Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

The Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was built in memory of Chiang Kai Shek. The Memorial Hall Park is distributed with Chiang Kai Shek Park, archway, wall, zhanyan Avenue, theater, concert hall and other buildings. Now it is the most important large-scale activity square and art performance center in Taipei. Located on Zhongshan South Road, zhengpai building has four characters of "Freedom Square", which was modified by Chen Shui Bian when he was in power. The building is 30 meters high and 80 meters wide, 470 meters away from the central line of the memorial hall. Standing at the Yuanwang Memorial Hall downstairs, it is magnificent.

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

The Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall, located in the center of Taipei, is bounded by Hangzhou south road, Zhongshan South Road, patriotic East Road and Xinyi Road, covering an area of 75000 square meters. To commemorate Chiang Kai Shek, the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was built in 1976. The project started on October 31, 1976, started in November 1977, and was completed on March 31, 1980. The completion ceremony was held on April 4, 1980, and opened to the public from April 5.

Zhongzheng memorial hall consists of memorial building, Zhongzheng Memorial Park, memorial archway, round up, zhanyan Avenue, theatre and Concert Hall on both sides. The shape of the memorial building imitates the top of the temple of heaven in Beijing and the pyramid in Egypt. It is a Chinese palace style building. The whole building is in harmony with blue and white, which has the meaning of freedom and equality. The Zhongzheng memorial hall is centered on a towering memorial building. The first floor is mainly composed of an exhibition room and a projection room, displaying Chiang Kai Shek's life story and cultural relics. The top floor is a bronze statue of Chiang Kai Shek, with guards stationed on both sides. Besides the memorial building, the square in front of the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall is also the cultural center of Taipei.

Historical evolution

On April 5, 1975, Chiang Kai Shek passed away. In June, the Taiwan administrative department decided to build the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall in memory of Chiang Kai Shek.

On October 31, 1976, the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall broke ground.

In November 1977, the construction of Zhongzheng Memorial Hall officially started

On March 1, 1980, the Taiwan administrative department established the "preparatory office for the management of the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall"; on March 31, the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was officially completed, and a ceremony for its completion was held on April 4, 1980, which was open to the public from April 5; on July 1, the "management office for the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall" was officially established, which is subordinate to the Taipei municipal government.

In 1986, the Chung Cheng memorial hall was changed to be under the management of the education department in Taiwan, and the "legislative procedure" of the organizational regulations was completed and renamed as the "Chung Cheng Memorial Hall Management Office".

On March 6, 2007, the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was listed as a temporary historic site by the Taipei municipal government; on May 19, the north of the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was officially renamed "Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall" and was listed on that day.

On August 21, 2008, the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was renamed and the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall was cancelled.

On July 20, 2009, the plaque of Zhongzheng memorial hall was put back.

On May 20, 2012, the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was transferred to the Cultural Department of Taiwan.

Architectural pattern

Overview

The Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall is located in the center of Taipei, west of Hangzhou south road, east of Zhongshan South Road, north of Aiguo East Road and south of Xinyi Road, covering an area of 75000 square meters. The Zhongzheng memorial hall, which includes the main body of the memorial hall, Zhongzheng Park, archway, wall, zhanyan Avenue, theater, concert hall and other buildings, is a large-scale activity square and art performance center in Taipei.

There are 26 kinds of Chinese lantern windows every 4.5 meters in the outer Corridor around the whole Zhongzheng Memorial Park, which gather all kinds of Lantern windows. There are also a number of landscaping gardens inside, and the total length of pedestrian walkway is about 5 km. Koi are kept in Yunhan and Guanghua ponds in the courtyard.

* archway

Outside the Zhongzheng memorial hall, there is a four character archway named "Dazhong Zhizheng", which is the Ouyang inquiry style designated by Qin Xiaoyi. The source of the archway is Wang Yangming's biography: "it's the return of Dazhong Zhizheng." Then there is the long and wide avenue for worshiping, with flowers and trees planted on both sides. The main body of the memorial hall can be seen at the end. The archway is of the specification of "five rooms, six columns and eleven floors", with a height of 30 meters. After December 8, 2007, it was replaced with the word "Freedom Square".

Memorial Hall

Centering on the memorial building, the memorial hall is surrounded by trees, flower beds and chiyong bridge. The main hall is divided into two floors. The first floor is mainly composed of exhibition room and projection room. There are cultural relics exhibition room, movie room, Wynn Gallery, Zhongzheng Gallery, Zhongzheng Memorial Library, audio-visual center, Chiang Kai Shek Memorial room and children's classroom, In the middle of the back of the top floor is a sitting bronze statue of Chiang Kai Shek, which is 6.3 meters high and weighs about 21.25 tons. Behind the bronze statue is Chiang Kai Shek's proposition on the white marble, and on the base is Chiang Kai Shek's will. Guards are stationed on both sides of the bronze statue, and there is a regular shift changing ceremony every hour.

