National Day Tribute Monument to the People's Heroes

Our country has quite a few iconic buildings, but among them, I am particularly fond of the Monument to the People's Heroes, unique in its kind.

Unlike Tiananmen, passed down from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the huabiao (ornamental columns) that advised emperors, the Monument to the People's Heroes is a relatively new structure.

Its foundation was laid only one day before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the history it symbolizes is still less than two hundred years old even today,

Brief.

From the suffering of the First Opium War to the humiliation of the end of World Anti-Fascist War, a hundred and five years of colonial and suffering history,

Long.

It is a monument to the fallen, a monument to suffering, a monument to achievements, a monument to the path taken.

Before this, we had nothing; we were slaves, livestock, sacrifices.

After this, we liberated everything, became masters, became human, became the people.

With the first shovelful of earth, we buried heroes

With the second shovelful of earth, we buried suffering

...

Even if there were any lingering spirits from the past,

they must have been permanently buried in that last shovelful of earth on September 30, 1949.

The history of the Chinese people began on October 1, 1949.

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Eternal glory to the people's heroes who sacrificed their lives in the People's War of Liberation and the People's Revolution in the past three years!

Eternal glory to the people's heroes who sacrificed their lives in the People's War of Liberation and the People's Revolution in the past thirty years!

Eternal glory to the people's heroes who, since 1840, in order to resist internal and external enemies, fight for national independence and the people's freedom and happiness, sacrificed their lives in various struggles!

This work is dedicated to all those who sacrificed in the long struggle, believing that 'the Internationale will surely come true'.

2025.9.30