Several military parade moments after the founding of China

In the 1949 founding military parade, the Air Force "violated regulations" in carrying ammunition during the parade.

The most spectacular sight of China’s 1950 military parade was the cavalry troops driving nearly two thousand white horses through Tiananmen Square in six columns (first from right).

The cavalry officers, dressed in grass-green military uniforms, holding swords in their hands and shouldering submachine guns, marched majestically and high-spirited to the foot of the Tiananmen Gate to the neat rhythm of horse hooves, marching to Mao Zedong and the central leaders. Attention ceremony.

The National Day military parade in 1956 encountered an unprecedented test for all the officers and soldiers undergoing the parade - the parade was held in heavy rain! People marching in the rain can hold umbrellas, but the People's Liberation Army cannot hold umbrellas.

The military parade demonstrates the tenacious style, high morale and indomitable determination of the people's army that has experienced hundreds of battles.

The 1959 National Day Military Parade was Mao Zedong’s last National Day military parade and the only time Lin Biao served as the parade leader.

For the Chinese, 1984 is a year full of intimacy and pride.

During the National Day Parade in 1984, people walked through Tiananmen Square holding slogans "Hello, Xiaoping" (third from right).

The cordial greetings to leaders, which have never appeared in Chinese history, mark that all Chinese people have truly emerged from the shadow of the "ten years of turmoil" and begun to have a normal social life and mentality.

Source: New Legend (Issue 30, 2020)