Chapter 17 monument of love

The Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall, built 15 years after the death of a great man Zhou Enlai, is a monument of love.She condensed the noble emotion of "the people's prime minister loves the people, and the people's prime minister loves the people" into a crystallization of love. Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall is located in Taohuayin Scenic Area in the north of Huai'an City.On Taohuayin Memorial Island, it is a tall, majestic and magnificent building, surrounded by sparkling lakes, so that Zhou Enlai's heroic spirit can rest in peace under the protection of the water and soil in his hometown.

Comrade Zhou Enlai experienced several historical periods of old democratic revolution, new democratic revolution, socialist revolution and construction in his life. He traveled all over the land of the motherland and visited many countries and regions. The length of his revolutionary activities, The vastness of the space and the greatness of the meritorious deeds are few in the history of our country or in the history of the world.Referring to the layout of Comrade Zhou Enlai's life story exhibition in the Beijing Revolutionary History Museum in 1979 and the scale of several party and state leaders' memorial halls that have been built, the total construction area of ​​this Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall is determined to be more than 3,000 square meters.The main building of the memorial hall is equipped with exhibition halls, movie and video projection halls, and celebrity calligraphy and painting exhibition halls.The functional facilities and ancillary buildings of the memorial hall include: square, parking lot, entrance and exit passages; office, reception room, lounge, data storage room, material storage room, service room (canteen, photography room, material storage office); water supply Power distribution room, toilets, etc.

According to the requirements put forward in the approval document of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the general guiding ideology of the memorial hall is: ——The architectural atmosphere of the memorial hall is solemn and solemn, the architectural form is simple and elegant, and the architectural style is in harmony with the former residence and the environment.But simplicity is not simplicity, and coordination is not monotony. We must seek simplicity in innovation and coordination in changes. ——The memorial hall is a permanent building. It is necessary to consider not only the firmness of the building structure and the durability of building materials, but also the exquisiteness of architectural art.From a long-term point of view, it is not only an educational place to show the people, but also a place of interest that attracts worldwide attention.

——The construction of the memorial hall should adapt to the important feature of Huai'an as a famous historical and cultural city. The architectural design should not be greedy for high places, but should have characteristics and breakthroughs to make it a landmark building in Huai'an. ——The exhibition room of the memorial hall will display a large number of cultural relics and materials for people to admire.Factors such as temperature, humidity, lighting, and ventilation should be considered in architectural design to prevent mildew of cultural relics and ensure a good visual environment for people.

——The exhibition halls and rooms should cooperate with modern facilities such as film and television, audio, etc. while displaying pictures, texts, and real objects, so as to achieve the best publicity effect.Therefore, the structural design of the memorial hall should take into account the convenience of installation, operation and maintenance of electronic equipment. The design plan of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall is in charge of the Department of Architecture of Nanjing Southeast University, and is presided over by the famous architect Professor Qi Kang. Seven sets of design plans have been put forward.On March 5, 1988, the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall design report meeting was held in Huai'an Hotel, and the selection plan was approved.The scheme refers to the architectural style of the Lincoln Memorial in the United States, and also absorbs the national characteristics of rural cowshed buildings in northern Jiangsu.

The main building of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall is 26 meters high, which is as high as the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Memorial Hall in Nanjing.The inside of the main hall is square and octagonal, implying that Zhou Enlai has played a role in turning things around in our party and country's life and death many times during his revolutionary career of more than half a century.The six gleaming gold-plated characters of "Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall" above the main entrance of the main hall were inscribed by Deng Xiaoping, Zhou Enlai's close comrade-in-arms and the chief designer of my country's reform and opening up.The hipped roof is supported by four 22-meter-high granite pillars.

Zhou Enlai dedicated his life to enriching the people and strengthening the country. From 1954 to 1975, he put forward the grand idea of ​​realizing the four modernizations in our country four times in major state affairs activities.These four pillars express his strong desire to realize the four modernizations in our country, and they are also his political testament to hundreds of millions of Chinese people. The main building is divided into three floors.Walking and climbing from the main entrance, there are fifty-one steps in total.As one of the founders of our party, Zhou Enlai joined the Communist Party of China in Paris at the age of 23 and devoted himself to the great cause of proletarian revolution. the victory of the Chinese revolution.He happened to be fifty-one years old when he was appointed Premier of the Central People's Government Administration Council, and those fifty-one steps marked the fifty-one springs and autumns he had passed before the victory of the revolution.Stepping into the memorial hall on the middle floor, there is a 4.7-meter-high white marble statue of Zhou Enlai standing in front of you.Wearing a windbreaker and holding a long scroll in his hand, with his thick eyebrows tightly furrowed, he sat on the tough rock like a stranger.Through those staring eyes, with an expression of concern for the country and the people, people feel that he is still thinking about the great cause of the "four modernizations" of the motherland, paying close attention to the happiness of hundreds of millions of people, the unification and prosperity of the motherland, and the future of the young generation .

Above the memorial hall is a blue glass ceiling, through which the sunlight can softly shine on the statue of Zhou Enlai; through the ceiling, people can look directly at the blue sky, and can't help but cherish his great achievements like "the sun and menstruation flow through the sky, and the rivers and rivers travel across the earth". Have a sense of indomitable spirit towards the statue, so as to be in awe. The upper floor is an open viewing platform. Visitors can not only have a glimpse of the lake and water in the museum area, but also overlook the new appearance of the ancient city.

The ground floor is the exhibition hall, which displays 199 pictures reflecting Zhou Enlai's life achievements, and 48 real objects and precious historical files. The pictures and real objects are divided into eight parts: the period of youth, the period of the Great Revolution, the period of the Agrarian Revolution, the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the period of the War of Liberation, the period of the Socialist Revolution and the period of construction, and "The Premier of the People loves the people, Zhou Enlai will always live in the people's heart". heart".Every picture and every object on display tells touching stories about Zhou Enlai's patriotism, love for the people, honesty and honesty.There are also five TV display screens installed in the exhibition hall, allowing visitors to see the everlasting majestic demeanor of Premier Zhou and the stalwart voice and smile.On the north side of the main building, there is a "human"-shaped auxiliary building. This "human" character building naturally extends to the main building, showing the trend of arching and guarding. Image footnotes.

Looking around the main hall and auxiliary hall with white as the main tone, as well as the blue-gray granite veneer and blue-gray paving floor tiles, I feel that the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall is like a simple and generous giant ship moored on the rippling Taohuayin Lake. Above all, this simple and lively architectural style increasingly shows Zhou Enlai's noble character, which was in the top class but had nothing to do during his lifetime. The Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall was built in October 1990.Hundreds of millions of people and descendants of Chinese people at home and abroad have poured love into it.It was completed and opened on January 6, 1992.Since its opening, it has received more than six million visitors from home and abroad.