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The Memorial of Southern Hunan Uprising Headquarter is located in Chengguan township&#160;城关镇&#160;in Yizhang&#160;county 宜章县, where Yizhang Girls School used to stand. It commemorates&#160;the&#160;Yizhang&#160;New Year’s Eve Uprising&#160;宜章年关暴动&#160;in January 1928, launched&#160;by Zhu De朱德&#160;(1886-1976)&#160;and Chen Yi&#160;陈毅&#160;(1901-1972) shortly before the Chinese New Year, which sparked off a series of uprisings in southern Hunan.Picture 1:  The Memorial of Southern Hunan Uprising Headquarter in Yizhang County This uprising was closely linked with yet often eclipsed by the Nanchang Uprising 南昌起义 [under construction] and the Autumn Harvest Uprising 秋收起义 in 1927 and the joining of Zhu De’s and Mao Zedong’s forces in Jinggang Mountain井冈山会师  [under construction] in April 1928.With the help of a local communist Hu Shaohai 胡少海 (1898-1930), Zhu De’s army captured most of the government officials and gentry of Yizhang in January 1928. Afterward, he declared his men, made up of scattered units of insurgent soldiers surviving the abortive Nanchang Uprising who moved to Guangdong before coming to Hunan, the First Division of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army工农革命军第1师.  A local Soviet government was established in Yizhang on February 6, the first in southern Hunan. The uprisings in other parts of southern Hunan and their Soviets survived till late March 1928. Whereas Agnes Smedley’s story, which is mainly based on her interviews with Zhu De, suggests that the uprisings failed due to the peasant rebels’ poor equipments, Chang and Halliday attributed the failure mainly to the army’s loss of popularity with local people after Zhu De’s men had razed Chenzhou and Leiyang to the ground. In April 1928, Zhu De’s army left Hunan and joined forces with Mao Zedong’s army from the Autumn Uprising in Jinggang Mountain and formed the fourth Army of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army 工农革命军第4军. Picture 2: Beacons in Southern Hunan 湘南烽火, a palm-size picture book 连环画 published in 1981, with a print run of 610,000 copies, tells the story of the Uprising.The Memorial of Southern Hunan Uprising Headquarters is situated in a courtyard with four two-story houses. Renovated in 1979, the house on the northern side of the middle area, which has one central hall and two side rooms, is the major part of the memorial. The hall served as the uprising headquarter and accommodation areas of Zhu De and Chen Yi, while the side rooms were used as soldiers' barracks. On exhibition are historical materials and objects—most of them duplicates—of the Yizhang New Year’s Eve Uprising. Since 1995 the memorial has served as a province-level base for patriotism education 湖南省爱国主义教育基地 and since 2001 a national-level demonstration base for patriotism education全国爱国主义教育示范基地. From 1996 on it has been listed as a national-level key heritage site 全国重点文物保护单位 and was included in 2005  into the national-level Red Tourism classical destinations 全国红色旅游经典景区. Bibliography:Chang, Jung and Jon Halliday (2005):&#160;Mao: the Unknown Story.&#160;London: Jonathan Cape.&#160;Smedley, Agnes (1956): The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu The. New York: Monthly Review Press. Yuan Wei 袁伟 and Wu Dianyao 吴殿尧 (1996). Zhu De Junshi huodong jishi 1886-1976 朱德军事活动纪事 1886-1976 . Beijing: Jiefangjun chubanshe 解放军出版社.List of Pictures:Featured image/Picture 1: The Memorial of Southern Hunan Uprising Headquarters. (Source: 宜章头条：http://toutiao.yizhang5.com/lishi/3025.html)Picture 2: The picture book&#160;Beacons in Southern Hunan&#160;湘南烽火 (Text: Ouyang Hui 欧阳辉; Pictures: Peng Benren 彭本人 et. al. ). Changsha: Hunan meishu chubanshe, 1981.&#160;(Source:&#160;搜连网：&#160;http://www.soulhh.com/list.aspx?i=6450a9bf-0815-45fc-ad84-fc7e11b62816)