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The origin of Tiananmen Square in Beijing
Tiananmen Square was founded in the 15th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (14 17). Its original name is "Chengtian Tianmen", which means "Chengtian Qiyun" and "Being ordered by Heaven". On the periphery of the square, the civil service office is on the left and the military attache office is on the right, which fully shows the grand momentum of centralization. In the eighth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (165 1), it was rebuilt as Tiananmen Square, which means "taking orders from heaven" and "keeping peace and governing the people".

From the Yuan Dynasty to the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1264), Yuan Shizu imperial edict took Yanjing as its capital, and the capital was changed in the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty. The Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty was founded in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1267) and completed in the twenty-second year of the Yuan Dynasty (1285), lasting 18 years. Dadoucheng is Miyagi, Imperial City and Dacheng from the inside out.

In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), the Ming Dynasty was founded, and Xu Da, a general of the Ming Dynasty, led an army to conquer the Yuan Dynasty and renamed it Beiping.

In the first month of the first year of Yongle (1403), Judy, the prince of Yan, renamed Beiping as Beijing, temporarily calling it "Hangzai" (the capital of Hangzai in the absence of the emperor). Move the capital from Nanjing to Beijing after it is in place.

In the fifteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (14 17), skilled craftsmen from all over the country were recruited to rebuild Beijing on a large scale. At that time, Kuai Xiang, a native of Xiangshan, Wuxian County, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was ordered to design and build the palace, and was responsible for designing and organizing the construction of Tianmen.

1900, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing. At this time, Beijing was as turbulent as the Qing government, and Tiananmen Square was slightly dilapidated because of lack of effective management.

By 19 15, the Qing Dynasty had become history. The Republic of China and the royal family of the Qing Dynasty reached an agreement that the Forbidden City was still the private property of the royal family, so Tiananmen Square was closed.

By 1928, the National Revolutionary Army had just finished the Northern Expedition, conquered the direct and Feng forces along the way, finally conquered Beijing in this year and drove Zhang back to Shanhaiguan. There is no doubt that Chiang Kai-shek, the new leader of China, also hung up his head in Tiananmen Square.

With the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Beijing has also become an occupied area, and the symbolic Tiananmen Square has also been marked with slogans and flags by the puppet regime.

However, with the establishment of 1949 New China, Tiananmen Square finally returned to the hands of the people. The portrait at this time is different from what we are familiar with later, or what Chairman Mao looked like in Yan 'an period.

Since then, Tiananmen Square has witnessed the ups and downs of China's development. At 1980, before Tiananmen Square at the beginning of reform and opening up, today it has a familiar look.

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