[Comprehensive British and American] China's extraordinary power

"What's wrong with Tomb-sweeping Day? Isn't it a festival?" Qiao asked with question marks all over his head. Since it is a holiday with holidays, is there any problem going out to play?

"Tomb-sweeping Day means nothing to you, but it means a lot to the Chinese people. Why do you think it is a legal holiday? We have to spend time worshiping our ancestors."

"Worshiping ancestors?!" Joe was terrified, thinking about those mages who deal with ghosts in China, swallowed unconsciously, "We...we won't see ghosts..."

"The Ghost Festival you are talking about is on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, so it is also called July and a half. After the Qixi Festival, it is said that on that day all the ghosts will be released from the underworld, so that the dead can come to the world and live with each other. Family reunion is a traditional Chinese ghost festival."

Joe broke down and went crazy, "Why are there so many inexplicable festivals in China?"

Li Qinghe rolled his eyes when he heard the words, "It's inexplicable, these are very ancient festivals, some even have a history of 2000 years, and the customs have been changing according to people's needs, and they have become what they are today. Are some festivals in the United States more reliable? For example, Thanksgiving," Li Qinghe sneered, "Native Americans helped them when they first arrived in America, allowing them to settle down and take root there. They thank God for his grace and care, and for the help. Their Native Americans had Thanksgiving, but where are those Native Americans now? Thanksgiving has become a carnival for businessmen.”

"Among our traditional festivals, there are four traditional festivals for ancestor worship in the Chinese nation. They are New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Chongyang Festival. Ancestor worship is very important to us."

Soon, Charles' students saw the so-called significance of the Tomb-sweeping Day, and the huge academy was suddenly deserted.Except for those who have no ancestors to worship and are still sticking to their posts, so that those who are still in school will not even have to eat, the rest are basically closed, shops are closed, and movie theaters are closed.

Even the researchers who have been obsessed with experiments all year round, it is rare to get out of the laboratory on this day, take care of their original slovenly appearance, and go to worship their ancestors.

Yan Che, who was far away in the United States, and Qi Yutong, who was in the UK, also rushed back overnight, planning to sacrifice the two days of sleep to complete the ancestor worship, and Qi Yutong asked Sirius to take over the lesson.

Wu Tuozaki doesn't know who his parents are, so he can't talk about ancestor worship, so he can have a good rest one day.But he will participate in the National Memorial Day activities the day after Qingming.

On this day, a large number of people will go to the monument forest to pay homage to the martyrs who died in the past dynasties or to resist foreign aggression, or to save the people, and victims of major disasters or events.Among them are the ancestors of various sects, so for the extraordinary world, the National Memorial Day is also a very important day.

On this day, Charles took his students and Yan Che to the Forest of Monuments together.

He believes that this is also a good opportunity to learn about Chinese culture.For the Chinese, it is better to say that they believe in their ancestors than they believe in gods.

Charles urged the students to dress more formally and not to be as casual as usual. The little mutants were a little reluctant at first, but when they saw Yan Che and the others who were dressed very plainly but solemnly, they silently swallowed their complaints and went back to the room Changed into a black suit.

"Why are you wearing white?" Scott asked while arranging his clothes.

He straightened his shirt collar, and twisted his neck unconsciously. He hadn't dressed so formally for a long time, and felt a little awkward.

Yan Che replied: "It is a Western custom to wear black for funerals. In China, funerals are also called white things. We always wear white."

"Then should we also wear white?" Qin looked at her long black dress, a little uneasy.

Wu Tuozaki shook his head, "It's okay, we respect the customs of all parties, and when it comes to worshiping monuments, the heart is more important than the form."

When they came to the Forest of Monuments, they found that there were really many people coming here, and they had to queue up to enter. All the people were dressed in white traditional formal attire. They either held flowers in their arms, or held sandalwood in their hands, and some brought wine. And so on.

The most striking thing is a group of people wearing military uniforms or police uniforms with white flowers on their chests, some of them are even very old, wearing worn and washed military uniforms that are still clean and tidy, and their backs are still straight.People silently made way for them, bowing their heads slightly to show their respect for the public officials who had or are taking on heavy burdens to protect the people.

Most of these soldiers and policemen brought alcohol. They walked through the archway and walked towards the forest of steles on the south side without hesitation.

There are two archways on the east and west sides of the forest of monuments, like two gates, telling the visiting guests that from here, they have entered the boundary of the forest of monuments.The archway is connected by a wide main road, running from east to west, just dividing the forest of steles into two parts.

"The forest of steles is divided into north and south, the south is the forest of steles of martyrs, and the north is the forest of steles of victims of major incidents."

Yan Che and the others led Charles and his party to the Forest of Steles of Martyrs.

"The Forest of Monuments was not called this at first. They originated in the Ming Dynasty. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty commemorated the famous generals who died for the country." Gongsun Yu pointed to a row of stone steles that looked old. , on the basis of this, the range of steles in the forest of monuments has been increased.

"The names on these steles are public officials who died, including policemen, firefighters and soldiers, as well as diplomatic personnel who died abroad. They are all arranged by year, and some well-known events and battles will also have brief descriptions. "

They walked past the stone monuments commemorating several famous battles one by one, and Wu Tuozaki explained each battle for those who didn't know in a clear voice.

There were a few half-grown children who came with their parents and listened to Wu Tuozaki's explanation very seriously. Seeing this, their parents did not urge them, but followed behind to listen.

