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The Monument to the People's Heroes () is a ten-story obelisk that was erected as a national monument of the People's Republic of China to the martyrs of revolutionary struggle during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is located in the southern part of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, to the north of Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. The monument was built in accordance with a resolution of the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference adopted on November 30, 1949, with construction lasting from August 1952 to May 1958. The architect of the monument was Liang Sicheng, with some elements designed by his wife, Lin Huiyin. The civil engineer, Chen Zhide (陈志德) was also instrumental in realising the final product.〔http://news.sohu.com/20090807/n265773613.shtml〕 The monument has also served as the centre of large-scale mourning activities that later developed into protest and unrest, such as the deaths of Premier Zhou Enlai (which developed into the Tiananmen Square protests of 1976) and Hu Yaobang (which developed into the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989). ==Description== The monument has an estimated height of and covers an area of . It weighs over and contains about 17,000 pieces of marble and granite from Qingdao, Shandong Province, and the nearby Fangshan District. On the pedestal of the tablet are huge bas-relieves depicting eight major revolutionary episodes, which can be read in chronological order in a clockwise direction from the east: # Destruction of opium at Humen (1839), in the run-up to the First Opium War # Jintian Uprising, the catalyst for the Taiping Revolution (1851) # Wuchang Uprising, the catalyst for the Xinhai Revolution (1911) # May 4th Movement (1919) # May 30 Movement (1925) # Nanchang Uprising (1927) # War of Resistance Against Japan (1931-1945) # Crossing the Yangtze River Campaign in the Chinese Civil War (1949) On the front of the monument is an inscription in Mao Zedong's handwriting, which reads, "Eternal glory to the people's heroes!" (). On the back of the monument is an epitaph, composed by Mao Zedong and written by Zhou Enlai: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monument to the People's Heroes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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