After the whole parade, the mass procession began. A group of mass procession, all eager to walk to the front of the city tower, to see the heartfelt and beloved Chairman Mao. The sky soon darkened, the lights on the Tiananmen Square building suddenly illuminated, above a string of red-orange lights, below what seemed to be three pink and green electric rainbow lights, coupled with a huge searchlight light shot across the field, the lights flashed, as if the waves. The fireworks were set off at three places near Tiananmen Square in a colorful succession. The masses hand held paper lanterns, gauze lamps are also lit, the square is a sea of lights.
Waiting until eight o'clock, the North China Revolutionary University team of seven or eight thousand people only after the North China University action. The procession slowly approached the Jinshui Bridge, only to hear the loudspeakers on the city tower, "Hurray", "Hurray" sound, only to realize that it was Chairman Mao responding to the cheers of the students of the University of China. We followed closely across the Jinshui Bridge, shouting "Long live Chairman Mao", it was then that we saw the big palace lights on the citadel in front of Chairman Mao's stout body, he did not wear a hat, waving his hand with a Hunan accent shouting "Long live", and sometimes shouting "Long live the comrades", at this time we all feel that Chairman Mao saw us, slogan shouting more vigorously, blood to boil. We also saw Comrade Shaoqi, and when we saw the female comrade beside him, we guessed that it must be Vice Chairman Song Qingling. We raised our hands above our heads and applauded, and the leaders on the podium also applauded, the people's leaders are really heart to heart with us. The parade*** took more than 2 hours, and the personnel of the troops on parade totaled more than 16,000 people.
Next was the mass parade. Walking in front of the parade is the workers, farmers in the suburbs of Beijing followed. Behind them was a procession of institutional cadres, young students.
At 9:25 p.m., countless colorful fireworks were launched around the square. The military and civilians of the capital city sang and danced to their hearts' content to celebrate this first night of the Chinese people's **** and country.
The Founding Ceremony proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China! It proclaimed the new birth of the Chinese nation!
Week 9 Tuesday
The Founding Ceremony was scheduled for 3 p.m. on October 1, mainly to consider the prevention of long-distance enemy aircraft, in accordance with the laws of long-distance flights and attacks by enemy aircraft, generally take off in the morning, and basically do not move in the afternoon. At that time, in the vicinity of Beijing, the North China Military Region had already set up an orderly anti-aircraft artillery group, standing by. The young People's Air Force was also ready for a level of combat readiness and had arranged for fighter jets to patrol the skies over Beijing at that time.
The parade commander-in-chief, Nie Rongzhen, gave the parade troops a dead order: in case of air attack, all can not be moved, under the knife can not be moved!
Everything is ready. Has been kept secret the time of the Founding Ceremony, until about 10:00 a.m. on October 1, only by the Beijing Xinhua Radio through the airwaves, issued a preview to the world. At this point, from the time of the afternoon ceremony officially started, only five hours left.
This resulted in fewer and fewer foreigners having the honor of attending the Founding Ceremony.
Soviet friends at the Founding Ceremony
The delegation of Soviet literati and artists who came to participate in the Founding Ceremony of New China arrived in Beijing by train on the morning of October 1, and almost did not make it.
Premier Zhou Enlai and the president of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, Soong Ching Ling, and vice president Liu Shaoqi went to the front gate station to welcome the delegation. The head of the delegation is a famous Soviet writer, the Soviet Union, general secretary of the Association of Soviet Writers Fadeyev, the delegation also famous writer Simonov and a number of famous artists and senior cadres, the whole delegation of about 40 people. At that time, because of the objective environment and conditions, it was not possible to invite foreign governmental delegations or party and governmental delegations to participate. This civil delegation of the Soviet Union, and the North Korean people's delegation already in Beijing, plus a visit to the liberated areas of the Italian **** Producers Party Central Committee member of the Spano, is the only foreigners who had the honor of attending the Founding Ceremony.
