"May 30th" Lecture Hall:
Located in Boxian Park. It is a double-eaved, backer roof with four eaves rising upwards, with a total length of 28 meters and a width of 19 meters. There are kissing animals at both ends of the roof, two gables with carved patterns, two layers of brick-wood structure, four walls with glass windows, a circular corridor at the bottom, a column height of 3.7 meters, a corridor width of 2.2 meters, a podium at the east end of the room and a surrounding balcony upstairs. The whole building is simple and solemn.
The foundation stone of this hall was laid in August 1925 and completed in August 1926. There is a white stone inscription on the north and south sides of the wall base. The inscription has the same words: "People from all walks of life in Zhenjiang in August of the fourteenth year of the Republic of China will never forget this hall." There is a Zhenjiang "May 30th" sports cultural relics exhibition hall in the hall.
Background knowledge: From May 20, 65438 to May 20, 0925, workers from Zhang Ren, Xinhua, Guangxin Silk Factory, Yingchang Match Factory, rickshaw puller and barge dock in Zhenjiang successively went on strike to protest against the Japanese killing of Gu Zhenghong in Shanghai Cotton Mill. On May 30th, the May 30th massacre occurred in Shanghai, and the people of the whole country set off an anti-imperialist patriotic climax under the leadership of China's * * * production party. On June 2nd, Zhenjiang went on strike to establish the "Zhenjiang Diplomatic Support Association", and held a large-scale demonstration on the 5th. In late June, all walks of life in Zhenjiang set off a boycott of Japanese goods, organized inspection teams to destroy Japanese goods, and fined profiteers who possessed Japanese goods tens of thousands of yuan. After consultation from all walks of life, in order to commemorate the patriotic feat of Zhenjiang people, the "May 30th" lecture hall was built with a fine.