Information on Laoshan Realm during the Red Army’s Long March

In October 1934, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army began its Long March. In November, it crossed the Xiangjiang River from Quanzhou, Guangxi, and passed through Yuecheng, which is located on the border of "two provinces and three counties and cities" between Guangxi Quanzhou and Hunan Dong'an and Xinning. Ridge, heading towards Guizhou. Comrade Lu Dingyi, an older generation of proletarian revolutionaries, wrote the famous revolutionary memoir "Laoshanjie", which spread the name "Laoshanjie" throughout the land of China.

Yuecheng Ridge, commonly known as Laoshanjie, is one of the five ridges, with Shunhuang Mountain in Dong'an located in the middle. Several specific places where the Red Army crossed the Laoshan boundary described in Lu's article, such as "Leigongyan", "Tangfangbian", "Leipili Ridge", etc., happened to be in the Shunhuang Mountain National Forest Park.

Lu Dingyi called Laoshanjie (Shunhuang Mountain) "the first difficult mountain that the Red Army passed during the Long March." It is planned to rely on the unique natural conditions and geographical advantages of Shunhuang Mountain to build the Laoshanjie Scenic Area into a classic red tourist area with the theme of "re-walking the Red Army Road in Laoshanjie" and promoting patriotism education. It will build Lu Gong Pavilion, the Red Army Long March Memorial Hall, and the Red Army Long March Development of routes and coastal attractions.

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Laoshanjie geology and landforms

Laoshanjie is named after its dense virgin forest, with an area of ??about 7 kilometers at the top. The original ecological forest in the Laoshan boundary is densely wooded, with obvious vertical distribution of vegetation. The foothills are dominated by coniferous forests, the mid-mountain is dominated by broad-leaved forests and cold bamboos, and areas above 1,400 meters above sea level are shrubs and meadows.

Among them, the mid-mountain area where broad-leaved forests and cold bamboos grow is the most ecologically distinctive. Plants grow here in an obvious hierarchy, with tall broad-leaved forests and low cold bamboos. In one body, the vigorous cold bamboo forms a dense curtain in the broad-leaved forest, and branches weighed down by ice and snow can be seen everywhere. Walking through it, the vast mist blocks the sky and the sun, making it difficult to distinguish between east and west.

There are more than 370 kinds of woody plants in Laoshan Realm alone. Among them, the natural community of Liriodendron tulipifera has the most protection and scientific research value. Rare plants such as concave-leaf Magnolia officinalis are protected as a biodiversity nature reserve.

Jieban Lengzhu is a famous scenic spot in Laoshanjie. It is located in the boundary of Laoshan. It consists of a whole stone slab and a hill of Lengzhu forest. The stone slab is about 600 meters long and 400 meters wide, with thatch growing on it. , there are tens of square meters of exposed smooth stone slabs. On the edge of the stone slabs is the growth area of ??cold bamboo. Its leaves are dense and have not been artificially repaired. The layers of clouds and seas under the mountain are a wonder created by nature.

In December 1934, the First Front Army of the Central Red Army crossed the Laoshan border. A young soldier from Jiangxi was seriously injured and fell behind. He was killed by the Southern Sentry Gentlemen on the roadside. Afterwards, a Miao citizen, Yang Laomiao, A silver dollar was found on the soldier. The next day, when he went to the Nanshao market, Yang exchanged the silver dollar for a sling of copper coins, bought incense paper, and invited the neighbors to bury the soldier on a hill to the north of Xiaojiudang.

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