Hongjun Martyrs' Cemetery in MaoLi Town

　　 In August 1931, under the leadership of Cui Yanzhang, Secretary of the Jingnan Special District Committee, and others, over a thousand peasants from Lishi, Dongchang, Xincheng, Gaoqiao, and Zhushi held an uprising to punish local tyrants and evil gentry, established a workers’ and peasants’ revolutionary government, and formed an armed Red Guards unit. In January 1932, the Third Route Guerrilla Unit of the Western Hunan-Hubei Soviet again stationed in Ludian, MaoLi Town, and set up the Lushang Township Soviet Government of Changhu Lake District, Jingmen County. Township Chairman Hu Changbang led local farmers' specialized cooperatives in cracking down on local tyrants and aiding the poor, leading to a high tide of revolutionary activity. In the seventh lunar month of the same year, a regiment of the 21st Army of the Kuomintang stationed in Jingmen, in collusion with the local security forces, launched a campaign to suppress all revolutionary bases. He Shoupeng, Secretary of the Jingmen County Committee of the Communist Party, led 60 men and weapons to cover the guerrilla unit’s breakout and retreat into the Honghu Soviet Area. During the main force’s escape, the seven trailing members—among them a 13-year-old soldier—were intercepted by Zhu Yintao, captain of the local "Anti-Communist Brave Squad," tied up at the Zhu family ancestral hall, and tortured for interrogation. At noon the next day, the seven (including the young soldier) were beheaded with sabers in the trench of Zhoujiachong. Seven days later, local residents buried the martyrs’ remains on the spot with soil, forming two small burial mounds, which came to be known as the "Zhoujiachong Paralyzed Tomb."

　　After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, schools in Ludian, Hongshan, and Shuangdian organized students every Tomb-Sweeping Day to visit the site and pay tribute to the martyrs. In 2001, during the construction of the Shuangdian Ship Lock on the Jianghan Waterway, the two tombs and remains were relocated to the east bank, where they were consolidated into one mound. However, due to lack of maintenance, over time the mound was gradually leveled by nearby farmers and turned into farmland, leaving only those familiar with the story able to vaguely discern its original shape.