Red Army Slogans

　　During their inspection and planning of “red tourism” resources at the Memorial Hall of the Mumen Military Conference Site in Wangcang County, experts noted that the “global” collection of Red Army stone-carved slogans housed there is unique in China and represents the “pinnacle” of such inscriptions by the Chinese Red Army.

　　According to reports, this slogan was carved into the stone gate at Xiachangkou in Mumen Town, Wangcang County, by the Red Army at the time, originally serving as the horizontal inscription of a couplet. The vertical inscriptions on the left and right pillars of the gate were the upper and lower lines of the couplet: the upper line read “An axe chops open a new world,” and the lower line read “A sickle severs the old universe.” The stone pillars bearing the couplet have been destroyed in wartime, but the horizontal stone slab with the inscription was preserved by local residents as part of a step. It was collected by the Memorial Hall of the Mumen Military Conference Site when the museum was established in 1986. This Red Army stone-carved slogan has been officially designated as a national second-class cultural relic.