According to the interpreter Shi Zhe recalled, after the National Ceremony on October 2 or 3 at noon, Mao Zedong in Zhongnanhai Qinzheng Hall received all members of the delegation of Soviet literature and artists. This was the first foreign delegation that Mao received after the establishment of new China.
Mao made a long and brilliant speech, and the meeting lasted two hours. In Shi Zhe's memoirs, Mao Zedong's speech is described as follows:
Mao Zedong said: "One of the advantages China has is that it has such a good neighbor as the Soviet Union, so China is not alone. ......
His speech was so lively and colorful that many in the delegation were moved to tears when they heard it. The speech was lively and colorful, so that many people in the delegation heard the emotional part of the emotional tears, Shizhe described as "a rare and moving scene".
U.S. colonel secretly filming the Founding Ceremony
How suddenly a U.S. colonel in the filming of the Founding Ceremony? The public security department suggested arresting him or confiscating his film, and the commander-in-chief, Nie Rongzhen, had to consult Mao Zedong.
From the Tiananmen Square tower, Mao Zedong solemnly proclaimed into a microphone to the world that the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China had been established!
While the first part of the Founding Ceremony, the founding of the Central People's Government, was underway, the public security officers responsible for guarding and defending the Founding Ceremony noticed something unusual: a uniformed American officer was standing near the wall of the former U.S. Consulate General in Peking, frequently filming.
The public security officers immediately made an urgent report to the command. Located in the yellow house under the Tiananmen Tower command center to get the report, soon figured out the identity of the American soldiers: this person is the former U.S. Consulate General in Beiping military attaché Colonel David Bowred, is a Chinese general. This person in the late war had as a team leader led the U.S. Army Observation Group to Yan'an, and Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Ye Jianying have had dealings with our party and our army have had a friendly attitude.
Considering these complexities, the command center did not dare to decide to take security action against this illegal filmmaker, so it immediately used an emergency phone call to report to the commander-in-chief, Nie Rongzhen, who was on the Tiananmen Tower.
Nie Rongzhen answered the call and felt that this involved diplomatic matters and needed to consult Mao Zedong. Nie Rongzhen approached Mao Zedong at the front side railing of the Citadel and reported the situation in a simple, clear and whispered manner.
Mao Zedong listened and said, "Oh, it's Colonel Bao ah, I know him."
Nie Rongzhen asked in a low voice: "Can he just take pictures of the parade? Confiscated his film, right."
Mao Zedong, still looking at the sea of cheering people in the square, thought for a moment and said, "This is not good. Let him take pictures, regardless of him. We are openly well, let him give us as a volunteer propagandist."
In fact, the day before the Founding Ceremony, September 30, Bao Ruide has gone to Tiananmen Square to take some photos. One of them was a huge portrait of Mao Zedong taken from the front of Tiananmen Square. It is said that this photo was later published in the United States by the press, but the careful Bao Ruide found: this photo and the October 1 ceremony and after the Tiananmen front of Mao Zedong's portrait how a little different?
This, of course, is what Bao Ruide could not figure out. It turns out that in the early hours of October 1, when Zhou Enlai came to Tiananmen to make an inspection, he found that the portrait of Mao Zedong hanging in the middle of the city tower was enlarged and drawn from a photo selected by Mao Zedong himself. It was a photo familiar to the people in the liberated areas. Zhou Lingzhao, a famous painter, left a two-foot-wide white border underneath the portrait and wrote Mao's own inscription: "Victory of the People".
When Zhou Enlai accepted it, he felt that the Chairman would not be so modest, but also his own inscription, so he instructed to quickly erase these words.
The photo taken by Bao Ruide on September 30th became an absolutely out-of-print version.
Founding Ceremony film burned in fire
The Soviet photographer accidentally burned the documentary of the Founding Ceremony in a fire, and was severely punished by Stalin when he returned to his country and was sent to Siberia.
These are a few yellow-haired, blue-eyed Soviets.
They were free to photograph all the people on the Tiananmen Tower. It has been noticed that even Mao Zedong, Zhu De and other top leaders of the central government let them shoot at will, and also make some cooperation with their instructions. On the ground, there was also a small jeep to assist them. In the east side of Tiananmen Square, the widest view of the location, but also for them to build a special high platform.
