Former Residence of Li Zifang

Former Residence of Li Zifang

The former residence of Li Zifang is a cultural relic protection unit of Shishi City, a classic red tourism site, and a patriotic education base.

Li Zifang was born in May 1910 into an overseas Chinese family in Ziying Village, Yongning Town, Shishi City. In 1924, he went to the Philippines to work and study, where he was deeply influenced by revolutionary ideas. He returned to China in 1927 during the height of the Great Revolution. In 1932, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by Mao Zedong and took part in the battles of the fourth and fifth anti-“Encirclement Campaigns.” In 1933, he joined the Communist Party of China. In October 1934, he participated in the Long March of 25,000 li with the Central Red Army, successively serving as Deputy Minister and then Minister of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the First Red Army Corps. After the full outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1937, upon orders from the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, he was transferred to the New Fourth Army to serve as head of the Organization Department of the Political Department and a member of the Army Party Committee, playing a significant political and organizational role in the establishment and development of the New Fourth Army. In January 1941, he was unfortunately captured during the “Southern Anhui Incident” and imprisoned at the Shangrao Concentration Camp. In the spring or summer of 1942, he was tragically killed, at the young age of 32.

The former residence was built in the late Qing Dynasty and is a typical stone-and-timber structure common in southern Fujian. The house faces east and is built with irregular granite blocks, forming walls less than 3 meters high, covering a land area of 120 square meters with a floor space of about 67 square meters. The building has two entrances: entering through the west door leads to two small rooms facing each other, each less than 10 square meters in size. Entering through the east door leads to a small kitchen, with a small hall to the left of the hallway and a bedroom to the right.

The residence was designated as a cultural relic protection unit of Shishi City in 1990. It was listed as a patriotic education base of Shishi City in August 1995 and as a patriotic education base of Quanzhou City in March 1996.

Source: Party History Research Office of Hui’an County Committee

Li Zifang (1910–1942), childhood name Qinxin, was born in the second year of the Xuantong era of the Qing Dynasty (1910) in Candou Village, Yongning, Jinjiang (now Ziying Village, Yongning Town, Shishi City).

At the age of 8, Li Zifang began attending Yinjiang Primary School. Due to the early deaths of his parents and increasingly difficult family circumstances, he dropped out of school partway through. In the 12th year of the Republic of China (1923), Li Zifang followed fellow villagers to Manila, Philippines, where he first worked as an apprentice in a shop and later attended Zhongxi School while working. During his time in the Philippines, as the Great Revolution was flourishing in China, Li Zifang read many progressive newspapers and books abroad, which inspired him to develop great aspirations to serve and save the nation.

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Ziying Village: originally named “Candou,” with the elegant name “Yinjiang.” Legend has it that the surname-founder of the Li clan, Li Zhenzhong, was known for his philanthropy and wide-reaching kindness, and was said to have been bestowed silver by heaven—hence the name. Another version says it was because his ancestors once ran a silver shop here. In the 1960s, it was renamed “Ziying” in memory of the martyr Li Zifang.

On the 25th day of the third lunar month in the second year of the Xuantong era of the Qing Dynasty (1910), Li Zifang was born into an overseas Chinese family in Candou. Both his parents died when he was young. At the age of 14, he traveled alone with fellow villagers to the Philippines to make a living. In early 1927, amid the fervor of the Great Revolution in China, he resolutely returned to his homeland… Detailed information about Ziying Village++