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Why are there eight red palace lanterns under the eaves of the tower in midtown founding ceremony and eight red flags beside the stone fence?
This has to start with "founding ceremony". In order to render the festive scene of the celebration, the comrades in charge of arranging the venue specially invited famous Japanese artists Xiao Ye and Mori to design the venue. They are very familiar with the traditional culture of China and know that decorating with lanterns is a traditional form of celebration in China. They proposed to hang eight red palace lanterns and put eight red flags on Tiananmen Gate.

"Eight" and "Fa" are homophonic, and the two "Eight" indicate that the new China will certainly have great development in all aspects. Secondly, because there are ten pillars on the front of the tower, it is divided into nine large grids, except for the one in the middle, which can just hang eight palace lanterns. Their idea was approved by Premier Zhou.

The eight red palace lanterns that attracted public attention were each 2.23 meters high, 8.05 meters in circumference, 2.25 meters in diameter and 80 kilograms in weight. Eight red palace lanterns and eight bright red flags have become the landmark decoration of Tiananmen Square. Until 1994, the Tiananmen Gate was renovated to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). The eight red palace lanterns on the rostrum were replaced by new folding lanterns.

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When founding ceremony was held, Tiananmen Square was renovated. The banner on the rostrum is "founding ceremony of the Central People's Government of People's Republic of China (PRC)", with a huge portrait of Chairman Mao hanging in the middle (crowned in the 1940s). The slogans on both sides are "Long live the Central People's Government" in the east and "Long live the people and the country of China" in the west.

There is no national emblem, and only four resolutions were adopted at the plenary meeting on the 27th because of the need to amend it at the CPPCC symposium and deliberation committee on September 25th and 26th of1949.

At that time, the East and West Sanmen (officially named Chang 'an Left Gate and Chang 'an Right Gate), the long tunnel in the south, the long red walls on both sides of the tunnel and the masonry Zhonghua Gate in the south still existed, forming a T-shaped closed site. Compared with Tiananmen Square when Beiping was just liberated eight months ago, it can be said to be brand-new, much wider and flatter.

In addition, a flagpole that looked very high at that time has been erected at the flagpole of the national flag, and there is also a golden top on the flagpole. Many buildings on both sides of Zhengyang Gate and Qianmen Arrow Tower outside Zhonghua Gate are decorated with lights and flags. The characters of "Beiping East Station" and "Beiping West Station" were changed to "Beijing East Station" and "Beijing West Station" overnight.