The command was told that they were making a movie of color film. At that time, almost no one in the command had seen any color film, and they all felt very mysterious.
This was the documentary cinematographer sent by Stalin. That was when Liu Shaoqi visited Moscow, Stalin took the initiative to enthusiastically propose. This time they filmed the founding ceremony of new China, and got all kinds of filming convenience conditions provided by the master exceptionally.
They were very energetic, running up and down the stairs, and on the day of the Founding Ceremony, the camera was on from beginning to end, and the machine kept ringing with a continuous and even pitter-patter. They filmed Mao's speech, the raising of the national flag, the military parade, and the parade until the evening when colorful fireworks flashed in the night sky, and then they returned to the Cuimingzhuang Hotel on Donghuamen Street, where they stayed, happily holding dozens of heavy film boxes. This hotel was the guest house of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China at the beginning of the liberation of Beiping. Their precious negatives were stacked in a room of the hotel.
The film was flammable, and a few days after the Founding Ceremony, a fire broke out in the room where the film was stacked!
Dozens of copies of film were burned out and turned into smoke. The film was burned to the ground and turned into smoke. The few copies of the film that we managed to get out of the fire were also in shreds and could not be used anymore. The young men cried in front of the hotel, stomping their feet.
Oh, my God! Founding Ceremony can only be once ah ......
It is said that they returned to the country by Stalin's severe reprimand and punishment, was sent to Siberia.
Zhou Enlai heard that the negatives were given to the fire, in the "ah" after a sound, hard to have a few minutes of silence.
The only good fortune was that our own war-tested photographers from Yan'an made a black-and-white documentary that preserved the precious scenes of the Founding Ceremony.
Then Stalin sent another famous director, Gerasimov, to remake it, and Zhou Enlai, having learned his lesson, this time asked Chinese filmmakers to co-produce it with the Soviets, with General Huang Zhen, who knew about art, sent by the General Political Bureau to be the advisor, and it was the large-scale Sino-Soviet co-produced documentary, "Liberated China".
The movie won the Stalin Medal.
The 28-gun salute at the Founding Ceremony
When the brightly colored five-star red flag was raised for the first time in Tiananmen Square, 300,000 people in the square took off their hats and stood up in front of the crowd, looking up to admire the five-star red flag.
At this time, the earth shook, the cannon group long whistling, chiming 28 sound. The sound of the salute is like the thunder of spring, echoing in the sky, vibrating the heart of every person, the Founding Ceremony on the great, solemn, united atmosphere further vertebrae to the climax. The opening ceremony of the salute team from a heroic force.
On August 1, 1949, Nie Rongzhen, on behalf of the Central Military Commission, awarded the first August 1st Army flag to them. Some foreign countries in the holding of celebrations, generally fired a 21-gun salute, is the highest etiquette. Why did the founding ceremony to sound 28 rattles?
This was first proposed by Mao Zedong. In a session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a delegate questioned, "In foreign countries, the highest etiquette is 21 rungs, why do we have to sound 28 rungs?" No one responded at the time.
During a break in the meeting, Mao Zedong met with Tang Yongjian, director of the North China Military Region, who is responsible for the preparations for the Founding Ceremony. The topic quickly moved into the issue of firing the salute for the Founding Ceremony, and Mao Zedong asked Tang: "Do you think there is any justification for putting on 28 rings?"
Tang Yongjian is a literary and learned talent, he immediately understood Mao Zedong's intention, and immediately said, "Chairman, I will draft a note on the salute 28 sound."
Mao Zedong smiled and acquiesced. Soon, a concise report on the 28 rattles of the description was handed over, China **** production party from 1921 came out of nowhere to 1949, just 28 years. 28 rattles of the salute is 28 years of party history of the tribute, this is not extremely reasonable, is not it? Mao Zedong saw this report and signed his name on it with a pencil.
At the Founding Ceremony, the salute team consisted of 108 mountain guns, divided into two groups, one group loading, one group firing, taking turns to work to shorten the interval between each sound. Therefore, people are still customarily referred to as the 54 Zun salute.
