[4][5] During the Republic of China period, Yuhuatai was used as a torture chamber where over thousands of communists were executed, including Deng Zhongxia.
[6] In 1940, after the establishment of the Wang Jingwei regime, some agents of Bureau of Investigation and Statistics were also killed in Yuhuatai.
[7][8] After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yuhuatai was set up as a mausoleum of revolutionary martyrs, planting trees, building roads in 1950.
In 1984, the local government built a memorial hall in the southern part of the mausoleum and a 42-meter-high monument on the summit of the main peak.
[9] In 2010, Yuhuatai Martyrs' Memorial Museum added Zhu Chi, Hua Pinzhang, Han Xianyuan and Gao Zhisong, four generals of the National Revolutionary Army who sacrificed their lives in the Battle of Yuhua in the Battle of Nanking in the Second Sino-Japanese War.