Guangzhou Martyrs' Memorial Garden is a park located in Zhongshan 3rd Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China that commemorates the fallen members of the Chinese Communist party in the

Guangzhou Uprising The Guangzhou Uprising, Canton Uprising or Canton Riots of 1927 was a failed communist uprising in the city of Guangzhou (Canton) in southern China. Background The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Guangdong Provincial Committee had been pre ...

against the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...

on December 11, 1927.

History

Construction of the park started in 1954 and finished in 1957 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the

. The door on the stone wall was engraved with the text "Guangzhou uprising martyrs cemetery" by China's first prime minister

Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai ( zh, s=周恩来, p=Zhōu Ēnlái, w=Chou1 Ên1-lai2; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 unti ...

. There is currently a

station Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle statio ...

for the

Guangzhou Metro Line 1 Line 1 of the Guangzhou Metro runs from to (). Apart from and Xilang, all stations in Line 1 are underground. The first section, from Xilang to Huangsha, opened on 28 June 1997, making Guangzhou the fourth city in mainland China to have a metr ...

in front of the park.

Gallery

File:Guangzhou Qiyi Lieshi Lingyuan 2014.01.24 14-23-34.jpg, Main Entrance File:Lieshilingyuan.jpg, Guangzhou commune martyrs tomb File:Guangzhou Qiyi Lieshi Lingyuan 2014.01.24 14-29-16.jpg, Honghuagang four martyrs tomb File:Guangzhou Guangdong Ziyi Ju Jiuzhi 2014.01.24 14-41-30.jpg, Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum File:Guangzhou Insurrectional Martyr Cemetery Park 28.JPG, Chinese and Korean people blood pagoda File:Guangzhou Insurrectional Martyr Cemetery Park 37.JPG, Blood sacrifice Xuanyuan Pavilion File:Guangzhou Insurrectional Martyr Cemetery Park 23.JPG, Chinese and Soviet people blood Pagoda

References

{{Yuexiu District Buildings and structures in Guangzhou Yuexiu District