Inauguration of the monument of revolutionary Phan Dang Luu
(Baonghean.vn) - In addition to the monument of revolutionary Phan Dang Luu, on this occasion, Yen Thanh district also inaugurated a temple to commemorate the district's martyrs.
On the morning of July 17, the People's Committee of Yen Thanh district held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the monument to revolutionary Phan Dang Luu and the district's martyrs temple.
Attending the ceremony were comrade Le Thi Thuy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Inspection Committee; Major General Ho Quang Tuan - Deputy Head of the General Department of Industry, Ministry of National Defense; Nguyen The Trung - former Deputy Head of the Central Mass Mobilization Committee.
On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, representatives of provincial departments and branches and leaders of Yen Thanh district.
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Overview of the ceremony. Photo. Hien - Cac. |
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Phan Van Tuyen, Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee, said that the statue of comrade Phan Dang Luu is nearly 10 meters high. The statue body and pedestal are made of monolithic stone, connected by mortise and tenon joints, steel pins, etc.
The project is shown in accordance with the approved design, suitable for the plaster statue model, 1/1 scale, quality meets the requirements according to the design documents, in accordance with the process. After acceptance, Yen Thanh district coordinated with the family and clan to conduct traditional ceremonies in October 2015 and put the project into operation management. The monument was started in 2012, on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the birth of revolutionary Phan Dang Luu.
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Delegates cut the ribbon to inaugurate the monument. Photo. Hien - Cac. |
Meanwhile, the district martyrs' temple project started in 2013, on an area of over 21,000 m2. This project is arranged with items including the main church, stele house, gong house, drum house, relief, ceremony yard, torch stand, parking lot, permanent house, toilet area, flower garden, roads, fence, steps, lighting, water supply and drainage. The interior of the temple is designed with items: 3-level central altar, 3-level martyrs' altar, stone stele engraved with martyrs' names, watchtower and parallel sentences, currently the basic items have been completed.
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Delegates offer incense at the martyrs' temple of Yen Thanh district. Photo. Hien - The |
Revolutionary Phan Dang Luu was born in 1902 in Trang Thanh commune (now Hoa Thanh, Yen Thanh district). From a young age, he was famous for his intelligence and good study. At the age of 16, he took the Huong exam, although he had to declare his age 2 years older to be able to take the exam. In 1923, he was appointed to the position of Thong Phan, working as an employee at the Bac Ky Agricultural Department, so he was also popularly known as Phan Tam. At the end of 1925, he was transferred to the Nghe An Agricultural Department in Vinh. Here, he had contact with a number of members of the Phuc Viet Association, regularly discussed current events and read revolutionary documents. It was during this time that he was exposed to the first Communist documents in French.... In September 1939, he was mobilized to work in the South and was assigned by the Central Committee to be in charge of the revolutionary movement in the provinces of the South. In November 1940, in Dinh Bang, Bac Ninh, he chaired the 7th Central Conference. Here, he was nominated to be General Secretary, but he did not accept, because he thought he needed to return to the South, where the Regional Party Committee and the people were waiting for the results of the trip and were on guard against his arrest, which would hinder the newly consolidated Central Committee in the North. Immediately after the conference, he returned to the South to postpone the Southern uprising, according to the decision of the Central Committee, due to an informant, he was arrested by French secret police on the night of November 22, 1940 when he had just arrived in Saigon, before he could convey the Central Committee's instructions. On August 26, 1941, he was executed at the Nga Ba Giong shooting range, Hoc Mon, Gia Dinh, along with comrade Nguyen Van Cu. |
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