Former Revolutionary Site of Little Mountain City

　　In the 1930s, a secret peasant association had already been established in Little Mountain City Village. Comrade Tao Zhu, then Secretary of the Minnan Special Committee of the Party, formed a Red Army guerrilla unit that actively carried out guerrilla warfare. They also set up the Minnan Red Army Guerrilla Command near Little Mountain City in Zhangpu, making it one of the secret bases for the Minnan Red Army guerrillas. By the end of 1931, Deng Zihui, an inspector from the Xiamen Central Municipal Committee of the Party, took over Tao Zhu’s work. To establish a revolutionary base in Minnan, he decided to guide the peasants of Little Mountain City Village to gradually progress from struggles for their immediate interests—such as resisting taxes and levies—to armed struggle and land revolution. Initially, secret members of the peasant association proposed steps for the struggle, using ancestral hall meetings to gather villagers to discuss issues of tax and levy reductions. This gradually awakened the consciousness of the peasants and unified their understanding. Later, under the strong and unanimous demands of the villagers, Deng Zihui, together with the Zhangzhou Central County Committee of the Party, led the Minnan Red Army guerrillas in supporting the armed resistance of Little Mountain City peasants against the “Aviation Salvation Levy” forcibly imposed by the 49th Division of the Nationalist Army to expand its military strength. This act ignited the revolutionary flame in Little Mountain City, leading to the public establishment of peasant associations and armed self-defense units (Red Guards), which then spread to dozens of surrounding villages. They defeated several incursions by the Nationalist Army and local reactionary forces, gradually forming the embryonic form of the Jinghepu Revolutionary Base. After the 3rd Army of the Red Army’s Eastern Route occupied Zhangpu, the village became the central area of the Minnan Revolutionary Base and developed into a hub for leading revolutionary activities along the Fujian-Guangdong border, leaving a glorious chapter in the history of the Minnan revolution.

　　The Former Revolutionary Site of Little Mountain City was originally the Wu Family Ancestral Hall in Little Mountain City Village. It is a century-old brick-and-wood structure covering an area of 400 square meters. The main structure still stands, but the exterior walls have begun to peel.

　　 ----- Source: Zhangpu County Party History Research Office