Chapter 18 Zhou Enlai Relics Exhibition Hall

Comrade Zhou Enlai was a great Marxist, an outstanding leader of the party and the country, and enjoyed high prestige both at home and abroad.In order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Zhou Enlai, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee reported to the relevant departments of the central government for overall planning and research. Reply Letter on Relevant Issues Concerning Commemorative Activities of Comrade Zhou Enlai's Centennial Birthday, approved the construction of "Zhou Enlai Relics Exhibition Hall" in Huai'an. The Zhou Enlai Remains Exhibition Hall is a gift project of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee to commemorate the centenary of Zhou Enlai's birth.The project was designed by Professor Qi Kang of Southeast University.

On the basis of the completed memorial hall, the Museum of Relics showcases the extraordinary life of Premier Zhou more prominently through physical objects, photo exhibitions and other display methods, creating conditions for Huai'an to become a national base for commemorating Comrade Zhou Enlai; to pay homage to Zhou Enlai's spirit, Carry out research on Zhou Enlai, and provide a good place for the general audience to travel and rest.The exhibition hall project is located at the northern end of the central axis of the Premier Zhou Memorial Hall complex, and the newly completed bronze statue of Zhou Enlai "three points and one line".

The Zhou Enlai Relics Exhibition Hall becomes the opposite view at the end of the axis, making this spatial sequence more complete. The relic exhibition hall is divided into two floors, and its building volume and height are in harmony with the memorial hall.The upper floor imitates the architectural style of the West Flower Hall in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, and is restored as the living and working area of ​​Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao. There are sixteen rooms on the upper floor.The front living room and the back seven rooms (Zhou Enlai's office, the guard's duty room, Deng Yingchao's office, Zhou Enlai's bedroom, Deng Yingchao's bedroom, the reception room in the back hall, and the table tennis activity room) are arranged according to the original, original objects, and original appearance of the West Flower Hall. All original relics or Duplicate; the front living room is arranged from east to west, respectively, east one room: film and television lecture hall; east side room: inscriptions of party and state leaders; west side room: books and periodicals about Zhou Enlai published at home and abroad; west one room: celebrity calligraphy and painting hall.The four rooms in the East and West Wings are represented according to the four stages of "aspiring to strengthen the country - the youth age, saving the country and the people - the period of the Great Revolution and the Agrarian Revolution, working hard - the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, and devoting ourselves to it - the period of socialist revolution and construction". The relics of Zhou Enlai show Zhou Enlai's glorious life vertically and historically.

The lower floor is divided into five rooms: one room is the preface hall, and the other four rooms display relics and manuscripts according to the four themes of "Great Monument", "Peace Messenger", "People's Public Servant" and "Longing Nostalgia", horizontally showing Zhou Enlai's great achievements and achievements. The high morale reflects the "deep love between fish and water" between the prime minister and the people, so as to inspire people's fighting pride of "repaying their last wishes, crossing the saddle, and climbing bravely" to stride forward into the 21st century.