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The Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China once set up a secret radio station. |
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The former site of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. |
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Memorial Hall of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. |
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Tiancheng Business Name was the closest contact site to the South China Committee. |
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Nowadays, the appearance of Tai Po Kok Village has been completely renewed. |
In Dapujiao Village, Fenglang Town, Dapu County, , a simple old house, a century-old star fruit tree, an inconspicuous business... These seemingly ordinary things are the keys to open the "gate" of the local people's red memory. They are the former site of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The former site of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was once the command center of the Communist Party of China's revolutionary activities in the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Region. It is known as the "Little Yan'an in the South". Its establishment has made great contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan and the liberation of China.
In order to inherit the red gene and do a good job in party history education, Dapu County has done a solid job in repairing the former site of the Southern Working Committee, focusing on improving the exhibition of the revolutionary history exhibition in the Fujian-Guangxi Border Region, and strive to build a red tourism scenic spot, leading green development with red party building, driving industrial revitalization, and promoting the positive and rapid development of the economy and society. At present, the former site of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China has become the glorious revolutionary tradition red education base in Dapu County and the patriotic education base in Meizhou City.
●Written by: Zhang Liuqing, Liu Zhaoying, Luo Wenyan Photography by: Yuan Qunhua,
The South Committee established
Light the revolutionary fire
Walking into Dapu Corner, Fenglang Town, Dapu County, I was involuntarily attracted by the unique Hakka-style shops and streets here. Following the main road of the village to the pond, the old house "River Water Flowing Hui" in front of it has a unique charm against the backdrop of the surrounding modern houses. The red characters "The former site of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China" in front of the old house are particularly eye-catching.
walks into the old house, and the history and information displayed tell the story of that year. "At that time, the comrades of the 'South Committee' working group fired important telegrams and conveyed important information many times in this small house, playing an important role in liaison and cover for breaking the conspiracy of the Kuomintang's diehards to launch a second reactionary climax." Huang Zhenzhuang, 67 years old this year, is a volunteer tour guide at the former site of the Southern Working Committee, and his uncle Huang Weili is an underground party member and telegrapher. It was under Huang Weili's traction that Laowu became the location of the South China Committee.
Under the leadership of Huang Zhenzhuang, the author and his party visited the old house and in his story, they entered the great history of the war-torn era that happened in this old house.
82 years ago, after the Japanese army controlled the central and eastern and western wings of Guangdong, they launched countless military attacks or sweeps across the province to expand their strategic strongholds, open up transportation lines and seize economic resources.
Except for Xingmei counties, most counties and cities in Guangdong were occupied and invaded by the Japanese army. After the Japanese army occupied Guangdong, they used their main forces to attack the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army on the battlefield behind enemy lines, and implemented a strategy of political inducing and supplementing military strikes against the Kuomintang.
The Kuomintang’s policy shifted from external to internal, and determined that “military restrictions should be the main focus and political restrictions should be the auxiliary focus”. The Kuomintang diehards set off the first anti-communist climax in the country.
In 1940, the Kuomintang spies stepped up surveillance and tracking of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee located in Chongqing. In order to ensure that the Southern Party’s work is still led by leaders when the leadership of the Southern Bureau is damaged. With the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, it was decided to establish the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Southwest Working Committee. As two major dispatched agencies under the Southern Bureau, they will lead the Party organizations of South China and the Southwest Provinces respectively.
In November of that year, the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China (hereinafter referred to as the "Southern Committee") was established, representing the Southern Bureau to lead the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, the Northern Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, the Southern Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, the Qiongya Special Committee, the Southern Hunan Special Committee, the Chaomei Special Committee, the Minxi Special Committee, the Southern Fujian Special Committee, the Guangxi Working Committee, the Dapu County Party Committee and the Fujian Guangdong and Jiangxi Border Committee.
The leaders of the South Committee are composed of Fang Fang, Zhang Wenbin, Tu Zhennong, Guo Qian, Wang Tao, etc. The South Committee is located in Dapu. During the time of his stay in Tai Po, the agency moved one after another, moved from Tai Po West River to Hyatt, and then went to Fenglang Tai Po Po Po Po Po Po at that time, making Tai Po a command center for the revolution in South China and Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi border areas at that time. In the first part of the display of the old house,
introduces in detail the process of the establishment of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China and the historical pictures at that time. There is a star fruit tree with thick branches in the front hall of the old house, like a guard guarding the old house. Huang Zhenzhuang introduced that this century-old star peach tree was once the setting point of the secret radio station antenna of the Southern Working Committee.
