The apologue of Tian¡¯anmen Square and Tian¡¯anmen Tower, two of the above landmarks of China, stands for added than a six-hundred-year-old architecture in the eyes of abounding Chinese. With Tian¡¯anmen as the background, several people-focus photos taken about sixty years ago were recaptured in 2009, absorption the changes and development of New China.
The old photos were recreated in 2009 in the aforementioned division as they were taken before, application people¡¯s aforementioned poses and facial expressions. Below are a few examples:
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Yang Zhenya (R) and his two comrades-in-arms angle in foreground of the Tian¡¯anmen Tower one day afore the founding celebration of the People¡¯s Republic of China on October 1, 1949. In 2009, Yang stood afore the Tower afresh but this time he airish alone, as his two comrades-in-arms had anesthetized away. Yang was a above administrator of the August 1st Film Studio, China¡¯s alone blur assembly assemblage beneath the administering of the PLA. He is now a affiliate of the China Film Association.
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In 1958, Ying Deyi (R), a PLA soldier, and his wife Zhang Jinfang, calm with their three-year-old babe Ying Zuowa (L) and six-year-old babe Ying Daiya, stood afore the Tian¡¯anmen Tower. In 2009, the accomplished ancestors airish afresh afore the Tower. Younger babe Ying Zuowa (L) became a abecedary and the earlier daughter, Ying Daiya (third from the left), went on to abstraction in Germany and is now alive at Siemens.






