【Botanical Garden 129 Movement Memorial Pavilion】
Beijing Botanical Garden is located between Xiangshan and Yuquan Mountain, the west, north and east are surrounded by mountains, the south is a plain, covers an area of 400 hectares, the terrain is high in the northwest, low in the southeast, a small river flows out of the northwest cherry ditch, straight to the southeast gate, on the whole, and the terrain of Beijing is very similar, it can be said that the Beijing Botanical Garden is a condensed version of Beijing, so the botanical garden built here, the geographical location is unique. It is precisely because of the geographical location, in 1956, with the approval of the State Council, a comprehensive botanical garden was built here that integrates popular science research, protection of plants, and tourism and ornamentation, and later built a glass exhibition room wanshengyuan in the center of the botanical garden as needed, which planted a large number of southern tropical plants for research and general public visits.
Every spring, the Tulip Festival is held at the Beijing Botanical Garden, during which hundreds of thousands of tulips compete to bloom and shine with the surrounding green trees and red flowers. In the autumn, in a solemn slaughter, the chrysanthemum exhibition was ushered in, and the chrysanthemums of various colors competed for beauty. Snow in winter, and here is covered in silver, from a distance to look particularly enchanting.
Metasequoia, a national first-class protected plant in the Botanical Garden
There are many historical places of interest and monuments in the Beijing Botanical Garden, built in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty's Reclining Buddha Temple, which has a history of more than 1300 years.
Wat Pho Arch
There is also the tomb of Liang Qichao, a master of the late Qing Dynasty and the republic of China warlord Sun Chuanfang. Cao Xueqin of the Qing Dynasty lived here for many years and wrote the world-famous "Dream of the Red Chamber" (partial), and there is still Cao Xueqin's former residence here to commemorate Cao Xueqin.
Botanical Garden Snowscape and Wansheng Garden
In 1935, the "He Mei Agreement" was signed, the Japanese invaders were pressing forward step by step, and the land was lost year by year, and in early December, Beiping student representatives Huang Jing, Yao Yilin, Guo Qiuming, Gu Jingsheng and others secretly gathered in Cherry Valley to discuss and organize student and citizen demonstrations.
At the meeting, student representatives unanimously decided to hold a demonstration on December 9 with the slogan "Stop the Civil War, Unite Externally." On December 9, thousands of Peiping students demonstrated at Tiananmen Square, followed by five more massive demonstrations, which many Peiping citizens also participated in. Encouraged by Peking students and people from all walks of life, large-scale demonstrations broke out in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and other places, dealing a heavy blow to the traitorous behavior of the Kuomintang government.
The 129 Movement was a victorious movement that profoundly exposed the true features of the Japanese aggressors and the traitorous behavior of the Kuomintang government, educated the broad masses of the people, dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors and the Kuomintang's policy of passive resistance, and laid a solid foundation for the establishment of the national anti-Japanese united front.
Organizer of the 129 Movement
In 1985, at the request of the broad masses of the people, at the initiative of the Beijing Municipal Youth League Committee and the Federation of Students, a memorial square was built on the site of the Cherry Valley Conference to commemorate this vigorous patriotic movement.
The center of the memorial square is a group of sculptures composed of three characters, the three characters are combined together as "the crowd", the upright lines symbolize the vigor of the young people, symbolize the determination of the broad masses of the people to unite and resist aggression, the north side of the memorial square is a relief, telling the scene of the assembly at that time, the right is Liu Bingsen's handwritten inscription, and on the far right is peng Zhen's handwritten eight gilded characters, which read: 219 Movement Memorial Pavilion.
Peng Zhen's handwriting
relief
"Crowd" word pavilion
inscription
Beijing Xiangshan Botanical Garden is now the patriotic education base of Beijing Municipality, which reflects in a concentrated way that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the vast number of students have once again stood at the forefront of the times and sacrificed their lives to carry out revolutionary movements with the enemy. Their glorious deeds have inspired generations of students to forge ahead.