Martyr Chen Peiren’s Tomb

　　    Located on the western side of Waguling in Daguo Village, Qintang Town, present-day Guigang City, it covers an area of 300 square meters. The tomb mound is 2 meters high, with a base diameter of 2.5 meters, covered in cement mortar. The front features a marble stele embedded in a lime-sand brick pedestal, which stands 1.5 meters high and 1.4 meters wide, with an arched top. The marble stele itself is 1 meter high and 60 centimeters wide, inscribed with seven Chinese characters “Martyr Chen Peiren’s Tomb” in regular script, each character measuring 80 centimeters in diameter. A low wall made of lime-sand stone, 1 meter high and semi-circular in shape, extends 1.5 meters outward from the outer edge of the tomb mound, then stretches sideways as tomb arms, each extending wall being 3 meters wide. A horizontally laid marble slab, 80 centimeters high and 240 centimeters wide, is embedded in the left low wall. The inscription describes the life of Chen Peiren, the first County Party Committee Secretary of Guixian under the Chinese Communist Party. In front of the tomb, the base of the stele is divided into three terraces, each descending 0.3 meters from the tomb mound outward, becoming gradually lower and wider, suitable for memorial ceremonies. In 1928, Chen Peiren’s family buried him here with a bluestone stele. The current scale of the tomb was expanded in May 1986 by the government of Guixian County on the original site.

　　Chen Peiren (1902~1928)　　    Chen Peiren (1902–1928), also known as Zuyao, was a native of Xiyudong in Qintang Town. In 1924, he studied in the special class at Pudong Middle School in Shanghai.     In the spring of 1925, he organized the Shanghai Branch of the New Guangxi Aspiration Society with fellow students from Guangxi in Shanghai and was elected as head. In the summer, he participated in the May Thirtieth Movement in Shanghai. In the autumn, he was admitted to the Department of Sociology at Shanghai University, where he joined the Chinese Communist Party. Later, he transferred to Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, where he edited periodicals such as "The Folk" and "Cry Out". In March 1927, he was sent back to Guixian by the Party to carry out activities, serving as the Minister of Peasants of the Guixian Kuomintang Department and editor-in-chief of "Guixian Youth". In the spring of 1927, he went to Shika with Liang Ruozhu and Huang Zhang... Details+