Red Army Slogans in Guotian Town

Red Army Slogans in Guotian Town

The Red Army slogans in Guotian Town are a cultural relic protection unit of Wuhua County and a classic red tourism attraction.

The Red Army slogans in Guotian Town are located at Sijiaolou, Bumei Management District, Guotian Town, Wuhua County, totaling over 40 pieces. Sijiaolou consists of two four-point-style Hakka houses built against the mountain, named Lianggui Building and Tizhang Building. Both have rammed earth walls made of lime and sand, with drying yards and semicircular ponds in front. From May 1930 to spring 1931, the 11th Red Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, led by Gu Dacun and others, was active in the Baxiangshan area of eastern Guangdong. Its 46th Regiment and the accompanying military academy were stationed in Bumei Mountain Village, with the army headquarters and the leadership of the military academy set up in Lianggui Building for as long as half a month. During their stay, the Red Army wrote many promotional slogans on the inner and outer walls of Lianggui Building and Tizhang Building using black ink. The main contents include:

All the masses in Eastern Guangdong, arm yourselves !

Carry out an armed uprising !

Armed uprising – overthrow the warlords’ war !

Down with the Kuomintang warlords !

Establish a Soviet regime across Eastern Guangdong !

Carry out the land revolution !

Down with the landlords !

Overthrow the imperialist navy and army !

Confiscate imperialist enterprises and banks in China !

No child labor ! No night shifts ! No hard labor !

Implement freedom of marriage. And so on.

Among them, the slogan written on the left outer wall of Tizhang Building, signed by the “2nd Red Army Brigade,” reads:

Armed uprising – overthrow the warlords’ war ! It is 11 meters long.

Most of these slogans bear signatures, credited to the Red Army, the 2nd Red Army Brigade, the Red Army Military Academy, the Revolutionary Red Army of Bumei Township, etc. This is the most concentrated collection of slogans from the 11th Red Army discovered in the Baxiangshan Revolutionary Base.

In 1984, the People’s Government of Wuhua County designated it as a cultural relic protection unit.

Guotian Town: Our town became an established township in November 1972 after being separated from the former Youlian Commune. It is located under Hongtuzhang, which stands at an altitude of 1,277 meters, in the southeastern part of Wuhua County. It is one of the three key old revolutionary base towns in Wuhua County, covering a total area of 142 square kilometers, with 13,500 mu of cultivated land and 163,000 mu of mountainous land. It administers 12 villages (Huhua, Bumei, Kongnan, Guotian, Longtan, Shuangguang, Sankeng, Pingshang, Jiaozhou, Hengtang, Shituan, Zai Xia) and 1 neighborhood committee, with 250 villager groups. By 2004, the town had a total population of 33,556, with 6,568 households, including agricultural... For more details about Guotian Town ++