Site of New Fourth Army Headquarters

Site of New Fourth Army Headquarters

The former site of the New Fourth Army headquarters, located in Jing County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, was built in 1915. It is the residence of Zhang Xun, a Northern Warlord. There are two brick and wood buildings and one bungalow in it. It is an ancient building combining Chinese and western.

On January 6, 1938, the headquarters of the New Fourth Army was stationed here and completed the arduous task of forming the New Fourth Army. The New Fourth Army, composed of Red Army guerrillas from eight provinces, walked out of the deep mountains and forests, went north on the journey of Anti Japanese, became the mainstay of Anti Japanese in Central China, and made immortal contributions to the cause of liberation of the Chinese nation.

In 1961, the former site of the New Fourth Army headquarters was announced by the State Council of the people's Republic of China as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Historical evolution

After the July 7th incident in 1937, the Red Army guerrillas in 14 areas of eight southern provinces were reorganized into the New Fourth Army of the national revolutionary army. On December 25 of the same year, the New Fourth Army headquarters was established in Wuhan. He entered Yunling on August 2, 1938.

In January 1941, the southern Anhui incident took place. In the past three years, the headquarters of the New Fourth Army has been in Yunling, which is a critical period for the New Fourth Army to develop behind the enemy lines in China. Under the leadership of Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, the officers and men of the New Fourth Army were active in the north and south of the river, bravely resisting the enemy and creating many anti Japanese base areas. As the New Fourth Army headquarters in this period, it made great contributions to the Chinese revolution and left a glorious page in the history of Chinese revolution. The former site of the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was left when the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was stationed in Yunling.

In July 1963, marshal Chen Yi inscribed the name of the memorial hall of the former site of the New Fourth Army headquarters.

Since the 1970s, Deng Xiaoping, Yang Shangkun, Qiao Shi, Li Ruihuan and other party and state leaders have successively inspected Jingxian county and visited the memorial hall of the former site of the New Fourth Army headquarters.

On May 21, 2001, General Secretary Jiang Zemin personally visited Jingxian County, visited the Xuan paper factory of Jingxian county and the memorial hall of the former site of the New Fourth Army headquarters of Yunling County, and happily inscribed inscriptions, encouraging the people of Jingxian county to carry forward the heroic spirit of the revolutionary martyrs and "make further efforts to develop the old area well".

On April 21, 2005, Wei Jianxing, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, inspected the former site of the New Fourth Army headquarters in Yunling.

Architectural features

The former site of the New Fourth Army headquarters has a total construction area of 10000 square meters. The memorial hall of the former site of the New Fourth Army military headquarters now protects ten sites, including the headquarters of the military headquarters, the Great Hall of the military headquarters, the repair facility, the political department, the training team, the Field Service Regiment, the Southeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the martyr's tomb, yetingqiao, etc., and has newly added facilities such as Yunling tablet garden, yeting Bronze Statue Square, auxiliary exhibition, special exhibition, etc. Combined with restoration display and auxiliary display, the great achievements of the proletarian revolutionaries of the old generation in the New Fourth Army and the tragic page of the "South Anhui Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries are reproduced in different forms.

Cultural relics

Former site of military headquarters (zhongmoyuan, dafudi)

The former site of the military headquarters (Zhongmo garden and dafudi) is located in Luoli village on the Bank of YEYE river at the foot of Yunling mountain. It used to be two landlord's residential gardens ("Zhongmo garden" and "dafudi"), in which the general staff office and the Secretariat of the military headquarters are respectively located. The commander and Ye Ting, deputy commander Xiang Ying, deputy chief of staff Zhou zikun, Secretary General Li Yimeng and chief of staff Lai Chuanzhu all lived and worked here. In the spring of 1939, Zhou Enlai, vice chairman of the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Vice Minister of the Political Department of the Central Military Commission of the national government, and Secretary of the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, also stayed in the "ink garden". Smedley, an American journalist, and Ren Guang, a musician, lived and worked in the "ink garden" one after another.

Former site of the Great Hall of the military headquarters (Chen's ancestral hall)

The former site of the Great Hall of the military headquarters (Chen's ancestral hall) was the Chen's ancestral hall in Yunling. It was built in the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty and rebuilt in the reign of Emperor Daoguang and Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. It covers an area of 10.3 Mu and is one of the largest ancestral halls in Jing County. The whole ancestral hall is divided into three parts: front, middle and back. The building is magnificent and spectacular. When the military headquarters was in Yunling, it was the main place for holding various large-scale conferences and cultural and recreational activities. In the spring of 1939, Zhou Enlai made an important report entitled "current situation and tasks of the New Fourth Army" to the general meeting of cadres of the whole army.

