Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs

Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs (雨花台烈士陵园) is a park and tourist site in the Yuhuatai District of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.[1] The name Yuhuatai comes from yu (rain), hua (flower), tai (platform). A prominent feature of the park is a statue of nine figures.[2] The statue commemorates the 100,000 Communists killed by the Kuomintang.[3]

References
  1. Famous Tourist Attractions in China, page 258
  2. Rem Sapozhnikov (October 2008). "Yuhuatai (Rain Flower Terrace) hill (Yǔhuātái lièshì língyuán – 雨花台 烈士陵园) The Memorial to the Martyrs of the Revolution".
  3. Vogel, Ezra F. (2011). Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674055445.
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