History
Tiananmen Square was first built in the front of the Forbidden City in 1415 during Ming Dynasty. After the "Funding Ceremony," the Chinese people started to redesign the Tiananmne Square. They enlarged it four times its orignial size. The major expansion of Tiananmen Square began in November 1958 and went until August 1959 with the help of volunteers. Following the vision of Maozedong, the square became the largest and the most spectacular in the world at that time. It also would hold great numbers of political events and protests.
Location
TiatTiananmen is a rectangle square located right in front of the Tiananmen Gate in the center of Beijing, China. As the fourrth largest square in the world, it measures 44000m2. The square is beyond Chang'an Avenue, with the Monumento to the People's Heros and Mao Zedong (the founding father of People's Republic of China) Mausoleum at background center, the National Museum of China to the left, and Great Hall of the People to the right. There were great numbers of essential events that occured here, including the Tiananmen Square Event of 1989.
Designer
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 - September 8, 1976), the Chairman of Chinese Communist Party and the Founding Father of the People's Republic of China, was the main designer of the Tiananmen Square. As a Chinese Communist revolutionary, his military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Maoism. During the "Founding Ceremony," Mao rasied the first national flag of the People's Republic of China in the Tiananmen Square. He also inspected many parades of students and soldiers during the Cultural Revolution period from 1966 to 1976 in the Tiananmen Square.