YINCHUAN, May 17 (Xinhua) — On a Sunday afternoon earlier this month, some 100 highschool college students walked on a path within the Liupanshan Mountain in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Eighteen vital historic eventualities of the epic Long March had been re-enacted on the two.5-km-long “Red Army Path,” the place guests can retrace the historical past of the Long March and higher perceive the Long March spirit.
The Long March was a army maneuver carried out by the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army from 1934 to 1936. During this era, the military left their bases and marched by means of raging rivers, frigid mountains, and arid grasslands to interrupt the siege of Kuomintang forces and continued to battle Japanese aggressors.
The college students had been making an attempt to have a real-life expertise of the Red Army troopers when passing by means of the mountain in southern Ningxia. They lastly reached the highest of a hill the place a big museum advanced constructed from 2005 to 2014 stood in reminiscence of the Long March.
Ningxia was a big battlefield and milieu of revolutionary actions of the Red Army and thus is wealthy in historic data of its endeavors almost 9 many years in the past.
More than 80 years in the past, American journalist Edgar Snow penned “Red Star Over China,” which gave a uncommon and detailed account of the Chinese Revolution within the Thirties.
Snow had quite a few interviews with Red Army leaders, troopers, and native individuals in Yuwangpu, now in Tongxin County of Wuzhong City in central Ningxia.
A contemporary museum at a central plaza of Tongxin County seat is reviving the interval of historical past with pictures, outdated objects, replicas, and multimedia paperwork. It receives a whole bunch of tourists day by day.
Visitors there can see unique objects or replicas of army banners, books, leaflets, weapons, uniforms, and sneakers utilized by the Red Army. Scenes of fierce battles present in multimedia movies.
“The revolutionary history of Yuwangpu is an important treasure for local people, who set up the first revolutionary government in Ningxia by ethnic Hui people with the support of the Red Army,” mentioned Ma Yuhai, a workers member working on the museum.
After the Red Army arrived in southern Ningxia in 1935, it started a sequence of army actions and revolutionary actions, re-animated by many museums in Ningxia.
An outdated courtyard home in Shanjiaji of Xiji County, which as soon as hosted Chairman Mao Zedong in 1935, has turn out to be a museum with a whole bunch of 1000’s of tourists every year.
A “Kang,” or heatable mattress, frequent in northern China and as soon as utilized by Mao, is on show in the home.
“Locals in Shanjiaji then welcomed the Red Army with food, tea, and other necessities, but the soldiers, abiding by strict discipline, paid all with money and refused to take anything for free,” mentioned Ma Xiao with the native chronicles workplace in Xiji County.