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The Birth House and Memorial Hall of He Long&#160;贺龙&#160;(1896-1969) is located in Sangzhi County&#160;桑植县&#160;of the prefecture-level city&#160;of&#160;Zhangjiajie&#160;张家界. Originally built by&#160;He’s&#160;grandfather in&#160;the&#160;late Qing dynasty, the house witnessed the births of He Long&#160;and&#160;his siblings. The He Long Memorial&#160;Hall as part of the same tourist site&#160;was completed and open to the public in March 1996 at the 100th&#160;anniversary of He Long’s birthday.He Long, who later became one of the first ten marshals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1955, spent his childhood and teenager years in&#160;his birth&#160;house. He was one of the military leaders of the abortive&#160;Nanchang Uprising (under construction). Between 1930 and&#160;mid-1932 he&#160;and his red army organized a soviet on the&#160;Hunan-Hubei&#160;border 湘鄂边苏区 around Hong Lake&#160;洪湖.Picture 2: A poster (1978) showing He Long on Hong LakeHe Long supported&#160;Mao Zedong against Zhang Guotao&#160;张国焘&#160;(1897-1979) in the Long March. He worked with&#160;Peng Dehuai&#160;彭德怀 (1898-1974)&#160;in WWII and the Civil&#160;War.&#160;After the foundation of the PRC&#160;He served&#160;as vice premier and the director of the National Sports Commission&#160;中央体委&#160;between 1952 and 1967. Appointed to investigate Peng Dehuai in 1959, He turned in a report that attempted to defend Peng. He Long was purged at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) and subject to a house arrest&#160;from January 1967 till his death in&#160;June&#160;1969.&#160;He Long’s birth house was burned down and destroyed&#160;in the 1910s and 1920s. In the Cultural Revolution it was razed to the ground and reduced to rice field. The&#160;current building&#160;was&#160;constructed&#160;in 1977&#160;after&#160;He Long was posthumously rehabilitated. In 1983 it was categorized as a province-level key heritage site 湖南省重点文物保护单位, and in&#160;2006&#160;a&#160;&#160;nation-level key heritage site&#160;全国重点文物保护单位. The house faces south.&#160;In the&#160;front room of its central hall&#160;now stands&#160;a bust status of He Long.The He Long Memorial&#160;Hall&#160;occupies an area of 9335 square meters. It&#160;houses&#160;nine exhibition halls&#160;presenting He in five aspects: his ambition of saving the nation; as a distinguished military leader, as the founder of national sports&#160;of new China; as an important leader of the&#160;PLA&#160;and national defense, and as a hero living in the heart of the people. In 2006&#160;the memorial hall undertook&#160;a technological update, adding&#160;the Hall of&#160;He Long’s&#160;Military Exploits&#160;功勋厅&#160;and&#160;the&#160;Multimedia&#160;Hall 多媒体厅, which&#160;intend to provide the tourists with an impressive experience of admiring He’s achievements.&#160;Picture 3: Inside the He Long Memorial Hall Since 1995 He Long’s birth house and memorial&#160;hall&#160;has&#160;served as&#160;a&#160;national-level demonstration base for patriotism education&#160;全国爱国主义教育示范基地. The site offers special programs,&#160;including a&#160;drama performance&#160;on&#160;He Long’srevolutionary&#160;life&#160;and performances of revolutionary songs.&#160;List of Pictures:Featured Image and Picture 3: He Long's Birth House and Memorial Hall&#160;(Source: Sangzhi Network Cultural Heritage Museum&#160;桑植文化遗产网络展示博物馆 (09-03-2020) http://www.0744fyg.com/feiyidongtai/20200309/737.html)Picture 2: Comrade He Long in the Honghu Soviet, 1978&#160;by Cheng Baohong 程宝泓 (Source: Stefan R. Landsberger Collection, Call number: BG E15/196 https://chineseposters.net/posters/e15-196.php)Bibliography&#160;Griffin, Nicholas (2014):&#160;Ping-pong Diplomacy: The Secret History behind the Games That Changed the World. New York: Scribner.&#160;Leung, Edwin Pak-wah (2002): “Ho Lung”.&#160;In: Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., pp. 49-51.&#160;Rice, Edward E (1974):&#160;Mao’s Way. Berkeley: University of California Press.&#160;