Marking the Centenary of the 1911 Revolution.

During the Republican era, traditional shrines to fallen soldiers in various places were converted into shrines commemorating the martyrs of the 1911 Revolution. Martyrs' shrines thus became places of memory for the 1911 Revolution. Revolutionary martyrs' shrines occupied an important position within the Republican era's locus for remembering the 1911 Revolution and gradually attained sacred status as part of the national worship system. Although the martyrs' shrines of the Republican era preserved the form of traditional shrines, their memorial rites and interior displays were similar to yet different from old-style shrines: they were multifunctional spaces integrating worship and exhibition, which transformed the traditional space for worship into a sacred vehicle for modern national memory. This caused the people who entered the space to feel respect and admiration for the martyrs and form a profound memory of the Revolution. As a vehicle for national memory during the prewar era, martyrs' shrines played an important role as nationalistic symbols. At the same time, due to the influence of traditional regionalism, martyrs' shrines also became vehicles of regional memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]