Former Residence of Martyr Cheng Dehan

Former Residence of Martyr Cheng Dehan

The former residence of Martyr Cheng Dehan is a Hainan Provincial Cultural Heritage Site and a classic red tourism attraction.

The former residence of Martyr Cheng Dehan is located in Jiaji Town, Qionghai City, dating back to the Qing Dynasty. It is a cultural heritage site protected at the provincial level in Hainan Province.

Protected area: bounded by the structure’s edges, extending 33.87 meters northward, 14.27 meters southward, 28.93 meters westward, and 15.30 meters eastward, with a total area of 4,635.45 square meters.

Cheng Dehan, also known as Cheng Wenfu and Cheng Ruiji, used the aliases Detian and Delin. Born in 1902, he went to Guangzhou in 1924 to join the revolution and joined the Communist Party of China. In 1926, he studied at the Sixth Peasant Movement Training Institute in Guangzhou hosted by Comrade Mao Zedong and was responsible for logistical support. By the end of that year, he was sent back to Hainan by the Party organization to carry out revolutionary activities, and he sacrificed his life in Hainan in 1936.

In 1924, Cheng Dehan went to Guangdong, the birthplace of the Great Revolution, to join the fervent revolutionary movement and joined the Communist Party of China. In 1926, he studied at the Sixth Peasant Movement Training Institute in Guangzhou hosted by Comrade Mao Zedong and was responsible for logistical support. At the end of the year, he was ordered by the Party organization to return to Hainan to organize the peasant movement, serving as captain of the Red Guards and spreading the seeds of revolution across Hainan Island. Later, he served as a brigade commander in the Qiongya Independent Division of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Influenced by Cheng Dehan, 28 people from Guantang, a small village with only about 200 residents, gave their precious lives in the struggle for national independence and people’s liberation.

After the revolutionary movement in Qiongya entered a low ebb, Cheng Dehan led the Red Army brigade to carry out armed struggle in areas such as Lingshui, Baoting, and Tuncheng. Due to the enemy's tight blockades, searches, and attacks, the base area shrank steadily. People were being lost almost daily, but Cheng Dehan and his comrades still held firm to the revolution.

In the spring of 1936, when the enemy launched another encirclement campaign, Cheng Dehan died a heroic death in fierce battle. The enemy even brutally hung his body on the old city wall as a warning. That year, Cheng Dehan was only 34 years old. Since then, local residents have referred to the site of Martyr Cheng Dehan’s sacrifice, Heiyagong Mazhutou Ridge, as Red Army Ridge.