Friday, April 30, 2010

Martyrs' Shrine

Martyrs' Shrine, Taipei was built in honor of about 330,000 men who had sacrificed their lives while trying to overthrow the Ching Dynasty.

military officer on guard at the entrance


the officers marched in..


until they reached the Shrine..


then they turned around and did some performance with their rifles.

super reflection..

video

a short clip of their performance

Actually it was their ceremonial changing of the guards..


23 comments:

Alice Law said...

The riffles performance is so cool!

SJB said...

Shiny hat :D.

Love the video.

manglish said...

waaa 330,000 men were used? wat a waster hahahaha

Cloudia said...

Ching Ming every day...


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Jama said...

I'm enjoying this virtual trip to Taiwan with you!

VanillaSeven said...

The soldier's helmet so shiny I can do my make-up there :D

khengsiong said...

The shrine is not opened to public?

mNhL said...

Kesian those poor military...doing the marching everyday.

smallkucing said...

impressive la

prince n princess mum said...

cool!

Wai Keong said...

these guys remind me of color guard. :)

Glennis said...

They put on a great display of changing the guards. That was an enormous number of people to die in the battle.

Bananazക said...

330,000men was a huge number. Saw one article about a war where the chief had to report how many were killed at the end of each day. But on that day there was no casualty he wrote on the board "O.K." ie "zero killed". How true? May they RIP. tQ


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Clytie said...

Love the helmet reflections! I didn't notice at first, til you mentioned it, but now I do and -- it's perfect for Weekend Reflections!

Lily Hydrangea said...

cool reflection capture!
These guys look pretty fierce.

cieldequimper said...

Excellent reflection!

James said...

Very cool! That's a creative place to find a reflection.

Betty Manousos:cutand-dry.blogspot.com said...

Great reflection, Wenn. it really caught my eye!

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Wenn: Neat capture of the guards, reminds me of something our Marines would do.

Beth Niquette said...

I really enjoyed finding the reflections in the soldier's helmets. VERY creative! Woohoo!

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Ann said...

How long were you in Taiwan?

Evelyn said...

Those helmets sure are shiny!

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