Chapter 118 50 years from now someone will regret it

It was a large-scale celebration event. On the Tiananmen Gate tower, the leaders of Beijing City told Liang Sicheng that a person in charge of the central government once said that in the future, if you look out from here, you will see chimneys everywhere. Liang Sicheng was very surprised. He couldn't imagine what Beijing would look like with chimneys everywhere. In his vision, Beijing should become a tourist city and a famous cultural city admired by the world like Rome, Athens and Paris. The plan believes that the modern government organization is not the three provinces and six departments of the feudal emperor, but a modern organization with complicated organization. These organizations need about ten square kilometers of land, and there is not enough open space in the city.

Beijing residents already have too little landscaping and recreation area, and it is obviously inappropriate to disperse central government agencies throughout the city. With the current layout of Beijing, the presence of government agencies will definitely destroy the original layout of Beijing. The plan also talked about the engineering and technical issues of urban construction, the population problem of Beijing, and the zoning of land use... The plan believes that if the government administrative area is set outside the old city, it will not only protect the pattern of the old city, but also win time. Consider the detailed planning and reconstruction of the old city.

The plan comprehensively analyzes the historical and cultural value and aesthetic value of the ancient city of Beijing, and puts forward the idea of ​​protecting the overall environment of Beijing. This is the earliest and most scientific idea of ​​protecting and building Beijing. However, the "Liang Chen Plan" was rejected. The plan was rejected, ostensibly for economic reasons. New China had just been established, the Central People's Government couldn't afford to build a new district, and the Communist Party, which had just entered the city, couldn't build a big building for itself.

Of course, there are more important political reasons for the plan to be rejected. Policy makers see Tiananmen as the center of Beijing to be politically significant.It used to be the place where the emperor held the "Issuing Edict" ceremony, and now it is the place where the founding of New China is announced. It has always had a strong political color and should be the administrative center of New China. In addition, Soviet experts also opposed the plan.Mao Zedong said in "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship": "The Chinese people are either on the side of imperialism or on the side of socialism, without exception. It is impossible to sit on the wall, and there is no third line." This discussion is in In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was called the national policy of "leaning to one side" towards the Soviet Union.

Soviet experts believed that Beijing should be developed into an industrial city, and the percentage of the working class in Beijing should be increased. They suggested that the center of the central government should be located in Tiananmen Square and East and West Chang'an Streets. The "Liang-Chen Plan" is considered to be "in a different court" with Soviet experts, and it runs counter to Mao Zedong's "one-sided" national policy. Chen Zhanxiang was classified as a "rightist" in 1957, and Liang Sicheng was spared under the protection of Peng Zhen.

Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin exhausted their imaginations, but they would never have imagined that Chinese architects who were worried about the fate of Chinese ancient buildings were "fighting against each other" with Soviet experts. Liang Sicheng still stuck to his position. He said to the relevant leaders: "...I want to persuade you for a long time..." He did not expect that everything he said would be ruthlessly denied, and there is something more shocking than negation. sad?He couldn't help but feel sad: "50 years later, some people will regret it!" Seeing that the ancient buildings they regarded as treasures were about to be wiped out and destroyed, Liang Sicheng couldn't help crying when he appealed everywhere.

He wrote to Premier Zhou Enlai again and again, talking about the planning of construction work, the planning of Chang'an Avenue, and the history and value of ancient buildings in Beijing. Premier Zhou Enlai met with Liang Sicheng.