Second Guangzhou Uprising

The Huanghuagang Uprising ( Chinese黄花岗 起义/黄花岗 起义, Pinyin Huanghuagang Qiyi, English Huanghuagang Uprising ), which is also known as the " 3:29 " Uprising of Guangzhou, led by Huang Xing and is named after a hill in Guangzhou ( Canton), Guangdong, China, named. It was the last unsuccessful uprising against Chinese revolutionaries the Qing Dynasty before the uprising of Wuchang in the same year (1911 ).

On November 13, 1910 Sun Yat-sen met with some men who formed the backbone of the Chinese Revolutionary League ( Tongmenghui ) - Zhao Shen, Huang Xing, Hu Hanmin, and Deng Zeru - in Penang on the Malay Peninsula to create a conference to in Guangzhou (Canton) to take a decisive battle against the Qing government in attack.

In January 1911, Huang Xing, Zhao Shen and Hu Hanming built the headquarters of this revolt in Hong Kong. Originally, they planned the beginning of the fight for 13 April, but the date was postponed due to some preparation matters.

On April 27, 1911, the uprising near the office of Zhang Minqi, the Governor of Guangzhou began. The revolutionaries hoped to capture him. Zhang, however, climbed over a wall and escaped. The revolutionaries were in their desperate struggle in the streets soon inferior to the Qing army and the rebellion ended in disaster.

After the uprising, members of the Tongmenghui collected seventy-two dead bodies and buried them together in the north of the city in Honghuagang. Later Honghuagang was renamed Huanghuagang. The number of people killed during this uprising, revolutionaries was over a hundred, but, according to the tradition they continue to be the " Seventy-two Martyrs of Huanghuagang " (黄花岗 七十二烈士, Huanghuagang Qishi'er Lieshi ) called.

The tomb of the 72 Martyrs of Huanghuagang (黄花岗 七十二烈士 墓, Huanghuagang Qishi'er Lieshi mu, English Graveyard of the 72 Martyrs at Huanghuagang Hillock ) is since 1961 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-6).