Causes of Yuhuatai - Historical Legends of Yuhuatai - Yuhuatai Stone
Yuhuatai belongs to the hilly area, with the highest elevation of 60 meters, covering an area of 113.7 hectares. The top of the hillock, such as platform, covered with large and small gravel, they are in 12 million years to 3 million years ago in the late Tertiary and early Quaternary, by the Yangtze River in the ancient channel of the torrent of water from the middle and lower reaches of the Anhui Guizhi far away from the handling of the way through the friction of the water erosion and other natural processes, grinding off the edges of the rounded, rounded as an egg, some flat as a round cake. These conglomerates are mainly composed of quartzite, quartz sandstone, siliceous chert and other hard rocks and quartz, opal, chalcedony and other minerals, due to the mineral content of different components, showing a variety of beautiful colors, there are white, milky white, emblematic yellow, deep yellow, red, green, purple and black, etc., and most of them are transparent or semi-transparent, and more crystalline luster, known as the " Raindrop Agate".
Because Yuhuatai produced rainbow gemstones, the ancients called this area of the hillock "Jubao Mountain" and "onyx hillock", Sun Wu also called it "stone hillock". As for the origin of Yuhuatai, there is also a legend: more than 1,400 years ago, in the Southern Dynasty, when Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty, there was a monk named Venerable Yun Guang, who used to give sermons and teachings at the Gao Za Temple on the hill. His sincerity touched the sky, and suddenly flowers fell like rain and turned into jewels, so people called this place Rain Flower Terrace. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this place was listed as one of the "Jinling Eighteen Scenes" and "Jinling Forty-eight Scenes" respectively, and became a good place to climb up to the heights in Jiangnan.
Rainflower stone because of the colorful, but also a variety of vivid images of landscapes, flowers, birds, fish and insects, exotic flowers and other patterns, the shape is also rich and diverse, there are spherical, cake, egg-shaped, walnut-shaped, so it is loved by the people. Often used as desk, coffee table, bookshelf furnishings; large pieces of rainbow stone after processing, but also can become a necklace, chicken heart, tie knot and other "rainbow stone jewelry". In fact, as early as 5,000 years ago, the local has begun to rain stones as decorations. In the Gulou North Yin Yang Ying clan public **** burial site, found in the mouth of the dead and beside the rainbow stone. China's famous modern painter Xu Beihong, the beloved Premier Zhou also had a love of rainbows.
Mausoleum Square - Martyrs Sculptures
In 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary coup d'état of April 12, Nanjing became the center of Kuomintang's reactionary rule. In the 22 years of fascist dictatorship, in the Yuhuatai brutally killed more than 100,000 **** production party members and patriotic aspirants from all walks of life, Yuhuatai every rock is soaked with the blood of the revolutionary martyrs, every inch of the land is buried with the loyal bones of the revolutionary martyrs.
After the founding of New China, the people of Nanjing, in memory of the martyrs, established the Mausoleum of the Revolutionary Martyrs, the Monument to the Revolutionary Martyrs, and the Museum of Revolutionary Martyrs, which made this place a place of remembrance for the martyrs of the revolution.
The north side of the Martyrs' Mausoleum is built with a granite mausoleum gate about 11.7 meters high, implying the meaning of taking the road of the October Revolution. Inside the gate is the Mausoleum Square, which is surrounded by pines and cypresses and valuable flowers and trees. At the south end of the square stands a huge sculpture of martyrs, which makes people stand in awe. This sculpture was built in 1980. The whole statue by the size of 179 pieces of granite sculpture, 10.3 meters high, 14.2 meters wide, 5.5 meters thick, weighing 1,374 tons, a vivid display of the party workers, workers, peasants, intellectuals, fighters, students and newspaper boys and other nine martyrs valiantly before the indomitable image of glory. Some of them head high, some calm, some angry eyes, some gritted teeth, lifelike, different, fully expresses the revolutionary aspirations of the righteousness of death.
Behind the sculpture is when the Kuomintang killed the martyrs of one of the execution ground, known as the "North Martyrdom", in the east and west sides of the Central Platform, there are the "West Martyrdom" and "East Martyrdom The "West Martyrdom Office" and "East Martyrdom Office" were also located on the east and west sides of Zhongtai Gang. According to statistics, in the 22 years of Kuomintang rule, arrested from all over the country escorted to Nanjing, where as many as 100,000 patriotic martyrs were killed, including Hui Daiying, Deng Zhongxia, Luo Dengxian and other members of the Central Committee of the China **** Producers' Party, and there are leading the people of Jiangsu to carry out the revolutionary struggle of the Hu Shaoqiu, Zhang Yingchun, Xu Jinyuan, Chen Zhen and other members of the C*** Party, the commander of the Anti-Japanese Column of the North Jiangsu Coalition and Chief of Staff Lu Zhiying, the former municipal government of the city of Nanjing. Lu Zhiying, Sun Luchuan, the former secretary of Nanjing Municipal Committee, and Shen Yunlou and Guo Fengshao, the revolutionary students of Xiaozhuang Normal who were only 17 years old, and Mao Fuxuan, the first secretary of the Party branch in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, and other four to five hundred well-known martyrs.
Yuhuatai Martyrs' Monument - Memorial Hall for Revolutionary Martyrs
Yuhuatai is a martyrs' monument standing on the platform at the top of the main peak of Yuhuatai, the original monument is a foundation monument, inscribed with the words "Long live the martyrs of the dead" in six big golden letters, which is a collection of Chairman Mao's handwriting and become. The new monument monument body "Yuhuatai Martyrs Monument" 8 big characters by Deng Xiaoping inscription.
Yuhuatai Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall is located in Yuhuatai Renjia Mountain, was converted from the original An Yin Temple, officially opened to the public in 1956, was rebuilt in 1983, for the two-storey white classical building, the name of the museum by Deng Xiaoping inscription. The museum has collected 10 million words of historical materials and 1,500 pieces of physical objects, displaying more than 800 pieces of photographs, posthumous works and auxiliary materials of 71 martyrs, including Hui Daiying and Deng Zhongxia.
Today, when we step on the mausoleum of Yuhuatai sprinkled with the blood of the martyrs, and pay tribute to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the revolution, the indomitable revolutionary spirit of the martyrs and the revolutionary spirit of death will always inspire us to go forward and strive for the revolutionary ideals.