C47/JI47, Monument to People's Heroes

C47/JI47, Monument to People’s Heroes

C47/JI47, Monument to People’s Heroes
Serial number: C47, C47m
Values in set: 1
Date of issue:
May 1, 1958 for Mint stamps;
May 30, 1958 for S/S
Denomination: 8 fen
Designer: Sun Chuanzhe
Engraver: Kong Shaohui
Size of stamps: 35*27.5mm
Perforation: 14
Sheet composition: 90(9*10)
Size of S/S: 87*137mm
Stamp of S/S: 35*27.5mm
Printing process: Engraving
Printing House: China Modern Times Printing Works
纪47，人民英雄纪念碑
(165） 8分 纪念碑
发行量：800万枚
发行日期：1958.5.1。
印刷版别：雕刻版。
齿孔度数：P14。
图幅：35mm×27.5mm。
整张枚数：90(9×10)。
设计者：【D】孙传哲。
雕刻者：[E]孔绍惠。
印刷厂：中国近代印刷公司。

C47M/JI47M, Monument to People’s Heroes (Miniature Sheet）

C47M/JI47M, Monument to People's Heroes (Miniature Sheet）

C47M/JI47M, Monument to People’s Heroes (Miniature Sheet）

纪47M, 人民英雄纪念碑
（165） 8分 纪念碑
发行量：20万枚
发行日期：1958.5.30。雕刻版。无齿孔。
小全张规格：87mm×137mm。邮票图案规格：35mm×27.5mm 。
设计者：[D]刘硕仁。
雕刻者：[E]孔绍惠。
印刷厂：中国近代印刷公司。

Background: Monument to the People’s Heroes

The Monument to the People’s Heroes, constructed from August 1952 to May 1958, was the first largescale memorial built in New China.
Towering 10 stories high, its northern fagade is dominated by the inscription, “Eternal Glory to the People’s Heroes,” in Mao Zedong’s hand.
The 17,000 pieces of marble and granite, brought in from Shandong Province and Fangshan on the outskirts of Beijing, weigh over 10,000 metric tons. Of such high quality the monument is projected to last 800 to 1,000 years.
The lower plinth is decorated with 10 twometerhigh marble basreliefs depicting the Chinese revolutionary movement over the past hundred years.
“Burning the Opium,” the incident on June 3, 1839 in which chests of opium were destroyed by an angry crowed at Humen, begins on the eastern face.
Next comes the 1851 Jintian Uprising, a crucial event in the Taiping Revolution, A swarm of Han and Zhuang warriors wield their makeshift weapons under a flagfilled sky.
On the south there is the Wuchang Uprising, a key event leading up to the Revolution of 1911, in which rebellious soldiers and civilians storm the mansion of the local Imperial Viceroy, inflicting a deadly blow to the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history.
The May 4th Movement (1919) is the theme of the next panel. A young man is shown demanding “national sovereignty as a defense against the foreign powers and punishment for all traitors” before a crowd at Tian’anmen.
Next is depicted the May 30th Movement (1925), where tens of thousands of workers, students and urban residents fought their way through sandbags and barbed wire to the British Concession in Shanghai.
On the west side is the Nanchang Uprising against the Kuomintang on August 1, 1927. The panel shows a company commander making the signal to attack. “Guerrilla War Against the Japanese Invasion”(1937-1945) is depicted beside: Guerrillas thread their way through forests and fields; peasant supporters stand ready with spades; an old woman gives her son a gun; a group of young men await their officer’s orders.

“Crossing the River” on the north side is the largest of the 10 panels. Crossing the Yangtze River, the People’s Liberation Army rush toward Nanjing, the stronghold of the Kuomintang and in the background, battleships plow through the waves.

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