The top of the North High Temple stands at an elevation of 1,080 meters, making it the highest point in the entire city and a location of great strategic importance. During the Anti-Japanese War, it was occupied by Japanese invaders. After the victory of the war, on August 22, 1945, Yan Xishan’s troops seized Changzi and took control of the North High Temple. On September 13, the "Battle of North High Temple," one of the main battlegrounds of the Shangdang Campaign, broke out here. To commemorate the great victories of the Anti-Japanese and Liberation Wars and honor the achievements of the martyrs, the CPC Changzi County Committee and the County Democratic Government designated the North High Temple as a revolutionary martyrs’ cemetery in January 1946. Engraved here are the names of 2,328 martyrs, and some of their remains are laid to rest. In 1991, Bo Yibo inscribed the plaque for the cemetery reading “Changzi North High Temple Martyrs' Cemetery.” Renovations and expansions were carried out in 1997 and 2006. It is now a key provincial-level protected revolutionary martyrs’ memorial building and a provincial-level patriotic education base.
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