Shangtian Battle Memorial Hall

Shangtian Battle Memorial Hall

The Shangtian Battle Memorial Hall is a cultural relic protection unit of Longquan City, a classic red tourism attraction, as well as a base for patriotic education and national defense education.

The Shangtian Battle Memorial Hall is located in Shangtian Village, Chengbei Township, Longquan City. In 1935, the Kuomintang mobilized a large military force to encircle and suppress the Southwest Zhejiang Base Area. In early September, the Red Army Advance Detachment held a meeting of the highest party, government, and military leadership of the Southwest Zhejiang Base Area in the Cangtuo She Hall near Shangtian Village. Liu Ying and Su Yu presided over the meeting, where they planned the counter-encirclement efforts and launched the famous Shangtian Battle. During this battle, one battalion of enemy troops was defeated, with over a hundred soldiers killed or wounded, 42 enemy officers and soldiers including a company commander captured, and more than a hundred rifles and other firearms seized, while the remaining Nationalist troops fled.

To commemorate this battle, Shangtian Village established the first village-level revolutionary memorial hall in the province — the “Shangtian Battle” Memorial Hall, which has been listed as a national defense education base by Zhejiang Province. To this day, the ruins of the political committee site remain well-preserved, and the revolutionary slogans left by the Red Army on the walls can still be clearly seen, making it a rare revolutionary landmark in the Southwest Zhejiang region. Meanwhile, Shangtian Village is a thousand-year-old ancient settlement, dotted with numerous Ming and Qing dynasty-era traditional houses.

Shangtian Village: Located in Shangtian Village, Chengbei Township, Longquan City, at the junction of Songyang, Suichang, and Longquan counties. Situated at an altitude of 455 meters, the majority of villagers bear the surname Mao, who originally migrated here from Guanchuan in Suichang during the Qing Dynasty’s Kangxi era. The village has 185 households and a population of around 680.

Shangtian Stream divides the village into northern and southern sections, with houses clustered along the stream. The roads, rivers, and residential buildings throughout the village largely retain their layout, style, and architectural form dating back to the late Qing and early Republican periods. There are 42 lanes and alleys within the village, such as Cunzhong Road, Cunguan Road, Cunkun Road, Duiqian Road, Shuijing Lane, and Daluxia Lane. Other features include a stone arch corridor bridge, stone slab bridges, and stepping stones… More details about Shangtian Village ++