You may not believe it when you say it. is now standing in Beijing. Tiananmen is not the Tiananmen Square building that Chairman Mao announced the establishment of the People's Republic of China. was secretly demolished and rebuilt in 1969. You should know that Tiananmen has extraordinary significance to the Chinese. It contains China's prosperity, witnesses a century of humiliation, and is also written into history as a witness and symbol of the founding of New China .
So why should Tiananmen be demolished and rebuilt?
Tiananmen demolition site
When the founding ceremony was held in 1949, Tiananmen was already ruined. As early as 1900, Tiananmen was bombarded by them when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China. Although , Tiananmen still stood there. However, neither the Qing government nor the Beiyang government nor the Beiyang government nor the Nanjing National Government had the energy to repair Tiananmen. Until 1949, the city tower structure of Tiananmen Square had been deformed, with weeds and broken bricks and tiles.
When I learned that the founding ceremony was held in Tiananmen Square, the Beijing government immediately organized the repair work of Tiananmen Square, and no matter what, the successful holding of the founding ceremony could not be delayed. Although the staff cleared a lot of debris in Tiananmen Square, there were also many broken doors, windows, bricks and tiles. Due to the urgent time, could only repair the appearance of Tiananmen Square to be bright and beautiful. In fact, the structure of the city tower has not been properly solved.
After the founding of New China, any major activities of the Republic, such as military parades, will undoubtedly be held on the Tiananmen Gate Tower. So the Beijing government decided to rebuild Tiananmen Square, but soon after the outbreak of the Korean War, which touched the hearts of the people across the country, especially after the volunteer army entered North Korea. The Tiananmen renovation plan was also put on hold with the shift of people's concerns across the country.
Volunteer troops entered North Korea
When rebuilt Tiananmen Square, hang the national emblem when rebuilding Tiananmen Square
After the end of the war, the repair opportunity of Tiananmen Square was put on the agenda, but Tiananmen Square was repaired hundreds of years ago, and the staff even found that the pillars in the Tiananmen Hall were intact. In fact, the inside of the pillars had become hollow. Some pillars were eaten by insects, and some pillars had traces of breakage. The Beijing government immediately reported to the central government after learning the news.
On March 22, 1966, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred in Xingtai, Hebei. This earthquake affected Beijing and caused serious collapse of Tiananmen Square. Many places experienced serious deformations and risked collapse at any time. The central government realized the seriousness of the matter and made decisive decisions to demolish and rebuild Tiananmen Square. In 1969, the Beijing Fifth Construction Company was ordered by Premier Zhou to take charge of the demolition and reconstruction of Tiananmen Square.
For the confidentiality of the task, the central government has transferred the best skilled workers and the best engineers in the country to the construction company, and the treatment is higher than that of peers. According to the military organization, workers were also divided into carpenter companies, rack companies, bricklayer companies, etc., and all workers were required to not sue their parents or their wives and children on the . Each company was not allowed to inquire with each other. The construction room used a huge tent to block the entire Tiananmen Gate, and the surrounding residents did not know what was going on.
Tiananmen under construction
1966 Xingtai earthquake
The central government requires that the reconstruction of Tiananmen must be exactly the same as the Tiananmen before the demolition, so workers must measure and record in detail every time a part is removed, but there are tens of thousands of parts on the city tower, all of which are mortise and tenon structure do not have a screw, and I have to admire the construction level of our ancestors. All the removed wood was taken and the factory was given photos according to the drawings. After only one week, the magnificent Tiananmen Square was demolished.
During this process, the staff found that there was a golden nanmu box on the top of the city tower. Although it had experienced hundreds of years of storms, it was still as intact as before. Archaeologists discovered that it contained gold ingot , rubies and other things, and immediately realized that this was the treasure of the ancients' building, and put it in to exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings.After the completion of the new Tiananmen Square, Yao Laiquan, the company commander of the carpenter company, placed the treasure of the modern people's town building in the original location, and a piece of white marble carved with the reconstruction time. After the demolition of
, it began to be built and assembled. The structure of the city tower was finally built during the construction of the day and night for many months, and now only the painting steps are left. But there was a disagreement among the people. Some people believed that the original golden dragon and jade seal pattern should be restored, which is a culture that has been passed down for thousands of years in China; some people also believed that the golden dragon and jade seal was feudal dregs and should be replaced by the pattern until Premier Zhou decided to retain the dragon pattern and use sunflowers instead of jade seal .
Dragon and sunflower on the ceiling
Now Tiananmen
After 112 days of hard struggle, Tiananmen has stood again on the central axis of Beijing, and there is also the portrait of Chairman Mao and the national emblem of New China hanging on it. This reconstruction will be used to complete this feat by mobilizing more than 200 departments and more than 2,000 staff members across the country. It is worth mentioning that the service life of 's reconstruction of Tiananmen will be hundreds or even thousands of years, which also means that it will soon witness China's journey towards the sea of stars.
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