Shangrao concentration camp Scenic Area

Shangrao concentration camp is a large-scale fascist hell on earth set up in Zhoutian, maojialing, Licun, qifengyan and other places in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province in March of the same year after the South Anhui Incident which shocked China and foreign countries launched by the Kuomintang in early January 1941. At that time, barbed wire was set up around the prison, and the secret service of juntong Kangze department was in charge of the management. The Secret Service Regiment of the third theater dispatched a reinforced platoon as the guard. Outside the prison, there were armed guards on guard day and night. Ye Ting, the commander of the New Fourth Army who was detained in the negotiation of the southern Anhui Incident, and cadres above the platoon level of the New Fourth Army who were captured when they ran out of ammunition and food, as well as some Communists and other patriots and progressives who were captured from the southeast provinces and above. Under the leadership of secret party organizations in prison, these patriots fought bravely with the cruel Kuomintang secret agents, and successfully held the famous maojialing uprising and chishi uprising, and composed a series of vigorous proletarian songs.

Former site of Shangrao concentration camp

synonym

Shangrao concentration camp scenic area generally refers to the former site of Shangrao concentration camp

The former site of Shangrao concentration camp is located at 66 Lingyuan Road, Xinzhou District, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, covering an area of 2 square kilometers.

Shangrao concentration camp refers to the fascist concentration camp set up in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province by the Kuomintang military intelligence organization. The concentration camp is composed of qifengyan, Zhoutian village, maojialing, Licun and other concentration camps. Because they are all near Shangrao, they are collectively referred to as "Shangrao concentration camp". The former site of Shangrao concentration camp is composed of four visiting areas: the central scenic spot, the former site of Zhoutian prison, the former site of Licun prison and the former site of qifengyan prison. In 1955, the revolutionary martyrs cemetery was established, and a number of memorial buildings such as revolutionary martyrs cemetery, monument, memorial hall and memorial Pavilion were successively built. Shangrao concentration camp is not only a historical textbook for the revolutionary ancestors to fight against the enemy, but also a revolutionary heritage and spiritual wealth left by the martyrs to the future generations. The former sites of qifengyan ancient Zen temple, Gexian temple, zhugezong temple and the fourth squadron in the concentration camp are all buildings from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, which have historical and artistic value.

On January 13, 1988, the former site of Shangrao concentration camp was announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council of the people's Republic of China; on February 1, 2009, Shangrao concentration camp was approved as a national AAAA tourist attraction.

Historical evolution

In January 1941, after the Kuomintang launched the southern Anhui Incident, a fascist concentration camp, Shangrao concentration camp, was set up in March of the same year in Zhoutian, maojialing, Lichun, qifengyan and other places of Shangrao, Jiangxi Province.

In 1955, Jiangxi provincial Party committee, Jiangxi Provincial People's government, Shangrao Prefecture Party committee and Shangrao special office, Shangrao municipal Party committee and Shangrao Municipal People's government funded the construction of Shangrao maojialing revolutionary martyrs cemetery, Shangrao concentration camp Revolutionary Martyrs Monument and martyrs cemetery.

In 1959, Jiangxi Provincial People's government again allocated funds to expand the mausoleum of revolutionary martyrs in maojialing, Shangrao. In 1963, the expansion project was completed and opened to the outside world for tourists.

In 1966, the exhibition room of revolutionary martyrs' struggle deeds in Shangrao concentration camp was set up.

In 1979, a memorial hall for revolutionary martyrs in Shangrao concentration camp was built, and veteran comrades of the New Fourth Army who participated in the revolutionary struggle in Shangrao concentration camp were invited to attend the opening ceremony. Lai Shaoqi, a famous calligrapher and painter, wrote the name of the museum in his own handwriting.

From 1980 to 1985, many old sites were repaired.

In 1993, the scenic spot management committee of the former Shangrao concentration camp was established, which was subordinate to the former Shangrao Civil Affairs Bureau and was a public institution at the deputy section level. Among them, the former site of Zhoutian prison belongs to the former Shangrao City Museum. The former sites of Lichun prison and qifengyan prison belong to the Museum of Guangxin district.

In 1996, "Shangrao maojialing revolutionary martyrs cemetery" was renamed "Shangrao concentration camp revolutionary martyrs cemetery", which is still a sub section unit.

At the end of 2003, the "Shangrao concentration camp Scenic Area Management Committee" was approved to be established as a vice county-level institution directly under the municipal government. At the same time, resources integration.

By the end of 2004, the task of resource integration was basically completed.

In 2005, with the approval of Shangrao municipal Party committee, Shangrao concentration camp scenic area was upgraded to a county-level institution directly under the Municipal People's government, and the CPC Shangrao concentration camp scenic area working committee, scenic area management committee and discipline inspection working committee were established.

