"December 9th" Movement Memorial Pavilion

"December 9th" Movement Memorial Pavilion

In 1935, after trampling over China's northeast, the iron hoof of Japanese imperialism extended further into North China. The vastness of North China could no longer hold a single peaceful desk. When the Chinese nation faced the critical moment of life and death, on December 9th, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the youth students of Beiping (Beijing) were the first to rise up and launched the world-shocking "December 9th" Movement. They sounded the clarion call for the movement to resist Japan and save the nation, marking the beginning of the nationwide war of resistance, and wrote a glorious page in the history of Chinese youth.

To commemorate the heroic achievements of the revolutionary predecessors, to inherit and carry forward the traditions of the Chinese youth movement, and to inspire the youth to strive for the rejuvenation of China and the realization of the Four Modernizations, a memorial pavilion will be built at Cherry Valley (once the site of a military summer camp that trained key resistance cadres), one of the important locations for the "December 9th" Movement activities, as an eternal tribute.

The "December 9th" Movement Memorial Pavilion was completed on December 9, 1985, and was designed by faculty and students from the Architecture Department of Beijing University of Technology. The memorial pavilion consists of three small triangular pavilions. The main pavilion is 5.5 meters high, the secondary ones are 4.2 meters high, and each side is 1.8 meters long. The triangular shape symbolizes the camping tents of the military summer camp at the time, and the three triangles form a three-dimensional "众" (meaning "crowd" or "masses") character, symbolizing the determination of the Chinese people to unite as one and resist the invasion. On the east side of the central memorial stele is an inscription by Comrade Peng Zhen, and on the west side is an inscription written by Mr. Liu Bingsen, recounting the glorious history of the December 9th Movement and the profound significance of building the memorial pavilion.

Contact number: 82598771

Route: Enter the Botanical Garden -- go north along the central axis road -- pass Meiyuan (Plum Garden) -- arrive at Cherry Valley, and reach the "December 9th" Memorial Pavilion.