108 salute guns set out in a zigzag pattern, backed by Tiananmen Square, leaning against a section of the ancient wall, the location of the front door near. Within two and a half minutes, all 28 headless air cannons were sent into the air.
When the salute was fired, Liu Jia, head of the North China Military Region Civilian Troupe, standing on the observation platform, counted the salute with a few representatives around him with great interest. 40 years later, he said, not enough to 28, and sometimes the distance between the two rounds is very far, there is a leakage of the sound.
Gao Cunxin, commander of the special forces responsible for organizing the work of the salute, said that it is never possible to miss the sound, blind cannons are certainly there, but it is not possible to dud two rounds of shells together.
The salute members are very proud, because the whole of China, the people of the world have heard them on behalf of the new China issued a cry.
After the founding of the country, in the Founding Ceremony fired most of the mountain guns destroyed, there are two were collected to the Chinese Revolutionary Museum as a display of cultural relics.
The 26 planes at the National Ceremony
On October 1, 1949, young pilot Wang Yanzhou flew to the National Ceremony, witnessing the arrival of a new era. 2005 National Day eve, the 85-year-old Wang Yanzhou recalled the National Day 56 years ago, is still excited: "We were representing the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force to participate in the National Ceremony. The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) participated in the military parade at the National Day."
Wang Yanzhou attended the Whampoa Military Academy in his early years, and then learned to fly in the United States. He shot down five Japanese planes during the war, and is one of the few Chinese "ace pilots" still alive today.
Listening to Chairman Mao's voice in the cockpit
The Founding Ceremony began at 3:00 p.m., and when Chairman Mao Zedong read the proclamation of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China (CPG), Wang and his teammates were on standby at Nanyuan Airport on the outskirts of Beijing. "I had just turned on the radio in the cockpit of the airplane when I heard the sound of Chairman Mao announcing the founding of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China. 56 years have passed, and that sound still often hovers in my mind, as if I had just heard it."
At 4:00 p.m. sharp, the person in charge of the Tiananmen Square General Command Room, Yaogang, gave the order to take off, and the 17 planes looked at the green flare whistling up in the air, circling over Beijing on standby.
5 types of aircraft in formation to fly through Tiananmen
17 aircraft, 9 are P-51 fighters, 2 Mosquito fighters, 3 are C-46 transports, 1 L-5 communication liaison aircraft, and the last 2 are PT-19 primary trainers. 17 planes to form a column follow up formation through the sky over the Tiananmen Square, and the ground with the tanks in formation. .
"17 aircraft 5 types of aircraft, flying speed varies greatly. The speed of the two fighters is 600 kilometers per hour, and the speed of the L-5 communication and liaison aircraft and PT-19 primary trainer is less than 200 kilometers per hour. But the higher-ups demanded that they must pass through Tiananmen Square in perfect formation and in perfect time, which is indeed very difficult."
After repeated mapping and precise calculation, the flight team decided to take off in accordance with the order of first small and then large, first slow and then fast, and also specifically chose three different routes to enter the point: the fastest speed of the fighters, entering from Tongxian; the transport aircraft for the medium-speed, from the Jianguo Gate and Tongxian between the entry; the rest of the aircraft from the east side of the Jianguo Gate entry. Despite the difficulty, we can ensure that everything will be fine at the Founding Ceremony after many times of combined practice.
At 4:35 p.m., the parade began, "When I flew over Tiananmen Square, there was really a sea of red flags down there. Until now, I harbor a special affection for this bright red color."
Founding Ceremony parade aircraft *** 17
After the nine lead fighters flew through Tiananmen, Oil River once again gave the order, "Nine P-51s to pass through Tiananmen once more." The captain followed the original program of one scheduled re-flight and flew over Tiananmen for the second time.
"Timing-wise, we passed through Tiananmen again right after Samuel Fong's lead L-5s and PT-19s, and the fit was just right. Later, many people thought that the parade of the Founding Ceremony was 26 airplanes, but in fact the last 9 were duplicate flights." Wang Yanzhou said happily with a smile on his face.
