This article recounts the grandeur of the Founding Ceremony. It reveals the significance of the establishment of the Chinese People's **** and State, and expresses a sense of joy and strong national pride in being the master of the country.
The Founding Ceremony
October 1, 1949, the Chinese People's *** and the establishment of the Central People's Government of the State, held a ceremony in the capital city of Beijing. Participating in the Founding Ceremony were the Chairman, Vice Chairman and members of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, all the delegates of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, workers, peasants, teachers and students of the school, the staff of the authorities, the city defense forces, a total of 300,000 people. There were also foreign guests on the observation platform.
The venue in Tiananmen Square. The square is d-shaped. D-shaped a horizontal north of a river, the river side by side with five white stone bridges; and then north of the city wall, the center of the wall towers Tiananmen Square. The d-shaped vertical extends southward to the China Gate. In the south of the intersection of a horizontal and a vertical, the field stood up an electric flagpole.
The podium is located on the Tiananmen Square Citadel. Under the eaves of the citadel, eight large red palace lanterns hanging on both sides. Leaning against the stone railings on the left and right sides of the tower, eight red flags fluttering in the wind.
The ding-shaped square gathers the masses from all directions. Since six o'clock in the morning, there have been teams of people entering. Some of the people were carrying red flags and some were carrying red lamps. After entering the venue, they arranged themselves according to the prescribed places. Among the procession of workers were railroad workers from as far away as Changxindian, Fengtai, and Tongxian, who arrived early in the morning at the Beijing station and went straight to the meeting place as soon as they got off the train. The peasants from the suburbs woke up in the dark at five o'clock and walked forty or fifty miles to get here. By midday, Tiananmen Square had become a sea of people, and the red flags were fluttering, like waves on the sea.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, a mountain of applause erupted from the venue, and Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China, appeared on the rostrum to meet with the crowd. Three hundred thousand people's eyes were all turned to the podium.
Lin Boqu, Secretary General of the Central People's Government, declared the ceremony open. The Chairman, Vice-Chairman and members of the Central People's Government took their places. The band played the national anthem of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China - the March of the Volunteer Army. It was the sound of this battle that had inspired the Chinese people to fight for the birth of a new China. Then, Chairman Mao Zedong announced, "The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China is established today!"
This solemn declaration, this majestic voice, so that the whole scene of three hundred thousand people cheered together.
Then, raise the national flag. Chairman Mao personally pressed the electric button connected to the electric flagpole, the flag of new China - the five-star red flag rose slowly, 300,000 people took off their hats and stood at attention, raised their heads and admired the bright red flag. The five-star red flag was raised, indicating that the Chinese people have stood up since then.
When the flag was raised, the salute sounded. Every sound is 54 cannons fired, a ****28. At first, the whole place was silent, only hear the sound of the cannon, only hear the national flag and many flags fluttering sound, to later, after each sound of the cannon, the whole place will ring a thunderous applause.
Then Chairman Mao read the proclamation of the Central People's Government amidst burst after burst of applause from the crowd. In a powerful tone, he raised the voice of the new China to the world. When he read the sentence, "Mao Zedong has been elected Chairman of the Central People's Government," the people in the square's love for their leader melted into a loud cheer. A round of applause went up from the observation platform at the same time.
After Chairman Mao finished reading the announcement, the military parade began. The People's Liberation Army Commander-in-Chief Zhu De as parade commander, General Nie Rongzhen as parade commander-in-chief, Commander-in-Chief Zhu and General Nie in the same car, the first review of the troops, and then Commander-in-Chief Zhu returned to the podium to read the People's Liberation Army Headquarters orders. The troops on parade were led by General Nie, in the sound of the music of the "March of the Chinese People's Liberation Army", from east to west, slowly into the field.
At the beginning were two platoons of the Navy, with snow-white caps and blue uniforms the color of the ocean. Then came a division of infantry, marching in companies, in square formation, marching in unison. Then came a division of artillery, field guns, mountain guns, howitzers, rockets, all kinds of guns, all marching in a single horizontal line. Then came a division of chariots, all kinds of armored cars and tanks in rows of two or three, marching in neat rows; the soldiers stood on their chariots with their chests out, like giants of steel. Next came a division of cavalry, the "Red Horse Company" with red horses of one color, the "White Horse Company" with white horses of one color, five horses marching in parallel, their legs moving in perfect unison. All these troops passed in front of the podium at equal distances and at the same speed. As the chariot troops passed by, the airplanes of the People's Air Force also flew across the sky in a formation of herringbone. Chairman Mao was the first to wave into the air. When the crowd saw this, they threw hats on their heads, newspapers in their hands, and other things into the sky, and the cheers overshadowed the rumbling of the airplanes.
Two and a half hours of review, the square constantly cheering, constantly applauding, a climax after a climax. The masses almost shouted their voices, the palms of their hands are patted numb, but still do not feel able to express the joy and flow of their hearts.
The military parade is over, it is already evening time. Tiananmen Square lanterns and torches are all lit up, 10,000 fireworks shot into the sky one after another. The colorful sparks in the sky were knotted into colors, and the thousands of lights on the ground were all red. The mass procession started at this time. The procession set off in two directions, east and west, holding lamps and torches and chanting "Long live the Chinese People's ****ing Party!" "Long live the People's Republic of China!" "Long live the Central People's Government!" They went in order, walking across the White Stone Bridge facing Tiananmen Square, raising their lanterns and torches, and shouting "Long live Chairman Mao!" "Long live Chairman Mao!" Chairman Mao, in front of the podium on the Citadel, leaned forward, waving his hand to the crowd and shouting "Long live the people!" "Long live the comrades!"
9:30 pm, the parade was completely out of the venue. The two "red streams" split to the east and west of the city streets, the light filled the whole city of Beijing.
Appreciation
This lesson describes the opening ceremony held in the capital city of Beijing on October 1, 1949, expressing the Chinese people on the birth of the new China's immense pride and excitement of feelings. The text in accordance with the order of the founding ceremony. First, it talks about the situation in the venue before the start of the Congress; then it talks about the main part of the ceremony - Mao Zedong's proclamation of the establishment of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, the hoisting of the National Flag, and the reading of the Proclamation of the Central People's Government; then it talks about the parade; and finally, it talks about the mass procession. If the part of the ceremony mainly expresses the love of new China and the excitement for the birth of new China, then the part of the military parade focuses more on expressing the pride for the outstanding performance of the people's army in addition to expressing the excitement. You see, "snow-white hats, blue uniforms of the same color as the ocean," "the soldiers held their chests out," "like giants of steel," " 'Red Horse Company' a color of red horses, 'White Horse Company' a color of white horses, five horses in parallel, the movement of the horse's legs are exactly the same"...... These descriptions are all permeated with the These descriptions are all permeated with praise for the people's army, and feelings of pride for the people's army.