Tiananmen Square is a city square in the center of Beijing and one of the largest city squares in the world. The square is 880m long from north to south and 500m wide from east to west, covering an area of 440,000㎡. It got its name because it was located outside Tiananmen Gate, the south gate of the imperial city of Beijing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Ming Yongle Emperor Zhu Di built Beijing in the fifteenth year of his reign in 1417, the palace was built in the eighteenth year, and Tiananmen Square was built at this time. It was originally called Chengtianmen Gate and was renamed Tiananmen Gate during the Qing Dynasty. Tiananmen is the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties issued edicts.

On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was established. In the early days of its founding, in 1954, buildings such as Zhonghuamen Gate, the Left and Right Chang'an Gates, the government offices for Ministry of Revenue and Punishment in feudal China, and the Warehouse Qipan Street were demolished forming today's Tiananmen Square.

There is a flag pole at the north end of the square, and flag raising and lowering ceremonies are held every day with sunrise and sunset. The flag-raising (or lowering) ceremony in Tiananmen Square is divided into a festival flag-raising ceremony and a standard day flag-raising ceremony. Every New Year's Day, Spring Festival, International Labor Day, National Day, and the 1st of every month, the festival flag-raising ceremony takes place. The festival flag-raising ceremony was carried out by 38 members of the National Armed Police National Flag Guard and 62 members of the military band, who played " Ode to the Motherland " when marching, and "National Anthem" when the flag was raised. Others are the standard day flag-raising ceremony. The standard day flag-raising ceremony is carried out by 38 national flag guards, and the recording of the "National Anthem" is played when raising the flag. The lowering ceremony is performed by the national flag guard alone, without music, and the raising (or lowering) ceremony of the flag varies with the time of sunrise each day.

Tiananmen Square is the largest urban square in the world today. It not only witnessed the Chinese people's struggle for democracy, freedom, and resistance to foreign aggression and reactionary rule over and over again, but is also a sacred place for the Republic to hold major celebrations, grand gatherings, and foreign affairs welcome. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tiananmen Square has undergone three large-scale renovation and expansion projects, making the ancient square even more magnificent and becoming a symbol of the cohesion of the Chinese nation and the prosperity of China.

Address: Tiananmen Square, Dongcheng District, Beijing