Former residence of Xu Qianqian

Former residence of Xu Qianqian

Xu Qianqian's former residence is located in Yong'an village, Dongye Town, Wutai County, Shanxi Province. It was built in the early years of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. Xu Qianqian is one of the top ten marshals of the PLA. Marshal Xu Qianqian was born here in 1901. As a result of years of disrepair, the former residence has long been dilapidated. After Xu Qianqian's death, local departments at all levels raised funds to restore the original appearance of his former residence.

In December 2016, Xu Qianqian's former residence was selected into the list of national red tourist attractions.

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This is a typical courtyard style building in northern Shanxi. The front of the courtyard is the main room, and the two sides are wing rooms. The upper and lower floors are where Xu Shuai lived and studied in his youth. In his former residence, there are a small wooden table used by Marshal Xu in his childhood, a marshal's dress when Mao Zedong honored him in 1955, and Xu's woolen sweater, military uniform and other clothing. Xu Shuai's two favorite ancient poems in his life, the original of "lime chant" and "Gui although Shou", are also stored here. The material objects and pictures reflect the honest and simple spirit of the old generation of revolutionaries, who fought for the revolutionary cause all his life. The exhibition of Xu Shuai's life and deeds and the inscriptions of Li Xiannian, the proletarian revolutionist of the older generation, are also listed. They are solemn, solemn and plain, and have been listed as the patriotic education base for teenagers.

On May 25, 2006, Xu Qianqian's former residence was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

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According to reports, the former residence was restored by the people's Government of Wutai County in 1992, covering an area of 216 square meters. The three main rooms in this ordinary quadrangle are Pavilion style buildings, with rooms below. Comrade Xu Qianqian was born here on November 8, 1901. The local government attaches great importance to the management of Xu Shuai's former residence. It specially sets up a deputy branch level organization, which is responsible for the daily work of the three departments. Therefore, when I enter the former residence, I feel that the furnishings in the courtyard are very organized. There is a bronze bust of Marshal Xu Qianqian in the courtyard. There are five exhibition rooms in the East and west of the former residence. These exhibition rooms display the great and glorious life history of Marshal Xu Qianqian. In addition to the photos, there are many precious objects, such as binoculars, old military uniforms, and water bottles. These objects with the smoke of war vividly show Marshal Xu Qianxiang's military career.

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Marshal Xu Qianqian's former residence is in Yong'an village, Dongzhi Town, Wutai County, Shanxi Province, a village by the Hutuo River. With the signboard of "Marshal's hometown", he searched all the way along the country road, and finally found the village where Xu Qianqian's former residence was in a very lonely village. The car was parked in a square with a stage - now a parking lot for visitors. In Qiuyang, two farmers on the side of the square are selling local products, dates and so on. A few minutes' walk leads to the alley where the former residence is located, a courtyard with a platform gate, which is quite common in the north. This is the former residence of Marshal Xu Qianqian, who was the most influential in the past. Marshal Xu Qianqian's former residence is located in Yong'an village, Dongye Town, Wutai County, only 10 kilometers away from Yan Xishan's former residence. From Taiyuan to Wutaishan highway, one kilometer to the right, you can reach the former residence. This is a typical courtyard style building in northern Shanxi. The front of the courtyard is the main room, and the two sides are the wing rooms. The upper and lower floors are the places where Xu Shuai lived and studied in his youth. The exhibition of Xu Shuai's life story and the inscriptions of Li Xiannian, a proletarian revolutionist of the older generation, are displayed in the former residence, solemn and simple No China. Now it has been listed as the youth patriotism education base.

Protection and restoration

On September 21, 1990, marshal Xu Qianqian died in Beijing at the age of 88. In accordance with Xu Shuai's last wish, his ashes were scattered in Taihang Mountain, Dabie Mountain, Daba Mountain and Qilian Mountain, and some of them were sent back to Wutai County and placed in the martyrs' cemetery, thus fulfilling his long cherished wish of returning to his roots. In order to remember Marshal Xu Qianxiang's great achievements and open up a place for traditional patriotism and revolutionism education to the young generation and the whole county people, the Wutai County Party committee and the county people's Government of the Communist Party of China, on behalf of the wishes of 300000 people in the county, asked for the restoration of Xu Qianxiang's former residence. At that time, Wutai County had just transformed the museum into a memorial of Xu Jiyu's life and cultural relics. Comrade Zhang Yi, then deputy director of the Provincial Bureau of cultural relics, visited Wutai. Accompanied by Zhao Peicheng, he visited Xu Qianqian's former residence. In the face of the dilapidation of Xu Shuai's former residence and the luxury of Yan Xishan's former residence, director Zhang Yi sighed and decided on the spot to agree to the application of Wutai County for the restoration of Xu Shuai's former residence, and allocated 50000 yuan to support it. Bai Zhenxiang, Deputy Commissioner of Xinzhou administration, also expressed positive support and allocated 30000 yuan. At the same time, the Wutai County Party committee and the county people's Government of the Communist Party of China decided to allocate 50000 yuan to express their support. At the same time, the Wutai County Party committee and the county people's Government of the Communist Party of China sent special personnel to discuss and exchange with Huang Jie, the wife of Marshal Xu Qianqian, and his children on the plan of restoring Xu Qianqian's former residence, and also agreed.

