During the summer vacation, I went to the beautiful coastal area, which is the city built in the park, and my hometown Hantun is the village built in the garden.

On the night of the National Day, my uncle and several village cadres gathered in the sales point of Youyou's house as usual. The seven-o'clock news program began with the 1984 military parade. All those present were shocked and stared intently at the TV screen.

On Chang'an Avenue, tanks, infantry combat vehicles, armored vehicles, howitzers, smoothbore guns, howitzers, rocket artillery, self-propelled antiaircraft guns, command vehicles, transport vehicles, and missile launchers were neatly arranged, forming a thunderous momentum.

The Tiananmen Tower and Square are colorful and magnificent. The viewing platform and the square are crowded with people. Party and state leaders, together with people's representatives from all walks of life and guests from all over the country, climbed the Tiananmen Tower amid thunderous applause.

The Mayor of Kyoto City announced, "The celebration of the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China begins!" The celebration began with the majestic "March of the Volunteers" national anthem and a 28-gun salute.

The second-generation leaders of the party and the state were riding in a red flag black convertible military parade van that drove out of Tiananmen Square and crossed the Jinshui Bridge. The military band played the parade march, and the parade car slowly galloped eastward, driving past the columns of troops waiting to be reviewed.

Accompanied by the majestic melody of the "march", the honor guard composed of the army, navy, and air force was first reviewed, and then the teams of each side were reviewed in turn.

"Hello comrades!

"Comrades have worked hard!

The cordial greetings of the leaders and the resounding replies of the officers and men on review converged into a huge wave of voices like mountains and seas, which resounded through the 10-mile-long street, showing the incomparably firm confidence and invincible strength of the Chinese nation.

These two sets of slogans echoed each other were unimaginable during the military parade 25 years ago, when the parade chiefs shouted "Long live the People's Republic of China!" and "Long live the Communist Party of China!"

During the review, the leader frequently waved his hand to greet the soldiers, and the soldiers saluted the commander-in-chief. The sound of military music, the hunting of battle flags. The reading phalanx is as tall as a mountain and as magnificent as the sea.

In the sound of the slogan of Chang'an Avenue with a sonic boom, the review car slowly drove in front of all the reading teams.

At the beginning of the solemn parade, the first to step onto the starting line of the parade was the honor guard of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, composed of commanders and fighters of the army, navy, and air force, who guarded the bright red "1 August" military flag and took the lead in entering Tiananmen Square.

This was followed by the military academy team, the infantry team, the sailor team, the airborne troops, the women's health team, the armed police team, and the men's and women's militia teams, which entered Tiananmen Square in turn.

These walking formations, with neat and vigorous steps, seem to be walking in person. Looking at a line horizontally, looking at a line vertically, or a line obliquely, like a majestic mountain, built into the Great Wall of Steel of the great motherland.

The sonorous and powerful footsteps have the footsteps of thousands of pairs of straw sandals on the road of the Long March, and the heroic posture of forging ahead bravely has the figure of a million heroes jumping onto the south bank of the Yangtze River in the rumbling cannons of the Liberation War. In this National Day military parade, famous regiments, strong brigades, and heroic divisions went into battle together, and many troops with honorary titles sent their own representatives.

Han Zhijie pointed to the TV screen and shouted happily: "Look, that's Uncle Aimin." ”

When my aunt heard this, she hurriedly looked up and asked eagerly, "Where is it?" ”

It's a pity that the picture turned too fast, and it flashed by, and it was no longer visible.

Uncle and grandfather said excitedly, "I saw it." ”

At this moment, the phone rang, and Grandma Yoyo picked up the phone, and Liu Ran's excited voice came from inside: "Auntie, have you watched TV, Aimin has participated in the military parade, and he is participating on behalf of the officers and soldiers of the self-defense war against Vietnam." ”

Then she said aggrievedly: "The whole family is hiding it from me, and I just saw it." Aimin has been training in Kyoto for three months, and I don't even know it. ”

It can be seen that this secrecy work is really well done.

The 1984 National Day 35th Anniversary Parade was the first grand National Day parade in 25 years after the 1959 National Day after a decade of turmoil, and was the first public display of China's armed forces in the context of reform and opening up.

When Yoyo came home from school, Grandma's excitement had not passed, and when she saw Yoyo and Didi coming back, she happily said to them: "Tonight, your Uncle Aimin is on TV, and he participated in the National Day military parade, but he is mighty." ”

Didi asked eagerly: "Grandma, what is the military parade? Where is Uncle Aimin doing?"

Listening to my grandmother talk about the military parade, I regretted it in my heart, I knew what kind of evening self-study I had, and I missed such an exciting moment.

Grandma excitedly described the grand occasion of the military parade to Didi, and hurriedly went back to her room.

Fortunately, I have a smart brain, and I can find the video of the August Fourth military parade, which should be more detailed than in the news broadcast.

Sure enough, what you saw was the high-definition full version of the August Fourth Parade, and I watched it for more than two hours.

Although it was midnight, but Yoyo was still searching on the brain, she saw the new military uniform of the 85 style at the parade, and it was estimated that the old military uniform of the "65" would soon be eliminated.

Yoyo soon found out the information about the 85-style military uniform, and according to the requirements of the parade plan for the troops to wear new uniforms, the logistics and munitions department nervously engaged in the development of the clothing.

At present, the uniforms worn by all officers and men are still in the "Sixth Five-Year Plan" style. This kind of military uniform is the military uniform after the abolition of the military rank system in May 1965, and all officers and men wear all-red collar badges, all-red cockades, and liberation caps; the army uniforms are grass green, the air force uniforms are green at the top and blue at the bottom, and the navy uniforms are changed to dark gray.

The shirt of the cadres of the whole army has four pockets (two on the top and two on the bottom), and the soldier shirt has two pockets on the lower part, which is the only sign that distinguishes the cadres and soldiers from this set of military uniforms.

In 1974, the navy uniform was restored to the pre-1965 style and color, the army and air force female servicemen were replaced with beanies, and the summer clothing was restored to the skirt style.

In fact, the new military uniforms required for the 1984 National Day military parade have not yet been completely finalized, so that the military uniforms at the military parade are different from the uniforms that were actually distributed to all units of the army later.

This set of new military uniforms, which was later named the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" style, is pure wool clothing for cadres above the army level, mixed wool clothing for division and regiment cadres, and cloth clothing for cadres and soldiers below the battalion level;

The cockade is the "five-star eighty-one" military emblem, the red collar badge is inlaid with a yellow border on three sides and embellished with the symbol of the military branch, and the color of the cadre's collar badge and epaulettes and the style of the shoulder flower are distinguished according to the branch of the service.

In accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission, the research and development department of the General Logistics Department hastened to produce more than 10,000 sets of uniforms for military parades, and it was not until more than half a year later that this new type of clothing was distributed to the whole army.