Monument Pavilion to the Six Martyrs Including Wu Yu

Monument Pavilion to the Six Martyrs Including Wu Yu

The Monument Pavilion to the Six Martyrs Including Wu Yu is a classic red tourism attraction.

Wu Yu (1911–1943), also known as Zu Yu, was born in 1911 in Dapu Village, Nansong, Rui’an County (now part of Cangnan County). In the spring of 1926, he entered Ouhai Public School in Wenzhou. In the autumn of 1929, after graduating from the Wenzhou Joint Commercial School, he was admitted to Shanghai Zhizhi University and later transferred to Shanghai Junyi Academy. In December 1937, he joined the Communist Party of China, introduced by Liu Ying and Su Yu. In July 1939, he was one of the five representatives of the provincial party committee who attended the First Congress of the Communist Party of China Zhejiang Provincial Committee. In December of the same year, to strengthen guidance over the work in Yongjia and Rui’an, the CPC Southern Zhejiang Special Committee decided to establish the Yong-Rui Central County Committee, with Wu Yu serving as its secretary. In March 1942, he was appointed as a member of the CPC Southern Zhejiang Special Committee and concurrently as director of the Paper Mountain Office of the CPC Southern Zhejiang Special Committee, overseeing the work in Yongjia and Rui’an counties.

In February 1943, he was transferred to serve as director of the Jiangbei (Kuocang) Office, overseeing the party work in Ou’bei, Yueqing, and Yuhuan. That winter, Wu Yu decided to open up a new working area at Xiaokeng in Huangshan Village on the border of Yong (jia), Xian (ju), and Huang (yan), and establish a new hidden base. However, this area was controlled by several bands of armed bandits, so dealing with the bandits was a prerequisite for entering Huangshan. As a result, Wu Yu sent Zheng Jiuzhi and others to Huangshan Village to subdue the bandit group. The bandit leader Yu Rugou pretended to surrender and expressed willingness to negotiate. On December 10 of the same year, Wu Yu, along with Xu Shunxing, head of the Organization Department of the Ou’bei County Committee of the CPC; Pan Tongyong, leader of the guerrilla squad; and guerrilla members Chen Jiyue, Xie Shoujin, and Pan Xingkui—a total of six people—went to the meeting as agreed but were ambushed by the bandits on the way. All six died as martyrs.

The Monument Pavilion to the Six Martyrs Including Wu Yu is located in Xiaokeng Village, Huangnan Township, Yongjia County. In October 2006, funded by the government and raised through social contributions, the Yongjia County New Fourth Army Research Association built it upstream of the Huangshanxi Power Station in Xiaokeng Village, Huangnan Township. The nine characters of the monument’s inscription “Monument to the Six Martyrs Including Wu Yu” were written by Comrade Qiu Qinghua, and a pavilion was constructed beside the monument. The entire monument pavilion faces south and sits north, with the Huangshanxi Stream to the south and the Yongxian Highway to the north, covering an area of approximately 300 square meters, with a building area of 32 square meters.

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