The painting, “Guangzhou Uprising” was created by He Kongde and Zheng Hongliu in 1962.

It depicts a scene from the Guangzhou Uprising which occurred in 1927.

The Guangzhou Uprising was a counterattack against Kuomintang (KMT) rebels.

In 1927, some of the KMT betrayed the revolution and massacred Chinese Communists and other revolutionaries.

At this time, the Chinese Communists did not give in, and the Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprising broke out one after another.

On December 11, 1927, armed workers and troops commanded by the Communist Party of China launched an uprising in Guangzhou province to fight against the Kuomintang.

The army soon occupied most of the urban area of Guangzhou and established the Guangzhou Soviet government.

It was the first revolutionary democratic government of workers and peasants in China.

Subsequently, at the first meeting, the “Guangzhou Soviet Declaration” was released, which led to repercussions.

Due to the great disparity in strength between the two sides, the uprisings ended in failure.

The remaining army withdrew from Guangzhou and joined other troops, continuing to participate in the revolutionary war.

The Guangzhou Uprising, along with other uprisings, marked the beginning of the Chinese Communist Party’s independent leadership of the revolutionary war and the creation of the People’s Army, and ushered in a new era of the Chinese revolution.

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