Yangcheng Taiyue Martyrs' Cemetery

　　In October 1945, the Taiyue District Party Committee, Taiyue District Administrative Office, and Taiyue Military District moved to Yangcheng. To commemorate the heroic deeds of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives during the War of Resistance against Japan, the People's Government of Yangcheng County built the Taiyue Martyrs' Cemetery on the former site of the old City God Temple in June 1946. The main structures in the cemetery include: the Monument to the Martyrs of Yangcheng Who Died During the Eight-Year War of Resistance, the Martyrs' Memorial Pavilion, the Martyrs' Stele Forest, the Martyrs' Tombs, the Martyrs' Memorial Building, the Taiyue Monument Exhibition Hall, and the Soldier-Civilian Victory Celebration Sculpture. The exhibition hall documents historical materials about the revolutionary struggles and daily lives of senior revolutionaries such as - , Peng Dehuai, - , - , and - in the Taiyue District, as well as the moving stories of the revolutionary fight by the people of Taiyue. The main gate bears an inscription personally written by - , former Vice Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission, reading “Taiyue Martyrs' Cemetery.” The memorial structures feature 26 inscriptions from 23 leaders of the Taiyue District’s Party, government, and military, including Wang Hefeng, former Political Commissar of the Taiyue District, Niu Peizong, former Director of the Taiyue Administrative Office, Wang Xinting, former Commander of the Taiyue Military District, Sun Dingguo, former Deputy Commander, and Cao Pu, former Director of the Taiyue District Military and Political Committee. Additionally, the names of over 1,400 martyrs are engraved here. In 1994, it was recognized as an advanced unit in spiritual civilization construction by the county Party committee and county government. In 1995 and 2005, it was designated as a patriotic education base by the provincial Party committee and provincial government. In 1996 and 2007, it was named a patriotic education base by the municipal Party committee and municipal government. In 1998, it was named a national defense education base by the Provincial National Defense Education Committee, and in 2005, it was designated as a patriotic education base by the county Party committee and county government.

　　Honoring the martyrs and educating the public is the primary function of the cemetery. We collect and organize textual and photographic materials about the senior revolutionaries and the martyrs who died in battle in Yangcheng. Each year, we organize oath-taking ceremonies for joining the Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers for thousands of workers, miners, enterprises, military units, government agencies, and schools. We also organize nearly ten thousand tomb-sweeping activities. These efforts fully leverage the cemetery’s role as a base for patriotic, collectivist, and communist education.

Yangcheng Taiyue Martyrs' Cemetery