Red Army slogans in Difangping Village, Chengkou Town

Red Army slogans in Difangping Village, Chengkou Town

The Red Army slogans in Difangping Village, Chengkou Town are a cultural relic protection unit of Renhua County and a classic red tourism attraction.

Red Army slogans in Difangping Village, Chengkou Town

The slogans are written on the wall of a local resident's house in Difangping Village, Chengkou Town. Written in ink, there are a total of five slogans. Character sizes: (1) 8×8, 9×11; (2) 8×8, 9×11; (3) 13×12; (4) 9×13; (5) 8×8, 10×15

Except for (4), all the above slogans were written on October 11, 1934.

The content is:

The Red Army is the army of workers and peasants

The White Army is the army of warlords

Overthrow the Kuomintang government

Establish a Soviet government

Eliminate the Jing bandits !

Down with imperialism !

Welcome peasants to fight landlords and distribute land !

Welcome local youth to join the Red Army !

Signed: Ⅲ Five 3 Bing Youth Group Announcement

White Army officers beat soldiers

The Red Army opposes beating soldiers

Soldiers don’t beat soldiers

The poor don’t fight the poor

Fight landlords and distribute land

Overthrow the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang

Down with imperialism

Eliminate landlord armed forces

Peasants rise up to fight landlords and distribute land

The Red Army is our own army

Workers demand higher wages

Poor peasants organize poor peasant associations

Down with the – workers’ and peasants’ – Kuomintang [Party] bandits

Farmers' organizations, the Peasants' Association

Eliminate the bandits of the Jiang regime

Red Fifth ╳╳╳

Down with the Kuomintang warlords

Overthrow the local tyrants and distribute the land

The poor do not fight the poor

Soldiers do not fight soldiers

Ⅲ Five 3 B Three Eleventh Regiment Third Company

The slogans were written by the officers and soldiers of the Third Company, Eleventh Regiment, Third Corps, First Front Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army when they passed through Chengkou during the Long March and made camp there. Among them, Slogan (Four) is signed by Red Fifth ╳╳╳. Research shows that by June 1935, the main forces of the Red Army had already moved north, and it is believed that this slogan was written by Red Army troops who remained behind to carry out guerrilla warfare.

In 1989, the Renhua County People's Government designated it as a cultural relics protection unit.