Mao Zedong's mausoleum, Ne China

Mao Zedong's mausoleum - details and images

Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, or Mao Mausoleum, the resting place of Mao Zedong, chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China in 1943 and chairman of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death in 1976. Mao Zedong's mausoleum is located in the middle of Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Conservation of Mao Zedong, leader of communist China until 1976, is a true epic. Although Mao wanted to be cremated, lifting a mausoleum in Tiananmen middle market in Beijing, began shortly after his death. For the construction of the mausoleum, which was completed in less than a year, materials were brought from all over China: Sichuan Province granite, porcelain Guangdong, land in Tangshan, Nanjing or colored quartz stones in the Kunlun Mountains.

The inauguration ceremony was held November 24, 1976, and the mausoleum was completed on May 24, 1977.

If embalming craft was taken over by the Soviets, through Vietnam to achieve its crystal coffin off a true national competition coffins.

Engineers, scientists and physicians have worked together to harmonize the colors, angles and light intensity so that colored his face closer to the color of a man alive. Was avoided and wrinkles. In November 1976, the Factory 608 coffin was sent to be tested when an earthquake of magnitude 8 earthquake on the Richter scale.

Nearly 24 coffins made of crystal from all over China have entered the competition. A coparseu a more special form came from Sichuan: round with a red carpet inside, he impersonate red sun symbol of Mao during the Cultural Revolution. However, the coffin factory won 608.

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