Film Founding Ceremony
Film Information
Title: Founding Ceremony
Starring: Gu Yue, Sun Feihu, Huang Kai, Shao Honglai, Liu Huaizheng, Guo Fazeng
Genre: War film
Region: Mainland China
Film Description
At the end of 1948, Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee commanded the world's most powerful and influential military force in Xibaipo Village, Hebei Province. The world-famous Three Battles were commanded by Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee in the village of Xibaipo in Hebei Province at the end of 1948. On New Year's Eve, in the liberated Xibaipo, the townspeople were celebrating the victory. Chairman Mao, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi and other leaders came to the villagers. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek's residence was holding a Christmas Eve banquet, and the KMT dignitaries were listening to Zhang Qun reading out Chiang Kai-shek's New Year's Message. As our army continued to win victories in the three wars, the KMT army suffered successive setbacks, and Chiang Kai-shek was forced to introduce Li Zongren as the acting president. In order to protect the ancient city of Beiping, Chairman Mao and the Central Committee of the CPC repeatedly worked with the Kuomintang general Fu Zuoyi, hoping that he would lead an uprising and peacefully liberate Beiping. After a lot of work, Fu Zuoyi finally recognized the situation and obeyed the people's will. Chiang Kai-shek announced his departure and flew away from Nanjing miserably. However, he completely left Li Zongren behind and made arrangements for important documents and personnel. Special Envoy Mikoyan, dispatched by Stalin, made a secret visit to China and was warmly welcomed by Chairman Mao and other central leaders. A month later, the Third Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the C**** was held in Xibaipo. After the relocation of our party and government organs to Beiping, Chiang Kai-shek became even more uneasy. After being awakened by a nightmare, Chiang Kai-shek was told that a military parade was being held in Beiping. Then Zhou Enlai and Zhang Zhizhong began state **** peace talks, which made little progress. Chairman Mao issued an order to march across the country, and the Battle of the River Crossing was fought, with millions of troops crossing the Yangtze River. Nanjing was liberated and the People's Liberation Army occupied the Presidential Palace. Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yi entered Nanjing and formulated the Code of Entry. Chiang Kai-shek paid his last respects to the tomb of Chiang's mother, and his family boarded the Taikang and quietly left the mainland. After entering Peking, Chairman Mao met with the insurgent general Cheng Qian at Zhongnanhai, and also received old folks from Hunan, and made final preparations for the founding ceremony. on September 30, Chairman Mao and other state leaders laid the foundation stone of the Monument to the People's Heroes at Tiananmen. at 3:00 p.m. on October 1, amidst the sound of the sacred salute, Chairman Mao solemnly proclaimed to the whole world that the People's Republic of China*** and the State, the Central People's Government, were established! ! People roared with joy, the whole square boiled.
The film won the Outstanding Film Award of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television in 1989 and 1990; the Best Feature Film Award, the Best Director Award, the Best Supporting Actor Award (Sun Feihu), the Best Screenwriter Award, the Best Editor Award (Wu Fanghai) of the 10th Golden Rooster Award of Chinese Movies in 1990; and the Best Feature Film Award, the Best Actor Award (Gu Yue), the Best Supporting Actor Award (Sun Feihu) of the 13th Hundred Flowers Award of Popular Cinema in 1990. Supporting Actor Award (Sun Feihu).
Oil Painting of the Founding Ceremony
The Founding Ceremony depicts the National Day Ceremony at Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1949, when the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China was established. The scene is magnificent, festive and warm, Mao Zedong and other central leaders, elegant and extraordinary. Blue sky and white clouds, wind and sunshine, the square is wide open, red flags such as the sea, Tiananmen Square is brilliant. Painter in the rigorous realistic depiction, drawing on folk art and traditional brushwork heavy color expression. The author makes the blue sky contrast strongly with the carpet, red pillars, red lanterns and red flags, and adds to the festive atmosphere. In the depiction of realistic techniques, the painter and bold artistic processing, such as perspective and light and shadow processing are not strictly in accordance with the requirements of the Western realistic painting in the sketch, in the right part of the picture minus a pillar, these are to adapt to and strengthen the theme of the picture and the overall needs of the majority of the Chinese readers, but also suitable for the aesthetic taste. It should also be mentioned that these works are highly decorative and lyrical. Some critics consider them to be "decorative monumental large-scale historical paintings".
