Sunday, December 20, 2009

Around Tiananmen Square...

The Railway Museum...

The Peony, China's national flower in gold inlay.


The Monument to the Peoples Heroes. The 37.9m high obelisk made of Qingdao granite bears bas-relief carvings of key patriotic and revolutionary events, such as Lin Zexu destroying Opium at Humen in the 19'th century and also calligraphy from communists Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.

Mao's eight character message proclaims, "Eternal Glory to the Peoples Heroes".

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