天安門廣場 Tiananmen Square

Today we stepped back into History and visited Tiananmen Square and the Mao Zedong Memorial

Tiananmen Square as seen from the Monument to the People's Heroes in 1988

Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen gate (Gate of Heavenly Peace) located to its North, separating it from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the fourth largest city square in the world (440,000 m² – 880×500 m or 109 acres – 960×550 yd). It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history.

 Before we could do so we had to create our own history.....by visiting this place.....wow!!! even the public toilet looked historical!!!!

 This will go down in the annals of the Tay history: a portrait of the adventurous members who were able to embark on this journey....

 My branch

     
 The Tiananmen Gate to the Forbidden City was built in 1415 during the Ming Dynasty.

 The 5 of 8 siblings

 To get to Tiananmen Square we had to walk throught this tunnel

at the entrance......

Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen gate located to its North, separating it from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the fourth largest city square in the world. Wikipedia

we were all frisked!!! Pic here shows Beng being groped...by a woman ........hahaha!!!

We reached the Mao Zedong Memorial first

Mao Zedong (Chinese leader) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
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Jan 15, 2014 - Mao Zedong, Wade-Giles romanization Mao Tse-tung (born Dec. 26, 1893, Shaoshan, Hunan province, China—died Sept. 9, 1976, Beijing) ...

 A row of uniformed guards were in line, note the masses filing in

Who is he ah???? she asked....hehehe.....

don't blame her, blame the education sistem which does not include China history or world history, and the youths of today do not know of famous personalities of notoriety

Mao Tse-tung Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com
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Born a peasant, Mao Tse-tung became one of the most powerful men in the world. Through political cunning ...

Now we have reached the Square..
Outside China, the square is best known in recent memory as the focal point of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, a pro-democracy movement which ended on 4 June 1989 with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government and the death of several hundred or possibly thousands of civilians

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 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件) or more accurate language as '89 Democracy Movement (八九民运) in Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China's political leadership.

June 4 Massacre :  troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, 

  The protests were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital. The crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the

 The scale of military mobilization and the resulting bloodshed were unprecedented in the history of Beijing, a city with a rich tradition of popular protests in the 20th century.

 Estimates of the death toll range from a few hundred to the thousands

All the tragedy and history behing the Square:

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Sep 15, 2013 - Here's a look at what you need to know about the events in Beijing, China's Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989.
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A massive demonstration for democratic reform, begun on Tiananmen Square by Chinese students in April, 1989, was brutally repressed on June 3 and 4, 1989.
How China Made the Tiananmen Square Massacre Irrelevant

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Jun 4, 2013 - Today marks the 24th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square massacre, and as in previous years, the occasion will be met by a familiar ...
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Series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the ...
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The Chinese army storms a mass demonstration in Tiananmen Square, killing several hundred people.
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Jun 4, 2013 - 24 years after massacre of protesters in Beijing, and in spite of Chinese finding their voices online, the "Great Firewall" stands tall.

She had an earful of history, luckily she had Laeti's Ugg Boots and she looked comfortably stylish!!!!!

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Internationally, the image of the lone man in front of the tank has come to symbolize the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989 and is widely considered one of ...

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Jun 4, 2013 - A Chinese man blocks military tanks on Changan Avenue, nearTiananmen Square in Beijing, June 5 1989. AP Photo / Jeff Widener.
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Jun 3, 2013 - When a friend told me there were more shots of the still nameless “Tank Man” who stood in front of a phalanx of oncoming weaponry in China's ...
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Jun 4, 2013 - ... thousands of demonstrators in Beijing in 1989, a wiry man in a white shirt stepped in front of a line of moving tanks near Tiananmen Square .
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Jun 4, 2013 - Wang Weilin, which may be an alias, is more commonly known as theTank Man. He was the man during the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square ...
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On a fateful day in June 1989, the world became fixed on the bold image of a lone manstaring down a procession of tanks in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
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Jun 5, 2012 - JEFF WIDENER/AP A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanksheading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square on June ...


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Read a biography about the life of Mao Zedong the Chinese communist leader responsible for the disastrous policies including the 'Great Leap Forward' and the ...

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Mao Zedong - TIME

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Apr 13, 1998 - Mao Zedong loved to swim. In his youth, he advocated swimming as a way of strengthening the bodies of Chinese citizens, and one of his ...

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Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung), the son of a peasant farmer, was born in Chaochan, China, in 1893. He became a Marxist while working as a library assistant at ...

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Mao Zedong was born in 1893 and he died in 1976. Mao Zedong is considered to be the father of Communist China and along side Sun Yat-sen and Chiang ...

Mao Zedong | Infoplease.com

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Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung , 1893–1976, founder of the People's Republic of China. Mao was one of the most prominent Communist.

Reference Archive: Mao Zedong - Marxists Internet Archive

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