huge bas-reliefs on the On the pedestal of the tablet

On the pedestal of the tablet are huge bas-reliefs depicting eight major revolutionary episodes, which can be read in chronological order in a clockwise direction from the east:

1. Destruction of opium at Humen (1839), in the run-up to the First Opium War
2. Jintian Uprising, the catalyst for the Taiping Revolution (1851)
3. Wuchang Uprising, the catalyst for the Xinhai Revolution (1911)
4. May 4th Movement (1919)
5. May 30 Movement (1925)
6. Nanchang Uprising (1927)
7. War of Resistance Against Japan (1931-1945)
8. Crossing the Yangtze River Campaign in the Chinese Civil War (1949)