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How high is the Monument to the People's Heroes?

The Monument to the People's Heroes is 37.94 meters high.

The Monument to the People's Heroes is located in the center of Tiananmen Square, about 463 meters south of Tiananmen Square and 440 meters north of Zhengyangmen. It is a monument built by the government of People's Republic of China (PRC) to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs in the modern history of China.

The front (north) of the Monument to the People's Heroes is a whole granite with a length of 1 4.7m, a width of 2.9m, a thickness of1m and a weight of 60.23t.. It is engraved with eight gold foil characters inscribed by Comrade Mao Zedong on1June 9, 955. On the back, the stone tablet consists of seven stones, and its content is the small inscription of 150, which was drafted by Mao Zedong and written by Zhou Enlai.

The Monument to the People's Heroes is a matter of great concern to Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other revolutionaries of the older generation, and it was built under their direct instructions. From September 30th, 65438 to September 30th, 0949, Chairman Mao laid the foundation stone himself. Chairman Mao's inscription was originally written on stationery, magnified 20 times, and then engraved on stone tablets. It was officially completed on May 1958, which is the longest large-scale art project since the founding of New China.

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The construction of the Monument to the People's Heroes not only gathered skilled craftsmen at that time, but also the collection of steles was quite grand. The monument consists of 65,438+07,000 pieces of granite and white marble, among which the core stone of the monument from Fushan, Qingdao is the most important stone in the construction of the monument, which is extremely rare in the architectural history of China.

Its stone blank is14.4m long, 2.72m wide and 3m thick, and weighs more than 320 tons. The mining and transportation work lasted for seven and a half months. Construction started on April 1, 1953, and in June 10, the large stones arrived at Tiananmen Square, with a total of 765,438 from mining to transportation.

According to incomplete statistics, the cost of the monument from foundation laying to completion reached more than 300 million yuan.

On March 4th, 196 1 was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in the State Council, People's Republic of China (PRC), and listed as revolutionary sites and revolutionary memorial buildings, with the number of No.33.

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