Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs (雨花台烈士陵园) is a park and tourist site in the Yuhuatai DistrictofNanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.[1] The name Yuhuatai comes from yu (rain), hua (flower), tai (platform). A prominent feature of the park is a statue of nine figures.[2][3] The statue commemorates the Chinese Communist Party members killed by the Kuomintang.[4][5]
During the Republic of China period, Yuhuatai was used as a torture chamber where over thousands of communists were executed, including Deng Zhongxia.[6] In 1940, after the establishment of the Wang Jingwei regime, some agents of Bureau of Investigation and Statistics were also killed in Yuhuatai. After the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, many Japanese war criminals were executed there.[7][8]
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yuhuatai was set up as a mausoleum of revolutionary martyrs, planting trees, building roads in 1950. Then in 1970, the Nanjing Government built the 10 meter-high North Martyrdom and 14 meter-long group of martyrs sculpture there. In 1984, the local government built a memorial hall in the southern part of the mausoleum and a 42-meter-high monument on the summit of the main peak. In 1988, Yuhuatai was included in the third batch of National Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit.[9]
In 2010, Yuhuatai Martyrs' Memorial Museum added Zhu Chi, Hua Pinzhang, Han Xianyuan and Gao Zhisong, four generals of the National Revolutionary Army who sacrificed their lives in the Battle of Yuhua in the Battle of Nanking in the Second Sino-Japanese War.[10]
The following is a list of Japanese war criminals of World War II who were executed at Yuhuatai:[11]
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