Memorial Hall of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army

Memorial Hall of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army

The memorial hall of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army is located at No. 14, Zhongshan North Road, Guilin city. It is a memorial museum built on the former site of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army. Ye Jianying inscribed the name of the museum for the national key cultural relics protection unit.

brief introduction

The memorial was established and opened to the public in January 1977, covering an area of more than 1300 square meters. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit, a national patriotic education demonstration base and one of the 100 classic red tourist attractions in China.

Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army is located at No. 14, Zhongshan North Road, Guilin city. The main entrance is baojiyan, an ancient human site in Guilin, and the side is the general office of Guilin camp during the Anti Japanese war. The office covers an area of 1500 square meters, with a construction area of more than 800 square meters. It is a three in two-story wooden building with 14 large and small houses and a small green tile roof. It was originally "wanxiangfang" and was later rented by the Central South Bureau.

history

At the end of 1938, the CPC Central Committee established the Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army here. Li Kenong was the Secretary General of the Southern Bureau of the CPC and the director of the Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army. The office set up the confidential section, the Secretary section, the transportation section, the rescue room, the radio room and other organizations, and set up transfer stations and other organizations in other places. On the first floor, there are duty room, guard room, office and landlord's wine counter. On the second floor, there are conference room, Secretary section, radio station and Li Kenong's living room.

During the Anti Japanese War, Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Ye Jianying, etc. went to Guilin many times to guide the work of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army. Comrade Hu Zhiming, alias Hu Guang, also worked in Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army for a long time. There are temporary houses for Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu and other comrades in the office.

During the establishment of the office of the Eighth Route Army in Guilin, a lot of fruitful work was carried out in the United Front Work of the Guangxi Department, the preparation and transportation of Anti Japanese materials, the reception and seeing off of the important past personnel of the Communist Party of China, and the leadership of the anti Japanese cultural movement in Guilin. After the Wannan incident in 1941, the office was ordered to withdraw. In November 1944, Guilin was occupied by the Japanese, "Wanxiang dross square" was destroyed by the war, and it was restored as it was after liberation. There are a large number of precious cultural relics in the museum, such as Parker pen, which Comrade Zhou Enlai used.

story

On February 26, 1963, the people's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced the memorial hall of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army as a key cultural relics protection unit in Guangxi. On November 20, 1996, the memorial hall of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit. In June 2001, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee designated it as the "national patriotic education demonstration base". On the front door of the memorial hall are two signs: "Memorial Hall of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army" and "Office of the 18th group army of the National Revolutionary Army" inscribed by Marshal Ye Jianying in January 1983.

Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army was set up by Comrade Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying on behalf of the CPC Central Committee in 1930s. At first, it was called the "Communication Office of the Eighth Route Army", later it was changed to "Office of the Eighth Route Army", and later it was changed to "Guilin Office of the 18th group army of the National Revolutionary Army" It is also known as the "Communication Office of the 18th group army in Guangxi".

The memorial hall of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army is a simple and unique building. The four characters of "wanxiangfang" on the gate wall are particularly attractive. This is the shop where Mr. Huang Kuangda, the landlord, sold wine. In August and September 1938, Ye Jianying and Qian Zhiguang called from the office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan to inform Comrade Liu Shu, who had just been transferred to the office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan, that he had just gone to Guilin to prepare for the establishment of the office of the Eighth Route Army. Before he officially arrived, Liu Shu was ordered to go to Guilin to find a house. Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office invited Mr. Xiong Zimin, a non party friendly person, to Changsha to go to Guilin with Liu Shu. At that time, Xiong Zimin's wife and children lived in Guilin. Liu Shu lives in Mr. Xiong Zimin's house. After a period of careful investigation, they found manager Huang Changyan of the Bank of Guangxi through acquaintances. After Huang Changyan's introduction, they found the "wanxiangfang" opened by Huang Kuangda at 138 Guibei road. "Fufang" is the workshop of Chinese indigenous liquor making, that is, the place where liquor is made. The purpose of renting these two-story brick and wood buildings as office space is to play a certain role of cover. But because the building was rebuilt in August 1938 after the fire, the project has not yet been completed. Mr. Huang Kuangda said that it has not been completed yet. Let's rent it after it is completed. Liu Shu said that we are in urgent need of a house. Let's settle down and finish it slowly. Mr. Huang Kuangda agreed. The two sides immediately signed a lease. Then Liu Shu and Xiong Zimin bought old office desks, chairs and bamboo furniture on Guilin street. In the middle of November of the same year, Li Kenong, Secretary General of the Eighth Route Army headquarters, led some personnel of the "Eighth Route Army Office" in Wuhan and Xinhua daily to Guilin and lived in wanxiangfang. Since then, Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army has been officially established.

