It's a history of struggling for the happiness of the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation from laying the foundation for the great revolutionary cause to opening up the brilliant future over the past hundred years. It is also a thick "textbook" worthy of writing and reading.
Xiangshan Museum of the Founding of New China
The Xiangshan Museum of the Founding of New China is located outside Xiangshan Park, east of Hongfeng Road. Passing through the green square, you can see a light brown building quietly standing there. Outside the south gate, sunlight shines through the 28 pillars in front of the door, and light and shadow outline a picture on the ground. Looking up, visitors can see the plaque of "Xiangshan Museum of the Founding of New China" hanging high with unrestrained characters. The building area of the memorial hall is 17,985 square meters, and the shape adopts the new Chinese style, creating a sense of ceremony of traditional Chinese monumental architecture.
The design of the museum is clever, with 28 columns symbolizing the 28 years of arduous struggle of the Communist Party of China. On the east side of the second floor of the memorial hall, a traditional Chinese "Four Beams and Eight Columns" structure is designed, symbolizing the preparations by the CPC Central Committee, democratic parties, and non-party democrats to establish a new political consultative conference and the Central People's Government, laying the "Four Beams and Eight Columns" framework for the birth of New China. The flagpole on the plaza outside the east gate is also carefully designed, with a height of exactly 19.49 meters, symbolizing the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
The Xiangshan Museum of Founding of New China is open until 19:30 every Saturday during the "May 18 International Museum Month" (May 1 to May 31), and admission closes at 19:00.
Address: No. 1, Hongfeng Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Museum of the Chinese Communist Party
The Museum of the Chinese Communist Party is located next to the dragon-shaped water system of the Olympic Park in Chaoyang District, Beijing. It is a magnificent landmark building. More than 2,500 pictures and more than 4,500 sets of cultural relics are displayed here, showing the magnificent 100-year history of the Chinese Communist Party in an all-round, whole-process, panoramic and epic manner.
A revolutionary place, a condensed history, a spiritual heritage. This exhibition hall has become the spiritual home of Chinese Communist Party members. Only by understanding history can we look forward and go far. The exhibition hall is like a three-dimensional history book and picture scroll, engraved with the struggling path of the 100-year great party and recording the great journey of the Chinese nation towards rejuvenation.
Address: No. 9, Beichen East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Red Building of Peking University
Red Building of the Peking University is located at No. 29, Wusi Street, Dongcheng District, which was originally the location of the Peking University liberal arts department and the library. It was built in 1916 and completed in 1918. The main body of the building is made of red brick masonry and red tile roof, so it is called the Red Building.
The Red Building is a modern building with a glorious revolutionary tradition and an important place for Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Mao Zedong and others to carry out revolutionary activities. It witnessed the climax of the New Culture Movement. It is an important base of the May Fourth Movement and the birthplace of the early Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. It also played an important role in promoting the establishment of Communist Party nationwide. In 1961, the Peking University Red Building was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Address: No. 29, Wusi Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
The Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is the only large-scale comprehensive thematic memorial in China that comprehensively reflects the history of the great War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. At present, the museum has more than 25,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, which record in detail the extraordinary years of the Anti-Japanese War from 1931 to 1945.
2022 is the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The museum held the "Beacon Mark - Special Exhibition of the Beijing Area Anti-Japanese War". The Anti-Japanese War themed area with Lugou Bridge, Wanping City and the Museum of the War of People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression as the core, displays more than 160 important anti-Japanese war relics and memorial facilities in Beijing. The broken black-gray steel helmet witnessed the brutality of defending war on the Lugou Bridge; The report manuscript of Xiao Ke, commander of the Eighth Route Army's Jirecha Advance Army and secretary of the Military and Political Commission, recorded the development and growth of the anti-Japanese base area in Pingxi; The lanterns used to dig tunnels and the medicine jars used by the women activists to boil medicine for the wounded and sick are the best proof of the unity of the Chinese military and people against the Japanese invaders. Bai Yihua, the 29-year-old regiment commander who died in the Pingbei Resistance War, left a precious handwritten memorandum...
In order to further meet the growing needs of the masses for cultural life, give full play to the cultural benefits of the museum, and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people, the opening time of the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is extended during the "May 18 International Museum Month" (May 1-May 31).
Extended opening hours: 9:00~19:30, last admission at 19:00. (Closed on Mondays except for statutory holidays)
Address: No. 101, Wanping Chengnei Street, Lugou Bridge, Fengtai District, Beijing
