Shuyang Martyrs' Mausoleum is a martyrs' mausoleum on Suzhou East Road in Shuyang County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province. It is located on the bank of the ancient Qianshu River, in the southeast suburb of Shuyang City. In order to commend the great achievements of the martyrs and educate the future generations to inherit and carry forward the great revolutionary spirit of the martyrs, the Shuyang County People's Government built the Martyrs' Mausoleum here in 1958. The Mausoleum is 250 meters long from north to south and 120 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 40 acres. When it was first built, there were only three martyrs' graves in the park. After three expansions in 1963, 1975 and 1985, now, the mausoleum has a memorial tower, monuments, memorial pavilions, Martyrs Historical Exhibition Hall and other groups of monumental buildings.
On the banks of the ancient Qianshu River, in the southeastern suburb of Shuyang City, there is a place with verdant pines and cypresses, lush flowers and grasses, and a quiet environment, which is the Shuyang Martyrs' Mausoleum.
When you approach this solemn and holy place, the cream-colored herringbone shaped gate facing south is a sight to behold. The six golden characters of "Shuyang Martyrs' Mausoleum" above the gate shine in the sunlight, and on each side of the gate, there is a black marble inlaid with a couplet, which is engraved with Mao Zedong's poem "For the sake of sacrifices, I dare to teach the sun and the moon to change to a new day", which is handwritten by the calligrapher Jiang Hua. Chanting the verse, one's heart surging, suddenly born to the revolutionary martyrs of reverence and remembrance of the feelings!
In order to commend the great achievements of the martyrs and to educate the future generations to inherit and carry forward the great revolutionary spirit of the martyrs, the Shuyang County People's Government built the Martyrs' Mausoleum here in 1958. The Mausoleum is 250 meters long from north to south and 120 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 40 acres. When it was first built, there were only three martyrs' graves in the park. After three expansions in 1963, 1975 and 1985, now, the mausoleum has a memorial tower, monument, memorial pavilion, the martyrs' history museum and other groups of monumental buildings.
Monument to the People's Heroes
Entering the mausoleum gate, looking around, the garden of pines and cypresses, green grass, the air is filled with pine and cypress unique fragrance. And the mausoleum gate is closely linked, is a memorial square, the center of the straight concrete tunnel, leading to the solemn and majestic square column-shaped Monument to the People's Heroes. Monument height of 18 meters, built in 1975. The two-tier stepped pedestal is square, and the crown of the monument adopts the shape of China's ancient traditional steles and towers, with sloping ridges on all sides, which is simple and beautiful. The lower part of the monument is about two meters high, made of rectangular granite boulders. Each of the four sides are inlaid with eight sunflower decorative carving, symbolizing the noble quality of the revolutionary martyrs to the party forever; the front of the monument, carved with "people's heroes will never die" in gold letters in Yangwen. On the left side of the monument, engraved with "People's heroes who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of mankind will be immortalized in 20 golden characters; on the right side, engraved with the same technique, "People's heroes who sacrificed their lives for the socialist revolution and the construction of socialism will be immortalized" in 27 golden characters. On the back are the words "Monument to the People's Heroes" and "Year, Month and Day". The monument is surrounded by pines and cypresses, plum blossoms and spring flowers. The evergreen seasons, flowers, implying that the spirit of the revolutionary martyrs will always be young, with the world's long-lasting significance.
Wu Ling Sheng Martyrs' Mausoleum
Located on the same axis as the Monument to the People's Heroes, about 30 meters to the north, lies Wu Ling Sheng Martyrs' Mausoleum. The mound is round, and a 4-meter-high marble monument is erected in front of the tomb. This monument was erected in June 1963 by the Shuyang County Committee and Shuyang County People's Committee. The front side of the monument is engraved with the inscription "Tomb of Martyr Wu Ling Sheng" in regular script, while the back side is engraved with the life story of the martyr Wu Ling Sheng. Wu Ling Sheng, born in 1899 in Yanji Township, Shuyang County, participated in the May Fourth Movement in 1919 while studying in Beijing, joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in February 1923, and soon afterward joined the Chinese ****anufacturing Party. In the same year, by Li Dazhao on behalf of the party organization, introduced to the Soviet Union to study in Moscow Oriental University. 1925 returned to China, was sent by the Central Committee of the party to the northeast to carry out the work of the party. He successively served as secretary of the Harbin Branch of the C***, secretary of the North Manchuria Committee of the C***, special commissioner of the three northeastern provinces of the C***, and organization minister of the Manchurian Provincial Party Committee of the C***, etc. In the winter of 1929, following the instruction of the Party, he went to Shandong Province as secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee of the C***, and was arrested by the reactionaries of the Kuomintang in February 1930 due to the betrayal of the traitors. In the face of torture, steadfast, on April 5, 1931, and 21 comrades were killed at the same time in Jinan, at the age of 32 years.
