辛亥滦州起义纪念园, Revolutionary memorial cemetery in Haidian District, China.
The Xinhai Luanzhou Uprising Memorial Garden is a memorial complex on the southern slope of Xianlongshan in Wenquan, Haidian District, Beijing, built in 1937 by Feng Yuxiang. Its structures stand in a line from south to north without a surrounding wall: a granite memorial arch, a stele, an octagonal stone pillar, a cliff inscription, and a 12.2-meter octagonal brick pagoda.
In January 1912, Wang Jinming, Shi Congyun, Bai Yayu and Feng Yuxiang led troops in revolt at Luanzhou on orders from the Tongmenghui; on 3 January they declared Luanzhou independent and set up the Northern Revolutionary Military Government. Qing forces crushed the rising: Zhang Jiangong defected, Wang and Shi were seized under a truce pretext and killed, Bai was captured and executed, and Feng was sent back to his native place. In 1936 Feng Yuxiang built this memorial on Xianlongshan; it was completed in 1937, damaged during the Cultural Revolution, restored in 1981, and listed as a national protected site in 2006.
The memorial arch bears couplets by Feng Yuxiang dated November of the 25th year of the Republic (1936): "This day the garden clusters brocade, that year valor moved mountains and rivers" on the south, and "Every foot of hill and water keeps the bloodstains, every flower and tree recalls the heroic spirit" on the north. The arch's north lintel reads "Strive for the revolution."
The memorial garden stands on the southern slope of Xianlongshan in Wenquan Town, inside the grounds of Beijing Geriatric Hospital, and has no enclosing wall. The structures run in a single line from south to north: memorial arch, stele, cenotaph, cliff inscription and tower. The tower sits on the hilltop, reached by a slope path.
The cliff inscription behind the tomb is cut from the "Li Yun" chapter of the Book of Rites: "When the great way prevails, the world is shared by all." The characters were brushed by Feng Yuxiang himself, and the Qing dynasty prostrate stele beside it has had its text ground away.
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