Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery

Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery

Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, a national key cultural relics protection unit, a classic red tourism destination, and a patriotic education base.

Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery is situated to the west of Longhua Temple and is a national key cultural relics protection unit as well as a key martyrs' memorial building protection unit. Originally the site of the former Shanghai Garrison Command of the Sino-Japanese War and the execution ground for revolutionary martyrs in Longhua, it was preserved as a revolutionary martyrs' memorial site after the liberation. In the early 1990s, it was integrated with Shanghai Martyrs' Cemetery. On July 1, 1995, it was completed and opened to the public. It is a novel cemetery that combines commemorative reverence, tourism, culture, and garden attractions, often referred to as the "Shanghai Yuhuatai."

The cemetery is divided into eight functional areas: the memorial and reverence area, the martyrs' tomb area, the historical site area, the underground passage and execution ground, the stele forest area, the youth education activity area, the cadres' ashes storage area, and the recreation area. Eleven large sculptures and a memorial square are situated along the north-south central axis. Over 1,600 martyrs, including Gu Zhenghong, Luo Yinong, Zhao Shiyan, Lin Yunan, and Li Qiushi, are buried here. The site also features Shanghai’s first stele forest, covering more than 20 acres, arranged in two rows extending 54 meters each from north to south, facing each other. The southern wall displays the full text of Lu Xun’s “In Memory of Forgetting,” while the northern wall exhibits revolutionary poems and essays by Shanghai martyrs.

The cemetery is lush with trees all year round. In spring, peach blossoms are in full bloom. Visiting the martyrs, viewing the peach blossoms, paying respects, ascending the pagoda, and attending temple fairs during the half-month period from the first to the fifteenth day of the third lunar month has become a local tradition for Shanghainese.

Address: No. 2853 Longhua Road, Xuhui District

Phone: 021-64576327

Transportation: Buses 41, 44, 56, 73, 104, 864, etc.

Opening Hours: 6:00–17:00 (Last entry at 17:00, site clears at 17:30). Closed on Mondays.

Admission

1 RMB

Location

No. 180 Longhua West Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai

Gu Zhenghong (1905–1925)

Gu Zhenghong, from Zhuanhe Township, Funing County, Jiangsu Province, herded cattle for landlords in his childhood. In 1922 (the 11th year of the Republic of China), he worked as a sweeper at the Japanese-owned Nanyang Cotton Mill No. 9 but was dismissed for accusing the foreman of embezzling wages. Later, he worked as a roller at Nanyang Cotton Mill No. 7. In the summer of 1924, he attended the workers’ night school founded by the Chinese Communist Party in western Shanghai. He then became an active member of the Western Shanghai Workers’ Club, promoting revolutionary ideas among his fellow workers in the workshop. In February 1925, during the major strike at Japanese-owned textile mills, he joined the workers’ picket team to maintain strike order... More info about Gu Zhenghong ++

Luo Yinong

(1902–1928)

Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, revolutionary martyr.

Born into a wealthy family on May 18, 1902, in Leigongtang, Yishe River, Yixian County, Hunan Province (now Xiangtan), also known as Luo Jue. At age 7, he attended a private school. At 11, he studied at the academy of Guo Yueqin, a late Qing scholar and open-minded educator in Xiangjia Pond, Xiashesi, Xiangtan, where he was influenced by democratic ideals. At 14, he enrolled in Yizhi School, a missionary school in Xiangtan run by Americans. He joined the student self-governance association and opposed the school’s forced assimilation education... More info about Luo Yinong ++

Zhao Shiyan (1901–1927), courtesy name QINsheng, art name Guofu, pen names Shiying, Qinsun, Liefu, Luojing, Lesheung, Shiyin, Shiyan, Yan, and Le, was from Youyang Autonomous County, Chongqing. He was an outstanding early proletarian revolutionary, Marxist theorist and propagandist, and renowned leader of the labor movement in the Chinese Communist Party.

Zhao Shiyan, courtesy name QINsheng, art name Guofu, pen name Shiying, was born on April 13, 1901, in Longtan Town, Youyang, Sichuan.

At age 4, he began studying under private tutors Chen Deyuan (a graduate of Hiroshima Normal School in Japan) and Li Yukun (a top student from Sichuan University)... More info about Zhao Shiyan ++

Lin Yunan (1898–February 7, 1931), a Chinese revolutionary martyr. Born in December 1898 in Huanggang, Hubei Province, he was two years younger than Lin Yuying and eight years older than Lin Biao, sharing the same great-grandfather with Lin Yuying and the same grandfather with Lin Biao, making them cousins. Early in his life, he studied at the secondary section of Zhonghua University in Wuchang. In 1915, he entered the affiliated high school of Zhonghua University in Wuchang.

Early Experience

In October 1917, he joined the Mutual Aid Society organized by Yun Daiying. In May 1918, he actively participated in the Wuhan students’ opposition to the Beiyang warlords and the Japanese imperialists’ signing of the unequal... More info about Lin Yunan ++

Li Weisen, from Wuchang, Hubei (now Wuchang District, Wuhan City). He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1922 and served as the chief editor of the Daily News. He took part in the February 7th Strike. In 1924, he went to the Soviet Union for studies. He returned to China in 1925 and held positions such as propaganda minister of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, secretary of the Communist Youth League Hunan Provincial Committee, propaganda minister of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and secretary of the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. In the summer of 1928, he edited the Shanghai Newspaper and in May became the head of the Shanghai Office of the Soviet Preparation Committee. On January 17, 1931, he was arrested at the Oriental Hotel and executed by the Nationalist Government on February 7, 1931, at the Longhua Shanghai-Sino War site... More info about Li Weisen ++