Erqi Memorial Tower, Memorial monument in Erqi District, China
Erqi Memorial Tower is a monument in Zhengzhou made up of two connected pentagonal towers that together reach 63 meters tall. It stands at the center of Erqi Square and houses exhibition spaces spread across several floors inside.
The tower was built to mark the railway workers strike of February 1923, when workers on the Beijing-Hankou line protested their working conditions. The current structure replaced an earlier and smaller memorial that had stood on the same spot.
The tower is commonly called the "February Seventh Tower," a name that refers directly to the date of the 1923 railway workers strike. That name has spread beyond the monument itself and now gives the surrounding district its identity.
The tower stands on a central plaza in Zhengzhou that is easy to reach on foot from most parts of the city center. A visit to the inside is worth planning, as the exhibition content changes from one floor to the next.
At the very top of the structure sits a clock face that measures 2.7 meters across and plays the song 'The East Is Red' every hour. This turns the tower into a kind of musical landmark that marks time with sound as much as with hands.
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