Site of the First Peasant Movement Training Institute in Southern Fujian

Site of the First Peasant Movement Training Institute in Southern Fujian

The site of the first Peasant-Movement Training Institute in Southern Fujian, Wuying Archery Pavilion, is located within the County Experimental Kindergarten in Suian Town, Zhangpu County, Zhangzhou City.

In November 1926, Li Lianxing, Li Feng, Huang Zhaoming, and other Communist Party members — graduates of the Sixth Session of the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute who had joined the Northern Expedition — were dispatched by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee. They arrived in Zhangpu under the titles of special envoys of the Peasant Department of the Nationalist Central Committee and heads of the Agricultural Movement Office for the Ting-Zhang Region to carry out workers' and peasants' movements. In the urban area, they established the first Party organization in Zhangpu — a branch of the Southern Fujian Major School. That same month, amid the continuous victories of the Northern Expedition forces, peasant associations were founded and expanded across Zhangpu. After arriving in Zhangpu, communists such as Li Lianxing made developing the peasant movement a central revolutionary task. They undertook all necessary preparations to establish peasant associations, and following the educational model of the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute, they founded the first Peasant Movement Training Institute in Southern Fujian at Wuying Archery Pavilion. The institute recruited over ten students from counties including Nanjing, Zhao'an, Pinghe, and Zhangpu, teaching theories of peasant revolution and sharing experiences from the Haifeng-Lufeng peasant movement, thereby training a group of key peasant movement activists and laying the groundwork for the widespread development of the peasant movement in Southern Fujian.

The Wuying Archery Pavilion, site of the first Peasant-Movement Training Institute in Southern Fujian, was originally a military barracks that became known as Wuying Archery Pavilion due to the presence of an archery training structure. After liberation, the site was repurposed as classrooms for the County Experimental Kindergarten but was later demolished during the kindergarten’s renovation.

Source: Zhangzhou Municipal Party Committee Party History Research Office

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