What is the roof form of the Monument to the People's Heroes?

[lù] roof

One of the traditional roofs in China, the roof beam structure of the roof uses four columns, and the corner-plastering or girdling is added to form a quadrangular or octagonal roof. A flat-topped roof is surrounded by a circle of eaves.

is a kind of roof style of ancient buildings in China, with four ridges at the top to form a flat roof, and the top is connected with the roof of the palace. Roofing was commonly used in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. Many houses in the Yuan Dynasty were roofed, and there were many roofed buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. For example, Qin 'an Hall in the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty and Xiangluan Pavilion in Yingtai in the Qing Dynasty are the top.

According to Mr. Xie Changhe, a senior architectural engineer who participated in the construction of the Monument to the People's Heroes that year, during the construction of the Monument to the People's Heroes, the design of the monument top was once a difficult problem, and the focus was mainly on the form of the monument top. According to the idea put forward at that time, some people advocated setting up the China ancient treasure dome on the top of the monument, some people advocated setting up a statue, and some people advocated setting up a ruby five-pointed star ... Opinions were not unified. In order to determine the form of the monument at an early date, the leaders of the Beijing Municipal Committee invited Fan Wenlan, a respected historian, and other relevant experts to have a discussion. After the discussion, Premier Zhou made a decision, since the form of the tablet top is not unified, we should not treasure the tablet top

. Didn't Dr. Sun Yat-sen say that "the revolution has not been successful yet, and comrades still need to work hard", so let future generations complete the shape of the tablet top! In this way, the top of the monument left a platform about two meters square. It can be said that the shape of the monument is an unfinished masterpiece.