As soon as Song Yao heard that she was going out, she immediately became excited: "Okay, okay." If you have time, you can go shopping or something first, and then go to church. ”

Let's go! Song Yao and Wu Zeyu had lunch at school, and the two immediately took a taxi to the train station, and the high-speed rail to Shenyang took half an hour, and the two easily got on the high-speed rail and went to Shenyang. In the end, in Shenyang, Song Yao saw that there was not enough time to go shopping, so she had to take a taxi and go straight to Nanguan Church.

At this time, the snowflakes began to flutter and fall, and the branches of trees, buildings, and pedestrians outside the car were soon wrapped in silver, making Christmas Day more charming. Nanguan Church is located in the center of the bustling business district, close to the famous Wuai Market in China. For the sake of Christmas Eve safety and road smoothness, traffic restrictions have begun in and around the Nanguan Church area at this time. Song Yao and Wu Zeyu got off the bus about 100 meters away from the church and walked to the church with the flow of people. See from afar the typical signs of churches with two tall spires. The closer you are to the church, the more people there are on the road.

Nanguan Church is one of the ten cathedrals in China, which was originally a Catholic church built in 1878 by the French missionary John Fang, and is the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units. The original church was burned down by the Boxers in 1900, and later designed by the Frenchman Liang Henry, the French Bishop of the Diocese of South Manchuria, the French Bishop of Subrilis, rebuilt the church on the original site in 1909 with the Gengzi indemnity in the "Xinchou Treaty", and completed in 1912. Nanguan Church as a whole follows the architectural form of the European Renaissance, imitating the construction of Notre Dame Cathedral, which is a Gothic cathedral with pure style and blue brick masonry. The whole building of Nanguan Church is divided into two courtyards, east and west, and the church is at the north end of the east courtyard. The church sits on the north and faces south, and the top of the twin towers on the front protrudes with two square conical spires juxtaposed side by side, and the upper part of the spire is equipped with a "ten" frame. The twin towers are 40 meters tall and were the tallest buildings in Shenyang before liberation.

Due to the harsh winter weather in Shenyang, the church is open to the public free of charge from April 1 to October 31 every year. During this time, the Episcopal Church celebrates Mass at a fixed time every day. In addition, every year on Christmas Eve and Christmas, Nanguan Church also holds grand activities to commemorate the birth of Jesus, including the distribution of communion to the faithful, the distribution of apples, also known as "peace fruit", and free admission to the public.

Passing through a forest path and strolling down the stone steps, the two entered the beautiful sunken square, which was brightly lit and bustling with tourists. Quite a few children are having snowball fights. It is said that in the summer, there are night markets, movies, games and other activities in the church square, as well as uncles and aunts dancing square dances and Yangge twisting, and wedding photos are often taken here on holidays. But Song Yao and Wu Zeyu have not been here, and it is a pity that they have not seen these summer landscapes.

On Christmas Eve, the church is dressed in a layer of white holy clothes, and the quiet snowflakes fall from the silver-gray sky, and the lights are more and more crystal clear, like clusters of silver dust scattered from the sky, exuding a soft silver brilliance, which is more mysterious and quiet, like a crystal dream fairy tale, Santa Claus is about to ride a sleigh pulled by reindeer from the north to give every child a Christmas gift.

The church is timeless, majestic and exudes the atmosphere of European aristocracy. Approaching the church, the main body of the church building in gray tones is splendid, more solemn and full of mysterious religious atmosphere under the illumination of Chinese lanterns. There is a solemn, holy and serene statue of Our Lady at the door of the church, standing under the statue of the Virgin and looking up at the spire of the church, only to see that in the heavy snow, the square conical spire points directly to the vast sky, which shows the abrupt height and solemnity of the church!

The façade of the church is a large and two small three arches, with a large rose window inlaid in the center. At the very top of the middle arch building is a standing statue of Jesus with white inlays and gold inlays. The church is flanked by rows of small pointed arched windows. On the west side of the church there is a four-storey building, the Bishop's Palace, which houses the Religious Reliquary, as well as a chapel.

In the church square, the crowd waiting to enter the church lined up in a long way. The courtyard door is open, and visitors enter the church through the arch on the right, and exit through the arch on the left after a round trip. Song Yao and Wu Zeyu held their hands tightly and followed the team into the church, where the soft lights and holy music drove away the cold on their bodies. The painted dome and stained glass windows are the first to come into view, and the tall dome roof in the center of the hall is inlaid with huge patterns, making the church very empty and quiet. The solemn atmosphere inside the church makes people's mood calm down instantly. The interior of the church is dominated by gray and white. Song Yao and Wu Zeyu saw that from the two main entrances to the main altar, there were two rows of twenty-four tall and exquisite stone pillars, the walls were hung with colorful oil paintings with Christian colors, recording the story of Jesus' crucifixion, and there were colorful statues of the Virgin, Jesus, angels, etc. in the church. The church is lined with rows of yellow wooden chairs, and the aisles are carved with unique inscriptions that are rarely seen in other churches.

On the main altar is a statue of Jesus and two angels, and you can feel the sacredness and light of Catholicism in this closest place to heaven. Wu Zeyu stopped here for a while, and sincerely and silently prayed that Song Yao would go well in the graduate school entrance examination and get the admission letter from Huake.

Visiting the east and west courtyards, listening to the chant, the mind is unusually peaceful, and the soul seems to be purified. Song Yao and Wu Zeyu walked out of the church and walked slowly along the road they came, they wanted to take a taxi to find a hotel near the train station to stay for the night. In the middle of the cold night, the road was slippery in the snow, but the number of pedestrians did not decrease at all, both the flow of people leaving the church at the end of the tour and the crowd rushing in the direction of the church.

Because they couldn't get a car on the phone, and they couldn't get a car online, the two had to go out of the traffic restriction area to find a taxi. There are more and more people waving taxis on the side of the road, and some passengers even run directly to the lane and stumble, but it takes a long time for the car to come over, and before it can stop, someone rushes to pull the car door up. Song Yao saw that she couldn't get a taxi, so she pulled Wu Zeyu forward, hoping to find a place with fewer people and find an empty car.

The two walked around and played, passing through one intersection after another, and saw vendors selling Santa hats, magic wands, apples, and flowers, but they didn't see an empty taxi. Song Yao thought it was funny, bought two apples engraved with a five-pointed star pattern and beautiful packaging, and said "peace, peace" in her mouth, and happily put one in each person's down jacket pocket. I asked the aunt who sold apples where I could get a taxi, and the aunt said that it was estimated that it would be difficult to get a taxi in this area tonight, and then a junction to the west was the Vientiane City, and there were generally taxis waiting for customers at the gate of Vientiane City, and there was a celebration tonight, so I persuaded them to go to the Vientiane City to take a turn, where there will generally be a lot of taxis waiting to solicit customers. The two thanked their aunt and went to Vientiane City.