On the occasion of the sixth national public holiday, in order to convey the voice of "remembering history and cherishing peace" to the whole world, our Soviet network launched a series of reports on "Xiao Sushuo reading peace landmarks", through which we can learn about history and understand the peace education and urban temperament of international peaceful cities with a broader vision.
Since ancient times, peace has been the eternal expectation of mankind. War monuments and peace sculptures around the world, as the cohesion of the people's just forces, remind us all the time: oppose violence and never forget peace.
In order not to be forgotten.
Behind every monument, there is a shocking history, telling the silent pain.
Monument to the hope of peace in Lebanon
1975, a civil war broke out in Lebanon, a Middle East country, which lasted for 15 years. The war hit the Lebanese economy hard, causing 6.5438+0.5 million deaths and about 900,000 people being displaced. 1990, the civil war in Lebanon ended. To commemorate this hard-won peace, the Lebanese built a "Monument to the Hope of Peace" in the southeast of Beirut, the capital of the country.
The monument was designed by French-American artist armand Fernandez and built in 1995. This monument is about 30 meters high. Unusually, it contains 78 military vehicles of all ages and countries. The monument is similar to a bombed-out building, representing countless buildings destroyed by war during the Civil War. There are dozens of tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled guns embedded in the building, and the barrels extend outward, mostly pointing in the same direction.
In order to build this monument, Lebanon donated various tanks and military vehicles. During the construction process, all kinds of retired military hardware were welded on a huge metal frame structure. Sandbags are combined with concrete and then poured into a tall frame, thus forming the overall appearance of the monument.
The various tanks and armored vehicles on the monument fully illustrate the complex situation in Lebanon during the civil war. The influence of the civil war continues to this day, and the people's longing for peace has never stopped.
Notre Dame International Monument in Lauret.
The Notre Dame International Monument in Lauret is a building commemorating the100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. Monument is a ring, also called "the ring of memories". This wall presents a natural bend, guiding people to walk through it like a forest path.
The transverse ring body with a circumference of 328 meters is brown outside and golden inside. 500 metal folding faces are gilded with the names of the soldiers participating in the war engraved on them, without any grades. The equality embodied in this exhibition is a respect for human nature and a reverence for life. These names are shining golden in the sun, waiting for people who come here to rediscover the meaning of peace.
World War I is far away, and this simple and powerful ring symbolizes eternal hope, as if it were an oath to peace.
Holocaust memorial in Germany
Holocaust monuments are located in the center of Berlin. This is a building to commemorate all Jews who were massacred by German Nazis.
Designed by American architect Peter eissmann, this memorial hall consists of 27 1 1 gray rectangular concrete piers, each of which is slightly inclined at different angles, and the ground is uneven, which makes visitors feel unstable and disoriented.
Each stone tablet has no text logo, and the material is solid and heavy. Stepping into it, it seems that you are in a maze, and the endless and monotonous shape makes people fall into meditation on that history.
American 9. 1 1 Site Monument
In the center of new york, there is also a place for meditation and memory. A monument of 9. 1 1 site stands on the ruins of the former World Trade Center Twin Towers. 9. 1 1 The site monument is not a traditional stone monument, but two sunken square waterfall pools were built on the original site of the collapsed twin towers, and the flowing water on the pool wall symbolizes endless life. It is the largest artificial waterfall in America at present. The names of 2983 victims were engraved on the bronze wall outside the swimming pool.
As time goes by, memories will last forever. People are here, pinning their eternal grief on the victims of the 911incident.
For the hope of permanent peace
People's expectations for peace have never stopped. History cannot forget that peace must be defended. People use peaceful buildings and sculptures to express their memories of history and guard their yearning for peace.
Paris The Wall for Peace
On the Ares Square at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, stands a The Wall for Peace made of glass, metal and other materials. The Wall for Peace is16.4m long,13.8m wide and 9m high. The words "peace" are written on the wall in 32 languages, including Chinese, and the words "peace" are also engraved on 32 columns arranged around it.
United Nations Headquarters: Knotted Gun
This is an almost black bronze sculpture, a pistol, but the barrel is rolled into an "8" shape and tied with a knot called "knotting gun", which symbolizes the end of violence.
This sculpture is the work of reuter Ward. Reuters Sward is a good friend of rock star John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono Lennon. 1On February 8th, 980, Lennon was assassinated outside his apartment in new york, which shocked the whole world. At the request of Yoko Ono Lennon, reuter Ward created this sculpture in memory of Lennon.
As the most appealing advocate of peace and nonviolence movement in 1960s and 1970s, Lennon wrote a lot of songs advocating world peace. 1988, Luxemburg bought this sculpture and presented it to the United Nations, so it was placed in front of the United Nations Headquarters in new york.
United Nations Headquarters: Turning swords into plowshares
The sculpture "Casting a Sword into a Plow" is a gift from the former Soviet Union to the United Nations. It was created by the famous sculptor yevgeny Vucetic to commemorate the first World Peace Conference. The man in the sculpture holds a hammer in one hand and a sword that he wants to turn into a plow in the other, which symbolizes that human beings demand to end the war and turn the weapon of destruction into a tool of creation for the benefit of all mankind.
Nagasaki Peace Park Statue
Nagasaki, Japan, was attacked by an atomic bomb during World War II, causing more than 6.5438+0.4 million deaths, while the total population of Nagasaki at that time was only about 300,000. After the war, Japan built a peace park in the center of the explosion that year to commemorate the people who died in the atomic bombing. The main statue of Nagasaki Peace Park is a giant, with the right index finger pointing to the sky, representing that the atomic bomb falls from above, and the left hand is flat and the palm is down, representing yearning for peace.
Soldiers' Sculpture of ANZ Bridge in Sydney
Sculpture of Australian soldiers beside the ANZ Bridge in Sydney, Australia.
Sculpture of New Zealand soldiers beside the ANZ Bridge in Sydney, Australia.
Anzac Bridge is located in Sydney Harbour, Australia, formerly known as Glebe Island Bridge. In memory of the soldiers killed in the Battle of Garipoli during World War I, this bridge was renamed as ANZ Bridge in New South Wales, Australia *** 1998. On both sides of the bridge stood an Australian soldier sculpture and a New Zealand soldier sculpture to watch the peaceful times.
Geneva broken chair
Geneva Broken Chair was created by Daniel Bassett, a famous Swiss sculptor, on behalf of the International Disabled Persons' Federation in 1997 to commemorate the entry into force of the Landmine Protocol. Up to 12 meters, the back of the chair is as high as two floors, and the chair surface is bigger than the table tennis table.
Weapons left over from the war still pose a threat to people. Designer Daniel said that the broken leg of the chair symbolizes the limbs lost due to the explosion of mines, and this broken chair symbolizes "a person who was devastated by mines resolutely stood up and called for help from the world".
2015165438+1October 30th, this chair was replaced with "new limbs" to commemorate the Ottawa Mine Ban Convention. The artistry beyond reality is the ultimate expression of peaceful will.
The landmark buildings commemorating peace remind people of the trauma of war and the expectation of permanent peace in the future. The wound will heal, the pain will disappear, but the scar will remain in the memory forever. Sadness has been calmed down, and mourning will never stop.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency, Sohu.com, World Architecture, Baidu Encyclopedia, etc. , compiled by my network, edited by/Zhang)
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