I read an article about a traveler who was about to land in New York on a plane, and the traveler burst into tears when he saw the Statue of Liberty standing next to the Hudson River estuary in New York City outside the porthole. It can be seen that freedom is precious in people's hearts, and freedom is like eyes and light, air and heart, love and heart for human beings, and it is a universal value of human beings.
When we were children, we read a poem by the Hungarian poet Pedolfi in our textbooks: "Life is precious, love is more valuable, if it is for freedom, both can be thrown away." "It was precisely because of the influence of this poem that I skipped school and rebelled when I was young, and when I grew up, I went my own way at work, and I ruined my beautiful life for freedom.
However, the freedom advocated by the Statue of Liberty is very different from the freedom that we pursue as individuals in an immature period, and it is completely different, it represents the freedom of the spirit and the freedom of thought.
The Statue of Liberty is 93 meters tall including the pedestal, and she holds a torch in her right hand, representing the path to freedom. She wears an ancient Greek robe and wears a crown with seven spires coiled around it, symbolizing the seven continents of the world. The goddess has her left arm bent and holds a copy of the Declaration of Independence, and the goddess steps on a broken chain, symbolizing that she has finally broken free from the shackles and won her freedom.
The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States by the French on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of American independence. Construction of the statue began in 1876, but construction stalled for a period due to lack of funds, and on October 23, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was completed.
After the production was completed, it was shipped to the United States, and the freighter at that time could not fit the complete Statue of Liberty, so the French sculptor, the chief designer of the statue of the Goddess, Auguste Bartholdi, designed the various parts of the body of the Statue of Liberty into independent parts, and after the design, the preliminary assembly was carried out in France to see the effect, and after there was no problem at all, each part was separately loaded into a container for ocean transportation, and then assembled after arriving in the United States.
The Statue of Liberty is made of brass, which turns green after being oxidized by years of wind and rain. The inside is hollow, visitors can take the elevator to the top of the pedestal, to the crown must climb the stairs, in the early years you can climb all the way to the torch, and then there are some problems with the position of the arm, in order to ensure the safety of tourists, a big lock locks the passage to the torch, can only be repaired personnel up.
In 1984, the Statue of Liberty was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.