The site of the General Headquarters of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army is located in the city ofTongjianCountyand Wangping Village of Shaxi, Sichuan Province. It consists of the site of the General Political Department of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army and the Mausoleum for the Heroes of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army.
Entering Sichuan from the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Revolutionary Base located 20 kilometers from the city ofTongjiangCounty in the winter of 1932, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army started the Sichuan-Shaanxi Border Revolutionary Base. The general headquarters and the General Political Department of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army was later stationed in Tongjian County. With an area of about 1,000 square meters, the site of the general headquarters was originally a Confucian temple whose construction began at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). At that time, the general headquarters held military meetings there to command military battles of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Border Soviet Region. The site was rebuilt recently, and it is now the Exhibition Hall of the Headquarters of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army. The site for the political department is located next to the general headquarters -- originally an old, wooden school built in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), which has been well preserved.
The Mausoleum can be found in Wangping Village of Shaxi, which was built in 1934. More than 3,800 heroes of the Red Army are buried there. The square tombstone is 4.2 meters high and bears images of sickles and axes. A horizontal tablet with four engraved Chinese characters reads: Wanshi Rongguang (be held in high esteem throughout the ages); in the middle of the stone are engraved with 11 more Chinese characters that mean "mausoleum for heroes of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army".
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