From the Guardian:
China will begin three days of mourning with a nationwide silence at 2.28pm this afternoon, precisely one week after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck.
Air raid sirens and horns of vehicles, trains and ships will be sounded in grief at the end of a three-minute silence and national flags will fly at half-mast across the country and at Chinese embassies worldwide.
China Car Times hopes China based readers of CCT honk their horns in reflection of the disaster that blighted so many last week. China Car Times will honk for those who cannot honk.
How can you have 3 minutes silence when air raid sirens and car horns are going off? Only in China. I found it all rather distasteful.
“Air raid sirens and horns of vehicles, trains and ships will be sounded in grief AT THE END OF a three-minute silence…”.
at least that’s how it is supposed to be.
That’s not how it was. It was continuous through the 3 minutes.
yeah.. i realized when i saw a clip on youtube
anyways.. that’s not the point after all~
it’s just a means to “mourn for the dead, and to fight as hell for the living”.
Was it happening again today? I heard horns and sirens at 2:30pm, but only coming from certain areas?
Seems perhaps that it all got lost in translation. It seems that in China the respectful thing to do at a funeral is make lots of noise, or so some Chinese people tell me. Well I stand corrected.