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Site of the Mass Grave

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In June 1930, over 600 members of the Yongjia Xu Dingkui Unit of the First Regiment of the 13th Red Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Huangyan Xia Yunhu peasant militia were on their way to Haimen (now Jiaojiang District, Taizhou) when they were forced to turn back toward Yongjia due to obstacles. While passing through Aimen Ridge in Daqin, Yueqing, they were ambushed by the reactionary Daqin Militia led by Jiang Shunan. Over ten were killed on the spot, and most were captured. The reactionary militia set up a makeshift tribunal at the Chamber of Commerce on Xiaoshantou in Daqin, interrogated the captured Red Army soldiers and accompanying peasants one by one, then escorted them to the Daqin Charcoal Yard where they were shot and killed. They hired people to carry the bodies to Shushan on Baigang Ridge in Daqin and buried them in a mass grave. Locals referred to it as the “Mass Grave.” This was the most tragic and heroic incident during the 13th Red Army’s combat history, with a total of 471 lives lost, historically known as the “Aimen Ridge Incident.”

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In June 1930, over 600 members of the Yongjia Xu Dingkui Unit of the First Regiment of the 13th Red Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Huangyan Xia Yunhu peasant militia were on their way to Haimen (now Jiaojiang District, Taizhou) when they were forced to turn back toward Yongjia due to obstacles. While passing through Aimen Ridge in Daqin, Yueqing, they were ambushed by the reactionary Daqin Militia led by Jiang Shunan. Over ten were killed on the spot, and most were captured. The reactionary militia set up a makeshift tribunal at the Chamber of Commerce on Xiaoshantou in Daqin, interrogated the captured Red Army soldiers and accompanying peasants one by one, then escorted them to the Daqin Charcoal Yard where they were shot and killed. They hired people to carry the bodies to Shushan on Baigang Ridge in Daqin and buried them in a mass grave. Locals referred to it as the “Mass Grave.” This was the most tragic and heroic incident during the 13th Red Army’s combat history, with a total of 471 lives lost, historically known as the “Aimen Ridge Incident.”

The site of the “Mass Grave” is located halfway up Shushan on Baigang Ridge in Daqin Town, Yueqing City. Baigang Ridge is about five or six li from Daqin Town, and Shushan lies on both sides of the ridge’s summit, with the mass grave—where over 400 Red Army soldiers are collectively buried—situated on the shaded side of the mountain.

Source: Party History Research Office of the CPC Wenzhou Municipal Committee