The fountain will open on time on weekends, and you can hear the crisp sound of water from a distance, which is fresh and pleasant. Under the sunshine, the fountain splashed with colorful water, which was particularly charming under the neon lights at night. Every major festival, surrounded by colorful balloons, gives people the feeling that their eyes are bright and their hearts are hot. "Big Copper Horse" has become the symbolic cultural card of Yancheng.
The statue was created and designed by the then deputy head of the National Urban Sculpture Planning Group and the director of the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts according to the specific ideas of the Veterans Pass of the New Fourth Army. A brave young soldier of the New Fourth Army, with a broadsword on his back and a reins in his hand, rode on the back of a war horse with his front hoof raised high and his head held high against the sun, symbolizing the eastward advance of the New Fourth Army and opening up the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in Central China. The statue is 4 meters high, 3.8 meters long and weighs 3250 kilograms. It is made of bronze. The tower is engraved with the personal inscription of General Zhang Aiping, the former commander of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army: "The New Fourth Army rebuilt the military memorial tower." On the back, facing west, there is an inscription approved by General Zhang Aiping, which was inscribed by the late calligrapher Bao Shen. As a symbol of the heroic city of Yancheng and the spirit of the Iron Army, the Memorial Tower of the Reconstruction Department of the New Fourth Army has been placed on the central traffic island at the intersection of Jianjun Road and Jiefang Road in Yancheng since its completion, and it has also become the central coordinate point of the old city in the eyes of Yancheng citizens. Over the years, the iron army sculpture has been a landmark building in Yancheng, and it has also become a business card featuring the red culture of the New Fourth Army in Yancheng.
"The big bronze horse faces the Yellow Sea in the east and Huaiyang in the west. It is located in Yancheng, downstream of Lixia, with dense river network and flat terrain. In the center of Yancheng, at the intersection of Jiefang Road and Jianjun Road, there is a sculpture affectionately called "Big Copper Horse" by Yancheng citizens. A brave young soldier of the New Fourth Army, with a big knife on his back and a reins in his hand, rode on the back of a war horse with high front hoofs, facing the sunrise and looking east with his head held high. The intersection where the "Big Copper Horse" is located is the starting point of the "zero kilometer" of Yancheng Highway. In the mind of Sun Guodong, director of the New Fourth Army Memorial Hall in Yancheng, "Big Copper Horse" is more like a space-time coordinate. Together with the new fourth army memorial hall and the former site of the new fourth army headquarters in Taishan Temple, it became the historical track of the city's rebirth in the Anti-Japanese War.