Houtian riot Memorial

Houtian riot Memorial

Houtian riot memorial hall is located in the south foot of Houtian village, Dongxiao Town, Xinluo District, Longyan City, Fujian Province. Originally the ancestral hall of Chen family in Houtian village, it was built in the late Qing Dynasty and rebuilt in 1910 after being destroyed by fire. The former site is a single Hall, two compartment and two side room bungalow type civil structure building, covering an area of about 480 square meters.

Introduction to scenic spots

On March 4, 1928 (February 13 of the lunar calendar), according to the spirit of the "August 7" meeting of the Communist Party of China, the Longyan temporary County Committee of the Communist Party of China led the Houtian peasants to hold an armed riot to defeat the armed "old people's Association" of the landlords, burn the land contract and confiscate the landlords' grain and money. The Houtian uprising started the first shot of the armed uprising of the peasants in Fujian, opened the prelude of the armed struggle in Fujian, and became the forerunner of the agrarian revolution in Fujian. Houtian uprising, with its heroic struggle history, created five firsts in Fujian and even in the history of Chinese revolution; 1. Launched the first gun of Fujian's armed struggle; 2. Established the first red armed force in Fujian; 3. Houtian branch of the Communist Party of China established here is one of the earliest rural Party branches in Fujian Province; 4. Cultivated the first peasant party member and the first rural female party member in Fujian Province 5. To persist in armed struggle and defend the fruits of the victory of the agrarian revolution is the area that has carried out the struggle to protect farmland for the longest time in the country. Houtian uprising, with its brilliant achievements, will always be recorded in the history of Chinese revolution!

Features of scenic spots

To commemorate the heroic struggle of Houtian uprising, it was renamed "Mars ancestral hall" by Fujian Provincial People's Government in 1961 and recognized as a provincial cultural relic protection unit. The Houtian riot memorial hall was set up here in 1963. It was supplemented and modified three times in 1978, 1988 and 2004. In 2008, in order to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Houtian uprising, the local party and government, with the purpose of "carrying forward the revolutionary tradition and highlighting the spirit of the old district", re planned Houtian uprising hall, invested a huge sum of money to repair the old site, and built new facilities such as Houtian Uprising Memorial square, exhibition room, large fixed slogans and so on. The contents of the exhibition are divided into three parts: first, the spread of social profile between Marxism and Leninism; second, the mobilization of mass armed riots; third, the persistence of the red flag of struggle.

Address: South foot of Houtian village, Dongxiao town

Longitude: 117.007791

Latitude: 24.99787

Tel: 0597-2290707

Chinese PinYin : Hou Tian Bao Dong Ji Nian Guan