Tiananmen Square, located in the center of Beijing.
It is located in Dongchang'an Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, from Tiananmen in the north, to Zhengyangmen in the south, from the National Museum of China in the east, to the Great Hall of the People in the west.
With an area of 440,000 square meters, it can accommodate 1 million people for a grand gathering and is the largest city square in the world.
The square grounds are all paved with light-colored granite stones treated by special techniques.
The center stands the Monument of the People's Heroes and the solemn Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. Both sides of the Tiananmen Square are the People's Cultural Palace and Zhongshan Park.
They are integrated with Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen Square. In 1986, Tiananmen Square was named one of the “16 Scenes in Beijing” and the landscape name was “Tianan Liri”.
The Tiananmen Square records the indomitable revolutionary spirit and the fearless heroism of the Chinese people.
The May Fourth Movement, the January 2nd Movement, and the Wuyi Movement have left a strong color for the history of modern Chinese revolution, and there are still countless majors.
The place where political and historical events take place is a historical testimony of China's decline from its rise to the rise.
Tian'anmen Square is one of the largest city squares in the world. It is situated in the heart of Beijing. Tian'anmen was built in 1417 and was the entrance gate to the Forbidden City.
Now the square stretches 880 meters from north to south and 500 meters from east to west. The total area is 440,000 square meters. That's about the size of 60 soccer fields, spacious enough to accommodate half a million people.
Covering over forty hectares, Tian'anmen Square must rank as the greatest public square on earth. It's a modern creation, in a city that traditionally had no squares, as classical Chinese town planning did not allow for places where crowds could gather.
Tian'anmen only came into being when imperial offices were cleared from either side of the great processional way that led south from the palace to Qianmen and the Temple of Heaven.
The ancient north–south axis of the city was thus destroyed and the broad east–west thoroughfare, Chang'an Jie, that now carries millions of cyclists every day past the front of the Forbidden City, had the walls across its path removed.