Former Residence of Martyr Luo Huanrong

Former Residence of Martyr Luo Huanrong

The Former Residence of Martyr Luo Huanrong is a classic red tourism attraction.

The birthplace of Martyr Luo Huanrong is located at the ancestral hall of the Luo family in Loujiaoxia, Shangcun Village, Puqian Town, Yuancheng District, Heyuan City. Originally built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it covers an area of about 400 square meters, featuring the entire front wall, halls from the first to the third, two courtyards, and two wing rooms.

The residence where Martyr Luo Huanrong lived is located in the Loujiaoxia group, Shangcun Village, Puqian Town, Yuancheng District, Heyuan City. Originally built during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, it has a T-shaped structure, walls approximately 10 meters high, walls about 1 meter thick, a building length of about 20 meters, a width of about 20 meters, and a Loujiao area of about 400 square meters. Currently, only the walls remain.

Luo Huanrong, male, was born on October 7, 1900. He was a student of the first class at the Whampoa Military Academy, joined the Communist Party of China in 1924, and served as an instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy, the Sixth Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute hosted by Mao Zedong, the worker patrol of the Canton–Hong Kong strike, and as the military commander of the Pingshan Uprising in Huizhou. He was one of the earliest CPC members in Guangdong Province, one of the first groups of worker-peasant armed military talents trained by the CPC with relatively high military literacy, and also one of the important figures in the history of the CPC in Heyuan City.

In 1919, influenced by the May Fourth Movement, Luo Huanrong began reading progressive books and newspapers, nurturing thoughts of pursuing revolution. In 1921, he was admitted to the second division of the Guangzhou Municipal Normal School. In November 1923, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League. In 1924, he went to Guangzhou to apply for the first class of the Whampoa Military Academy, becoming a key infantry student in the first team of the first class. His political awareness improved rapidly, and he soon joined the Communist Party of China.

After joining the CPC, Luo Huanrong’s revolutionary resolve became even firmer. In the autumn of 1924, he participated in the suppression of the Guangzhou Merchants’ Corps rebellion. On November 30, 1924, Luo Huanrong graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and was assigned to the Second Regiment of the Instructional Corps as a grassroots company officer. In February 1925, during the First Eastern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, Luo Huanrong demonstrated bravery in battles such as those in Danshui, Huizhou, and Mianhu, Meizhou, earning military merit. In June, he took part in the campaign against the rebellions of Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan. In October, during the Second Eastern Expedition, he was assigned to the First Division of the First Army of the First Column. His regiment was responsible for attacking Huizhou from the Boluo direction. Luo Huanrong fought fearlessly and bravely in the assault on the city but was unfortunately shot and wounded. After recovering, he stayed at the Whampoa Military Academy as an instructor along with Xu Xiangqian and Wang Yichang. In the spring of 1926, he served as a political instructor for the fourth class of the Central Military and Political School. In May, during the Sixth Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute hosted by Comrade Mao Zedong, he was hired as a military training instructor and concurrently served as the captain of the Second Military Training Team. During this time, he also served as a military instructor for the worker patrol of the Canton–Hong Kong strike.

In the summer of 1926, Luo Huanrong was sent to the Pingshan District of Huiyang County (now part of Huidong County) Peasant Defense Office as a military instructor. The Pingshan Peasant Defense Office was essentially a peasant army school run by our Party. Luo Huanrong, along with Zheng Zhu and Wu Zhonghao, graduates of the fourth class of the Whampoa Military Academy, based their teaching on the provincial outline for organizing peasant self-defense forces, drawing on the experience of the Whampoa Military Academy and the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute, as well as adapting to the characteristics of local peasant armed struggle. Under his careful guidance and that of other instructors, over 200 peasant soldiers from Pingshan gradually grew into a peasant armed force with certain political and military literacy.

In the early spring of 1927, in coordination with the uprising of the Zou Fan battalion stationed in Huizhou, Luo Huanrong and He Youti led a peasant army to stage the first armed uprising in Pingshan. The uprising failed due to betrayal by a traitor. On June 16, 1927, he organized the second Pingshan uprising. Due to the failure to win over the bandit You Banhua, who conspired with the enemy troops stationed in the town, the uprising failed. Luo Huanrong directed the peasant army to retreat to the forest-covered HanKengzi Mountain. The next day, they moved to the Qinglongtan stronghold. At that time, the peasant army leaders were unaware that the bandit You had secretly colluded with the enemy. They still invited him to Qinglongtan for a discussion. One evening, You raided Qinglongtan Village and launched a surprise attack on the peasant army. Luo Huanrong fell into the enemy’s hands and was secretly executed a week later at Shipenggongdunjingkeng on Shigongye Plateau in Pingshan. Luo Huanrong was only 27 years old when he died.

After liberation, the People’s Government of Pingshan Town built a monument to Martyr Luo Huanrong at the foot of Huangniu Mountain. In 1962, the monument was relocated to the front of Longfeng Theatre on Huangniu Mountain. In June 1964, under the initiative and direction of He Youti, then Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee and leader of the Pingshan Uprising, a martyr’s tomb was built for him at the burial site at Shigongye, Huangniu Mountain, Pingshan. In May 1975, due to the construction of the Huidong County Library, the martyr’s tomb was moved to the foot of Longfeng Theatre and enclosed with an iron fence. In January 1999, due to the construction of the Huidong County Cultural Square, the tomb was relocated again to the slope near the Huidong Revolutionary Martyrs’ Monument in Nanhuhu Park. The tombstone is inscribed with seven large characters: “Tomb of Martyr Luo Huanrong.” When He Youti engraved the tombstone for his comrade Luo Huanrong, he composed a poem: “Led peasants, striking out bravely first; fiery sparks spreading far and wide remembered to this day. To die for the cause is but ordinary; leaving behind everlasting fame for Pingshan.” He personally wrote the epitaph on the back of the tombstone, which is permanently engraved.

Shangcun Village: Shangcun Village is an administrative village under Puqian Town, located at the southwestern end of Puqian Town, 2.5 kilometers from the town government. The village covers an area of about 7.6 square kilometers, comprises 10 villager groups, and has a total population of 2,645 people in 614 households. Among them, there are 72 registered impoverished households with 196 people, making it a provincially designated poverty-stricken village, a provincially designated “Red Village,” a municipal-level civilized village, a municipal-level Party history education base, a revolutionary old base village, and the hometown of revolutionary martyr Luo Huanrong. The village currently has 8 cadres in the “two committees,” 2 hired cadres, 3 members of the village supervisory committee, 69 Party members, and 31 villager representatives...  Detailed information about Shangcun Village++