Primitive Forest Ma'anshan

Primitive Forest Ma'anshan

Primitive Forest Ma'anshan

Ma'anshan is located about 58 kilometers southeast of Guyang County, with an elevation of 1,984 meters. When viewed from the foot of the mountain, the summit resembles a giant saddle, hence the local name "Ma'anshan" (Saddle Mountain). It is part of the Jiufengshan Nature Reserve and is a national-level nature reserve. The valley is covered with over 6,000 acres of pristine secondary forest, known for its primitiveness, antiquity, and mystery. It is hailed as a "lovely home for humans and nature," with its natural ecological environment and biodiversity serving as a typical example of the region. It is a rare "natural forest oxygen bar." In summer, you can see lush virgin birch forests, babbling springs in the valleys, and caves scattered all around—absolutely breathtaking. Climbing to the summit offers a lofty and serene feeling akin to "reaching the summit and overlooking all the other mountains as small." The vast wilderness is adorned with mountain dahlias, purple alfalfa, wild chrysanthemums, and unnamed flowers in red, pink, blue, yellow, and white, creating a transcendent scene that makes visitors linger and forget to leave. The mountain is also teeming with wildlife, including wild goats, deer, roe deer, vipers, wolves, and others that frequently appear in the woods, often bringing unexpected thrills and excitement to visitors.

Ma'anshan is also an important revolutionary site of the Daqing Mountain Anti-Japanese Base. During the War of Resistance against Japan, Li Jingquan, the political commissar of the Daqing Mountain Guerrilla Unit, and Yao... (text truncated) organized anti-persistent army struggles in the Suixi area to consolidate the Daqing Mountain Base and crush the conspiracy of the stubborn army to surrender to the Japanese. In March 1940, General Peng Deda, then director of the Political Department of the Daqing Mountain Guerrilla Detachment, organized an attack against the headquarters of the Self-Defense Army and the Third and Fourth Route Armies in order to strengthen the base and thwart the surrender plans. After convening company and battalion officers to assign combat tasks on March 11, he took out his diploma from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, quoted Mao Zedong’s inscription, and said, “The greatest happiness and honor is to dedicate everything to the cause of national liberation and communism.” After the meeting, he led forces along with Chen Gang and Jiang Wenhua to assault the enemy with four companies. The troops launched a swift surprise attack and eliminated hundreds of stubborn troops overnight, seizing several radios, large amounts of weapons and ammunition, as well as correspondence between the Japanese army and the Self-Defense Army. After their defeat, the Self-Defense Army scattered in all directions. To completely annihilate the enemy, Peng Deda led his troops in pursuit. Near Ma'anshan in Guyang, they encountered a desperate last stand by the enemy. As Peng Deda stood on a hill directing the battle through binoculars, he was struck in the left chest by a stray bullet and died a heroic death at the young age of 29. After the battle, his remains were buried under Huangmaling near Ma'anshan. Later, local residents built a memorial monument at the site of his sacrifice to commemorate martyr Peng Deda. Ma'anshan has since become a classic red tourism destination in the autonomous region.