China News Service, Jilin, September 15 (Reporter Shi Hongyu) On the 15th, the reporter learned from Panshi City, Jilin Province that the local Hongshilizi Anti-Japanese Base has made major archaeological discoveries. A total of 7 secret camp sites and 3 stove sites were excavated and cleared. One ash pit and one defensive wall once again confirmed the history of military and civilian resistance against aggression in the Northeast after the September 18th Incident.
The Hongshilizi Anti-Japanese Base Area in Panshi City was the first anti-Japanese guerrilla base established in the northeast by the anti-Japanese armed forces under the leadership of the Communist Party of China after the "September 18th" Incident. It was the birth of the Nanman (Panshi) guerrilla group of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. land.
Anti-Japanese national heroes such as Yang Jingyu left their footprints in battle here.
The picture shows the weapon unearthed in Panshi
According to a Panshi party history expert, the local area took the lead in forming the first anti-Japanese armed force led by the party, and it was also the first place in the Northeast to explore and practice the anti-Japanese national united front.
In July of this year, the Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology was commissioned by the Panshi Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting and Tourism to carry out archaeological work on the protection and display project of the Hongshilizi Anti-Japanese Base Area.
The archaeological team excavated an area of 300 square meters and selected key relics in 13 exhibition areas such as the Red Army Hospital, the Red Army Outpost, and the Red Army Secret Camp for archaeological excavation.
Up to now, 7 secret camp sites, 3 stove sites, 1 ash pit, and 1 defensive wall have been excavated and cleared.
Tableware unearthed from the rock
According to the official introduction of Panshi City, the round house site unearthed by the Red Army Hospital is commonly known as the ground floor, with a complete stove pit and flue. In another place, the fire kang, stove, chimney, and pillar hole of the remaining stone slabs in the room were unearthed.
The above evidence overturned the previous inference that the secret camp of the Hongshilizi Anti-Japanese Base could not make fires, and further enriched the archaeological materials of the Northeast local history and the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.
According to Li Dan, the leader of the archaeological team, most of the relics unearthed are iron, bronze, and porcelain. The types include 91 Japanese-style grenades, 38-style rifle fragments, Hanyang-made rifle fragments, and Soviet-style Remington bullets. 243 pieces of old-fashioned bolted rifle bullet shells, porcelain bowls, pottery basins, iron pots, writing brushes, cigarette holders, glass bottles, medical tweezers, palm nails, buttons, and pseudo-Manchukuo Penta coins produced by Jilin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.
The relevant person in charge of the Revolutionary Cultural Relics Department of the Jilin Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism said that this archaeological excavation was the first excavation by the state protection unit of the Anti-League Site and explained the characteristics of the shape and form of the Northeast Anti-League Secret Camp from an archaeological point of view.
At the same time, combined with historical documents and oral narrations by participants, it provides an important academic basis for the establishment of the Northeast Anti-Union Secret Camp, its establishment background, the age of its use and abandonment, and its shape and characteristics.
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