The cemetery was built in 1944 and 65438+February, and was originally the burial place of CoCo Lee and other martyrs. Since 195 1, the Yinxian People's Government has rebuilt and expanded the cemetery for many times, forming a scale with a total area of 14300 square meters and a construction area of 3700 square meters. After the transformation, the Martyrs Cemetery faces south, with its back facing the sea at Nianggang Mountain. The buildings are patchwork, consisting of tombs of martyrs, monuments, pavilions, memorial halls and exhibition halls. The cemetery is located at the north rear end, with five domed tombs and one rectangular tomb, where the 157 martyrs who died heroically in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Liberation War were buried respectively. On the 2-meter-high platform in front of the tomb, a memorial tower for revolutionary martyrs stands in the air, with a height of 25.2 meters, symbolizing that Ningbo (Yinxian) established the China * * * production party organization in February 1925. Four groups of relief patterns, namely "Da Song Chao", "Meiyuan Banner", "Zhang Xi Blood" and "Four Open Fires", are engraved around Taki, which artistically reproduces the course of the revolutionary struggle in Yinxian County. The 4000 square meters lawn square in front of the memorial tower can accommodate more than 2000 people to hold commemorative activities. There are pentagonal memorial pavilions on the south side of the square, each with a vertical monument. The eight characters of "greatness of life" and "glory of death" are engraved below, and the name of 198 martyr is engraved on the stone tablet.
There is a three-story building in the west of the cemetery, and the first floor is the revolutionary martyrs memorial hall. On the wall of the museum, there is a plaque with the name of more than 670 martyrs engraved on it, which reads "The heroic spirit lives forever, four bright lights". The second and third floors are the "Martyrs' Ashes Room" and the "Dead Revolutionary Workers' Ashes Room" respectively. The newly-built exhibition hall in the north of the memorial hall, with a construction area of 678 square meters, shows the revolutionary struggle history and martyrs' deeds of Yinxian in four historical periods: the Great Revolution, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Period, Liberation War Period, Socialist Revolution and Construction Period. In each revolutionary period, the revolutionary struggle situation at that time was summarized, and the struggle experiences, historical photos, personal relics and photos of revolutionary martyrs in each period were exhibited. Among 100 revolutionary cultural relics, whether it is a page of writing paper, a pen, a diary, a trophy, a broadsword, a rifle, bullets, etc. , vividly put forward the truth that "there would be no new China without the * * * production party" and "only socialism can save China".