Tourist Attractions in Zitong Township

An introduction

The former site of the Political Department of the Red Thirty Army is located in Zitong Town, Tongchuan District, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, 60 kilometers away from the urban area of ??Dazhou City, backed by Leicheng Mountain and facing Zhoujia River. It covers an area of ??1,200 square meters, with a construction area of ??about 620 square meters and 10 existing houses. This place was originally called "Du Mansion Thatched Cottage" because before the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was the manor of Du Guangting, the leader of the puppet regiment in Zitong Town. The building was first built in the early years of the Republic of China. After years of repairs, it became a courtyard with rural characteristics in northern Sichuan. The house is built with perforated roof trusses, red siding, and blue tile roof. There is a virtual building in the left wing. The house is not high but has a dignified shape and rigorous structure. The gate is a stone gate common in rural areas in northeastern Sichuan, and there is a small garden in the courtyard.

2 History In late August 1932, the Red Thirty Army liberated Zitong Town, and the Military Political Department was located in the "Dufu Thatched Cottage". To celebrate the victory, the then Chairman of the Township Soviet He Yongrui wrote the couplet "The ax splits the new world, the sickle cuts the old world." In October of that year, Red Army soldiers carved it on the pillars of the Shichao Gate and carved a seven-character banner "Political Department of the Red Thirty Army". The original stone-carved couplets are now on display in the "Chinese Revolutionary History Museum".

In July 1934, Comrade Li Xiannian, political commissar of the Red Thirty Army, lived here and commanded the famous battles of Hejiashan and Leichengsi, wiping out hundreds of enemies in order to crush the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang's "rebellion". "Six-Way Siege" played an important role.

The former site of the Political Department of the 30th Red Army was approved by the Da County People's Government as a county-level cultural relics protection unit in July 1982, and funds were allocated to build an exhibition hall for the former site. Comrade Zhang Aiping, an older generation proletarian revolutionist, inscribed Museum name. In June 1996, the Dachuan Prefectural Committee named it a prefecture-level patriotism education base. On May 22, 2001, it was announced by the Dazhou Municipal People's Government as one of the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Dazhou City. In 1933, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army marched westward from Hubei, Anhui, and Henan, and successively liberated Tongjiang, Nanjiang, and Bazhong, and established the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area. On July 14, the Red Thirty Army, led by Li Xiannian, came to Zitong. The military political department was located in Dujiayuan, which is now the town government residence. The Red Army fought side by side with the people of Zitong, conquered local tyrants and divided their fields, and established districts and townships. , Soviet power at all levels in the village. He Fangze, chief of the Propaganda Section of the Political Department of the Red Thirty Army, was a primary school teacher in Zitong Town. His father, He Yongrui, was the chairman of the township Soviet.

After the Political Department of the Red Thirty Army was stationed in the Du Family Courtyard, He Fangze wrote the couplet "The ax splits the new world, the sickle cuts the old world" and revolutionary slogans such as "Class struggle, equal division of land", He filled it in red and engraved it on the stone gate of Du's courtyard. This couplet is short and concise, with profound meaning, neat dialogue and beautiful words. It fully expresses the revolutionary pride and fearless spirit of the Red Army soldiers to change the world. He Fangze's profound calligraphy skills, vigorous and timeless penmanship, and careful stone carvings made these two sentences not only a widely circulated motivating slogan during the Red Army period, but also a masterpiece of couplet art.

In 1935, the Red Army bid farewell to the folks and implemented a major strategic shift.

After the Sichuan Army occupied Zitong, in order to protect the revolutionary cultural relics from destruction, the local people covered the couplets and slogans with mud, so that this precious cultural relic was kept intact until liberation.

After liberation, the Red Army’s stone-carved slogans became vivid teaching materials for revolutionary traditional education.

In 1959, following instructions from superiors, the stone-engraved slogans were sent to Beijing and displayed in the Chinese Revolutionary Military Museum.

In order to inherit the glorious tradition of the Red Army, the people of Zitong copied the couplets and slogans in 1975.

In 1977, the Zitong Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall was built. Marshal Xu Xiangqian and General Zhang Aiping happily inscribed the memorial hall: The memorial hall was built in the Du family yard, and the lintel of the Shichao Gate was engraved with "Red Thirty Army" The words "Political Department" are engraved on the doorpost, and the couplet "The ax splits the new world, the sickle cuts the old world" is engraved on the doorpost. On the inside is the slogan "Class struggle, equal distribution of the land". The front door stands majestically, with the couplets glowing red. Flashing, awe-inspiring. The museum displays stools, tables, sabers, wooden ladders, gunpowder guns, stone mills, bullet casings, horse lanterns, etc. used by the Red Army at that time. Even the traces of the Red Army sharpening their war knives on the fireproof and water-filled "Taiping Pond" are clearly visible. .

The Zitong Revolutionary Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall is listed as a key cultural relic protection unit at the prefecture level. The majestic imperial gate with the Red Army slogans inscribed on it has been printed in adult paintings and entered thousands of households. It has been included in the Bayi Film Studio. The footage has inspired millions of viewers.

Nowadays, many people come to Zitong to pay homage to the Red Army ruins and receive revolutionary traditional education here.

The stone slogans of Zitong Red Army will shine forever. Legend has it that there is a bucket made of stone on Mt. Minato. In front of the temple gate on this mountain, a bowl of rice can leak out every day. One day, a beggar came to this mountain and discovered that rice could leak out from here. The beggar was ecstatic. , so that he no longer went out to beg, so he lived on this mountain. But gradually the beggar grew greedy in his heart. He thought that if he could leak more rice, he might be able to use it to buy some money. Make your life more comfortable. So he picked up the tool and dug at the place where the rice was leaking. But when he dug a hole in the place where the rice was leaking, the rice was no longer leaking. Only some grains of rice remained on the cave wall. In the end, the greedy beggar starved to death in the mountain. Also, according to legend, there is a thousand-year-old sludge beach below Zitong Town. The reason why Zitong Town did not sink was because there were four gold pillars and a gold pole underneath. The mountains are connected together, like a giant dragon circling, with the dragon's head facing east and the dragon's tail facing west. There are also ten gongs and ten drums on this mountain. Many of these stories I heard from my predecessors have been forgotten.

The incense in Shifoyan is very strong all year round. Although I don't really believe in this, senior people say it is very effective. I have only been there once, and I can guarantee that the scenery here is absolutely wonderful. Purely natural and pollution-free. Sichuan rattan, big bamboo goat, old courtyard black chicken.