Former site of the Political Department of the military headquarters

The former site of the Political Department of the military headquarters is located in Tang Village, 2.5km west of Luoli village. It is a three room, two compartment, two entry apartment. The wing rooms on both sides are the offices and bedrooms of director yuan Guoping, deputy director Deng Zihui, Secretary General Huang Cheng and other security personnel. The political department consists of the Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, the democratic movement department, the enemy Work Department, the security department, and the editorial board of the anti enemy newspaper, all of which are distributed in the whole Tang village. In this area, the political department helped the local people to establish various mass Anti Japanese organizations, such as the "peasant Anti Japanese Association", "the workers' anti Japanese Association", "the women's Anti Japanese Association", "the business Anti Japanese Association", "the children's regiment" and the militia, to carry out Anti Japanese propaganda, to disintegrate the enemy forces and to reduce rent and interest rates. In February 1939, the Ministry of political affairs held the second political work conference of the whole army to formulate the New Fourth Army Political Work Regulations (Draft). At the same time, the Jiangnan enemy workers' conference and the youth representatives' conference of the whole army were held. During his stay in Yunling, Comrade Zhou Enlai wrote a headline for the anti enemy newspaper.

Former site of military repair facility (Guansheng Temple)

The former site of Guansheng hall is about 1km south of Luoli village. It was originally built by Chen family in Yunling village. It was built from Wanli to Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty (1628-1644) and in Qing Dynasty. The structure is harmonious and exquisite. When the military headquarters was in Yunling, it was a branch of Xiaohekou ordnance factory in Jingxian County, under the leadership of the Ordnance Department of the military headquarters. Its main task was to repair all kinds of guns, transform and remake all kinds of guns and bullets seized. There are many slogans of the New Fourth Army in the hall.

Former site of battlefield Service Club (Youqi Humanities)

The former site of the field service club (Youqi Humanities) is in the new village close to the foot of Yunling, 2 kilometers away from Luoli village. The regimental headquarters is a five room private open hall house with a stone inscription "You Qi humanities" in front of the door. Chief Zhu kejing, deputy chief Xie Yunhui and Secretary General Xu Pingyu once lived here. There are three teams, namely, the democratic movement, the propaganda and the performance teams, as well as painting, drama, music, the democratic movement and the propaganda teams. They all live in the new village. Most of the members of the regiment came from Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hong Kong, Macao and other places. After special training and carrying out various activities, they were one of the most dynamic Anti Japanese teams in the New Fourth Army. Comrade Zhou Enlai once took a group photo with the leaders of the military department in front of the regiment department for many times.

Former site of Southeast Bureau of CPC Central Committee

The former site of the Southeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee is in Dingjiashan village, 4 kilometers west of Luoli village. In January 1938, when the New Fourth Army headquarters was established in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, the southeast branch of the CPC Central Committee was also established. At that time, it was called the southeast branch of the CPC Central Committee, under the leadership of the Yangtze River Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. On October 25, Wuhan fell, the Yangtze River Bureau was abolished, and the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee with Chongqing as the center was established. Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu were responsible for leading the work of the southern party affairs. At this time, the southeast branch of the CPC Central Committee was changed into the Southeast Bureau, directly under the leadership of the Central Committee, and Xiang Ying was the secretary. Zeng Shan, deputy secretary and organization Minister of the Southeast Bureau, Wen Yangchun, secretary general, Chen Pixian, youth minister, Li Jianzhen, women minister and Li Buxin, Secretary of the South Anhui Special Committee, all lived in Dingjiashan and Baiguoshu villages.

Ye tingqiao

Yeting bridge is one or two hundred meters away from Luoli village. On the Yezi River, there is a small bridge across the river. This is yeting bridge. Yeting bridge used to be a small wooden bridge built temporarily by villagers with a few small trees, which was extremely unsafe for pedestrians. After the New Fourth Army headquarters was stationed, commander Ye Ting personally directed the design and construction of a brand-new slab bridge. The villagers deeply felt that commander Ye cared about people's diseases and changed the original name of the bridge to "Ye Ting bridge".

Monument to the martyrs of the New Fourth Army

The monument to the martyrs of the New Fourth Army is located in huanglonggang, 3 kilometers east of Luoli village, Yunling. There is a monument in front of the tomb: the monument to the martyrs of the New Fourth Army who died in the Anti Japanese war. After the Wannan incident in 1941, the Kuomintang reactionaries carried out bloody cleansing and strict control over the Yunling people, and the tombs of the martyrs who died in the Anti Japanese War of the New Fourth Army could not be publicly swept. In Yunling, there are more than 40 members of the peasant Anti Japanese Association of different surnames, who spontaneously form the solitary grave Association. Every year during the Qingming Festival, they take care of the martyrs' graves in the name of picking the solitary grave, so as to express their infinite thoughts on the martyrs. The memorial Tomb of the martyrs of the New Fourth Army against Japan has become a physical witness for Yunling people to cherish the memory of the New Fourth Army forever.

Collection

There are more than 4000 pieces of precious pictures, cultural relics and materials in the memorial hall of the former site of the New Fourth Army headquarters, including pocket watches used by Zhou zikun, a senior commander of the New Fourth Army, and telescopes used by Ye Ting.

Cultural relic value

The former sites of the New Fourth Army headquarters are all Huizhou classical buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties, with unique architectural style. They are one of the most complete revolutionary sites and one of the eight important historical sites in modern China. These former sites, with their rich historical and cultural connotations, show the glorious deeds of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries. The great spirit of the Iron Army and the national spirit are passed on to later generations.

The former site of the headquarters of the New Fourth Army is located in Yunling Township, Jing County, Anhui Province, where the number of troops of the New Fourth Army has grown from 20000 to more than 90000,

Chinese PinYin : Xin Si Jun1 Jun1 Bu Jiu Zhi