(September 30, 1949)



* This is the inscription for the Monument to the People’s Heroes drafted by Comrade Mao Zedong.






    Eternal glory to the people’s heroes who laid down their lives in the People’s Liberation War and the people’s revolution over the past three years!

    Eternal glory to the people’s heroes who laid down their lives in the People’s Liberation War and the people’s revolution over the past thirty years!

    Tracing back from that time to the year 1840, eternal glory to the people’s heroes who, from then on, sacrificed themselves in one struggle after another against both internal and external enemies in the cause of national independence and the freedom and happiness of the people!







(Mao Zedong: Selected Works, Volume V, People’s Publishing House, 1st ed., April 1977, p. 11)