[Explanation] Backed by Cangshan Mountain, looking at the plain in front, under the shade of green trees, this antique building in Yangjia Village, Shiba Township, Yuen Long District, Hong Kong, occupies an excellent location.

Walking along the winding field path to the front, a couplet of "Suitable for Living in Renli and Lujing" shows the beautiful meaning of the name "Suitable Lu" to visitors.

　　[Explanation] This Hakka Weilong House, built in 1933, is a typical Cantonese-style horizontal house with the Yangjiacun ancestral hall "Dunjing Hall" inside.

The former owners of Shilu were two Indonesian Chinese businessman Yang Weinan and Yang Zhunan who were originally from Meixian County, Guangdong Province. They went to Indonesia for business earlier, and then returned to Hong Kong to find land to build a house.

　　[Explanation] During the Japanese Occupation, Yang Zhunan loaned Shilu to the guerrillas and used it as a base for the Yuen Long Squadron of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade for one year.

After more than 80 years of changes, the descendants of the Yang family still live here today.

Recalling the scene when the guerrillas lived in their homes, Yang Zhunan's nephew, the 85-year-old Yang Yongguang, was still impressed.

　　[Concurrent] Yang Zhunan's nephew Yang Yongguang

　　My mother was a woman with a few little boys, and she was very scared at the beginning.

After a few days, (the guerrillas) were kind and polite to my mother.

I lived here for a long time, about a few weeks. At that time, there were some firearms. I didn't know where they were brought from. When they moved to the (lobby), they were all filled with firearms and piled up to the door.

These firearms escaped for some reason, so they hit this hole.

The guerrillas came to divide into several parts, and the senior (officers) lived in this room and the room below.

These two rooms are used as high-end (accommodation), and the other people (live) in the opposite six rooms.

All the six rooms here are occupied by guerrillas. If the guerrillas don’t have enough space to live, they will be paved in the hall.

　　[Explanation] In the summer and autumn of 1942, Japanese troops came to sweep due to leaks. The guerrillas had already heard the news and quickly evacuated with their guns and went to hide in Mount Danchai behind the house.

　　[Concurrent] Liu Shuyong, a well-known Hong Kong historian

　　The Japanese army could not find the guerrillas, so they arrested Mr. Yang Zhunan, the owner of Shilu, to Yuen Long.

After being locked up for more than a month, he used various methods to torture him, use water torture, not allow him to eat, etc., hoping that he would tell the whereabouts of the guerrillas, but the old man is very handsome, no matter how the Japanese tortured him, he did not disclose any information.

After (Yang Zhunan was released), Tan Tieliu, the instructor of the Yuen Long Squadron, came to visit him and condolences him. He did not regret his actions, and he still came to receive the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by the Communist Party with great enthusiasm.

　　[Explanation] As one of the base areas of the Dongjiang guerrillas during the Anti-Japanese War, Shilu also became a transfer station for the secret rescue. At that time, the rescued patriotic democrats and cultural figures such as Mao Dun, Zou Taofen, He Xiangning, and Liu Yazi who were stranded in Hong Kong, passed through Shilu. Lu escaped the capture of the Japanese army through the Shenzhen River.

　　[Concurrent] Liu Shuyong, a well-known Hong Kong historian

　　At that time, because of the rapid arrival of the Japanese army, a large number of anti-Japanese cultural people stayed in Hong Kong. They generally did not know how to speak Cantonese, and they had very little social relations in the local area, so it was a very dangerous situation.

The leader of the CCP, Zhou Enlai, instructed the underground CCP in Hong Kong at that time.

They must be rescued as soon as possible. Under the escort of the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party and several armed labor teams that later became the predecessor of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade, an unprecedented rescue of these cultural people was carried out.

The number of cultural people, democrats, intellectual youths and their families who were rescued from the anti-Japanese war was about 800 people.

　　[Explanation] After that, Yang Zhunan and his family moved back to the overseas residence in Indonesia until they were old.

In 2010, Shilu was rated as a Grade II historical building by the Hong Kong Antiquities Advisory Committee.

Today, this weathered building still stands in place, with traces of beacon fires more than half a century ago.

It not only records the red footprints of the centuries-old party of the Communist Party of China in Hong Kong, but also witnesses the touching stories of Hong Kong's patriots and the Chinese Communists.

　　Reporter Fan Siyi and Li Yue reporting from Hong Kong

Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]