Beijing Tiananmen Square (in simplified Chinese 北京天安门广场) is located in the center of Beijing. It is the world’s largest square, having an area of 500,000 square meters.

From here, you can see the history of New China Architecture because it was born even earlier than the Republic of China for several hours. On September 30, 1949, the eve of the founding ceremony, all the CPPCC National Committee members were led by Mao Zedong to Tiananmen Square, where the People’s Heroes Monument laid the first cornerstone.

According to traditional Chinese thought, monuments and buildings should be blocked south, but Zhou Enlai told the project architect, suggesting that the possibility for the monument in Tiananmen Square to be Changan-oriented because the vast majority of people are entering from the north side of the Square. Architects accepted his proposal and made the change.

People are always the creators of history. At the 10th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, there are the builders spending 10 months to write in the Great Hall of the building into the history of wonder. This shocked the whole world.

In the Square, more than 159 thousand and six hundred square meters are used by designers and builders who spent 241 days and nights of sweat to help construct the Beijing Tiananmen Square and these efforts represent intelligence passion.

The west of the Square is the Great Hall plaza, and this is the office of the National People’s Congress. The east is the Museum of the Chinese Revolution and Chinese History Museum, which stands at the central plaza of the People’s Heroes Monument. Monuments are in the south of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, with generation of a great man, Mao’s body in this place, which people can pay respects to enter.

Chang An Avenue across the plaza at the north of Tiananmen is a magnificent building and it is founded in the city’s north-south axis line, with 337 meters high. It was the main entrance of the palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties

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