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Red Cliff Village&Zhazi Cave
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Updated: 2009-09-02 17:57
Red Cliff Village is located in Shapingba District, Hualong Qiao, 8 kilometers from the urban area. The village was one of the former revolutionary base for the Communist Party of China (CPC). It was the vital district for CPC Central Committee to carry out their mission in the Kuomintang party controlled area. Because of its significance in history, people built the Red Cliff Revolution Museum for commemorating the great achievements.
The museum is mainly comprised of Red Cliff Village 13, Zengjia Cliff 50, Guiyuan and the former site of “Xinhua Daily Press”. It was named for the main museum set up in the Red Cliff Village.
The official building of village has three floors. The second floor displays a large amount of objects used and scripts written by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. The third floor was the office and dormitory for the cadres, in which there’s a secret radio for communicating with Yan’an(the former headquarter of CPC) directly.
In 1958, the museum was opened to public. In March 1963, the State Council relegated it to the heritage conservation unit.
Zhazi Cave is located at the foot of Gele mountain in Ciqikou and Wulingguan, suburban area of Chongqing. Zhazi Cave used to been a coalmine founded in 1920 by a businessman named Chen Erchang. Since 1938, it became a clandestine prison for Kuomintang to lock up and persecute revolutionaries. During the war, lots of heroic, solemn and stirring stories happened in the prison. Those stories were really very touching that they encouraged the patriotic sentiment among the Chinese. In 1943 Kuomintang founded an intelligence agency: Sino-American Co-operation office.
Then the Bai Gongguan, another clandestine prison, became the office building of Sino-American Co-operation office. Revolutionaries were transferred from Bai Gongguan to Zhazi Cave prison. Among those revolutionaries are the likes of the Chinese famous hero Jiang Zujun, who was honored as Jiangjie. She was also sentenced to imprisonment in the Zhazi Cave. Highlight The day before the new Chinese government was founded in 1949, secret agents of Kuomintang set fire to Zhazi Cave prison, it was a pity that only 15 Revolutionaries survived from the fire. Zhazi Cave, as a political prison, was filled pain and death at that time, yet it was also a place where heroes were produced. It is a place that witnessed the Chinese people devoting their lives to their political belief.
Zhazi Cave Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday Tips Chongqing is misty all year round but has little snow and frost, the winter is warm, the summer is hot, the spring comes early and the autumn is short. It has abundant rainfall, especially at the transitional period of spring and summer, the annual average temperature is about 18℃, and the best travel time is spring and winter.