In May 1962, with the approval of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, the Shuyang County People's Committee and the Shuyang County People's Committee relocated the coffin of Wu Ling Sheng to the Shuyang Martyrs' Mausoleum. In order to inherit the will of the revolutionary martyrs and promote the construction of two civilizations, in April 1994, the Shuyang County Committee and the Shuyang County Government also installed two statues of Wu Ling Sheng in the North Park of Shuyang County and the National Defense Park of Shuyang County Youth Square, so that they can be admired permanently and be remembered for generations to come!
Martyrs' Monument Pavilion
In the People's Heroes Monument not far north, east and west from the mausoleum axis 30 meters, symmetrically built two octagonal martyrs' monument pavilion. West monument pavilion erected four monuments to the martyrs. This four monuments is in 1985 by the county party committee, the county government agreed to move from the north of the city park, respectively, is the "National Revolutionary Army, the eighth road army Longnan south into the detachment of the third regiment Tang Shuhong Martyrs' Monument", Huaihai military sub-district of the seventh regiment of Song Yaonan and Sundon early "martyrdom monument" and "any district chief of the nine martyrdom monument". A monument is a heroic epic, which records the heroic deeds of the revolutionary martyrs that shocked the world. Mr. Tang Shuhong is a household name in Shuyang, Donghai, Guanyun and Gunnan. He was born in 1915 in Tanggou Town, Shuyang County (now part of Gunnan County), and pursued the truth of the revolution while studying in middle school. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, under the leadership of the Chinese ****production party, he organized the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force and the Chinese National Liberation Pioneers. On this basis, in April 1939, he set up the Third Regiment of the Longnan South Advancement Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and was appointed as the head of the regiment, and launched a sensational anti-Japanese struggle. The ambush of Japanese troops at Wulihuai and the victory in the first battle greatly inspired the confidence of the people of Dongguanshu in fighting against the Japanese invaders. Just when this young revolutionary army was growing strong, Tang Shuhong was unfortunately killed by the Kuomintang hardliners. Although he only lived to be twenty-four years old, he was like a star in the night sky, forever reflected in the hearts of the people.
West Pavilion, two respectively engraved with "light shot Jinping" and "shocked Tonghai" tribute monument, expressing the people's Song Yaonan and Sun Dongchu two heroes of the regiment leader's reverence and love. 1943 July, I Huaihai military sub-division of the three detachments of the seventh regiment leader Song Yaonan, in the siege of Sangxu Japanese and pseudo-strongholds of the battle, in person, the command of the forefront, unfortunately, seriously wounded, honorably sacrificed, aged 30 years. He was only 30 years old. To commemorate the martyrs, the Huaihai Administration decided to change Liyi District to Yaonan District; Sun Dongchu, who took over as the commander of the 7th Regiment, was martyred again in August of the same year in the battle of attacking Caizhuang. In just one month, my seventh regiment sacrificed two regimental commander, a profound illustration of the cruelty of the war, the hard-won victory of the revolution!
