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国庆英语
天安门广场的英文介绍
Tian'anmen Square is one of the largest city squares in the world. It is situated in
the heart of Beijing. Tian'anmen was built in 1417 and was the entrance gate to the
Forbidden
City.
Now
the
square
stretches
880
meters
from
north
to
south
and
500
meters from east to west. The total area is 440,000 square meters. That's about the size
of 60 soccer fields, spacious enough to accommodate half a million people.
Covering over forty hectares, Tian'anmen Square must rank as the greatest public
square on earth. It's a modern creation, in a city that traditionally had no squares, as
classical Chinese town planning did not allow for places where crowds could gather.
Tian'anmen only came into being when imperial offices were cleared from either side
of
the
great
processional
way
that
led
south
from
the
palace
to
Qianmen
and
the
Temple of Heaven. The ancient north
–
south axis of the city was thus destroyed and the
broad east
–
west thoroughfare, Chang'an Jie, that now carries millions of cyclists every
day past the front of the Forbidden City, had the walls across its path removed. In the
words of one of the architects: "The very map of Beijing was a reflection of the feudal
society, it was meant to demonstrate the power of the emperor. We had to transform it,
we had to make Beijing into the capital of socialist China." The easiest approach to the
square
is
from
the
south,
where
there's
a
bus
terminus
and
a
subway
stop.
As
the
square is lined with railings (for crowd control) you can enter or leave only via the exits
at either end or in the middle.
Bicycles are not permitted, and the streets either side are one way; the street on
the east side is for traffic going south, the west side for northbound traffic.