The author Dong Xiwen (1914-1973) was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and studied at the Western Painting Department of Suzhou Fine Arts Institute and Hangzhou Fine Arts Institute, and then returned to China after studying in France in 1939. 1943, he went to the Northwest Dunhuang Art Research Institute, and devoted himself to researching Dunhuang murals. He later became a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He also created thematic paintings such as Spring to Tibet, Kazakh Shepherdesses, Miao Women Rushing to the Farm, and A Million Heroes Crossing the Great River. In his realistic oil paintings, he absorbed the nutrients of traditional Chinese art, such as bright and loud colors, certain decorative meanings, etc., all of which reflect the spirit and aesthetic ideals of Chinese art.
The Founding Ceremony has always been known as "the artistic witness of the establishment of **** and the country". It is y rooted in the hearts of the people, but also cohesive generation after generation of the patriotic feelings of the builders of new China ......
In early 1951, the Chinese Revolutionary Museum, in accordance with the instructions of the Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Culture, began to prepare for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Party painting exhibition, specifically by the Chinese Artists Association, the Central Academy of Fine Arts leaders Cai Ruohong, Jiang Feng, Dynasty Wen Organization and implementation. The authors of the exhibition were dozens of famous painters from Beijing and East China. Over the course of several months, these powerful painters came up with nearly 100 pieces of paintings for the exhibition.
This is a stormy meeting in the history of new China's art, painting the fine works of the various lords of the world not only in this exhibition caused people's ****, but also many works were collected by the Chinese Revolutionary Museum, and even later on some of the works have won a place in the history of Chinese art. Such as "tunnel battle", "Chairman Mao Yan'an rectification", "strong Luding Bridge" and so on.
Later we all agreed in the summary: a lot of good works, but reflects the atmosphere of **** and the establishment of the country is not enough.
At that time, no one could have predicted that this conclusion would lay the groundwork for the birth of the historical masterpiece "Founding Ceremony".
Li Rencai, a researcher at the Chinese Revolutionary Museum, told the author: "As a national museum's collection of paintings related to the history of the Party, there is not a masterpiece showing the founding of the People's Republic of China **** and the country is obviously not appropriate. At that time, the exhibition hall of the Revolutionary Museum really needed one such good work."
In 1952, the Chinese Revolutionary Museum decided to commission the Central Academy of Fine Arts to organize and complete a giant oil painting: "The Founding Ceremony".
Into the art hall of China's art history, it is not difficult to find from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the unification of the Qin Dynasty, from the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the entry of the Qing Army into the Customs - in the beginning of the various dynasties of Chinese history have not been able to find the historical paintings about the Founding Ceremony handed down to this day, and to create a new China's founding of a giant oil painting, what is it? The new China's founding ceremony will be a huge oil painting!
The Central Academy of Fine Arts gave this difficult task to Dong Xiwen, a 37-year-old young painter and well-known professor at the Academy.
Dong Xiwen, a renowned professor at the Academy, has painted portraits of leaders and heroes several times and participated in the Founding Ceremony, so he is "well-deserving of the honor"
It should be said that this is a fair choice, and even more so, a historical choice.
Dong Xiwen has long had a reputation in the art world, and his paintings have been praised by famous painters such as Xu Beihong and Ai Zhongxin.
Dong Xiwen was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and after graduating from Hangzhou Art College, he went to Hunan Province and Hanoi, Vietnam, for further study, and then went to the southwest, the west and the northwest of China to study and create, and he once copied murals at Dunhuang for three years. His sketching and oil painting skills are well known among his peers.
Beijing was liberated at the beginning of 1949, and Dong Xiwen created the gouache painting "Beiping Entry Ceremony".
