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Featured Image: Luo Ronghuan in a 1983 posterLuo Ronghuan&#160;罗荣桓&#160;(1902-1963) was a Chinese communist military leader. The memorial of&#160;his former residence is located in Hengdong County 衡东县, about 70 kilometers from the Mount Heng 衡山, one of the Five Great Mountains of China. The memorial consists of Luo’s former residence&#160;罗荣桓故居, a square with Luo Ronghuan’s statue&#160;罗帅铜像广场, the exhibition hall of Luo’s life&#160;罗帅生平业绩陈列馆&#160;(built in 2002), and a reconstruction of Marshal Luo’s office&#160;罗帅办公室.&#160;The former residence was built in 1914 by Luo Ronghuan’s father and the family moved in it in 1915. Luo spent about twelve years here before he left his hometown in April 1927. The house faces east, featuring Chinese-style gable roofs covered with grey tiles and richly painted and carved beams and rafters.Picture 2: Luo Ronghuan's former residenceBorn in Hengdong&#160;County in today’s Hengyang City&#160;衡阳市, Luo Ronghuan participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927 and later joined the Fourth Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants Revolution Army led by Mao Zedong&#160;毛泽东&#160;and Zhu De&#160;朱德 in the Jinggang Mountains in 1928. Luo was a veteran weathering three encirclements of the Jiangxi Soviet by the Nationalist armies before embarking on the Long March from 1934 to 1935.&#160;During WWII, Luo Ronghuan served as the political commissar of the 115 Division of the Eighth Route Army. Despite several months of medical treatment in the Soviet Union during 1946-47, Luo participated in important campaigns in the Civil War (1945-49), including the Liaosheng Campaign 辽沈战役 in 1948 and the Pingjin Campaign 平津战役 from late 1948 to January 1949, which ended with the Communists’ negotiation with the Nationalist military commander Fu Zuoyi&#160;傅作义&#160;(1895-1974) for a peaceful settlement of Beiping (today’s Beijing).&#160;Luo served as a Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in the PRC. He died in 1963 from uremia.Picture 3: Stamps issued in 1992 to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Luo Ronghuan's BirthdayThe former residence in the memorial presents Luo Ronghuan’s family life during his teenager and youth years,  Luo’s bedroom, study, exercise room as well as the bedrooms of his grandma and parents, the living room, and the stove room 火炉屋 (where the stove stands and where people socialize). The memorial boasts a trove of original objects, such as furniture and decoration objects in Luo’s bedroom and study as well as the bed and the loom in his grandma’s bedroom, the table, stool, and cupboard in the stove room. In the exercise room, where Luo and his brothers used to practice martial arts, exercise tools such as stone locks and traditional weapons such as knives, spears, swords, etc. are on display. The bed, nightstand, iron safe, and office furniture were transported from Beijing to reconstruct Luo Ronghuan’s office in the memorial.The memorial offers a special commemorative program that encourages the tourist to plant trees in the garden.&#160;The memorial of Luo Ronghuan’s former residence was listed as a province-level heritage site湖南省级文物保护单位 in 1983 and open to the public in 1985 after renovation. It has been categorized as a province-level base for patriotism education 湖南省爱国主义教育基地 in 1995, one of the 100 Red Tourism classical destinations 100个红色旅游经典景区 in 2004 and a national-level demonstration base for patriotism education爱国主义教育示范基地 in 2005.Bibliography&#160;Huang Yao黄瑶&#160;(2002):&#160;Luo Ronghuan nianpu罗荣桓年谱. Beijing: Renmin chubanshe.&#160;Lew, Christopher (2012): “Luo Ronghuan (Lo Jung-huan, 1902-1963).” In&#160;China at War: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Li Xiaobing. Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO.&#160;248-249.List of Pictures:Featured image/Picture 1: "Marshal Luo Ronghuan 罗荣桓元帅" by Zeng Tingzhong&#160;曾廷仲 (Source: Stefan R. Landsberger Collection, Call number: BG E13/23&#160;https://chineseposters.net/posters/e13-23.php)Picture 2: Luo Ronghuan's former residence (Source: Hunan government official website: http://www.hunan.gov.cn/jxxx/yxhn/qjhn/hsly/201712/t20171226_4912039.html )