Today, my mom and dad were watching a show live from China on the Internet. It was about the sixtieth anniversary of a Chinese holiday, similar to Canada Day, celebrating the creation of the People's Republic of China. It was a huge gathering of hundreds of thousands of people. Most of it was parades.
Half of the parading was of the latest war technology. The tanks, trucks, planes, and many other vehicles, made their way past the cheering people. Those I was not interested in. What was impressive, was the way the soldiers walked. They were lined up in perfectly straight lines, and moved in perfect synchronization. They raised their hands and feet at the exact same time, and raised them to the exact same height. From above, they look like a mat moving across the Tianmen Square. I wonder how many years of training it took to reach this perfection?
The dancers that paraded a little afterwards were just as awesome. For example, there was a group of marching women, each holding a blue and a red pompom. They raised the pompoms in different patterns all at the same time, so that in a birds eye view, it looked like the "mat" of people, not only moved without falling apart, but changed colour every so often.
The coolest was at the end, where the group of children walked out in a formation while holding balloons. At the very end of the song that was sung, they all released the balloons all at the same time, and thousands of balloons floated towards the sky. The view was so majestic! The Chinese sure knew how to put up a good show!
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