East Pavilion, also erected four monuments to the martyrs. Respectively, the liberation war period to commemorate the sacrifice of the "116" martyrs and "seven heroes of the Chaimi River" monument." The "116 Martyrs Monument" describes that in October 1946, the 74th division of the Kuomintang army invaded our Huaihai area, and the 15th regiment of the 6th division of the New Fourth Army, in order to defend the liberated area, fought with an enemy unit for three days and nights and annihilated more than 500 people in the township of Xiuzuo near Qianji along the Liutang River. During the battle, 116 members of the 15th Regiment died heroically. In order to permanently commemorate the martyrs, in September 1954, the "Monument Pavilion for the Sixteen Martyrs" was established at the place where the martyrs sacrificed their lives; in 1978, the Shuyang County People's Government rebuilt the "Monument Pavilion for the Sixteen Martyrs" in Qianji; in 1985, the Monument was modeled on the original "Monument for the Sixteen Martyrs" and its inscriptions, and was re-erected in the newly constructed East Monument Pavilion in Shuyang Martyrs' Cemetery. The Seven Heroic Martyrs Monument is: In the early morning of June 16th, 1947, more than 400 people from the Kuomintang army and the homecoming group surrounded the residence of my Shuyang Zhongwan Township Office in a bid to eliminate my township and village cadres and model team. Under the situation of enemy strength and weakness, 17 comrades led by Zhang Jiexing, a township instructor, made a common cause and fought back nine enemy charges, killing more than 20 enemies. In the bloody battle, Zhang Jiexing and other seven people died heroically. In order to express the commemoration of the heroes, at that time, the six local committees in central China called for activities to be carried out in the whole region to learn from the seven heroes, and posthumously recognized Zhang Jiexing as a model party member of the C***. 1983 March, Shuyang County People's Government specially for the seven heroes of the stone monument for the permanent commemoration.
The east monument pavilion is about 20 meters to the north, is the martyr's grave area. Facing south, the graves are divided into two rows in front and behind, in which the remains of 16 martyrs, including the Old Red Army and the Old Eighth Route, who sacrificed their lives for the revolution in various periods, are buried. About 40 meters north from the Martyrs' Cemetery is a five-room brick structure with corridors for the ashes of revolutionary martyrs, in which the ashes of 17 martyrs are placed. The verdant cedars in front of the door, tall and straight, such as loyal guards, standing guard for the martyrs, like a green umbrella cover, for the spirit of heroism.
North of the West Monument Pavilion, is an area of about three acres of flower gardens and bonsai gardens, cultivating a variety of flowers and trees. At present, the mausoleum has more than 100 varieties of various types of flowers and trees, which not only beautifies the environment, but also increases the economic income of the mausoleum.
Revolutionary Martyrs' Historical Exhibition Hall
After the flower garden, at the back of the mausoleum is the newly-built Revolutionary Martyrs' Historical Exhibition Hall in classical national style, with flying eaves and arches, and purple glazed tiles, which is majestic and spectacular. Shuyang is an old revolutionary area, the county has sacrificed 4350 revolutionary martyrs*** in various revolutionary periods. The life stories of 25 martyrs and 43 martyrs' portraits are on display here, and revolutionary artifacts such as the inscription "Bowed down for the people, infinite loyalty to the revolution" written by the former Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Mr. Chutunan, in honor of the revolutionary martyr, Mr. Wu Ling Sheng, are also preserved here. Among the statues of the martyrs, there is a statue of a female revolutionary that stands out the most,
She is Wang Hua, the former deputy director of the Women's Federation of Zhouji District in Shuyang County. The first time I saw her, I was in the middle of the night, and she was in the middle of the night, and she was in the middle of the night. In order to protect the people, Wang Hua stood up for himself. In order to protect the people, Wang Hua stepped forward. The enemy took her into the Qianji stronghold and tortured her, but she did not give in, and she did not waver when she was lured by money and status. The enemy had no choice but to brutally kill her, when she died at the age of 18. Soon after the sacrifice of Wang Hua, Zhouji district held thousands of people memorial meeting, announced that the higher government awarded Wang Hua martyrs "Liu Hulan-style heroes," the glorious title.
In the Martyrs' Historical Exhibition Hall, there is a volunteer martyr, his name is Liu Jinzuo, the Department of Sangxu Township, Liu Zhai village people, born into a farmer's family, participated in our army in 1944, was awarded the honorary title of "first-class merit". In January 1951, during the battle of Yongwan Peak in North Korea, the U.S. Army launched an attack on Liu Company's position with five tanks to open the way, followed by infantry. He has sent four blasters, are halfway to sacrifice, he had no choice but to pick up the 0 package, courageous and resourceful climb to the enemy tanks, continuously blowing up the enemy three tanks, unfortunately died heroically. Comrades endure the grief, rose up to blow up the other two tanks, and won the battle! Troop leadership organs, recognized Liu Jinzuo martyrs as "first-class war hero".