Editor's Note: Strive for a hundred years and embark on a new journey. The centenary of the Communist Party of China is the centenary of its commitment to fulfilling its original mission, the centenary of its pioneering work, and the centenary of creating brilliance and opening up the future. As the once revolutionary center, Wuhan, a heroic city, has left a strong mark in the glorious chapter of the hundred year history of the Party.

In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and present the centennial birthday of the Party, Hubei Channel of People's Daily Online launched five episodes of micro video documentaries of "A Hundred Years of Wind and Clouds Surge in Wuchang" to explore the imprint of Wuchang in the centennial struggle history of the Communist Party of China.

This is a classic work, Hunan Peasant Movement Investigation Report, which was published in March 1927. At a critical moment in history, it further pointed out the direction of the revolution, made it clear that farmers were the main force of the Chinese revolution, provided support for the choice of the road to encircle the cities in rural areas, and promoted the continued development of the rural revolutionary movement. Today, in the Memorial Hall of Mao Zedong's Former Residence in Wuchang, which is the No. 41 Dufudi where Mao Zedong once lived, there are also three collections related to the Investigation Report of Hunan Peasant Movement: Soldier Weekly, Guide Weekly and Hunan People's Daily.

In November 1926, Mao Zedong left Shanghai and passed Nanchang to Wuhan, the center of the Great Revolution. On December 13, he attended the special meeting held by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in Hankou. At the meeting, Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, criticized the vigorous peasant movement that is rising across the country. In the face of criticism, Mao Zedong did not wait for the end of the meeting to open his legs to Hunan, where the peasants' revolutionary struggle was the fiercest.

At the beginning of 1927, Mao Zedong, 34 years old, dressed in a blue cloth gown, wearing straw sandals, holding an umbrella, carrying a cloth bag with pen and paper, spent more than 30 days hiking 700 kilometers, covering five counties of Xiangtan, Xiangxiang, Hengshan, Liling and Changsha. He found that farmers fought local tyrants and divided fields, and the countryside of western Hunan was in full swing in the cold winter.

On February 12, 1927, Mao Zedong returned to Wuchang, where he lived at No. 41 Dufudi, 200 meters away from Wuchang Agricultural Lecture Center, in order to preside over the work of the Agricultural Lecture Center. Here, accompanied by an oil lamp, he wrote a quick book. It took only four days to write an Investigation Report on the Hunan Peasant Movement, and discussed the great significance of the rural revolution with a large number of irrefutable facts from the field investigation.

Soon after the report was published, it was warmly welcomed by the broad masses of farmers. In Hunan, the broad masses of farmers have developed from being in charge of the township government to demanding to be in charge of the county government, from reducing rent and interest to demanding to confiscate landlords' land and distribute land fairly. The struggle of farmers to seize landlords' armed forces and expand farmers' armed forces has also been further carried out. At a critical moment in history, it further pointed out the direction for the revolution, promoted the continuous development of the rural revolutionary movement, and laid a solid foundation for the birth of the "rural surrounding the city" in the future.

Related reading:

One Hundred Years of Wind and Cloud Surge in Wuchang (Episode I): Forming a Party to Save the Fire in China and Spreading Jingchu

Wuchang in the Past Century Issue II: Spreading the Sparks of Struggle and Cultivating the Backbone of Agricultural Movement

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