Over 1,000 local leaders, citizens and students gather in the Martyr Mausoleum of the Jinggang Mountains in east China's Jiangxi Province, paying their respects to the martyrs who had sacrificed their lives for the Chinese revolution April 3, 2009, a day before the traditional Qingming (Tomb Sweeping) Festival. (Xinhua/Song Zhenping)

April 4, Xinhua - Over 1,000 local leaders, citizens and students gather and lay wreaths in the Martyr Mausoleum of the Jinggang Mountains in east China's Jiangxi Province, April 3, 2009. People there paid their respects to the martyrs who had sacrificed their lives for Chinese revolution, a day before the traditional Qingming (Tomb Sweeping) Festival.

Local students intone poems to memorize the martyrs in the Revolution Museum of the Jinggang Mountains in east China's Jiangxi Province, April 3, 2009.  (Xinhua/Song Zhenping)

A group of pupils learn how to make straw sandals before a house where Chairman Mao used to live in Ciping of the Jinggang Mountains in east China's Jiangxi Province, April 3, 2009. (Xinhua/Song Zhenping)