Monument to the Victory of the Huangyangjie Defense Battle

Monument to the Victory of the Huangyangjie Defense Battle

To commemorate the great victory of the Huangyangjie Defense Battle, in 1960, the Jinggangshan Administration built a 5-meter-high wooden “Monument to the Victory of the Huangyangjie Defense Battle” beside the newly opened road. In 1962 and 1965, when Comrade Zhu De and Comrade Mao Zedong revisited Jinggangshan, they both took commemorative photos in front of this monument.

In the winter of 1965, this monument was rebuilt into a 12-meter-high reinforced concrete structure, with the base located at the current site of the main monument. During the Cultural Revolution in 1969, the monument was further transformed into a five-pointed “Torch Pavilion.” At the end of 1977, with the approval of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government, the “Torch Pavilion” was demolished, and the original monument design was restored on the same foundation. The current main monument faces east and stands 12 meters tall, with a base that is 4 meters long and 2.8 meters wide. The front is inlaid with Comrade Zhu De’s handwritten inscription “Monument to the Victory of the Huangyangjie Defense Battle,” while the back features the calligraphy of Comrade Mao Zedong reading “A single spark can start a prairie fire.”

During the 1977 renovation of the main monument, a horizontal tablet was also added, standing 7 meters high with a base 11 meters long and 2.6 meters wide. The front of the horizontal tablet is inlaid with Mao Zedong’s calligraphy of the poem “Xijiangyue: Jinggangshan,” while the back features Comrade Zhu De’s gilded calligraphy reading “Huangyangjie.”

The entire memorial complex on Huangyangjie is paved with cement flooring and cement railings, covering an area of nearly 200 square meters, and is one of the important tourist attractions in Jinggangshan.

Source: China · Jinggangshan Revolutionary Museum