Qujiawan, the red capital!

Qujiawan was once a residential architecture from the Ming and Qing dynasties, featuring the typical characteristics of a market town in the Jianghan Plain water town, with mortise and tenon timber structures, single-eave hip roofs, gray walls, dark tiles, high parapets, and upturned ridges, presenting a unique picture of ancient simplicity... During the Second Revolutionary Civil War period, Qujiawan once served as the center of the Chinese revolution—the Xiang-E (Hunan-Hubei) Western revolutionary base. In this town, the CPC Xiang-E Western Central Bureau, the CPC Xiang-E Western Provincial Committee, the Xiang-E Western Soviet Government, and the Xiang-E Western Provincial Revolutionary Military Committee were established, with high-ranking leadership organs located here. Marshal He Long, Zhou Yiqun, and other comrades fought here. Chairman Mao also affirmed that 'the Honghu guerrilla warfare of the Red Army era lasted for several years, which is evidence that the river and lake port areas could carry out guerrilla warfare and establish bases.'