During the Chinese People’s War of Liberation, the Kuomintang triggered battles in Guangdong to eliminate troops led by the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Guanlan Printmaking Village in Longhua District is a quiet Hakka village with a history of hundreds of years. Here is the hometown of revolutionary printmaker Chen Yanqiao (1911-1970), a pioneer in modern Chinese printmaking and outstanding art theorist and educator.
Located in Dongmen, Luohu District, the old site of the command headquarters of the Dongjiang Guerrilla Force used to be the three-story Hong’an Restaurant, where General Ye Ting (1896-1946) carried out revolutionary activities in 1938.
Shenzhen, which covers nearly 2,000 square kilometers, is marked by revolutionary sites in many places. The Museum of the History of the Communist Party of China in Shenzhen, opened in 2019 in Futian District, records the red history of Shenzhen and revolutionary heroes who were either Shenzhen locals or pioneers from neighboring areas.
On Xiangshan Road in Shanxia Community, Pinghu Subdistrict, Longgang District, there used to be ancestral halls which were built in 1885 for the Yan and the Ye families.
The popular Gankeng Hakka Town in Longgang District used to be a village where Hakka people lived more than 350 years ago. With many old Hakka buildings still preserved, Gankeng is regarded as one of the 10 old Hakka villages in Shenzhen.