In September 1941, the Secretary of the Southern Committee Fang Fang (pseudonym Wang Zihua) and Comrade Huang Weili from Dapujiao New Village, Fenglang Town, joined forces. The Southern Committee was transferred from Gongzhou to the small house on the right of Huang Weili's "River Water Flowing Hui" in Dapujiao New Village, Fenglang Town.
Fang Fang lives in Huang Weili's old house with Zheng Xiaoping, Xu Ying (Xu Yunsong), Chen Jinqing and others. At the same time, based on the secret radio station of Wuqishan South Committee of Changlexia Village, Pinghe County, Fujian Province, another backup station was secretly set up in Nanshan, Baihou Town (usually collecting news information from Yan'an).
At that time, the secret trafficker Comrade Dai Lihua disguised himself as he picked up salt and walked the mountain road from Changle, Pinghe County, Fujian Province, and went through hardships to transport the radio station to the "Qinnanxuan" of Baihou Nanshan.
The South Committee not only established a secret radio station, opened secret transportation lines and set up transportation stations, but also participated in the "Hong Kong Secret Rescue" renowned at China and abroad, successfully rescued more than 800 patriotic democratic figures and cultural figures in Hong Kong, and led anti-Japanese armed forces in Dongjiang, Qiongya and other places to participate in the war of resistance, making important contributions to the united front work in South China and the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Villagers cover
yell the gong to report to the information security agency
. There is a shop called "Tiancheng Shopping" less than 500 meters away from the old house. The shop door sign is No. 5104, the shop covers an area of 52 square meters, with brick and stone tile roof structure, with two upper and lower floors.
Huang Zhenzhuang introduced that this shop was the closest contact station to the South Committee at that time. The store downstairs operates a stationery and daily necessities department store, and the store staff’s housing and warehouse are upstairs. "Tiancheng Business has played an important role in contact and cover." After the establishment of the Southern Committee, in accordance with the spirit of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on opposing surrender and division, adhering to unity and war of resistance, connecting with the actual situation in Guangdong, relying on the people, and carrying out the fight against the anti-communist diehards in various places.
At the same time, it leads the Communist Party organizations of the Kuomintang-controlled regions of the southern provinces to carry out party ideological and organizational construction; leads the progressive forces in the southern provinces to fight against Japan and the nation-salvation; leads the anti-Japanese armed forces in Dongjiang, Qiongya and other places to engage in armed struggles with Japanese invaders.
The reason why the Southern Working Committee is located in Tai Po is not only a good natural environment that is suitable for hidden struggles, which is densely populated and heavily watered, and is connected to western Fujian, but also has certain historical reasons.
Gan Haiyang, deputy director of the Party History Research Office of the Dapu County Party Committee, introduced that the party organization in Dapu was strong and powerful during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the people of the Soviet area accumulated rich experience and advanced ideas in carrying out the struggle. The advantages of natural geography, the strength of the party organization, the mass base, etc. provide good conditions for the establishment of the Southern Working Committee in Tai Po.
In early June 1942, Guo Qian, the former Organization Minister of the Southern Committee, was arrested and rebelled in Qujiang, Shaoguan, and led the Kuomintang spies to destroy the Northern Guangdong Provincial Committee and led Zhuang Zifang, the spy leader of the Central Commission for Jiangxi, to Dapu, in an attempt to secretly destroy the Southern Committee.
On the morning of June 6, Zhuang Zifang and his party arrived at Gaopi Town at 14:00. At the time of , Wang Yahua led the way to Gaopi to prepare for the preparation of the South Committee Propaganda Minister Tu Zhennong, who accidentally met Guo Qian and other enemy spies at Gaopi Wharf, was arrested and immediately took him back to Rongjiang Hotel in Chaixing Street (now No. 21, Minzhu Road).
