The Yanzhou Martyrs Cemetery mainly buries the martyrs of the Qi'an Theater during the era of extinction. According to official data, there are tens of millions of people buried here. Most of the bones have been incinerated and compressed, occupying only a small area. Some people have no bones at all, only some items from their lifetime, or only a record. A transcript of his name.
People in the new century have a habit of going to the Martyrs' Cemetery to pay their respects around the anniversary of each year. Some people think that after paying their respects, the martyrs will probably bless them with their wishes, while some people just follow the custom. Take a trip.
As the taxi driver said, because the anniversary is approaching, there are indeed many people on the side of the Martyrs Cemetery. When Fang Zhao was on the road, he was prompted by the driver to take a number from the Internet and queue up.
The Martyrs Cemetery has a special place for worship, but the place is limited, and it will be full on the few days of the anniversary every year, so it has to be arranged.
There were too many people worshipping, and Fang Zhao still got a later number, and he would have to wait two or three hours for his turn. However, before that, Fang Zhao planned to visit other places in the Martyrs Cemetery.
When approaching the cemetery, from a distance, Fang Zhao saw the huge tombstone more than 500 meters high. This is the landmark of this area.
The taxi driver only sent Fang Zhao to the place near the cemetery, and did not approach it because there were too many people, the parking lot was full, and some vehicles were queuing on the road. Occasionally, police officers with guns can be seen on patrol. At this time of year, a large number of police officers are transferred to maintain law and order.
Seeing this, Fang Zhao decided to get out of the car, and he could go in quickly on foot.
There is no charge for entering the park, you only need to verify your identity. If there is no problem with your identity and the number of people in the park is within the limit, you can enter directly.
The roads outside the park are crowded, but once you enter the park, it feels much more spacious. This cemetery is very large and is divided into several areas: the core area of the cemetery, the memorial hall, the square, the scattered tomb area, the public worship area, and so on.
The huge tombstone belongs to the core area of the cemetery and cannot be passed at will. Generally, the people who come here go to the public worship area to worship, and then go to the teahouse beside the square to drink tea and chat for a while. The descendants of the martyrs will go to the scattered tomb area or the core area of the cemetery to worship.
Go forward along the spacious avenue. There are sidewalks on both sides of the avenue, and the trees on both sides are shady. The species of the trees is the dragon elephant, which is evergreen in all seasons. Even though Qi'an city has entered the cold winter, it still maintains full of vitality. 's turquoise.
In front of the avenue is the square of the cemetery. You can see many people with their families walking around there. The shops on the side of the square are very lively with customers coming and going.
In addition to being solemn at the moment of worship, other times, whether it is walking and running in the square or resting in the tea hall next to it, most of the people who come here are smiling.
This is not to disrespect the martyrs. At the beginning of the new century, it was also required to be solemn in the cemetery, but it changed later. A general who was born in the era of extinction said before his death that when he asked his descendants to pay homage to him, he would smile more.
So gradually, people no longer deliberately go to worship with a serious face.
Remembrance Day is a festive day. Even if you come here to worship, it is also festive, thanking the heroes of the era of extinction for bringing them a peaceful new century.
After the end of the world, people in the new century regard the people lying under this land as their beliefs, and these are their saviors.
The elderly will pray for the juniors when they worship, and the juniors hope that their little wishes can be fulfilled, such as peace, marriage, wealth, and so on.
The queue in the public worship area was still early. Fang Zhao did not go there, but after crossing the square, he walked towards the core area where the tall tombstone was located.
"Is it a descendant of a martyr? Please show the proof." The receptionist in the core area asked Fang Zhao.
"no."
"Sorry, sir, you are not a descendant of the martyrs buried in the park. If you want to enter the core area, you need to verify your identity information and pay a security deposit of 1,000 yuan. Do you need to enter?" The person at the service desk asked.
This deposit will not be returned, and this also blocks most people. The core area of the cemetery is more important and not suitable for everyone to enter. Therefore, this kind of regulation is also decided after careful consideration by the park. The money paid by the descendants of the martyrs to enter the core area, not the park, will be used for the park. Maintenance, will not be included in private pockets.
"Yes."
Fang Zhao submitted his identity information. After the approval, he paid a deposit of 1,000 yuan. The person at the service desk put a blue bracelet on Fang Zhao, which was used to locate Fang Zhao's real-time location and ensure that he would not run out of place. The place to go.
Most people who enter the core area of the cemetery will be put on bracelets. Different colors have different meanings. Blue represents ordinary worshippers, red represents descendants of martyrs in the park, white represents civil servants, and black represents people with special identities.
Although there is an extra fee to pay, after Fang Zhao went in, he found that there were still many people wearing blue bracelets walking around like him. You have to think about what to do.
The most obvious thing in the core area is the tall tombstone, and people are extremely small next to it. The huge gray-white tombstone is like a support column on this earth, standing there silently but firmly, five hundred years of wind and rain have passed, tragic and proud.
Fang Zhao stood in front of the tombstone and looked up for a long while before he retracted his gaze, walked around the tombstone, and walked behind it.
Behind this huge tombstone is a row of small tombstones, with the large tombstone as the apex, arranged in a fan shape and extending backward.
Each of these small tombstones represents a deceased person.
The first row, which is also the row closest to the big tombstone, has ten tombstones, which are larger than those at the back. The higher the tombstone is, the bigger it is, because the bigger the tombstone is, the more characters are engraved on it, and the status is heavier.
From the left, the first tombstone is the well-known Genesis general Wu Yan, whose name is derived from the word "Yan" in Yanzhou.
The eleven generals of Genesis, in addition to Huangzhou, where the alliance headquarters is located, the other eleven continents are named after their surnames. . After them, the alliance no longer established the rank of "general".
"Wuyan: (17 years of extinction - 56 years of the new century), General Genesis, the second commander of the Fifth Army, to recover Yanzhou..."
Wu Yan's tombstone briefly wrote his life story, which fully reflects the majesty and domineering of a general who ended the disaster and ushered in a new century.
Fang Zhao looked at the official words and showed a faint smile.
Probably no one knows that this kid Wu Yan is actually afraid of dogs, but he hides very well on weekdays.
Continuing to walk forward, the smile on Fang Zhao's face disappeared.
The second tombstone reads: "Fang Zhao (?—99 years of extinction), the first commander of the Fifth Army..."
The Fifth Corps is the predecessor of the Yanzhou Military Region. The Fifth Corps established in the later period of the annihilation became the Yanzhou Military Region in the new century after the Genesis.
In the new century, people use a new chronology system, and the era of extinction starts from the year of the disaster to the year of Genesis, which lasts for 102 years.
99 years of extinction...
In the history book of the new century, it was recorded that in fact, the most difficult 99 years had passed, and the threat had been almost cleared up by the 100th year of the annihilation. The next two years were to clean up the remnants while rebuilding the homeland.
It's only one step away.
Fang Zhao's gaze moved down from the tombstone.
So it seems that you are buried under this tombstone
Fang Zhao's mood is very complicated, and he doesn't know what GM should be playing in his mind.