The main attractions of Longgang Revolutionary Site

Longgang Martyrs Cemetery

The Longgang Martyrs Cemetery in southeast Hubei is located on Lion Mountain in Longgang Town, where many martyrs are buried. A number of Communist Party members such as Wu Zhimin and Chen Chunyi died heroically on this mountain. In the 1950s, the country designated this mountain as the Cemetery of Revolutionary Martyrs of Southeast Hubei. And the first construction was carried out. At that time, the green mountain was still there and there was no need for greening. Two hundred large bluestone steps were laid on the east side of the mountain to go up the mountain. A martyrs monument was built on the top of the mountain. In the 1970s, the martyrs cemetery was expanded and the former small The monument to the martyrs was demolished and a tall and majestic monument to the revolutionary martyrs of Southeast Hubei was built in marble. There are also umbrella pavilions and hexagonal pavilions for tourists to rest and watch.

Red Army Street

Red Army Street, also known as Longgang Old Street, is also known as the street where the revolution was located. Located on the bank of Longgang River, it is more than 800 meters long and 5 meters wide. It has a bluestone pavement and is lined with two-story old Ming and Qing Dynasty shops with blue bricks and tiles on both sides. There are 2 stone steps in front of the shops. The storefront has red painted door panels and floors. The streets are winding and the market is simple and elegant, which is the epitome of Jiangnan ancient town. During the Agrarian Revolution, the Southeast Hubei Soviet Government, the Southeast Hubei Special Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Southeast Hubei Political Security Bureau, the Southeast Hubei Federation of Trade Unions, the Southeast Hubei Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Bank, the Southeast Hubei Red Army Guesthouse, and the Fifth Red Army Headquarters were 17 The party, government and military agencies are all located here, and it is known as "Little Moscow". Hongjun Street and its surrounding 16 revolutionary sites have been announced by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. They are a rare group of relatively complete revolutionary sites. Among these revolutionary sites, there are nearly a hundred slogans and murals from those years, which are called "natural revolutionary history museums" and "treasury of culture and art in the Soviet area" by experts.

Longgang Revolutionary Historical Memorial Hall

Longgang Revolutionary Historical Memorial Hall is located on the west side of New Street, Longgang Town, facing National Highway 106 in front, leaning against Lion Rock in the back, and adjacent to Longgang Martyrs Cemetery . Built in October 1976, it covers an area of ??5,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??1,447 square meters, and displays 315 revolutionary cultural relics. It is one of the scenic spots in Hubei Province and is included in the "Dictionary of Chinese Scenic Spots". The museum contains the ruins of the Southeast Hubei Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, the office and accommodation of the Special Committee, the Special Committee air-raid shelter, and a display room. It has a collection of more than 500 proclamations, books, letters, weapons, murals, martyrs' relics, revolutionary cultural relics, and photos. . The display is divided into five parts, consisting of more than 30 former sites managed by the memorial hall, including the Southeast Hubei Soviet Government, Peng Denuan's Residence, Pengyang School, and the Red Army Rear Area Hospital. In addition, there are cemeteries where more than 3,000 Red Army martyrs are buried, as well as 17 memorial buildings and traditional education sites where famous martyrs died. After the Longgang Revolutionary Historical Memorial Hall was completed, Comrade Wang Renzhong inscribed the name of the museum. Leading comrades such as Wang Ping, Cheng Zihua, Fu Qiutao, Chen Kang, and Lan Qiao came to inspect many times and wrote inscriptions and presented poems.

The Chen Family Courtyard

The Chen Family Courtyard is located on Longgang Old Street. It is the Yangxin Longgang Revolutionary Historical Memorial Hall. It is a large house with "two entrances and two exits". The paintings displayed above can still vaguely reveal the traces of the revolution of that year.

According to "Yangxin County Chronicles", the prototype of Longgang Old Street was formed in the late Yuan Dynasty; during the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, it was called Longchuan City; in the eleventh year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government set up Longgang inspection here Division, renamed Longgang City. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Longgang Street was lined with shops, with more than 300 shops and workshops. It was very prosperous, so it was called "Little Hankou". A hundred years later, there is still a story circulating in the old streets: around 1920, in Chenwan, Longgang Village, Longgang Town, a family named Chen did ramie business with the Japanese. This ramie was a specialty of Longgang Town. Known as "Gong Ma" in ancient times, this family named Chen made a fortune. After making a fortune, Chen built the largest and most magnificent house in the prosperous Longgang Town. The "three in and three out" courtyard extended to the river, covering an area of ??more than 1,000 square meters. Later, the Chen family compound was occupied by the Japanese army and some buildings were burned down, becoming the "command center" of the Japanese army in Longgang Town. Later, the Chen Family Courtyard was rented to the Kuomintang for office use. It was not until the Communist Party advanced into Longgang Town that the Chen Family Courtyard was "returned to its original owner." At this time, Chen took the initiative to donate the mansion to become the Soviet government office building in Longyan District, southeastern Hubei.

Longgang Red Army Martyrs Tombs

There are six Red Army Martyrs Tombs in Longgang, where 3,011 Red Army soldiers from Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hubei and other places are buried. Among the remains of soldiers, there are 46 tombs with stone tablets. The largest among them is the Etangyan Red Army Martyrs Cemetery located in Longgang Town, Yangxin County.

Here are buried 3,011 Red Army martyrs who unfortunately died heroically during the Agrarian Revolution. In order to commemorate those buried Red Army martyrs and inherit the immortal Red Army spirit, in March 2000, the Yangxin County People's Government decided to start the construction of the "Red Army Martyrs Cemetery in Southeast Hubei in the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Region". The Red Army Martyrs Tomb Forest covers an area of ??64 acres, with a total investment of 6.6 million yuan. At present, more than 4 million yuan has been invested to complete the construction of the main building of the front hall of the tomb forest and the tomb forest square, steps, tombstones, etc.