It was day and night, and the enemy begged Wang Yahua to lead the way to Dapu Corner, secretly surrounding Huang Weili's old house and Tiancheng Business.In the early morning of the next day, the people found someone surrounded the old house and shop, so they twitched the gong and shouted: "Bandits are here! Bandits are here!" The people around the corner of
Dapu were awakened by the sound of gongs, and they rushed over with knives and other equipment. The sound of snails, noise and shouts shocked the whole village, catching the enemy off guard. One of the spy leaders stepped into the paddy fields in panic and could not pull out the leather shoes, so they had to command the troops to suppress the masses with barefoot, and then fired guns to intimidate them.
When the enemy searched, the old house was empty, so he ransacked Tiancheng Business. The enemy originally wanted to enter the back of the pen, but saw the mountains and trees high, and heard that there were armed forces, so he rushed back to Gaopi with Zeng Youshen and Wang Yahua at night. The incident of
was also compiled by later generations into a song that "the masses are looking forward to the Communist Party, and they ring the gongs and report to the trust protection agency, which scared the spies to panic and their shoes fall into the paddy field and barefoot", which was widely circulated.
"When the South China Committee was located in Dapu Kok, it was supported by the masses. Therefore, when the enemy secretly surrounded the old house and Tiancheng Business Name were discovered by the masses, they would get the support of the masses, block the enemy's actions, let the people of the South China Committee leave, and leave the revolutionary fire." Gan Haiyang believes that Dapu Kok has had a good cultural tradition since ancient times, and the scholars here are simple and simple. The beautiful rural customs have cultivated the revolutionary sentiment of the villagers in pursuing truth, respecting martial arts and fighting evil. After the "South China Committee Incident" occurred, Zhou Enlai and the leaders of the Southern Bureau decided to abolish the Southern China Committee and stop the work. The South China National Committee Radio was stopped and the South China National Committee Secretary Fang Fang left the South China National Committee. The Chaomet Special Committee and the Minxi Special Committee directly contacted the Southern Bureau. Among the arrested people in the "South China National Committee Incident", except for Tu Zhennong's rebellion and surrender to the enemy, the vast majority insisted on fighting and persevering. Liao Chengzhi fought bravely in prison and was steadfast and unyielding; Zhang Wenbin, Qiu Hongyao, Yang Baosheng, Cai Xuanying and others insisted on revolutionary integrity, suffered torture, and died heroically.
"Red + Green" transforms development momentum
promotes high-quality development
standing in the old house and looking around. The "South Commercial Incident" is no longer a concept in the history pages, but a freshly active scene of the Communists fighting for their ideals. The mottled traces in the old house remind the world of bloody storms, swords and swords, and the loud singing of revolutionary victory.
As the command center of the CCP’s revolutionary activities in the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Area, every brick and tile in the small house seemed to be sticking to it and shining with a noble spirit. On the left side of this small house, a beautiful building has been built, named "Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi Border Region Revolutionary History Exhibition Hall".
brand new exhibition hall is located in a small village with green peaks, which is particularly eye-catching, making the former site of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, a classic holy place for red tourism, look dazzling.
"The old house you see now was once the command center of the CCP’s revolutionary activities in the Guangdong-Fujian-Jiangxi Border Region, where the Communist Party of China Southern Working Committee was established." Under the leadership of the tour guide, employees of the Meizhou branch of China Unicom Co., Ltd. received party history education.
According to Zhang Congxian, a member of the Party Committee of Fenglang Town, Dapu County, since 2015, Dapu County has hired experts to carry out comprehensive, systematic and professional planning and design, and based on the principle of "repairing the old and maintaining the original appearance", it has broadened and transformed the former site of the "South Committee" and its surrounding environmental landscape, with the total area expanded to about 10,000 square meters. It also added the revolutionary history exhibition hall, red cultural corridor, and oath square in the Fujian-Guangxi Border Region, to improve basic supporting facilities such as parking lots and bathrooms, to improve the greening, beautification and lighting projects around the South Committee, and to create a red base integrating tourism, education, and development of rural economy.
"Every year, a large number of people come to visit and study the former site of the South Committee, especially in July and October every year. There are endless people coming to visit. While launching the business card of the Red Tourism and Patriotism Education Base in Dapujiao, it also promotes the increase in villagers' income." Guo Huatian, secretary of the Party Branch of Dapujiao Village, introduced that Dapujiao Village was once a provincially designated poor village, and the layout of "red tourism + green development" has driven the village to get rid of poverty and become rich. At the end of December 2019, Dapu Jiao Village achieved full poverty alleviation.
