I love my city — Shenyang, it is the hub city of Northeast China. A big city with nice people — what say that everyone here are Lei Feng (a selfless guy that Chairman Mao nominated). A big city with long history — used to be part of Manchu’s homeland. A big city with new techs — Sanhao Street(Computer technology center of Northeast China), Shenfei Aircraft(J12 figher manufacture base), and so many more.
I found some pictures of religion buildings in Shenyang, so I want to introduce these as part of my favorite apects of my city.
As I am in US, so, let me show the Catholic church in Shenyang first.
This is the only church in my city, I believe. it is pretty big, and beautiful, old Europe style. There are two buildings total. One is the church as we see, and one is for living.
Like I said, I found these pictures online, I didnot have a chance to go back to my city. Actually, there is a big square in front of this church. It is really big, the Chinese big. Think about Tiananmen Square, it is about a qualter of it. The square was built just 3 or 4 years ago by last major, he is a religious buy though he is a communist. He believe that is good for Fengshui, so there were a lot of reconstruction or reorganizations near by those religion buildings in those years.
I have to say, not many people believe Catholic in China. But still, there are whole lot of people there on Sunday. My grandpa was a Buddhist, but he was curious, so he went there sometimes. That is why I know these.
Every Chrismas, young guys and poor people will go to this church. Of course, they have totally different purposes. Young guys educated under new educations, watch American movies. Some of them believe it is romantic to go to church on Chrismas with their girlfriends or boyfriends, nothing about religion. Poor people, I believe not all of them are poor, they just want to have a very good meal on that day in church.
In China, Catholic is controled by government, Isolated from Vatigan city. It is not that bad, I believe. I stay in US for 1 and hard years now. I saw so many misunderstandings with China and biased ideas about Communism. Maybe because of the historical nightmares, Westerners are so afraid of China — the last strong and big communism country in the world. Who hell knows what will happen if the west controls Catholic and Christain Churches in China.
