When I was a student, I believed that everyone would attend a special ceremony every Monday, that is, the flag-raising ceremony. And the Tiananmen Flag Raising ceremony that we usually see on tv news, it is very serious and solemn. But in our neighboring country, India, on the India-Pakistan border, every day there is a unique flag-lowering ceremony that netizens call the funniest in the world, which is very different from the solemn ceremony we usually see.
The soldiers of the two countries are like fighting and dancing, their emotions are intense, they raise their feet high and stomp their feet hard, they stare and roar, do all kinds of exaggerated movements, compete with each other, and both want to overwhelm each other in momentum! The audience on both sides will also continue to shout and cheer, as if it is a show. The scene is funny and can't help but be funny. This unique ceremony attracts a large number of people from home and tourists from all over the world every day, forming a unique landscape.
In fact, India and Pakistan were originally one country, long british colonies. After World War II, under the pressure of the Indian National Liberation Movement, Britain announced the Mountbatten Plan in 1947, which divided India and Pakistan, and India was divided into two countries, which are today's India and Pakistan. However, in the process of independence of the two countries, because of the intertwining of various factors such as politics, religion, race, economy, history, etc., conflicts and disputes have been continuous, which has brought deep disasters to the peoples of the two countries. The border between the two countries remains restless and bloody clashes have occurred from time to time.
After the partition of India and Pakistan, in order to compete for sovereignty in kashmir, the two sides broke out three Indo-Pakistani wars in 1947, 1965 and 1971, and both countries suffered huge losses. For decades, the border conflicts between the two countries over kashmir have been turbulent, and the issue remains unresolved.
The "flag-lowering ceremony" takes place at the Wagah Border between Lahore in Pakistan and Amritsar in India. The partition of India and Pakistan divided the British Indian state of Punjab into two, and an iron gate became an insurmountable gap between the people of the two places. This unique flag-lowering ceremony has continued since 1959.
May there be peace in the world!