Study Place of Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian

Study Place of Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian

The Study Place of Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian is a cultural relic protection unit of Anqing City.

In the late Guangxu period, Chen Duxiu’s adoptive father, Chen Yanshu, built a residence at Nanshuiguan in Anqing. It had three main gates: one traditional Chinese-style, one Western-style, and a back gate in between, totaling two--rooms. In the early years of the Republic of China, Chen Yanshu suffered a failed trade with British merchants in Hangzhou, leading to the residence being sealed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Beiyang government. After the failure of the Second Revolution, it was further sealed by the Anhui warlord Ni Sichong. In the 1980s, when a waterworks was constructed, most of the residence was demolished. This was the place where Chen Duxiu’s sons, the martyrs Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian, lived and grew up. As early as 1990, the Anqing Municipal People’s Government listed it as a municipal-level key cultural relic protection unit.

Chen Yannian (1898–1927), from Huaining County (now Peide Lane East Entrance at Dananmen, Anqing), was an early political activist of the Chinese Communist Party and the eldest son of Comrade Chen Duxiu.

Chen Yannian studied at Anqing Shangzhi Primary School in his childhood and attended Anqing Quanwan Middle School. In the 4th year of the Republic of China (1915), he went to Shanghai with his father and was admitted to Aurora University in Shanghai. In the 8th year of the Republic of China, he went to France for work-study. In the summer of the 11th year of the Republic of China, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League (later renamed the Communist Youth League) and was elected as the propaganda minister of the “Young Communists.” In the autumn of the same year, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. While studying in Europe... More details about Chen Yannian++

Chen Qiaonian, an outstanding member of the Chinese Communist Party and a loyal son of the Chinese people. On June 6, 1928, Chen Qiaonian, along with Zheng Futuo and Xu Baihao, was executed heroically by the Kuomintang at Fenglin Bridge near Longhua in Shanghai. Before his sacrifice, his fellow prisoners in jail were deeply saddened by his impending death. Yet, Chen Qiaonian remained optimistic and said, “Let our descendants enjoy the happiness that we have achieved through blazing a trail through thorns!”

Chen Qiaonian, from Huaining, Anhui, was the second son of Chen Duxiu, born in 1902. In 1915, Chen Qiaonian studied successively at a French language supplementary school and Aurora University in Shanghai. At the end of 1919, he went to France... More details about Chen Qiaonian++

Chen Duxiu (October 9, 1879 – May 27, 1942), originally named Qingtong, official name Qiansheng, courtesy name Zhongpu, pseudonym Shian, was from Huaining, Anhui (now Anqing). He was a great patriot, revolutionary, and reformer in modern Chinese history, a great democrat, and a great enlightenment thinker. He was the initiator of the New Culture Movement, the advocate of China’s first ideological emancipation movement of the 20th century, the commander-in-chief of the May Fourth Movement, the ideological guide of the May Fourth Movement, an active propagator of Marxism, and the most important founder of the Chinese Communist Party... More details about Chen Duxiu++