Where is Chongqing Zhazi Cave?

One of the key tourist areas in Chongqing. Address: Zhuangzhi Road, Shapingba District, Chongqing, north of Bai Mansion (relics)

Zhazi Cave

During the Anti-Japanese War A prison jointly run by the Kuomintang and the U.S. imperialist secret service to imprison communist members and progressive youths. Located at the foothills of Gele Mountain in Chongqing, China. It was originally a coal kiln for manual mining and got its name because of the large amount of waste. Bai Gongguan is 2.5 km away. In 1939, the Kuomintang turned this place into a prison. In 1943, it was transformed into the Second Prison by the Sino-US Cooperation Institute, directly under the Southwest Governor's Office. Zhazidong Prison faces mountains on three sides and a deep ditch in front. The prison is divided into an inner and outer courtyard. The outer courtyard is the prison's office and torture room. The inner courtyard has 16 men's cells and 2 women's cells. At most, more than 700 people were imprisoned. Communist Party members Luo Shiwen, Jiang Zhujun (Jiang Jie), Li Qinglin, etc. were imprisoned here successively. In the 1127 massacre in 1949, the Kuomintang massacred more than 200 people, and only 15 people escaped.

Zhazidong was originally a small coal kiln for manual coal mining. It got its name because there was less coal and more slag. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces a ditch on one side. The terrain is hidden. In 1943, the Bai Gongguan was changed into the third guest house of the "China-US Cooperation Institute", and the "political prisoners" detained there were moved here and moved back in April 1947. In December 1947, Zhazidong, which had been closed for more than half a year, was reopened as the second detention center of Chongqing Xingyuan No. 2 Branch. The sources of detainees mainly include the "key criminals" arrested in the "June 1st" massacre in 1947, the "Jinjinbao" case and the people arrested in the "Little Chinese Revolution" case. After the failure of the Shangxiadong Sichuan armed uprising, the number of insurrectionists arrested at most reached more than 300. Martyrs such as Jiang Zhuyun, Xu Jianye, and Yu Zusheng were once imprisoned here. Zhazidong Detention Center is divided into two courtyards: an inner courtyard and an inner courtyard. There is a ventilation dam in the inner courtyard. There are sixteen male cells on the first floor and two female cells on the ground floor. In order to mentally dismantle the revolutionaries' fighting spirit, the spies deliberately wrote on the wall of the inner courtyard of Zhazidong: "Youth is gone forever. Think carefully, recognize this and this place, and don't be obsessed.", "The maze is endless." , the slogans of "turning back and finding the shore" and "peace and patience, no complaints and no worries". The outer courtyard is the secret service office and torture chamber. There is a slogan written on the wall of the outer courtyard to inform the secret agents: "What the superior cannot see, think of, hear, and cannot do, we must see, think, hear, and do for the superior."

The Bai Mansion was originally the suburban villa of the Sichuan warlord Bai Ju. In 1939, the Military Command Bureau of the Kuomintang converted it into a prison for "political prisoners". After the Sino-U.S. Cooperation Institute was established in 1943, it served as a hostel for U.S. personnel. All the prisoners held in Bai Gongguan were "political prisoners with serious cases" considered by the military commander. There are anti-Japanese patriotic general Huang Xiansheng, Tongji University President Zhou Junshi, patriotic Liao Chengzhi, communist Song Qiyun, Xu Linxia and his wife and their youngest son "Little Carrot Head", etc. At its peak, more than 200 "political prisoners" were detained.

Zhazi Cave is a place where ordinary "prisoners" are detained.

On November 27, 1949, the People's Liberation Army had liberated most of Sichuan, and the Kuomintang began to massacre the imprisoned people. Because there were not enough guards in Zhazidong, the guards from Baigongguan were also transferred. One of the guards, Luo Guangbin, the author of "Red Rock", and others were left to serve as guards. They explained the situation to him and said that if they were released and they testified for him, they would receive leniency from the government. After the guards released them, they ran to the mountains outside the prison and hid, so they were not massacred by the Kuomintang.