Architectural pattern

structure

The former site of Shangrao concentration camp is divided into four tourist areas: the central scenic area, the former site of Zhoutian prison, the former site of Licun prison and the former site of qifengyan prison. Among them, the former central scenic spot is Shangrao concentration camp revolutionary martyrs cemetery area, covering an area of 0.2 square kilometers, with a number of memorial buildings such as Revolutionary Martyrs Monument, martyrs cemetery, revolutionary martyrs memorial hall and martyrs memorial Pavilion. Zhoutian prison covers an area of more than 30 mu, with well preserved ancestral halls, 13 rooms, including upper and lower Zhoutian prison (i.e. the cells of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th squadrons and girls' squadrons), auditorium, mortuary, "seven gentlemen" prison, "officer brigade Department", "special training class" headquarters, Zhang Chao's office, Captain's room, etc. The former site of Li village prison is a red stone wooden tile structure with four small rooms.

characteristic

The former site of Shangrao concentration camp is basically built by using the dwellings, ancestral halls and temples of that year. The overall environment of the existing site basically maintains the rural style of that year, and the buildings themselves, whether in architectural form or technological characteristics, retain the original style, especially the Zhoutian natural village, the base camp of the concentration camp, still retains the Jiangnan style of that year The historical features of small villages can be said to be a historical miniature of Chinese feudal society based on agricultural economy and village culture.

Main buildings

Shangrao concentration camp revolutionary martyrs memorial hall

The memorial hall of revolutionary martyrs in Shangrao concentration camp, established in 1978, was rebuilt for the third time in 2003. It was completed in April 2005 and officially opened on May 26, 2006. Covering an area of 17000 square meters and a building area of 4300 square meters, the exhibition hall is divided into one preface hall and four exhibition halls, with a total of seven parts. The architectural style of Hui Style integrates traditional culture and modern consciousness. In the design and exhibition of the museum, sound, light, electricity, multi-media film and television art, phantom imaging, simulated scenes, and optical fiber dynamic sand table are used. With the combination of traditional picture plane and modern three-dimensional dynamic techniques, a large number of historical pictures, text materials and real objects are collected and used to reproduce the historical facts of the revolutionary struggle in Shangrao concentration camp.

 

Monument of revolutionary martyrs in Shangrao concentration camp

The monument to the revolutionary martyrs in Shangrao concentration camp is located on the western half of Leigong Mountain in maojialing. The original monument was built in 1955 with a height of 8 meters. The monument was rebuilt in May 1959, with a height of 28.2 meters (the height of the monument is 20 meters, the height of the pedestal is 7 meters, and the step is 1.2 meters). The base is 20 meters long and 20 meters wide, and it is square. On the front of the stele are nine gold-plated characters inscribed by Zhou Enlai: "revolutionary martyrs are immortal.". The inscriptions of Liu Shaoqi and Zhu De are engraved on the back, and the sacrificial inscriptions of Jiangxi provincial Party committee and Jiangxi Provincial People's Committee are engraved on both sides. The front of the pedestal is engraved with the inscription of the monument to the revolutionary martyrs in Shangrao concentration camp. The whole monument is made of granite, silver gray.

Cultural relics

Former site of maojialing prison

The former site of maojialing prison is located in maojialing village. It was originally an old "Gexian Temple". Since the summer of 1939, the intelligence Commissioner room of the Political Department of the secret service organ of the third war zone of the Kuomintang was forcibly occupied and changed into a secret prison. That is to say, it began to detain Communists and other anti Japanese patriotic progressives who were searched and captured from the southeast provinces. After the southern Anhui Incident, a large number of the most determined and most unbearable revolutionaries were detained here in turn to "melt". This prison is the darkest and cruelest "prison in prison" in Shangrao concentration camp.

Maojialing prison is divided into four confinement rooms: heavy confinement room, light confinement room (in fact, there is no difference between light and heavy, only the difference between big and small), women's prison room and preferential treatment room. There are spy room, platoon room, the first guard room, the second guard room. In charge of prison management is the Kuomintang secret service officers, as guard, there is a guard platoon.

At the beginning of liberation, part of the site had collapsed and was converted into a nursery. In 1955, the Jiangxi Provincial Bureau of culture allocated funds for reconstruction.

 

Former site of Zhoutian prison

Zhoutian prison is the base camp of Shangrao concentration camp, which was established in March 1941. The headquarters of the "Officers' brigade," the headquarters of the "special training class," and the headquarters of the "southeast sub regiment" in the third war zone of the Kuomintang are all located here. The prison houses are transformed from the forcibly occupied houses.

Zhoutian prison is located in shangzhoutian and xiazhoutian villages. There are 13 well preserved ancestral halls, large and small rooms in shangxiazhoutian prison, including shangxiazhoutian prison (i.e. prison cells of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 squadrons and female squadrons), auditorium, mortuary, "seven gentlemen" prison, "officer brigade Department", "special training class" headquarters, Zhang Chao's office, Captain's room, etc., covering an area of more than 30 mu. Zhang Chao, the head of the secret service, and the team leader, squadron leader and district leader of the secret service are stationed here. After liberation, the relevant cultural relic protection departments paid attention to the former site of Zhoutian

Chinese PinYin : Shang Rao Ji Zhong Ying Ming Sheng Qu