What is the significance of the 54-gun salute in founding ceremony?

The significance of founding ceremony's 54-gun salute firing 28 times in unison. The 54-gun salute symbolizes the participation of 54 nationalities in the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference. The 28-gun salute marked 28 years of heroic struggle led by the China Production Party. China's celebratory salute began in founding ceremony. 1In August, 949, President Mao Zedong proposed that the opening of the first China People's Political Consultative Conference and founding ceremony should fire a salute with 28 shots to show that it has gone through a glorious course of 28 years from the establishment of the China Producers' Party to the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC). In mid-August, Gao Cunxin, commander of the special forces of North China Military Region, conveyed the instructions of Commander Nie of North China Military Region to the newly formed salute regiment of the military region: "founding ceremony is scheduled to be held in the afternoon of June 65438+ 10/day. The first item of the celebration is to play the national anthem, raise the national flag and salute; There must be 54 salutes, representing 54 aspects of CPPCC; A 28-gun salute was fired, representing the 28-year victory of the people's revolutionary struggle in China led by the Producers' Party of China. This was decided by Chairman Mao himself, and we must complete the task well. The salute regiment consists of special forces in North China. " Zhao Daman was the commander-in-chief of the salute regiment, and Han Huaizhi, chief of staff of the chariot regiment, was the on-site commander. Then 108 mountain artillery was transferred from Zhangjiakou and other places as the salute of founding ceremony. These salutes mainly captured the Japanese 75mm 94 mountain artillery and the 75mm 14 mountain artillery made by Shanxi Arsenal in imitation of Japanese mountain artillery. Japanese Type 94 mountain gunner has a length of 1560mm, a bullet weight of 6.34kg (Grenade), a range of 8300m and a total gun weight of 536kg. With the sound of salute, select platoon, company and battalion cadres with good military and political quality from all artillery units, including war heroes. 1 949 65438+1October13pm, the founding ceremony ceremony was held in Tiananmen Square, accompanied by the 28 megatron cannon of 108 salute, which ushered in the birth of the people and the country of China. After founding ceremony, according to the instructions of Premier Zhou Enlai, all the 108 mountain guns of the Salute Regiment were stored as national precious cultural relics in specially built gun depots for safekeeping.