Why is Zhengzhou Erqi Square called "Erqi"? What is the reason

Zhengzhou Erqi Square has something to do with the famous Beijing-Han railway workers' strike.

On February 1923 and 1 day, the staff and workers of Han Jing Railway Station established the Han Jing Railway Federation of Trade Unions in Zhengzhou Puleyuan (now Erqi Memorial Hall). Due to the obstruction and destruction of feudal warlords, the general assembly decided to hold a general strike on February 4. On February 7, warlords Wu, Xiao Yaonan, incited by imperialism, brutally suppressed strikers in Zhengzhou, Jiang 'an and Changxindian.

The workers on the whole line were United as enemies, not afraid of sacrifice, and fought bravely and tenaciously against the reactionaries. In this struggle, more than 40 people, including party member, workers' leaders Lin Xiangqian, Shi Yang and Gao Bin, were killed and more than 300 people were injured, which aroused the revolutionary anger of the national workers' strike. This is the famous "227 strike".

In order to commemorate this great strike movement and the "Erqi" martyrs, and inherit and carry forward the tradition of the "Erqi" glorious revolutionary struggle, 195 1 year, the "Erqi" square was built near the former site of "Changchun Bridge". At that time, a wooden memorial tower with a height of 15 meters was built in the venue. 197 1 was converted into the present tower.

Connotation of "Erqi Spirit"

1923 The vigorous strike of the Beijing-Hanrailway workers in the early spring gave birth to the precious spiritual wealth in the history of workers' struggle in China-the Erqi spirit. This spirit has formed a rising force in forbearance, making people here turn Zhengzhou from an ordinary Zheng county into a rapidly rising "international Zheng".

The connotation of the spirit of February 27 in the new era: "the spirit of unity of thousands of miles on the same track;" The innovative spirit of firm belief and pursuit of truth; The spirit of tenacious struggle and pioneering; Loyal to the people, not afraid of sacrifice. " Pang believes that with the development of the times, the connotation of the spirit of 227 has also been injected into the new content of the times, but the core idea of "listening to the party and walking with the party" will never change.

However, the heroic railway workers were not intimidated, and they continued to fight. The great struggle of the "February 27th" general strike dealt a heavy blow to imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, showed the fearless revolutionary spirit of the working class in China, and wrote a glorious page in the history of the workers' movement in China.