The Erqi Square in Zhengzhou City is related to the famous Erqi strike of Beijing-Han railway workers.

on February 1, p>1923, workers from various stations of Jinghan Railway established the Jinghan Railway Federation of Trade Unions in Zhengzhou Puleyuan (now Erqi Memorial Hall). Due to the obstruction and destruction by feudal warlords, the general assembly decided to hold a general strike on February 4. On February 7th, warlords Wu Peifu and Xiao Yaonan cruelly suppressed the strikers in Zhengzhou, Jiang 'an and Changxindian at the instigation of imperialism.

The workers on the whole line shared the same enemy, were not afraid of sacrifice, and fought bravely and tenaciously against the reactionaries. In this struggle, more than 41 people, including party member, workers' leaders Lin Xiangqian, Shi Yang and Gao Bin, were killed and more than 311 people were injured, which aroused the revolutionary anger of the national workers' strike. This is the famous "February 27 strike".

in order to commemorate this great strike movement and the "Erqi" martyrs and inherit and carry forward the tradition of the "Erqi" glorious revolutionary struggle, in 1951, the "Erqi" Square was built near the former site of "Changchun Bridge", and a wooden memorial tower with a height of 15 meters was built in the venue. In 1971, it was rebuilt into the present tower.

the connotation of "erqi spirit"

the vigorous strike of the Beijing-Han railway workers in the early spring of p>1923 gave birth to the precious spiritual wealth in the history of China workers' struggle-erqi spirit. This spirit has formed a rising force in forbearance, which has enabled people here to turn Zhengzhou from an ordinary Zheng county into a rapidly rising "international Zheng".

the connotation of the spirit of February 27 in the new era: "the spirit of unity with thousands of miles on the same track and one mind;" The innovative spirit of firm belief and pursuit of truth; Struggle spirit of tenacious struggle and courage as a pioneer; Loyal to the people, not afraid of sacrifice. " Pang Qianhua believes that with the development of the times, the connotation of the spirit of February 27 has also been injected into the new content of the times, but the core idea of "listening to the party and walking with the party" will never change.

However, the heroic railway workers were not intimidated, and they continued to fight. The great struggle of the "February 27" general strike dealt a heavy blow to imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, showed the fearless revolutionary spirit of the working class in China, and wrote a glorious page in the history of the workers' movement in China.