Portraits overlooking Tiananmen

A hand-painted, framed, oil portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong overlooks Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

[2] In 1925 the government of the Republic of China hung up a portrait of Chinese statesman Sun Yat-sen at Tiananmen gate, after his death in March that year.

Continuing to commemorate the Second Sino-Japanese War in July 1949 after the Pingjin campaign, which saw the peaceful seizure of Beijing (and Tianjin) by the People's Liberation Army, portraits of Zhu De and Mao Zedong were hung up at Tiananmen.

[3][4] After the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on October 1st 1949 a singular portrait of chairman Mao had been hung up on Tiananmen gate.

[1] During the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 a group of protestors, among them Yu Dongyue, vandalised the portrait of Mao Zedong by throwing eggs at it.

[8] Zhou Lingzhao was commissioned to paint the portrait of Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square for the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.