Dear friends: now, we come to Tiananmen Square. Let me give you a briefintroduction. Tiananmen Square is the largest city center square in the world.It is located in the center of Beijing. Tiananmen Square is rectangular, 880meters long from north to south, 500 meters wide from east to west, with a totalarea of 440000 square meters. If people stand shoulder to shoulder on thesquare, the whole square can hold 1 million people, that is to say, 1 / 13 ofthe total population of Beijing can stand here at the same time, big enough!
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the square was not so big. At that time, itwas in the shape of "t". The horizontal line of "t" was our Chang'an Streettoday, and the vertical line was the long strip area from the current nationalflag pole to the memorial hall of Chairman Mao. On both sides of this area,government organs were distributed according to the pattern of wendongwuxi.After liberation, the buildings on both sides of the original square weredemolished, thus forming the basic pattern of today's Square.
Around Tiananmen Square, there are many famous buildings. Now I'd like tomake a brief introduction clockwise. Let's start with the Great Hall of thepeople on the west side of Tiananmen Square. The Great Hall of the people islocated on the west side of Tiananmen Square. It is the place where the NationalPeople's representatives participate in politics, discuss politics, hold majormeetings and exercise sovereignty. It was built in 1959, with a maximum heightof 46.5 meters , is the tallest building in the square now. The whole hallconsists of three parts: the office building of the Standing Committee of theNational People's Congress in the south, the Great Hall of ten thousand peoplein the middle and the state banquet hall in the north. It took only 10 monthsfrom the design to the completion of the whole building, which is a miracle inthe history of Chinese architecture.
At the north end of the square is the familiar Tiananmen tower, which isthe symbol of new China. On October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao solemnly declared tothe people all over the world, "the people's Republic of China is founded! TheChinese people stand up from now on!"
On the east side of the square stands the Museum of Chinese history and theMuseum of Chinese revolution, which was completed in 1959. It is the main placefor collecting and displaying ancient and modern Chinese historical relics andrevolutionary relics.
To the south of the monument to the people's Heroes is the Chairman MaoMemorial Hall. There used to be a gate there. It was called Daming gate in theMing Dynasty and Daqing gate in the Qing Dynasty. It was changed to ZhonghuaGate in the Republic of China and was demolished after liberation. AfterChairman Mao died in 1976, a solemn and solemn Chairman Mao Memorial Hall wasbuilt on its base. The memorial hall was built in 1977 to commemorate the greatleader Chairman Mao. Now Chairman Mao's body is safely lying in the crystalcoffin for people to hang on, look forward to and express their deeprespect.
In the middle of the square stands the monument to the people's heroes,China's first monument. It is built to commemorate the people's heroes who haveshed their heads and blood for the independence and freedom of the Chinesenation since the Opium War in 1840 and the founding of the people's Republic ofChina in 1949. The whole monument, 37.94 meters high, is located on adouble-layer base, surrounded by eight white marble reliefs, reflecting China'snearly 100 years of revolutionary history. On the back of the monument areinscriptions drafted by Chairman Mao and written by Premier Zhou. On the frontare eight gold-plated characters inscribed by Chairman Mao himself: "thepeople's heroes are immortal.".
Tiananmen Square is a witness of modern Chinese revolution. The May 4thmovement, the March 18th massacre and the December 9th massacre all took placehere. Tiananmen Square is also a witness to the birth of new China and the happylife of the people today. Now, it has been rated as "China's first scenery" bythe people all over the country. Every day, friends from home and abroad come tovisit it.
OK! No more! You must want to take some pictures here. Now, please takepictures freely. We will gather at the North flag pole in 10 minutes. Thankyou!