Martyrs' Memorial Hall of Wang Zhu

Martyrs' Memorial Hall of Wang Zhu

The Martyrs' Memorial Hall of Wang Zhu is located within the ancestral hall of the Wang family in Xiangyang Village, Tingjiang Town, Mawei District, Fuzhou City.

Martyr Wang Zhu was born in 1914 into an intellectual family in Xiangyang Village, Tingjiang Town. Influenced by his grandfather Wang Yunzhe, he developed patriotic aspirations from an early age and joined the Communist Party of China in 1931 through the introduction of Ye Fei and others.

During his student years, Wang Zhu engaged in revolutionary activities at Yinghua High School, Yenching University in Beijing, Xiamen University, and other institutions. He organized—, recruited party members, and often returned to his hometown to sell inherited jewelry and famous paintings to raise funds for revolutionary activities due to insufficient resources, earning strong support from his elders.

After the main force of the Central Red Army embarked on the Long March in October 1934, Wang Zhu led his troops in persisting in three years of guerrilla warfare in northern Fujian. In the winter of 1936, while operating in Chenjiashan Village, Jian’ou County, he was betrayed by a turncoat (former underground party branch secretary) Wu Ruohou and ambushed by the enemy. After a brave breakout, he led the Independent Division of Northern Fujian in raids on Chongan and Jian’ou, conducting twenty to thirty battles within a month and successfully thwarting the enemy’s “encirclement and suppression.”

After the Xi’an Incident, as Chairman of the Military-Political Committee of the Min-Gan Provincial Soviet, Wang Zhu actively promoted the establishment of a united front and achieved outstanding results.

In February 1938, Wang Zhu was appointed Director of the Fuzhou Office of the New Fourth Army. He actively implemented the Party’s united front policies, developed Party organizations, mobilized workers, peasants, and intellectuals to carry out various forms of anti-Japanese salvation activities in Fuzhou, organized worker-peasant armed forces, established Party—organizations, and widely conducted patriotic propaganda.

In April 1941, after the Japanese invaders occupied Fuzhou, the Provincial Committee decided that Wang Zhu would lead a team to expand the guerrilla base behind enemy lines. In August, despite having just recovered from a long illness, he led his troops into the border area of Jian’ou, Nanping, and Shunchang, opening up a communication route between northern and southern Fujian. On September 21, while the team raided Chabudongkengtou in Chabei, Jianyang, they were suddenly attacked by bandits, and Wang Zhu died a heroic death.

The Martyrs' Memorial Hall of Wang Zhu was originally the ancestral hall of the Wang family, a Qing Dynasty building facing south with a north orientation, built with earth and wood, featuring interconnected east and west courtyards, with a total construction area of over 1,000 square meters. The memorial hall consists of two main parts: the front part has a golden plaque inscribed with “Martyr Wang Zhu Memorial Hall,” handwritten by Ye Fei, former Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress; the rear part is the exhibition room of the memorial hall, consisting of two floors with three display rooms, where various relics of the martyr are displayed in chronological order.

Xiangyang Village: Xiangyang Village is one of the famous overseas Chinese villages among the “Eighteen Villages of the Min River Estuary.” Formerly known as Xiangyangdun in Hebei Li, Min County, the village is adjacent to the Min River, with National Highway 104 passing through it, offering convenient and well-developed transportation. Backed by Woniushan Mountain, Jinshan Mountain, and surrounded by beautiful landscapes, the land is fertile, covering a village area of 1.8 square kilometers, with a current population of over 1,270 people, more than 470 households, and nearly 2,000 overseas Chinese, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Most of the villagers in Xiangyang are surnamed Wang, Zhang, or Tang.

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