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Zhugou Revolutionary Memorial Hall 竹沟革命纪念馆

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Museum at the 1938 Central Plains Bureau site in Zhugou, the "Little Yan'an" 30 km west of Queshan, with a six-part exhibition.

Preserved historical room with old furniture and portraits on the wall at the memorial hall
Preserved interior room with period furniture at the Former Site of the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Que Shan County · 驻马店市确山县竹沟革命纪念馆（中共中央中原局旧址）内景 Source-recorded photograph date: 2025-10-03 11:43:33. · Windmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0
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About Zhugou Revolutionary Memorial Hall

Zhugou Revolutionary Memorial Hall (竹沟革命纪念馆) occupies the former site of the Communist Party's Central Plains Bureau (中共中央中原局旧址) on Yan'an Street in Zhugou (竹沟镇), a town 30 km west of the Queshan County (确山县) seat in Zhumadian (驻马店), Henan.

Zhugou is listed as a China Historical and Cultural Town (中国历史文化名镇). Late in September 1938 Peng Xuefeng (彭雪枫) started the newspaper Fuxiao Bao (拂晓报, "Dawn News") here. In the autumn of that year the Communist Party abolished its Yangtze Bureau and set up the Central Plains Bureau in Zhugou, with Liu Shaoqi (刘少奇) as secretary, to direct its work north of the Yangtze in Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu. That role earned the town the nickname "Little Yan'an" (小延安).

The memorial hall was founded in 1956, and its name was written by Zhou Enlai (周恩来). In 1988 the State Council placed the bureau site, dated to 1938-1939, in the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units (全国重点文物保护单位), in the class of revolutionary sites and memorial buildings.

The exhibition has six parts. They start with early revolutionary activity and the building of a base in the Tongbai Mountains (桐柏山) of southern Henan. Later parts present Zhugou as the leadership centre of Henan's war of resistance and a strategic support point of the war of resistance in the Central Plains, then the Zhugou Massacre (竹沟惨案) and the final victory. It shows more than 400 objects, four painted scenes and four large sculptures. The town also has the Zhugou Martyrs' Cemetery (竹沟烈士陵园), and Zhugou village was named one of China's traditional villages in August 2013.

What to look for

  • The former Central Plains Bureau site, a national protected site since 1988
  • The hall's name, inscribed in Zhou Enlai's calligraphy
  • The six-part exhibition of more than 400 objects
  • Four painted scenes and four large sculptures in the displays
  • The section on the Zhugou Massacre (竹沟惨案)
  • Zhugou Martyrs' Cemetery (竹沟烈士陵园) in the same town

Location & getting there

Getting to Zhugou Revolutionary Memorial Hall

  • Search for 竹沟革命纪念馆 with 驻马店市 and 确山县.
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Sources & visit information

Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-23. Opening hours, admission and access arrangements are not covered; confirm current visitor information with the site.

Some facts checked against Wikipedia contributors, "竹沟革命纪念馆" · CC BY-SA 4.0.

Some facts checked against Wikipedia contributors, "竹沟镇" · CC BY-SA 4.0.

China Revealed · Editorially updated 2026-10-07