Bayi Square is located in the core of Nanchang Bayi Avenue, formerly known as People's Square. Bayi Square is the window of Nanchang, on all sides of the city's four sides of the through the avenue, this is also the center of Nanchang's public activities, every year in this square will be held in a variety of political and business activities.
Bay Square and the August 1st Uprising Memorial Tower
Bay Square and the August 1st Uprising Memorial Tower towers in the center of the square is known as the Heroic City of the city emblem, August 1, 1977 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the August 1st Nanchang Uprising in the square at the southern end of the ground-breaking and construction of the August 1st Uprising Memorial Tower, January 8, 1979 inauguration. The original memorial tower covers an area of 1.7 hectares, tower height of 45.5 meters, by the foundation, pedestal, tower and tower top composition; front engraved with - Marshal inscribed "August 1 Nanchang Uprising Memorial Tower," nine gilt characters, the tower has 27 steps at the base, meaning that in 1927. The original memorial tower in 1977 when the 50th anniversary of the August 1 Uprising groundbreaking construction, January 8, 1979 was completed. The top is a Hanyang made -, a wind fluttering the August 1st Army flag, the front of the Nanchang Uprising introduction to the granite monument, the other fa?ade is "announced the uprising", "attack the enemy camp", "hail the victory! "three large granite reliefs, the tower on each side of a piece of wing wall, embedded with pines and the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army flag emblazoned with reliefs. The whole tower is solemn, solemn, people's hearts surge of admiration.
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To create a garden city, enhance the city's taste, the new municipal government in early 2002 decided on a comprehensive remodeling of Bayi Square. After the transformation of Bayi Square to highlight the "Bayi" history and culture as the theme, covers an area of 78,000 square meters, divided into two axes and three districts. Two axes: an axis of the main axis of the square to the north and south, with the Bayi Memorial Tower as the center, through the center of the central sunken plaza center to the music fountain to the end of the water curtain movie; along the main axis for the glass walkway, flag station, sunken plaza, performance - and so on. Another axis for the east-west square landscape sub-axis, to restore the original appearance of the provincial exhibition hall as the landscape center, from east to west for the outer sloping lawn of the sunken plaza, the central set of torches, navy, army and air force combination of sculpture, the provincial exhibition hall, forming a complete landscape sub-axis.
Three districts: the southern memorial area, the central cultural area in the center, the northern leisure area.
Memorial area: Eighty-first Uprising Memorial Hall as the center, radiating around the small commemorative square. East and West for the evergreen trees on both sides of the black pine, forming a natural green barrier, the memorial area and the surrounding downtown isolated, showing the memorial area of the solemn, solemn atmosphere. A Jinshui River in the north of the memorial area becomes the defining element of the functional space and landscape space, with a waterfront stage on the south bank axis and a performance space on the north bank. Lying on the Jinshui River is the chic Jinshui Bridge. The renovated monument rises from 45.5 meters to 53.58 meters.
Center Culture Area: The sunken space shows the landscape space with the theme of August 1st culture. Around the "eighty-one constant glory" theme, in the sunken plaza arranged 8 pieces of military subject relief, the center of the ground placed torches, sea, land and air combination of sculpture, point out the theme of the August 1st Uprising: a star's flame, can start a prairie fire. 8 pieces of military relief north of Jiangxi Province for the embodiment of the regional culture of the national scenic landscape reliefs (Jinggang Mountain, Mt, Three-Qing Mountain, three hundred mountains, Longhu Mountain, Fairy Lake, Meiling, Turtle Peak). The sunken plaza encloses part of the high platform to expand to the south, forming the flag platform, becoming the defining element of the Citizen's Square to the north. The sunken plaza is elliptical and its radius is 32 meters and 36 meters.
Recreation area: defined by the dry spray cum water screen movie and the flag platform, the water screen movie and civic activity area in the center of the fan-shaped hard ground to form a viewing system. The center of a 6-meter-wide glass walkway through the flag stage, for the flag-raising ceremony. Underneath the walkway is a tablet inscribing the construction of the plaza. Trees are planted on both sides of the event area, and seats are set up for visitors to rest.
The west side of the square is the famous "Bayi Avenue", Bayi Avenue road base before liberation is the old city wall of Nanchang, after liberation, the demolition of the wall to build the so-called Chang'an Street Avenue in Nanchang, which is a 60-meter wide ten-mile-long street along the street on both sides of the famous buildings in Nanchang; Nanchang Telecom Building, located in the south of the square. The Nanchang Telecom Building, located on the south side of the square, was first built in the 1950s as a Soviet-aided project, and the Jiangxi Provincial Exhibition Hall in the middle of the square was built in 1969 under the name of "Long Live the Hall", which means Long Live the Victory of Mao Zedong's Thought, a name with a strong contemporary character, and has been changed into the Provincial Exhibition Hall for organizing a variety of exhibitions. Bayi Avenue is also an important commercial center, south of Lihua Shopping Plaza, the new earth computer city, north of the Wanda Shopping Plaza, Wal-Mart supermarket and other commercial centers.
The remodeled Bayi Square is more expansive and transparent. The theme design of "Bayi Henghui" enriches the space of the square, enhances the cultural taste of the city, and broadens the expression of historical connotation. It is a set of commemorative, iconic, mass, leisure as one of the city's comprehensive square, fully demonstrating the new style of the Garden City Hero City Nanchang.
Time reference: 1 hour
Transportation
Bus: Take bus 2, 10, 11, 22, 215, 88, 302 to Bayi Square Station
Tickets: Free
Opening time: All day open