Liangtingyuan

On both sides of the Central Art and culture square of the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall, the theatre and Concert Hall (i.e. the two halls) are all designed and planned by Yang Zhuocheng's harmony architects.

There are four indoor performance halls and four outdoor squares in the two halls. The indoor performance halls include theatre, experimental theatre, concert hall and Performance Hall. The outdoor square can be used for symphony orchestra composed of more than 100 people to hold concerts or one-man solo performances.

The shape of the theater is similar to the hall of Supreme Harmony in the Palace Museum of Beijing. The auditorium has 4 floors, with a total of 1498 seats, and the music pool can accommodate 70 people. The experimental theater, also known as the "black box" small theater, is located on the third floor of the theater, with a capacity of 179-242 seats.

The shape of the concert hall adopts the structure of Xieshan temple in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is similar to the Baohe hall in the Forbidden City of Beijing. Xieshan is made of two floors, with a total of 2022 seats in three floors. The concert hall is located on the ground floor of the concert hall, which can accommodate 354 seats, providing small performances such as recitals and chamber music, as well as lectures, expositions or demonstration lectures.

Corridor and corner Pavilion

The cloister of the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall is a 5.5-meter-high, 1200 meter long sidewalk building along Xinyi Road, Hangzhou south road, and patriotic East Road in Taipei City (the length of the single wall from the music hall to the theater is 748 meters, 1948 meters). On the outer wall near the sidewalk, there are 246 Chinese lantern windows with 18 different patterns and shapes every 4.5 meters; there are four corner pavilions (including six for the two halls) with a height of 11.1 meters. The forms and materials are the same as those of the archway.

Architectural features

The Zhongzheng memorial hall is designed by Yang Zhuocheng, the designer of Yuanshan Hotel. All the buildings are in the style of Chinese culture. It is the top of the temple of heaven and the body of the pyramid. Its exterior is mainly blue and white, symbolizing "freedom and equality". The memorial hall is built on a broad foundation with three floors, and its plane is square, implying the meaning of "Zhongzheng". The octagonal roof of the hall represents the eight virtues of "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, faith, righteousness, peace and so on", resulting in the majority of people in the shape of "human". They gather on the top of the hall and connect with heaven to embody the idea of "unity of heaven and man". The roof is made of tianbaolan glazed tiles, blue with purple, reflecting the sun. The top of the pagoda is golden to show its sublimation and brilliance. Other materials are natural color, milky white marble wall, cypress ceiling in the hall, caisson with double overlapping bucket arch, light red granite floor, without any paint. The octagonal roof of the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall, the top of the Fu Hall of the theater, and the top of the Xieshan of the concert hall form a three mountain layout.

Exhibition Profile

The central corridor on the first floor of the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall, covering an area of 361 square meters, displays two Cadillac cars used by Chiang Kai Shek in the past, as well as models of the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Park. The cultural relics exhibition room in the hall mainly displays Chiang Kai Shek's clothes and literature. The art gallery and exhibition space are often borrowed to hold exhibitions or entertain foreign guests.

Located in the east of the memorial hall, Zhongzheng Art Gallery has three large exhibition rooms and one multi-functional audio-visual room. It provides educational activities for government schools and legal persons.

The Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was completed and opened on October 31, 1994. All the cultural relics in the room were moved from the original Chiang Kai Shek office, and the interior furnishings were completely presented according to the display mode of the original office. Most of the cultural relics on display in this room are presented by compatriots and foreign guests at home and abroad, except for the traditional Chinese paintings painted by Song Meiling.

Zhongzheng Memorial Hall Library covers an area of 2418 square meters, which is fully open management. It mainly contains more than 30000 books and materials on Chiang Kai Shek's thoughts, speeches and related works, as well as documents on Modern Chinese history, political and economic works, historical materials on the study of Taiwan and folk customs. There are more than 150 periodicals. There are 10 seats in the audio-visual area. The audio-visual content covers culture and education, history and geography, music, fine arts, speeches, etc., including audio-visual media such as video tapes, audio tapes, laser records, etc.

Important events

From 6:30 every day, there will be guards stationed in the memorial hall. From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day, there will be a guard handover ceremony on the whole. The guard is handed over by the honor guard of the army, the Navy and the air force, which can be seen by the visitors every day

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