While it is impossible to say whether the success of "The Entry of Beiping into the City" was related to the naming of Dong Xiwen for the creation of "The Founding Ceremony", Dong Xiwen's ability to create revolutionary themes and figure paintings is indeed well known in the industry.
That year, with this sketch in hand, Dong Xiwen consulted many painters, such as Xu Beihong, Ai Zhongxin, Jiang Feng, Wu Zuoren and Luo Gongliu.
It is worth mentioning that there are two creative breakthroughs of Dong Xiwen that can be seen from the sketch. The first is that on the sketch, in addition to Chairman Mao standing sideways near the center, the other leaders are standing on the left one-third of the picture, while the right side is the square crowd, so the layout of the left real and the right virtual difference according to the general law of composition seems to have a loss of balance. Another is according to the normal visual law, in the right front side of Chairman Mao should be a Tiananmen Tower of the big red pillar.
Colleagues in the art world were surprised and appreciative of Dong Xiwen's bold compositional ideas, saying that the first breakthrough had increased the contrast between the leaders and the crowds in the square, with one real and one imaginary, one close and one far away, and one few and one many, which better emphasized the festive atmosphere. And the second breakthrough is considered extremely bold, "smoke out" the pillar, the square appears more open, on the contrary, if the painting of the pillar on the contrary seems cumbersome.
In order to be prudent, Dong Xiwen also consulted several architects, all of whom expressed understanding and approval. The famous architect Liang Sicheng commented, "There is a column on the right side of the picture that is not painted ...... This is a big mistake in architecture, but a big success in the art of painting."
Soon, Dong Xiwen devoted himself to the creation of the actual painting of the Founding Ceremony.
Two months later, the giant oil painting "Founding Ceremony" was completed.
The Founding Ceremony caused a big reaction, and set off the artistic trend of "Chinese style of oil painting"
After the completion of the Founding Ceremony, it was collected in the exhibition hall of the Chinese Revolutionary Museum.
Painter Ai Zhongxin once analyzed it as follows: "From the composition to the color, from the characters to the scene, its grandeur is sufficient to reflect the style of a great country. Dong Xiwen to deal with the main characters in less than half of the left side of the panel, not only is the boldness of the technique, it is important that he knows the composition of the big picture ...... "Founding Ceremony" of the large block of color, easy to understand, it seems to be simple, but this red, blue and gold (tassels and chrysanthemums) is intentionally arranged. It depicts a solemn and enthusiastic scene on a windy and sunny day ......"
A number of well-known painters, after seeing the oil painting, considered it a rare painting masterpiece. After the Chinese Revolutionary Museum exhibited the painting, it caused great repercussions in the art world and society.
Xu Beihong was very excited to see the Founding Ceremony and made a high evaluation of it. He said, "Dong Xiwen has accomplished his task successfully and deserves one hundred points." But he also made the second half of his evaluation with the traditional standard of Western oil painting: "Five points should also be deducted because of the lack of a little oil painting characteristics."
The "lack of a bit of oil painting characteristics" here refers to the fact that the painting largely utilizes the techniques and styles of traditional Chinese painting. But this is precisely what many painters consider to be the success of the Founding Ceremony. If the painting had been created according to the traditional oil painting techniques of using light and color, the painting would not have had such a warm atmosphere.
Ai Zhongxin said: "The main achievement of the Founding Ceremony in the art of oil painting is that it creates a new style of Chinese oil painting that is pleasing to the people. It is a new type of oil painting that successfully inherits the elegance of decorative murals of the Sheng Tang period, embodies the characteristics of national painting, and makes oil painting develop in the direction of nationalization."
Since then, the painting world has set off the "Chinese style of oil painting" that Dong Xiwen has been advocating. The Founding Ceremony has undoubtedly become a model work of this theory, and this trend has been influential to this day ......
In 1953, the People's Daily published the oil painting Founding Ceremony on the front page. Also in this year, the People's Fine Arts Publishing House will be "Founding Ceremony" printed as a yearbook in the national distribution, the circulation reached a peak.