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Photos Above: As it was getting dark we went with the crowd to the edge of the Square and watched them take down the flag in front of the Forbidden City – it is quite a Communist military ceremony! As soon as the flag was down and the soldiers had marched into the Forbidden City with it, the Communist Soldiers took over the square with Bullhorns and military vehicles telling everyone to leave Tiananmen Square immediately. Even though there were thousands of people still in Tiananmen Square, the Communist Soldiers had the entire square cleared within minutes. They make sure the park is vacated before it is dark. I don't think anyone had any doubt but that there would be arrests for those who didn't quickly comply. It was so hard to grasp that we were in a Communist county but it was evident everywhere from the Communist flags on display everywhere to the uniforms the Soldiers around us were wearing.
Photos Below: The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall commonly known as the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong is the final resting place for the former Communist leader. Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung, commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution. He was the architect and founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949, and held control over the nation until his death in 1976. His theoretical contribution to Marxism–Leninism, along with his military strategies and brand of policies, are collectively known as Maoism.
A crystal coffin for displaying the body was locally developed. An initial proposal to use the crystal coffin the USSR had provided Sun Yat-sen after his death in 1925, proved unfeasible because the coffin's length (5 ft 9 in) was not sufficient for Mao's height (5 ft 11 in) and the nickle-plated sides would have necessitated having visitors look down on Mao's body which was deemed unacceptable by the authorities.
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