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Site of Headquarters of the Bayi Uprising
The site of the
headquarters of the Bayi (August 1) Uprising lies at Xiamachi, Zhongshan Road in
Nanchang City of Jiangxi Province. It is a five-storeyed gray brick-and-wood
building constructed in 1922, and used to be the Grand Hostel of Jiangxi
Province. The planar shape of the building is like the Chinese character , which
is a square with a patio in the middle.
On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek rose up against the revolution. He
slaughtered the members of Communist Party and the masses supporting the
revolution without restraint. To save the revolution, the Communist Party
dispatched Zhou Enlai to Nanchang City to organize the Front Line Committee for
the Armed Uprising in Nanchang City. To prepare for the uprising secretly, they
rented all the rooms in the Grand Hostel in Jiangxi Province for the Front Line
Committee and the headquarters of the uprising. It was here that Zhou Enlai, Zhu
De, Ye Ting, He Long and Liu Bocheng discussed the plan of the uprising, and
drafted the Declaration of Bayi Revolution, the General Propaganda Outline for
the Bayi Revolution and the General Propaganda Outline for the Land Reform. They
declared war at 2.A.M on August the first, which wiped out over 10,000 soldiers
of the defending troops in Nanchang City. They then occupied the city. The
Nanchang City Uprising was the start of the Revolutionary War carried through by
the worker-farmer armed force, which was founded by the Communist Party. Later
on, August 1 became the birthday of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army,
which was renamed as the People's Liberation Army later.
The rooms in the site such as the Meeting Hall of the Headquarters, the
offices of Zhou Enlai and Lin Boqu are restored to the original appearance. The
Memorial of Bayi Uprising was also built to exhibit the documents and photos of
the uprising.
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