Casting Soul Return to Tower

Author: Tong Wenxing Hong Kong Dandelion Children's Culture Center

The tower is a common Oriental traditional building. It was originally used by Buddhist monks for buried bones. After Buddhism was introduced into East Asia, the tower was integrated with local traditional buildings. With the advancement and development of society, the tower culture has expanded to other purposes, which is not limited to the buried bones of monks, and gradually evolved into a variety of forms of tower buildings with various functions.

In the development of Chinese culture, the significance of the tower is not limited to the level of architecture. The tower carries many cultural elements such as human history, religion, philosophy and aesthetics, and is an important medium to explore and understand human civilization. This culture is not meaningless, please respect and protect.

Taking history as the foundation of education as the foundation

Why is there a "return tower" in Hong Kong?

This "Return Tower" is located in the Tai Po Park in the New Territories of Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a commemorative tower built in memory of Hong Kong's return to the motherland on July 1, 1997. The tower is 32.4 meters high, which is divided into two floors. It is a spiral -shaped design and wood as a building material. It is full of natural feelings that are full of rewarding.

This "return tower" allowed us to recall the pain left by the imperial infringement and arbitrarily bullying when the Chinese national strength was weak; it was the first Opium War in 1841 to cut Hong Kong Island to the British "Nanjing Treaty" to the United Kingdom. It was the "Beijing Treaty" and leased the "Beijing Treaty" and leased the "Beijing Treaty" to Britain's "Beijing Treaty" to the British colonial land.

The significance of this "return tower" is that the villagers in the New Territories were cut and sacrificed in the early years of the United Kingdom to defend the country and sacrifice; the fall of Hong Kong, the villagers' anti -Japanese war on Japan; Collective memories.

This "return tower" buried the courageous spirit of our Hong Kong with their own life anti -British resistance and defending the ancestors of the native homeland to dare to fight. The heroes of these righteous men are always alerting our generations: Remember history and forget the national shame.

The people need a Hong Kong "return" the motherland commemorative park

In the "Return Tower" in Tai Po Benefine Park, the first place in the United Kingdom was selected for the first time in the New Territories. So when Hong Kong returns to our China, build a tower to commemorate at this place.

As a result, I suggest that the Hong Kong government, the Dapu Beach Park, should be renamed the "Hong Kong Return to the Memorial Park of the Motherland" more appropriate, more appropriate, more educational and far -reaching historical significance. It is also recommended to build a "Hong Kong Patriotic Cultural Relics Literature History Museum" in "Return to Park", telling us the descendants of the "Hong Kong Return" history, so that Hong Kong can continue to continue to understand and learn from Hong Kong for nearly a century. Carry out the long -term heroic history of struggle, lead the patriot to govern Hong Kong with the spirit of "Bacon casting soul, enlighten wisdom and wisdom", so that Hong Kong management governors will not bear the times and Shaohua.

July 2022

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