Dajiaoshan Fort

Dajiaoshan Fort

Dajiaoshan fort is a national key cultural relics protection unit. Dajiaoshan fort is located on the West Bank of Humen, facing Shajiao Fort across the river, guarding the exit of Humen waterway, forming the first line of defense of Humen fortress. During the Opium War, the brave Chinese soldiers and civilians fought with the foreign invaders to the death here, and wrote magnificent poems.

Introduction of dajiaoshan Fort

At the beginning of the 19th century, the British colonists imported a large amount of opium into China. At the critical moment when the opium was endangering China's survival, Lin Zexu, the imperial envoy, went to Guangdong to ban smoking. Together with Deng Yanzhen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong, Guan Tianpei, the Navy commander, he rectified coastal defense, arrested cigarette dealers, severely punished officials who accepted bribes, and destroyed 237 opium in Humen beach from June 3 to 25 A kilogram of opium has greatly increased the aspiration of the Chinese people. Britain has been planning to invade China for a long time, clamoring that "we should use force to teach the Chinese government to understand its foreign obligations". In the late June of 1840, 48 British warships and more than 15000 people from the army and Navy arrived at the sea of Guangdong, and announced the blockade of the river and Haikou of Guangzhou from the 28th. As a result, the first Opium War, which shocked China and foreign countries, broke out. On June 30 of the same year, the main force of the British army went northward and captured Dinghai, Zhejiang Province. The ship arrived in Tianjin and went straight to Beijing. Emperor Daoguang was deterred by the threat of gunfire from the British ship. He dismissed Lin Zexu and Deng Yanzhen and appointed Qishan as the imperial envoy to negotiate peace with the British side. In January 1841, when the two sides were negotiating, the British suddenly attacked humen and then illegally seized Hong Kong on January 26. On January 7, 1841, the British attacked the big horn fort and Shajiao fort at the same time. On the left side, the British attacked the big horn fort with more than 1400 warships and 110 guns, and sent small boats to seize the beach. Li Zhian, commander-in-chief of the big horn fort, led more than 200 officers and men to fight bravely and bravely, but in the end, the big horn Fort fell into the hands of the enemy because of the lack of enemy troops and most casualties. In October 1856, when the second Opium War broke out, ye Mingchen, governor of Guangdong and Guangdong provinces, took the route of surrender. The British and French allied forces took advantage of the situation, and the dajiaoshan fort was sunk again on the 23rd of the same month. The imperialist invasion of wild animals has put heavy shackles of semi feudalism and semi colonialism on the Chinese people. We should never forget the national humiliation.

Transportation

Get off at Huangge station of Metro Line 4, then take bus 361a and 361b to tianhuangong station.

Address: next to "Nansha Tianhou Palace", dajiaoshan, Nansha District, Guangzhou.

Longitude: 113.62125396728

Latitude: 22.750905990601

Ticket information: no ticket required.