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.

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