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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Monument to the Peoples Heroes in Tiananmen Square. It was created to recognise those who gave their lives to change China’s political and social environment.\u00a0 It was built during the last years of the 1950s.\u00a0 It is enormous and sits in the middle of the square with Mao Zedong’s mausoleum to the south, Tiananmen Gate to the north and an enormous museum and the People’s Hall on each side.\u00a0 It is cordoned off so that people are not allowed to get too close to it.<\/p>\n
Tiananmen Gate and the national flag flying in a breeze.\u00a0 There is a ceremony to erect and remove it each day.\u00a0 I was there at the time of \u00a0the evening removal once but there were too many tourists to engage my interest.\u00a0 Tiananamen Square is a must see for domestic tourists and they can be seen everywhere posing for photos. It is 800 metres long and I walked it twice during the weekend along with the walking to reach there and around the Forbidden City.<\/p>\n I posted this photo a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 It is in a street adjacent to the Forbidden City.\u00a0\u00a0On Saturday\u00a0I bought a book which showed this photo, minus the air conditioner,\u00a0and talked about its past.\u00a0 It was a temple, known as the Temple of Prosperity and became a refuge for many eunuchs \u00a0after they left the Forbidden City.\u00a0 It had quiet a past being much more than a temple but also like a hotel for many eunuchs and\u00a0their families.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to the book some eunuchs did have families including wife and children.\u00a0 Many also \u00a0adopted a child to \u00a0continue their name.<\/p>\n This is a cute little street sweeper parked in Dashalan St.\u00a0 It is the first motorised one I’ve seen anywhere but Xingtai which has a few along with an army of human sweepers.<\/p>\n This is the Yongding Gate and I took\u00a0it from a bus down south near the Temple of Heaven Park.\u00a0 Another book I have started reading said that it was built in 2004.\u00a0 There used to be a gate there in\u00a0previous times but it along with most of the others was demolished during the 1950s and 1960s.\u00a0\u00a0From memory it stands alone amidst a tangle of roadways.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n