In Shangwanqiao Village, the wind off Lake Erhai carries the memory of a boy born on February 7, 1902. Zhou Baozhong, a Bai youth, left his family's modest courtyard of white sand-and-soil walls at age fifteen to join the army. That original thatched-roof home, with its northern three-room dwelling and southern stable, burned to ash in 1954. The rebuilt memorial stands on the eastern edge of the village. It adopts the traditional Bai style of "Three Rooms and a Reflecting Wall," facing east to catch the morning light.

Visitors enter through a monumental gateway of cool Dali marble, guarded by stone lions. In the courtyard, a three-meter bronze statue stands on a stone base inscribed by Song Renqiong. Nearby, a white reflecting wall bears Mao Zedong's praise for Zhou's fourteen years of resistance in the freezing forests of Northeast China.

Inside, the museum preserves 967 historical relics, including 103 of Zhou's personal belongings. These objects reveal the private discipline behind the public hero.The collection also holds the heavy silence of Zhou's final years. Suffering from severe heart disease and gallstones, he spent his remaining days in Beijing writing the history of his comrades, including Yang Jingyu. He wrote while sweating from intense physical pain, determined to preserve the memory of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army.

This memorial bridges the warm valleys of Yunnan and the frozen battlefields of the north. It stands as a quiet space of stone, bronze, and paper, honoring a soldier who helped shape modern China.