of that year, French colonialists used the issue of the leased territory of "Kwangchowan" as an excuse to forcibly land at Nanzhuliu (now Nanshan) and expand their occupation. The people of nearby villages such as Nanzhuliu and Haitou spontaneously rose up in resistance, and on July 11 of the same year, they gathered in front of the temple, swore blood oaths, and marked the beginning of the 1898–1899 anti-French struggle by the people of Suixi. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was renamed the "Former Site of the Zhanjiang People’s Anti-French Oath-Taking."
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