During the Great Revolution in 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "Four. After the counter-revolutionary incident, on July 15, 1927, the Wuhan Nationalist Government headed by Wang Jingwei convened a meeting of the "Split Communists" and wantonly attacked the Communist Party of China, broke with the Communist Party, and then carried out mass arrests and massacres of Communist Party members and revolutionary masses. As a result, the great revolution launched by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was declared a failure. At that time, Hankow's "VII. After the 15th Five-Year Plan incident, what kind of massacre did the Kuomintang reactionaries unleash in Hankow? Recently, I visited the "Red Soldier Cemetery" behind the tomb of the martyr Xiang Jingyu in Guishan, Hanyang, and witnessed the bloody scene of the year!
In October 1986, it was moved from Hanyang Biandan Mountain to the Red Soldier Cemetery in Gusan, Hanyang, and Peng Zhen wrote an inscription in 1986
The "Red Soldier Cemetery" behind the Red Soldier Cemetery records the "VII. The tragic situation of the Hankou Massacre after the 15th Five-Year Split Incident
The full text of "The Cemetery of the Red Soldiers" is as follows:
The Communists and revolutionaries who were killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries in Hankow from August 1927 to December 1928 are buried here.
After the breakdown of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in 1927. In the past, Wuhan, the capital of Chidu, "almost every day there were executions of the Communist Party." In particular, in 1928, it fell into the bloody storm of "I would rather kill 30,000 citizens by mistake than leave a single CP". The leading organs of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee, the Wuhan Sanzhen, and the city and county party committees, as well as party organizations at all levels, suffered three major damages, and in Hankou alone, hundreds of leading cadres at all levels, including the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee and the secretary of the Hankou City CPC Committee, as well as a large number of communists and revolutionary masses, were killed. Some of their bodies were taken away by their families, relatives and friends, but the vast majority of the bodies of martyrs from other places were unclaimed and no one dared to claim them.
At this time, Chen Chunhe, then secretary of the Hubei Provincial Supervision Commission of the Communist Party of China, took advantage of his work on the barge to lead the masses to haunt the execution ground late at night, collect and inspect the martyrs, transport them to the vicinity of the Hanyang Replenishment Pavilion for burial, and register them, including Xiang Yu. In addition, a stone tablet with the inscription "Red Warrior Cemetery" was buried. In February 1929, Chen Chunhe was arrested and died as a traitor. Due to the loss of the register, it is still impossible to know the real names and exact numbers of the martyrs in the cemetery.
In 1955, due to the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge, the Red Soldier Cemetery was moved to Biandan Mountain in Hanyang. In May 1978, in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Xiang Gongyu's heroic righteousness, the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee decided to build the tomb of Xiang Gongyu martyrs in the west of Guishan. In October 1986, the Wuhan Municipal People's Government moved the Red Soldier Cemetery here.
How many martyrs are buried here may always be a mystery, perhaps there are still Huang Chiguang, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xia Minghan, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, and Ma ......Junsan, secretary of the Hankou Municipal Party Committee, who died in Hankou at the same time as Xiang Jingyu, but they interpreted the meaning of the life of the communists with the true feat of "it doesn't matter if the head is cut off, as long as the doctrine is true", and what is left to the "future generations" is their deep memory and inexhaustible pursuit of "doctrine truth".
Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China Party History Research Office
December 2012
To sum up, the body of Xia Minghan, a famous leader in the early days of the Communist Party, may also be in the "Red Soldier Cemetery". Xia Minghan was also arrested by the Kuomintang at the Oriental Hotel in Hankou during the Great Revolution, and like Xiang Jingyu, he was killed in Kongping, Yuji Li, Hankou, which was the Kuomintang murder execution site at that time, and the address is now the police Yu Middle School on Huitong Road in Hankou.
One of the most famous poems of the martyr Summerham is: "It doesn't matter if you cut off your head, as long as your doctrine is true." Kill Xia Minghan, and the descendants!"
Charmingham
Old photo, the empty flat behind Hankou Yuji.
In 1938, the staff of the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army paid their respects in front of the Red Soldier Cemetery in Hanyang
(Left) Tombstone of the Red Warrior Cemetery of Biandan Mountain in Hanyang (right) Shuai Mengqi, Qian Ying and others pay tribute to the Red Soldier Cemetery
In 1955, in order to build the Yangtze River Bridge, the Wuhan Municipal Government moved the remains of Xiang Jingyu and other martyrs from the Buqian Pavilion of Guishan in Hanyang to Biandan Mountain, and re-erected the stone monument of the "Red Soldier Cemetery" to commemorate it. In April 1964, Shuai Mengqi, former deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Qian Ying, the first minister of the Ministry of Supervision of New China, and other central leaders went to the "Red Soldier Cemetery" to pay their respects.
In 1940, Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao visited the orphans of martyrs, including Cai Ni and Cai Bo, the children of Xiang Jingyu, who were studying in the Chinese Children's Home in the Soviet Union
Xiang Gongyu's daughter Cai Ni (second from left) and son Cai Bo (first from left) pose for a photo in front of No. 96 Sandeli (now No. 27 Sandeli), Hankou, where their mother was arrested