Tiananmen Square

After visiting The Great Wall of China, today we are going to Tiananmen Square.(天安門廣場) We all know one of the most famous incident in Chinese history-Tiananmen Square protests of 1989(天安門事變).



Tiananmen Square is the biggest square in the whole world and it is located in the center of Beijing city. Also, it is famous of the location of the southern of the Imperial Palace. The Square is really big and there are many visitors taking pictures or visiting the Imperial Palace. Actually, my friends and I were so stupid that we didn’t know the Imperial Palace is inside of the Tiananmen, so we had been visited there four times because we couldn’t find the Imperial Palace. As a result, we didn’t go inside of the Tiananmen, but we took a walk around this area.

Because Tiananmen Square is in the center of Beijing and there are many important ancient places around it, the control is very strict by the police. We saw the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong(毛主席紀念堂) where were always full of guards which made us nervous when we passed by. Zheng Yang Men(正陽門) is also astonished us even though we couldn’t go into it, but it was spectacular when we saw it.










In fact, we were surprising to find the shopping area of the Zhenyangmen because we were just getting lost. At the time we couldn’t find the right way to the subway, we found it. It is an interesting place that although it is full of international trends and stores, the structures are classical. For example, we saw Starbucks but not in a fashion or average building; it is decorated in Chinese style which made me feel weird. Stores including local or international are all the same decorations as Starbuck in the whole area. They even had some traditional performances in some buildings to catch customers’ attention.





The area is really interesting because it is typical combination of west and east. If you are free after having dinner, come to visit here with family or friends, you will have fun here no matter shopping or taking a walk.