Every year all countries have their independence day. But unlike the others, China really shows it of BIG TIME! I went to the most famous National Day show today. The show is called Reviving Road but for reasons i don't want to write it in Chinese here. The President (Chairman), Prime Minister and other party leaders of China were also present.
The show was about Chinas history from 1840 until present day. The whole thing started with the foreign invaders in 1840 (France, Spain, England) who came to China and shortly after that the Qing dynasty fell and ended. After the fall of Qing dynasty there was the form of the Communist party. The show was a lot about how the communist party made China so nice and great.
The also played out a few of Mao's poems and speeches and of course a very short mention about the Culture Revolution even though it lasted as long as 1966-1976. But the Culture Revolution is like a dark past of China. People don't discuss it because not much good came out of that time. It tore up families and got many innocent people killed, peace rest with them.
Then for more happy scenes! They made a REALLY long number of how the discovered and were able to produce the Atomic Bomb. A lot of dancers and smiling people were performing while in the background there was real fotage from 1960 and the underground bunkers how they made the BOMB. kind of contrast when seeing all these happy people dancing to the most destructive bomb ever build by man. In the end of this scene all the names of those Brilliant scientist were published and people gave them a lot of applause...
To more recent history: there was the first chinese astronaut, the big flood in 1998 all over china, the terrible earthquake that took place last year in Sichuan (where i was in February) and the last but lot least! The Olympic Games in Beijing 2008!
It was a good history lesson about China, i learned some new things at it. BUT, it had a real propaganda touch to it. Everything was build on how great the Communist Party is and how great this country is because of the party. Well it's very true that China has become one of the most powerful nations in todays world but too much is sometimes just too much.
I loved the show! They had 3200 people performing at the show (phew!). The special effects were also incredible and i have never before seen a performance like this one! Long live the Red Flag! :)
Got some pictures from chinese news sites
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