men. ?In 1651 during the Qing dynasty, it was rebuilt and the name was changed to Tian’anmenРTian’anmen is 34.7 meters high with yellow glazed tiles on the double-layered roof.?The tower at the top of the gate is nine-room wide and five –room deep. According to the Book of Changes, the two numbers nine and five, bined, symbolize the supreme status of a sovereignРChairman Mao Zedong’s portrait is hung above the central entrance. ?There are two slogans, one is “Long Live the People’s Republic of China” and the other is “Long Live the Great Unity of the People of the World”.РIt was on this gate that our late Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed to the whole world the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Oct 1st 1949. Since then Tian’anmen Rostrum has been the symbol of new China.РTHANK YOU
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