In recent years, Dapujiao Village has proposed the development idea of "storm and rain in Yan'an and colorful Dapujiao".By refining the red spirit, we will vigorously promote the construction of the "Red Village" party building demonstration project, comprehensively improve the level of party building work, let the red spirit shine in a new era, lead and help targeted poverty alleviation and industrial development, promote village collective and individual income growth, and promote rural revitalization and development.
spread the Fenglang Town planning map, and you can clearly see a "Geese spreading their wings and flying high": with the red village Dapu Jiao Village as the "Gean Head", Dapu Jiao Village to Shangshanxia Village as the "main axis" of development, Xiyan Tea Township, General Jungle and Dawangkeng Village as the "two wings", linking a 22-kilometer red and green cultural tourism route, connecting more than 20 villages including Dapu County and Raoping County, Chaozhou City, Xinfeng Town, , etc., truly realizing "listen to a red 'talk about the ancients' at the foot of the mountain, and enjoy a cup of green fragrant tea on the mountain".
After the construction of the party building demonstration project, Dapu Jiao Village is currently the leader and Xiyan Ten-Acre Tea Culture Industrial Park is the starting point. Dapu County has been able to connect the "three towns, ten villages and one field" to build a spatial layout of "one core, one axis, two wings and multiple parks", create a demonstration belt for leading green development of red party building, and drive nearly 15,000 people around to work together to achieve prosperity.
"'Red' and 'green' are linked together. In recent years, the development of red tourism in the former site of the South Commission has boosted popularity and brought business opportunities to the local and surrounding towns and villages." Zhang Congxian said that Fenglang Town plans to further exert the influence of the former site of the South Commission during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, so that "red" and "green" can be more closely integrated, and drive high-quality economic and social development.
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In recent years, Fenglang Town, Dapu County, which is led by red and promoted green development, takes the "red village" of Dapu Jiao Village as the leader and Xiyan Ten Thousand Mu Tea Culture Industrial Park as the starting point, and continuously promotes the integration of "red + green" industries and achieves high-quality development of the town economy.
starts from Tai Po Kok Village, drive along the tourist highway, with a twists and turns, and a 20-minute drive into the Shangshanxia Village, which is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round. Here, the forest is filled with clear sounds, the mountain is beautiful and the mountain is covered with clouds and mist. Tea bars and tea factories are distributed on both sides of the road up the mountain, and the "tea flavor" is full.
In Fenglang Town, which has an average altitude of more than 600 meters and is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round, the tea fragrance is everywhere in the Xiyan Wanmu Tea Culture Industrial Park, and the tea trees all over the mountains are lush. The once rarely visited Xiyanshan, Kuding Lake, has now become a "free employment base" for surrounding villagers, and tea gardens have become a "green gold mine" for villagers to achieve prosperity.
Aunt Lin, who lives in Shangshanxia Village, is a tea picker. It is only more than 10 minutes from home to the tea farm. During the tea picking season, she and her husband ride motorcycles to the teahouse to work every morning. "We do whatever tea garden needs, such as weeding, picking tea, etc.." Aunt Lin said that the tea farm not only guarantees employment for surrounding villagers, but also drives more and more villagers to grow tea and get rich.
"Every household here grows tea, and as long as the tea is picked, it is money. Many villagers have made a fortune by growing tea and have returned to build new houses." Wei Xinguang, secretary of the Party Branch of Shangshanxia Village, said that the tea planting area in Shangshanxia Village currently reaches more than 8,000 acres, and some villagers earn more than 200,000 yuan a year by growing tea.
"In recent years, the development of red tourism in Fenglang Town has boosted popularity and brought business opportunities to the local and surrounding towns and villages." Lai Fawei, chairman of Guangdong Kaida Tea Industry Co., Ltd., who has been deeply rooted in the hometown of Tea Mountain for 24 years, said with deep emotion that tea farmers used to go to the village to sell tea, but now there are often bosses who drive BMWs come to buy tea. If tourism routes bring popularity, it will further drive farmers out of poverty and become rich. At present, the tea sales of tea farmers in the village are increasing by 30% each year, and a small piece of tea has supported a large industry to get rich.