Zhou Enlai personally founded Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army

In the winter of 1938, the Japanese invaders forced into Wuhan, and the Kuomintang army fled and retreated in a hurry.

At that time, Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu and Ye Jianying, who were in charge of the Yangtze River Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, analyzed the situation at that time and estimated that Wuhan would soon be lost and Chiang Kai Shek would move his capital to Chongqing.

Once Wuhan was lost, Guilin became an important rear area in Southwest China during the Anti Japanese war. Guilin was the main road connecting the provinces of South China with overseas countries, and the place under the rule of Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Huang xuchu in Guangxi. They advocated unity and resistance against Japan at that time, but they also had conflicts with Chiang Kai Shek. The CPC took advantage of the contradictions between Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai Shek to support Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's Anti Japanese ideas.

Zhou Enlai, who was also Secretary of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at that time, happened to go with Bai Chongxi on the way out of Wuhan. At that time, Bai Chongxi was the deputy chief of general staff of the Kuomintang military commission and the director of Chiang Kai Shek's southwest camp.

Zhou Enlai talked to Bai Chongxi about the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the strategy and tactics of the Anti Japanese war.

When it came to the Eighth Route Army's plan to set up an office in Guilin, Bai Chongxi immediately agreed. In this way, the two sides reached an oral agreement on the establishment of an office of the Eighth Route Army in Guilin.

On January 16, 1939, the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee sent a telegram to the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee: "the Southern Bureau set up an office in Chongqing and Guilin to contact Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hong Kong transportation." Therefore, at that time, Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army was not only an open office of our party and our army in the Kuomintang ruled areas in the southwest, but also a secret agency of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. On January 7, 1941, Kuomintang reactionaries created the "South Anhui Incident" which shocked China and foreign countries, set off a climax of anti Communist, and ordered the cancellation of Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army. According to the situation at that time and in order to preserve cadres, the CPC Central Committee decided to cancel the local offices. Therefore, on January 20, 1941, the Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army was ordered to be cancelled, and the staff were evacuated from Guilin in batches.

Although the Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army has only been opened for more than two years, it has made great contributions to the correct Anti Japanese war as the leadership of the CPC Central Committee. Its main tasks at that time were as follows: 1. To publicize the Communist Party of China's idea of resisting Japan and saving the nation; to unite Guangxi and patriots from all walks of life to form a broad Anti Japanese national united front; and to directly lead Guilin's Anti Japanese cultural national salvation movement; 2. To raise and transport special military supplies and materials for the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army; and to transport progressive youth and Patriots to Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army Third, he represented the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in the party, contacting and leading the secret activities of the CPC in the southern provinces, Hong Kong and overseas.

Mr. Xu Teli is giving a lecture in the office

The office of that year included communication section, transportation section, general affairs section and logistics personnel.

Most of the staff of the office did a lot of work here for the Yan'an Party Central Committee and the Anti Japanese front line to raise, transport various military supplies, transport revolutionary cadres, patriotic youth and all kinds of Anti Japanese special talents to the Anti Japanese front line, and lead the Anti Japanese cultural salvation movement in Guilin.

According to statistics: "from 1939 to 1941, there were hundreds of military supplies such as automobiles, gasoline, blankets, quilts, telecommunications equipment and medicines transported to the Anti Japanese front line through Guilin's" eight office ", and more than 1000 cadres and young people were transported. In particular, the radio stations and broadcasts of the Yan'an Party Central Committee and the Anti Japanese front line were mainly provided by Guilin's eight office. The picture on the wall shows long Feihu, the then head of the transportation department, carrying out a mission in Vietnam's coastal defense in 1939; the other picture shows Qiu Nanzhang, the head of the transportation department, Yin Chengzhen and Lai zulie, the chief of the accounting department, carrying out a mission in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1939.

This is the reading room of the office, also known as the salvation room. This is where the staff of the office learn Marxism Leninism, increase their knowledge and raise their awareness. Despite the fierce fighting and busy work, the comrades in the office never relaxed and studied. In those days, the slogan of "study, study and relearn" written by long Qian, Secretary of the office, was still hanging on the wall.

The wall clock is provided by the landlord for the clerks to master the work and study. The "eighth office" Quartermaster transfer station in Mo Village, Lingchuan road is also equipped with a rescue room. The office often organizes people to study politics and culture, and invites people to give lectures on politics. When the central leaders or some responsible cadres come to the office, they are invited to make reports.

At that time, Wang Hui was the accountant of the administrative department (after the founding of the people's Republic of China, he was the president of the Bank of Guangdong Province). During the Anti Japanese War

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