Yongan Anti-Japanese War Heritage Sites

Yongan Anti-Japanese War Heritage Sites

The Yong'an Anti-Japanese War Heritage Sites are National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units.

The Yong'an Anti-Japanese War Sites are located in Yong'an City, Fujian Province. They are part of the seventh batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units and were included in the second list of 100 national-level anti-Japanese war memorial facilities and sites.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist government of Fujian Province relocated from Fuzhou to Yong'an, a mountainous city in central Fujian, where it served as the wartime provincial capital for seven and a half years (from May 1938 to October 1945). Under the banner of the anti-Japanese national united front based on cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, a large group of revolutionary intellectuals, patriotic progressives, passionate youths, and some undercover Communists gathered in Yong'an, forming a sizable cultural force. They used pens as weapons to create a powerful anti-Japanese salvation public opinion and carried out vigorous anti-war cultural activities, making Yong'an a flagship of anti-Japanese culture in southeastern China.

Among the currently well-preserved Yong'an Anti-Japanese War cultural heritage sites are the Yixiu Building, Dutou Residence (the site where Yang Zao was arrested), the detention site of Yang Zao and 11 other cultural figures, the Fuxing Fort in Wenlong Village (the Taiwan Provincial Branch of the Kuomintang directly under the Central Government), the Chungu Mountain Villa air-raid shelter site (former residences of then-provincial chairman Chen Yi and Liu Jianxu), the Liu Family Ancestral House (former site of the People’s Newspaper Office), the Caipai Cuo (residence of staff from the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Branch of the Supreme Court), the Shangxin Cuo (former site of the Fujian High Court), the Tuanhe Cuo (residence of officials from the Fujian High Procuratorate), and over 20 other sites, 12 of which have been listed as National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units.

Further Reading:

· Seventh Batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units