After the plan for the restoration of Xu Shuai's former residence was determined, the county Party committee and government decided to entrust the project to the Party committee and government of Dongye Town, headed by Han Zhengzhong, Secretary of the Party committee of Dongye Town, and organize the first engineering team of Dongye town construction and installation engineering company to be responsible for the implementation. Since Xu Shuai's former residence is still borrowed by Xu Chengzu, it is decided that Yong'an village committee and Dongye town government will grant Xu Chengzu a homestead with certain economic compensation. After Xu Chengzu moved out, construction began immediately. Although Xu Shuai's former residence is dilapidated, the original house is still in use. It is designed according to the drawings of the old house, and then demolished and renovated. But the original house 3, the second floor has already demolished, 3 bungalows are not the original appearance. In order to restore the old appearance of Xu Shuai's former residence, Dongye town government and construction designers held many insider forums to recall the old appearance of Xu Shuai's former residence, including the height of the room, the width of the Bay, the thickness of the wooden column, the far-reaching eaves, the style of the roof tile, the ridge shape, etc. they tried to repair the old as before. After careful investigation and careful design, they completed the architectural design drawings. According to the design requirements, we purchased high-quality wood, bricks and tiles from Xinzhou, Wutai and other places, and dispatched experienced and skilled carpenters and plasterers for construction. Han Zhengzhong and other leaders of the town government often go deep into the scene to supervise and inspect. After 7 months of intensive construction, the main building of the former residence was successfully completed. In order to educate the students of Yong'an village in revolutionary tradition, the town government organized the school teachers and students to pick up pebbles on the beach for many times, and paved the passageway and flower pool in Xu Shuai's former residence. In the winter of 1991, the restoration of Xu Shuai's former residence was basically completed. After the provincial cultural relics department appraisal and acceptance, the quality is excellent, reaching the standard. The total investment is 110000 yuan.

Communist military commander

Xu Xiangqian (1901-1991), formerly known as Xu Xiangqian, was named Zijing. He is from Wutai County, Shanxi Province. He graduated from the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy. He once served as the instructor, staff officer and deputy regiment of the training battalion in the sixth mixed brigade of the second army of the National People's army. In 1927, he served as captain of Wuhan Central Military and political school and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. During the Guangzhou Uprising, he was the leader of the 16th Federation of the workers' red guards. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as party representative, chief of staff and division commander of the 10th regiment of the fourth division of the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army, deputy chief of the 31st division of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army, deputy chief of the 1st and 1st division of the red army, chief of staff and chief of the 4th Red Army, commander in chief of the 4th Red front army, commander in chief of the right route army of the Red Army and vice chairman of the military and Political Committee of the West Route Army. Took part in the long march.

During the Anti Japanese War, he served as the deputy commander of the 129th division of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the first column of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy commander and chief of staff of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia Shanxi Suiyuan united defense army, and the acting president of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese military and Political University.

During the war of liberation, he served as deputy commander of Shanxi Hebei Luyu military region, deputy commander of North China military region and commander and political commissar of the first Corps (later changed to the 18th Corps).

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as chief of the general staff of the people's Liberation Army, vice chairman of the people's Revolutionary Military Commission, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, vice premier of the State Council and Minister of national defense of the people's Republic of China.

Xu Qianqian's father is Murakami's most learned scholar. He thinks that as a scholar, the name is very important. It should be pleasant to hear, smooth, elegant and have profound meaning. He gave the sixth child a scientific name, character and number. therefore. Xiao "Yincun" has the name of Xu Xiangqian (Qian is one of the six or four hexagrams in the book of changes, and the only hexagram in the six or four hexagrams, which is all auspicious)

Address: Yong'an village, Dongye town

Longitude: 113.169398

Latitude: 38.630005

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