Afterwards, Yan Che and the others were doing what they were going to do today. With solemn expressions, they placed the sacrifices they had brought in front of the stele, bowed and bowed, and then went to the next stele.

Not long after they walked, they saw an old man who was just over seventy years old that they had just seen outside the archway.Ordinary people may not be able to see his specialness, but Yan Che and others judged from the position of calluses on his hands that this is a veteran of Tiance who has retired.

He stood in front of the stone tablet, carefully touching the name on the stone tablet, with a focused expression, and the expression on his face was like smiling or crying.

Seeing him like this, the passers-by subconsciously lowered their footsteps and placed the flowers in their hands in front of the stele, not wanting to disturb the rare "reunion" between veterans and comrades-in-arms.

The old man seemed to be tired. He sat down cross-legged, took out a few bottles of white wine from the backpack he brought, poured himself a glass, then flipped his wrist and poured the wine in front of the stone tablet. The wine under it spread out.

While drinking, he babbled with his "comrades in arms", as if they were right in front of his eyes, and it was still a time of gathering in the army.

Then he suddenly sang, although there was a smile on his face, but there were tears in his eyes.

"The mountain is completely covered with plain, the wind screams and the ghosts cry. On the general score, there is no record of the names of the kings... In front of the monument of merit and virtue, at the place where we met, I will tell you the sorrow of separation..."

"We must fight for every inch of land without taking a step back, because there was someone behind us to protect us. How much reluctance to give up, drunk against the empty mountain, singing long songs just to echo..."

The old man's voice became lower and lower, until it was almost inaudible in the end.

Yan Che looked up at the words on the stone tablet, and sighed in his heart, this was a tragic victory, the number of victims was the highest in modern history, and it was said that there was a sensation at that time.

They didn't disturb the old senior's feelings of sadness, and walked away gently after the worship. After getting a little far away, they told the soldiers standing guard nearby, asking him to pay attention to the old senior.

The mutants followed behind without making a sound. The atmosphere in the forest of monuments was heavy and solemn at this time. Except for Wu Tuozaki who explained to them, everyone was embarrassed to speak loudly.

"Hey, why is there no writing on this stele?!" Alex was very surprised when he saw a bare stone pillar. This was the only stone stele without a single word in the forest of steles.

"That is to commemorate the unsung heroes. Their names will not be made public, but a stone tablet is specially built to commemorate them." This refers to the fighters and scientific researchers on the secret front, and they cannot have their names on the stone tablet.

Yan Che just explained in this way and didn't say much.

"This stele is also very special. It commemorates not the public officials who died, but the doctors and nurses who died to save people from the disease during the SARS period, as well as the patients who voluntarily conducted drug clinical trials at that time. Seeing the Wanhua behind the name Is it marked? Three doctors in Wanhua Valley died of this large-scale epidemic."

"There is also a corresponding monument to the victims of SARS in the north."

It took them a long time to walk through the entire forest of monuments. Scott looked at Yan Che and the others who hadn't slept for almost two days but were still in high spirits, "Aren't you tired or sleepy?"

Yan Che and the others waved their hands, "It's not a big problem. Let's go back and meditate for two or three hours, and then we can sleep well tomorrow."

The mutants are very envious. Having internal energy is simply cheating. According to the descriptions in martial arts novels I read, internal energy can dry clothes and hair, excrete alcohol and some drugs from the body, and can pick things up in a short distance. Stone paper is made into powder and so on and so on, which can be used in many ways.

But most of them have already missed the best time to start Meng, and it's too late to learn.

The younger mutants were thinking, should I learn martial arts?

How cool is Chinese Kungfu, you can cross water by pedaling, step on snow without a trace, flying leaves and picking flowers can hurt people, and you can fly with a sword.

But thinking about the hard work of practicing, some people backed down again.

The originally heavy mood disappeared suddenly because of the wandering thinking.

The author has something to say: I will tell you a horror story: I lost my manuscript.

It’s not completely absent. My manuscripts don’t have an outline. They are all written according to the events I want to write. After finishing writing, arrange them in order according to your own timeline. That’s what you saw, and you may have discovered that many events are special Compact, no cushioning, many problems for beginners, please forgive me.

I still have two saved manuscripts for events, and the final decisive battle, but I usually add some other things in between, I haven't written these yet, so don't be surprised if the update is discontinued someday.

The whole article ends at about one hundred and twenty or thirty chapters, and should not exceed 140 chapters.

In addition, I changed the setting of the academy before, and I would like to tell readers who have not looked back. Some readers said that there are only 5 students in the academy. It is already a generation, and there are more than 000 schools of martial arts with lightsaber, let alone monsters, superpowers, mutants, magicians, etc., although there may be overlap between them, 3 , 18 is still too little.

I later changed it to 20. In this way, the number of people in the entire extraordinary world is about 100 million to 200 million. I don’t know if this number is too many or too few?

Then another problem arises. There are 20 students alone, which is almost the population of a small city. Therefore, public facilities must be complete, including roads, public transport systems, hospitals, shopping malls, and entertainment venues. There is also a guard to maintain order and handle disputes, so that the academy has become an urbanized school like Alice Academy and Academy City.

So graduates can export to domestic sales again, and some people can find a job in the academy...

In a word, one hair will affect the whole body, the settings will be changed greatly, and I will tell the readers and friends who have not looked back.