Jinzhai County Revolutionary Museum

Jinzhai County Revolutionary Museum

Jinzhai County revolutionary museum is located in Red Army Village, Meishan town. It complements with Jinzhai County revolutionary martyrs memorial tower and Jinzhai County revolutionary martyrs cemetery. It was approved by Anhui provincial Party committee and people's Government in 1980 and completed at the end of April 1983. It officially opened on May 6, 1983, the 54th anniversary of the Lixia uprising.

architectural composition

The museum is a concrete frame structure, composite building, covering an area of 8300 square meters. It is a two-story wooden building, a basement and 20 bungalows. The height of the museum is 14.1 meters, and the front of the museum is inlaid with eight characters "Jinzhai County revolutionary museum" inscribed by Deng Xiaoping. There are 8 marble pillars and 16 granite steps on both sides of the gate. There are square, fountain, fish pond and rockery in front of the museum. Surrounded by walls, pines and cypresses stand upright. Behind the hall is the huikuo courtyard, with bonsai flowers, evergreen all the year round.

Exhibition in the Museum

The exhibition in the museum mainly focuses on physical objects and highlights local characteristics. It is divided into five parts: preface hall, revolutionary history exhibition hall, founding general hall, provincial and ministerial leadership exhibition area, revolutionary martyrs' deeds exhibition hall and general Hong Xuezhi Memorial Hall. More than 400 cultural relics, 470 pictures, 50 paintings and charts, and 4 large sculptures are on display.

Lobby

On the front are inscriptions written by Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Li Xiannian, Xu Qianqian, Hong Xuezhi and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, as well as a large relief of "taking the road of armed separation of workers and peasants.". On both sides are the foreword and the history map, which generally introduces the revolutionary history of Jinzhai County. The exhibition hall of revolutionary history is divided into four periods: the founding of the party and the great revolution, which shows the founding of the party organization and the rise of the peasant movement in the drought period of Jinzhai; during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, which shows the famous Lixia Festival and the Liuhuo uprising, as well as the birth of the red 32 division and the red 33 division, which participated in the establishment of the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army, and then created and rebuilt it The historical facts of the red 25 army and the red 28 army in Jinzhai reflect that Jinzhai is not only the central area of the Hubei Henan Anhui Soviet Area, but also the important birthplace of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army. During the Anti Japanese War, it shows the historical facts that Jinzhai people actively participated in the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army's eastward Anti Japanese campaign, and the CPC Anhui Provincial Working Committee and the Party committee of the Hubei Henan Anhui District led the Anti Japanese national salvation movement in Jinzhai. During the war of liberation, pidingjun successfully covered The Central Plains military region broke through the encirclement, Liu Deng's army marched into the Dabie Mountains, rebuilt the base area, and ushered in the historical facts of national liberation.

Martyrs Museum

It displays the list of 11093 revolutionary martyrs, including more than 500 martyrs at the county regiment level, 111 martyrs at the prefecture division level and 8 martyrs at the provincial military level, and the portraits and deeds of famous martyrs. The deeds of the martyrs on display are moving and moving. We can see the revolutionary style and heroic spirit of Jinzhai people and their outstanding children nurtured by the party. The general Hall of the museum displays the military career and life style of 59 Jinzhai generals from the Republic of China, including Hong Xuezhi, PI Dingjun, Xu Liqing, Lin Weixian, Chen xianrui and Xiao Quanfu. Among these 59 generals, there are one general, eight generals and 50 major generals. They are like 59 bright stars rising up on this red earth, and they are the glory and pride of the people in the old areas. Today, the photos of 59 generals are donated by the Nanjing Branch of the people's Bank of China, and are displayed in gold and platinum inlays. The exhibition area of provincial military leaders shows the photos and life stories of 151 provincial military leaders from Jinzhai, such as Ding Guoyu, former Secretary of Beijing Municipal Party committee, Feng Jixin, former first Secretary of Gansu provincial Party committee, Wu Guozhang, former deputy commander of the 39th army of the voluntary army, Wu Guozhang, former youngest military cadre who died in the Korean battlefield, wife of Luo Ronghuan, founding marshal, and Lin Yueqin, senior colonel in 1955.

General Hong Xuezhi Memorial

The museum displays the deeds and articles of the founding General Hong Xuezhi, the only two generals of our army. A total of 644 pieces are displayed. There are many national first-class revolutionary cultural relics, such as the dress and three first-class medals awarded by Hong Xuezhi in 1955, the dress awarded in 1988, the photos of Hong Xuezhi in various periods, and the precious revolutionary cultural relics such as general Hong Xuezhi's study and bedroom restored as they are.

Layout outside the Museum

Outside the museum, there are Jinzhai revolutionary martyrs memorial tower, Red Army memorial hall, Jinzhai revolutionary martyrs cemetery and Red Army Village. The memorial tower of revolutionary martyrs was inscribed by Marshal Liu Bocheng with four gold-plated characters of "start a prairie fire". The name of the Red Army memorial hall was inscribed by founding General Hong Xuezhi. Nearly 200 dead old Red Army and old general were buried in Jinzhai revolutionary martyrs cemetery. Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the country pay homage to the revolutionary martyrs and receive education in patriotism and revolutionary tradition.

Visiting leaders

Since the opening of the Jinzhai Revolutionary Museum, the party and state leaders, President Xi Jinping

Wu Bangguo, chairman of the National People's Congress, Qiao Shi, Song Ping, Hong Xuezhi, Song Jian, Chen Junsheng, Peng Peiyun, Zeng Qinghong and other party and state leaders have come to visit the museum and made a speech. The museum has been listed by the Ministry of civil affairs, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and Anhui Province as a national and provincial patriotic education base. It is not only an important base for the masses to remember the revolutionary martyrs and carry out patriotism and revolutionary tradition education, but also one of the main tourist attractions.

Visit information

Address: No.53, Hongcun Road, Meishan Town, Jinzhai County, Lu'an City, Anhui Province.

Visit tips: due to the large number of visitors, the on-site explanation appointment is not accepted. If you need to make an appointment, please make an appointment by phone in advance.

Address: Hongcun, Meishan Town, Jinzhai County, Lu'an City

Longitude: 115.87453

Latitude: 31.683697

Tel: 0564-7062308

Ticket information: free.