By Xinhua writer Zhao Wei and Zhang Min     

    NANCHANG, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- A small temple with white walls and black tiles bakes under the hot sun in a green paddy field. No frogs or cicadas can be heard in the still, silent landscape.

    The temple is located in Ruijin, more than 400 km from Nanchang, capital city of eastern China's Jiangxi Province. Ruijin was the capital of the first state established by the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the 1930s.

    According to locals, the small temple was demolished and rebuilt several times. More than 70 years ago, it was called "solitary house" because there were no other buildings nearby. In his bestseller, The Long March -- The Untold Story, the American writer Harrison E. Salisbury described it as bleak.

    The man living in the house during the tumultuous events of the 1930s was Otto Braun, a German military consultant assigned to Red China by the Comintern, the Soviet Union's policy maker for communist parties in other countries.

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