LongHua Martyrs Mausoleum 上海龙华烈士陵园

Our last stop was LongHua Martyrs Mausoleum 龙华烈士陵园. This cemetery is a walking distance from the LongHua Temple. Entrance ticket is extremely cheap at RMB1 per person. Ethan is free entry.

Entrance Ticket

Longhua Martyrs Cemetery may seem a tranquil place now, but it has had a bloody history. It has been the execution site of many Communists, particularly during the Guomingdang crackdown in 1927.

Entrance to the Memorial Cemetery

Nowadays, it's full of large Soviet-style sculpture and immaculate lawns. The most chilling is the small, unkempt, grassy execution area accessed by a tunnel where the remains of murdered Communists were found with leg irons still on in the 1950s.

Interesting sculptures

The museum is a pyramid shaped building right in the middle of the memorial park. When we were there, the weather changed to quite cloudy as if going to rain. A photo that we had taken looks quite eerie like the building in the Mars Attack whereby alien came down from the dark cloud. Take a look at the photo below and you would understand what I mean.

Like alien coming down from dark cloud to the pyramid

Quite a long walk from the entrance to the museum

Initially we thought that this place would only take maybe less then 30 mins to finish exploring. However, we later found out that we were wrong. In fact there was quite a lot of attraction within the cemetery.

The memorial is written with a quote “丹心碧血为人民“ from 江泽民 who served as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003.

The memorial stone

There is a fountain right in front of the memorial stone and path leading to the steps towards the museum.

Photo shot in front of the fountain

Pyramid shape museum building

The museum is right inside the pyramid shaped building. When we reached the museum, there were not many people around.

Photo in front of the museum entrance

In March 1927, the KMT set up the Songhu (SongjiangRiverandShanghaiRiver) Garrison Command Department, used to imprison and murder communists and revolutionaries. During the next 10 years, the number of communists and revolutionaries imprisoned there topped 9,000, with over 800 killed.

Among the victims were many leaders of the Communist Party of China, such as the famous Longhua 24 Martyrs: Lin Yunan, He Mengxiong, Long Dadao, Ouyang Li'an, and the Left-Wing Writers League Martyrs, including Li Qiushi, Rou Shi, Hu Yepin, Yin Fu and Feng Qiang.

We did not managed to explore all of this memorial because Ethan was tired. He had slept in mummy's arm, thus we have to leave this place.

Some other monuments on the way out