Monument to People’s Heroes

Posted under Tiananmen Square on Monday, 1 March 2010 by Travel Beijing

Monument to the People’s Heroes stands in the middle of Tiananmen Square. Construction began in August 1951 and the monument was finally built, built in April 1958 and became the first major monument in socialist China. The columns of marble and granite stands almost 38 meters (125 feet) and gilded calligraphy, as Chairman Mao, “he said Eternal glory to the heroes of the people” on the north side. The basic structure of the terrain are the most revolutionary events and the monument as the calligraphy of Zhou Enlai in force.

The monument to the heroic People’s Party is in the north of the Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao. Four hundred and sixty three meters south of Tiananmen Tower, four hundred forty yards north of Qianmen they fall along the North-South-Central. Monument to the People’s Heroes, Tiananmen Square and Qianmen design complex harmonic and uniform.

On September 30, 1949, the Conference has completed the first political advisor of the Chinese people discuss the idea of a monument to the heroes of the people in modern China in Beijing, capital of China. A clock of 6 on the same day, the ground-dedication ceremony held at which delegates to the leadership of Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Political Bureau of Chinese Communist Party in 1943 and chairman of the Central Committee Communist Party of China from 1945to 1976, the inauguration ceremony of the cornerstone of the monument. The construction of the monument was created August 1, 1952 began in April 22nd The 1958th ended May 1, 1958 opening ceremony. In 1961 she was described by all as relics of China protected.

Monument to the People’s Heroes is a square building with an area of 3,000 square meters. It consists of three parts, body, style Buddhist-base and base, expanding the size of 37.94m. The body of the monument was, with 413 pieces of granite into 32 layers high. In the middle of the north face of the monument, a complete piece of stone, 14.7 m long and 2.9 m wide and 1 m thick, glossy with inscription: “Eternal glory to the heroes of the people!” From Mao Zedong. The south side of the monument is 7 pieces of stone with inscriptions of the project, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the first Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China is evidence that in October 1949 to his death in January 1976. The east and west sides of the monument are engraved with patterns of stars with five branches, pine and flags. Top

The body of the monument has two levels of Buddhist-style bases. The top is cut with a small sample of eight rings, peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and other flowers together. The bottom is ten white marble relief, the fight against attention to what the great revolutionary events in modern Chinese history. Temporally, they are “burning opium in Humen Town,” “Jintian Uprising” on the east side, Wuchang Uprising, “” May Fourth Movement “,” Movement of 30 May 1925 “on the south side, Nanchang Movement Anti -Japanese War “on the west side and the campaign of crossing the Yangtze River on the north side of the forehead (). Campaign for crossing the Yangtze River “on the front is the largest among the ten, two decorative plants,” Supporting the Front “and” Welcome to the Liberation Army of the people. “The ten reliefs, with more than 170 characters are 2m in height, width of 2 to 6.4 m and reached a total length of 40.68m. The base is divided into two sections 50.44m from east to west and 61 5 meters from south to north. The top and bottom is a place surrounded by columns and staircases.

The monument is inscribed inscription on the south side of Zhou Enlai, as follows:
Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who gave their lives during the people’s war and revolution for the liberation of the people over the last three years!
Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who gave their lives during the people’s war and revolution for the liberation of the people over the last thirty years!
Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who left in 1840, his life in many battles against the enemies inside and outside for national independence, freedom and well-being of the people!
(Note: These last three years “refers to the Liberation War of China (1946-1949), refers to the” thirty years “in the new democratic revolution, the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the end of the revolution in 1949, and “after 1840″ refers to the global struggle of the Chinese people against the internal and external conflicts, unlike the beginning of the Opium War to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.