Beijing Part 6 - Tian An Men Square

*So I wrote a great post about this last week, scheduled it to publish and then blogger had a brain fart. It was supposed to publish four posts I had written over the last week. Today when I went to force publish this one, the whole thing had disappeared. Blogger - don't fail me now. I don't want to have to leave you.

Have any of you ever seen the Simpsons episode where they go to China with Selma to get a baby and they go to Tian An Men Square? 

It was totally like that. Here is what really happened.

 This is their National Museum. You have to have your passport to get in. Odd.

 That is a government building.

So Mao Zedong rose to power on the ideas of equality. He joined the war efforts in 1911 that ended Empirical China. Then he joined the beginnings of the Communist Party in 1921, during the rule of the Kuomintang. Then he lead the Communists to power in the 1940s, succeeding in establishing the the Communist Rule in 1949. Then the Cultural Revolution that was the end of so much of China's heritage. So then, when Mao dies, after he's cut down the emperors, warlords and destroyed treasures, he gets memorialized in this giant mausoleum. Hypocrite.

 Some sort of patriotic mumbo jumbo about establishing the communists as rulers.

 The square.

 It was warm and sunny, but in a polluted air sort of way.

The infamous watcher of all the goes on.

Next post: The Forbidden City.