China Century Monument

The China Millennium Monument is located on the extension line of West Chang'an Street in Beijing, to the west of the Chinese Revolutionary Military Museum, to the north of Yuyuantan Park, and to the south of Beijing West Railway Station. Facing south, the China Century Monument covers an area of 4.5 hectares, with a total construction area of 35000 square meters. It is composed of the main structure, bronze corridor, flame square, cross street bridge, Century Hall, art hall, etc. The China Millennium Monument was built to meet the new millennium of the 21st century. At present, it is mainly used as the World Art Museum of China century altar, and is the first public welfare national cultural institution in China to collect, display and research world art.

China Century Monument

The China Millennium Monument is located on the extension line of West Chang'an Street in Beijing, to the west of the Chinese Revolutionary Military Museum, to the north of Yuyuantan Park, and to the south of Beijing West Railway Station. Facing south, the China Century Monument covers an area of 4.5 hectares, with a total construction area of 35000 square meters. It is composed of the main structure, bronze corridor, flame square, cross street bridge, Century Hall, art hall, etc. The China Millennium Monument was built to meet the new millennium of the 21st century. At present, it is mainly used as the World Art Museum of China century altar, and is the first public welfare national cultural institution in China to collect, display and research world art.

The China Century Monument is a memorial building of sundial type. 6500 meters away from Tiananmen tower, the world art museum is located inside the main structure, under the sundial, occupying one floor, two floors and one underground floor. With the purpose of spreading world civilization, promoting cultural exchange, popularizing art education and serving the needs of the public, the art museum is the first World Art Museum in China. The museum consists of three parts: basic exhibition hall, special exhibition hall and Digital Art Museum, with an exhibition area of about 20000 square meters. There is a circular relief mural in the Century Hall, which shows the history of Chinese civilization in chronological order, and is called "Ode to the Chinese millennium".

China Century Monument is one of the projects that won the Luban Prize of China Construction Engineering (national quality project) in 2001.

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On the evening of September 23, 1993, science and technology daily invited Professor Zhu Xiangyuan, vice chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, to give a telephone interview after announcing the results of Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games that night. Mr. Zhu thinks that if he succeeds in bidding for the Olympic Games, he can say anything. If he fails, how will he express his position? Late at night, I learned from the live TV that the bid for the Olympic Games was unsuccessful. A moment later, the phone rings. Mr. Zhu said that the ancients said, "if you leave green water and green mountains, why worry about no place to put the golden hook.". We Chinese people can stand any setbacks. Only by working hard to advance China's modernization will all kinds of opportunities emerge as the times require.

Having said that, Mr. Zhu stayed up all night. He deeply felt that he needed to find another inspiring activity to make up for the vacuum left by the failure of the Olympic bid. It suddenly occurred to him that the 1990s began in 1990, so 2000 should be the first year of the 21st century, which is the year of Gengchen and the year of the dragon. I also think that the 21st century will be a century of comprehensive rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and a century of taking off like a dragon, which is of even greater significance.

Since then, Mr. Zhu began to collect various materials about the coming of the new century, compare the development history of eastern and Western civilizations, study the reasons why the 5000 year Chinese civilization has stagnated and declined since the 15th century, and conceive several major celebrations in 1999: the 50th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China, Macao's return to China on December 20, etc It's a climax.

In April 1994, when Mr. Zhu was on a business trip, he talked about these ideas with young people in the same industry, which aroused their interest and resonance. At the end of April, at a forum in the capital, Mr. Zhu boldly talked about the idea of the celebration, which attracted the attention of the Beijing Municipal Party committee and asked for written opinions. Mr. Zhu rushed to write nearly ten thousand words of material: "suggestions on preparing for the 100 day activities at the turn of the Millennium", which was submitted to the Beijing Municipal Party committee. In his "proposal", Mr. Zhu Xiangyuan carefully conceived 20 proposals to welcome the coming of 2000, including the construction of "China century wall". That is, on the red wall of the Forbidden City from Tiananmen tower to Nanchizi, 21 reliefs are inlaid, one for a century, showing the 5000 year long history of the Chinese nation. The 21st one expresses the yearning of the world for the 21st century.

