xu Guangda's deeds, a "rang Title stele" was added in front of his former residence. The stele is 2.5 meters high, 5 meters wide and weighs 30 tons. It is made of granite and gneiss in the shape of a flag, and the stele is inlaid with Xu Guangda stone Xu Guangda's letter to Chairman Mao Zedong asking for demotion is embedded in the stone statue. The inscription was written by the famous calligrapher General Li duo. Xu Guangda's former residence and the exhibition room nearby have become the base of patriotism education.

building structure

The former residence covers an area of 1, 62 mu, two into, 21 rooms, brick and wood structure, green tile foot, soil brick wall, wooden lattice window, wooden frame gate, fir front eaves column (one on the left is replaced by bamboo). On November 19, 1908, Xu Guangda was born in the front room of the entrance hall, where he spent his childhood and school days. In March 2005, Zeng Qinghong, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice president of the people's Republic of China, proposed to restore Xu Guangda's former residence as a revolutionary memorial site when he visited Changsha County. In accordance with the instructions, Changsha City restored the original 14 houses of its former residence.

Honors

In March 2020, it was named the fifth batch of patriotic education bases in Hunan Province by the Propaganda Department of Hunan provincial Party committee.

Profile

Xu Guangda (1908.11.19 ～ 1969.6.3), formerly known as Xu Dehua, was born in luofuchong, Dongshan City, Changsha County, Hunan Province. One of the top ten generals of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, senior general and strategist of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. Xu Guangda joined the Communist Youth League of China when he was studying in Changsha Normal School in May 1925. In September of the same year, he transferred to the Communist Party of China. In the spring of 1926, he studied in the fifth issue of Huangpu Military Academy, and later incorporated into the artillery section (Wuhan Branch of the central military and political school). In May 1927, he was incorporated into the central independent division and took part in the fight against Xia Douyin, a warlord, led by general Ye Ting, commander of Wuhan garrison. In July, he served as a trainee platoon leader in the artillery battalion of the Fourth Army of the national revolutionary army. In August, he joined the Nanchang Uprising army in Ningdu, Jiangxi Province. He once served as the platoon leader and acting company commander of the 75th regiment of the 25th division of the 11th army, and participated in battles such as Huichang and sanheba. Later, he worked in the army of the Kuomintang. He married Zou Jinghua on June 20, 1928. In October 1929, he was sent to Honghu revolutionary base by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In February 1930, he participated in the formation of the Sixth Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army, and successively served as chief of staff, political commissar and division commander of the 17th division. He participated in the opening up of the Western Soviet Area of Hunan and Hubei with Honghu as the center, and led his troops to take part in anti "encirclement and suppression" operations many times. In the spring of 1932, he was seriously injured and later went to the Soviet Union for treatment. During his stay in the Soviet Union, he studied in international Lenin college and Oriental Communist University. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he returned to China and successively served as the head of the training department, the director of education, and the president of the third branch of the Anti Japanese military and Political University. He engaged in the research of Marxist military theory and trained Anti Japanese military and political cadres. In January 1941, he served as the chief of the general staff of the Revolutionary Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, as well as the communications commander, air defense commander and garrison commander of Yan'an. Later, he served as the brigade commander of the second independent brigade of the 120th division of the Eighth Route Army and the divisional commander of the second army of the Jinsui military region. He led the army and the people to carry out guerrilla warfare and consolidate and expand the Anti Japanese base areas in Wuzhai, Shenchi, Baode and Pianguan. At the beginning of the liberation war, he served as the commander of the third column of the Jinsui military region. In August 1947, he led the third column to cross the Yellow River to the West and became a member of the Northwest Field Army (later the first field army). He took part in the battles of shajiadian, Yanchuan, Qingjian and Yichuan. In January 1949, he served as commander of the army. In July, he served as commander of the Second Corps. In the battle of Fumei, which encircled and annihilated the main force in the south of Hu Zong, he led his troops to detour behind the enemy and cut off the enemy's retreat, which played an important role in ensuring the complete victory of the battle. Then he moved westward to break through the main position of the enemy in Nanshan of Lanzhou, seize the Yellow River Bridge, annihilate the enemy in the city with the 19th corps, and liberate Lanzhou. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was ordered to form armored forces. In June 1950, he served as the commander of the armored forces and led the formation of armored forces' organs, troops, colleges, bases and scientific research institutions. In the construction of armored forces, it is emphasized that "no technology, no armored forces". It requires the combination of political work and military technical work, military training and actual combat needs, paying attention to the study of foreign advanced military science and technology, and paying attention to the cultivation of cadres and the use of intellectuals. He was the president of tank school and the dean of armored forces college. In September 1955, he was awarded the rank of general, and was awarded the first level of 81 medal, the first level of independence and freedom medal, and the first level of Liberation Medal. He was a member of the first, second and third national defense committees. In 1956, he was elected a member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In September 1959, he served as Deputy Minister of defense. He was persecuted in the "Cultural Revolution" and died in Beijing on June 3, 1969.

Address: former residence of Xu Guangda, Huangxing Town, Changsha County, Changsha City (100m south of Huangjiang highway)

Longitude: 113.090291

Latitude: 28.136115

Chinese PinYin : Xu Guang Da Gu Ju