Octagonal building

Octagonal building is located in Maoping village, 36 kilometers away from Ciping. It is a two-story building with earth brick structure in Maoping village. It is named after the octagonal skylight. From October 1927 to February 1929, Mao Zedong lived here and wrote such brilliant works as "why can China's red regime exist?". In the building, there are large inkstones, bamboo tubes, iron lamps, green oil lamps, etc. that Mao Zedong used in those years.

Octagonal building

Behind Xie's Shengong temple in Maoping village, 16 kilometers southeast of Ninggang County, Jiangxi Province, there is a two room brick building with an octagonal skylight, which is called octagonal building by local people.

brief introduction

From October 1927 to February 1929, during the struggle in Jinggangshan, Mao Zedong often lived and worked in bajiaolou. Under the clear oil lamp of the octagonal building, Mao Zedong wrote "why can China's red regime exist?"? 》Two brilliant works, the struggle of Jinggangshan, summed up the struggle experience of Jinggangshan revolutionary base, clarified the law of China's revolutionary development, the basic conditions for the existence and development of the red regime, and put forward the brilliant thought of "armed separatism of workers and peasants". The light of the octagonal tower illuminated the road to victory of the Chinese revolution in the vast night. In the building, there are large inkstones, bamboo tubes, iron lamps, green oil lamps, etc. that Mao Zedong used in those years. In the Museum of Agrarian Revolutionary War, there is a light and simple oil lamp on display. This blackened oil lamp is one of the many oil lamps used by the red army when they were in Jinggangshan. It looks so ordinary: a 20 cm high bamboo tube is used as a nursery, on which a small iron spoon with lamp oil and wick is placed, and on both sides there is a bamboo beam made of bamboo skin which is easy to carry. Now people have abandoned it. It leaves people only distant and vague memories.

History reappears

In October 1927, Mao Zedong led the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops to Jinggangshan, where he founded the first rural revolutionary base and ignited the spark of "armed separatist regime of workers and peasants". At the end of April 1928, Zhu De and Chen Yi led the remaining troops of Nanchang Uprising and the southern Hunan Agricultural army to join the workers' and peasants' Revolutionary Army led by Mao Zedong in ningganglong City, and established the Fourth Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Revolutionary Army (soon renamed the Fourth Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army). Zhu De served as the commander of the army and Mao Zedong served as the party representative and Secretary of the Military Commission. In December of the same year, Peng Dehuai led the Fourth Army of the Pingjiang uprising army The 5th and 4th Red Armies joined forces in Ninggang county. The revolutionary forces of Jinggangshan have further expanded.

The expansion of the Jinggangshan revolutionary base also made the Kuomintang authorities panic. In order to strangle the revolutionary base in the cradle, they launched many "joint suppression" and "advance suppression" against Jinggangshan militarily, and imposed strict blockade on Jinggangshan economically, which made it difficult for the Jinggangshan base to provide clothing, ammunition, firewood, rice, oil and salt. In order to carry out a long-term revolutionary war, Mao Zedong made careful calculations and educated the Red Army soldiers to save grain and oil. Because Jinggangshan only produces a small amount of tea oil, most of the oil needs to go down the mountain to fight local tyrants. Therefore, when Mao Zedong led his troops to Jinggangshan, he announced the use of oil to the troops

It is stipulated that each company and its above organs can use one oil lamp to light three wicks when they are in office; when they are not in office, they should turn off the oil lamp; the company keeps one oil lamp for duty and sentry, but only one wick can be lighted on time. In Jinggangshan, the whole army strictly carried out this regulation. Every night, with the sound of the light out signal, the soldiers blow out the oil lamp, and only one of the company's oil lamps is lit.

Mao Zedong grasped this seemingly trivial matter, and let the soldiers know how to be careful and frugal, so that the limited materials can be used for a longer time, so as to tide over the difficulties and meet the victory. At the same time, Mao Zedong set an example. He had to work late into the night every day, but when he could use one wick, he would never use two. It was under the weak light of such an oil lamp that Mao Zedong wrote "why can China's red regime exist?"? 》From the aspects of theory and practice, this paper systematically sums up the experience of the revolutionary struggle in Jinggangshan and expounds the brilliant thought of "the armed separatist regime of workers and peasants".

This oil lamp accompanied Mao Zedong, in a very difficult environment, pointed out the only correct revolutionary road for the Chinese revolution to encircle the city with the countryside and finally seize the city. Therefore, the oil lamp in Jinggangshan has become the guiding light of the revolution. It guides the Chinese people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, to fight against the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang and carry out the agrarian revolution in depth.

Traffic information

Jinggangshan railway station has a direct bus to Ciping passenger station, and then you can take the scenic spot green car to get there.

Address: Maoping scenic spot, Jinggangshan

Longitude: 114.05203819275

Latitude: 26.655941259806

Ticket information: included in the pass, 190 yuan

Chinese PinYin : Ba Jiao Lou