On May 27, 1994, Li Zhijian, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party committee, invited some journalists and cultural workers from the capital to gather in Longqingxia to conduct a preliminary discussion on Mr. Zhu's idea of "China century wall". The participants showed extensive interest. With the approval of Comrade Li Zhijian, the full text of the proposal was published in Beijing daily · internal reference on June 2. On June 9, Comrade Song Jian gave an instruction in this internal reference: This is an excellent suggestion. Ask the organization to discuss this. In July of the same year, minxun, a publication of the central organ of the China Democratic Foundation Association, published the proposal in public. According to Li Zhijian's instructions, BTV organized a dialogue between 10 college students and Mr. Zhu, who introduced the proposal. On October 29, Beijing Daily published the proposal in full. At the same time, two programs of Beijing TV station broadcast a video of Mr. Zhu's conversation at 8 pm. On January 9, 1995, Guangming Daily published an interview article "carrying out a hundred day cross century activity".

In the autumn of 1997, comrade Jia Qinglin led a delegation to visit France and saw that Paris was solemnly preparing for activities to welcome the new century. After returning to China, he mentioned this matter at the Municipal Standing Committee. Comrade Li Zhijian introduced Mr. Zhu Xiangyuan's proposal on how to meet the year 2000 a few years ago.

On November 26, the 109th issue of Beijing information compiled by the general office of Beijing Municipal Party committee excerpts the suggestions put forward by Mr. Zhu in May 1994. One of the paragraphs introduces the proposal of "building the Chinese century wall".

On November 30, 1997, comrade Jia Qinglin made a special instruction in this document, demanding that a celebration plan be gradually considered and perfected, discussed and submitted for approval according to certain procedures, and put into practice.

On December 29, 1997, Comrade Li Zhijian invited Xuan XiangLiu and Ping Yongquan, the leaders of the Capital Planning Commission and the Municipal Planning Bureau, to discuss with Mr. Zhu about the construction of the century wall.

On February 4, 1998, Comrade Li Zhijian presided over a forum to discuss specific issues concerning the construction of the Chinese century wall.

On February 12, 1998, Comrade Li Zhijian led the leaders of the municipal Party committee and the municipal government, such as long Xinmin and Liu Jingmin, to several sites in Beijing, including the south side of the Ming city wall, Qianmen, near the National Park, the site of Beitucheng, and the sculpture park in the North Fourth Ring plan. Because the red wall of the Forbidden City is a key cultural relic protected by the state and should not be destroyed, the Ming city wall was also rejected because of its heavy demolition task. After many choices, we finally agreed that it should be located in the South Gate Square of Yuyuantan and the open space between CCTV and the Military Museum.

On April 8, 1998, comrade Jia Qinglin listened to the report on the site selection and preparation of the "China century wall" and agreed to the site selection of Yuyuantan South Gate Square. He believed that this place faces the west railway station, the Military Museum in the East and CCTV in the west, and the greening could be connected. He suggested that the century wall should not be made into a "Qingming River map" style, which would lead to a leak.

On April 16, the general office of the Beijing Municipal Party committee issued the notice on the establishment of the leading group for the construction of the Chinese century wall in Beijing on the 21st (1998). It is mentioned in the article that "the 21st century is coming, and the municipal Party committee and the municipal government have decided to build the Chinese century wall (temporary name) with the theme of showing the Chinese nation's long history, culture and glorious future for thousands of years as a memorial building at the turn of the millennium.".

On April 17, Li Zhijian presided over the meeting of the leading group of the Chinese century wall. We will discuss the idea of the Chinese century wall proposed by Mr. Zhu Xiangyuan. Considering that the South Gate Square of Yuyuantan is not suitable for building walls, and the construction of walls is inevitably a "Qingming Riverside" style, Mr. Zhu proposed that the original concept of "wall" can be changed to "China century corridor", but some comrades proposed that "corridor" should have a roof, and the pronunciation is not good. Comrade Li Zhijian asked Mr. Zhu to reconsider the name. Later, Mr. Zhu proposed to change it to "China Century Monument", which was approved by Comrade Li Zhijian and vice mayor Liu Jingmin. In 1998, it was officially named "China Century Monument". In the same year, five units put forward six plans. After selection and modification, architect Yu Li won the bid.

The China Century Monument was completed on December 21, 2000.

Design concept

The project of China century monument has important aesthetic principles. With the beauty of "Neutralization" and "harmony", it embodies the idea of "harmonious development between human and nature", "ideal brilliance of combination of scientific spirit and morality" and the idea of mutual exchange and harmonious integration between eastern and Western cultures.

In terms of overall artistic design, the Chinese century altar takes "water" as its pulse, takes "stone" as its soul, and deepens the artistic conception with poetic concise language and freehand brushwork of Chinese art, which shows the unique cosmology and aesthetic spirit of the Chinese nation. The flowing water in the sinking square and the trickle on the bronze corridor

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