The 12-gun salute hit the waves of the Nanjiang River, spreading sunshine and beer foam on every street.
As the mayor of Nanjiang takes the first glass of beer from the beer barrel of the Little God of Wealth, the entire Nanjiang Beer Festival officially begins!
"Wow!!! So beautiful!!!"
On the noisy and lively streets, various young beer girls wearing white, blue, yellow and red skirts walked hand in hand at the front of the happy procession.
Behind them is Mr. Beer, wearing a brown T-shirt and leather shorts, holding a golden musical instrument and an accordion in his hands, beating a cheerful snare drum, and singing happily.
"A carriage! There is even a carriage!"
Among the crowd, a girl with twin tails carrying a backpack excitedly raised her mobile phone, raised her thin and white arms high, and perfectly captured the passing black double-row white carriage in the camera.
Her name is Chocolat, and she is a chocolate dessert graduate who has just returned from studying abroad. She lives in Zaomen City, Chunyang Province.
This time she heard that Nanjiang City was hosting a beer festival, so she took the high-speed train at 7:23 in the morning and finally arrived in time for the opening ceremony.
"Black Ribbon, Snow River, Binger, Little God of Wealth... every brewer actually has a carriage!"
Chocolate clicked excitedly and took photos.
It is said to be a carriage, but it is more accurate to say that it is more like a float. Each float has large bouquets of flowers placed on the chairs and stools of various colors.
The floats range from large to small, and are basically made of six-seater logs with carved high-stepping bodies. The horses are equipped with various beautiful decorative ribbons and plush tail feathers. It doesn't look like an exhibition, but more like an exhibition.
It's more like the outings of wealthy people in ancient times.
"Hey... this bay red horse is so fat!"
Chocolate looked at the maroon horse on the black ribbon carriage and shouted happily.
The bay-red horse seemed to have heard what Chocolate said, and shook its long black tail in dissatisfaction.
Chocolate couldn't help but move forward two steps, wanting to take a better picture, but the next moment a beer man wearing a brown T-shirt ran over and said politely:
"Hello, please pay attention to safety and visit outside the yellow line."
Although the words were polite, Mr. Beer's arms were already spread out and his back was arched, as if he was arching the chocolate behind him.
On both sides of the road, there are Mr. Beers like this every other section of the road, always keeping an eye on order and taking safety issues very seriously.
"Oh, okay."
Chocolate quickly took a few steps back, then stood on tiptoe and looked towards the opening parade.
As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw a huge luxury carriage slowly driving towards the center of the street.
This carriage is pulled by four groups of pure black tall horses, with wide silver and blue saddle belts. Near the horse's tail pulling the carriage, the delicate and strong belts are decorated with square red, yellow and green stones.
Three young men in black uniforms stepped in front of the carriage, holding horse ropes in their hands, with bright red, white, and yellow bouquets hanging on both sides, waving happily to everyone around them.
The young man in the middle holding the hemp rope and wearing glasses waved his hands and shouted:
"Drink the Little God of Wealth, and everyone will become a Little God of Wealth in the New Year!!!"
Not only them, but the 16 beer ladies and beer gentlemen sitting in the carriage also stuck their heads out and waved to the people on both sides.
"This is not a carriage... This is just a small locomotive being pulled here!" Chocolate's eyes widened in surprise,
The roof of the carriage is a hill-like arch, dotted with green grass plants like pine branches in winter.
There is a white sign hanging on the car, which reads: "Little God of Wealth, Drinks and Yaye" in six characters. On the upper and lower sides of the sign, eight hand-held bouquets are hung respectively, and two adjacent bouquets are hung below.
with red and blue velvet ribbons,
It looks gorgeous and makes you feel happy.
Girls... really have no resistance at all to bright colors!
The unblinking eyes of Chocolate here are not fully satisfied yet.
On the other side, the "Snow River" beer carriage also came with joy.
Different from the gorgeous black color of the Little God of Wealth, Xuechuan’s carriage is entirely icy blue, and even the carts are pulled by small brown ponies with yellow manes.
The whole carriage is like a big sled in winter, and like a big swing,
The black-haired girl in a red dress held her waist, her white feet were wearing black lace-up leather shoes, and she danced briskly on the big swing.
Several beer gentlemen wearing white shirts, black tight-fitting leggings, and dark green waistcoats covering their buttocks held trumpets and organs in their hands and were accompanying the black-haired girls.
Chocolat held up her phone stupidly, not even blinking her eyes, let alone taking pictures.
It's just that no matter how fresh something is, you'll get tired of it after looking at it for a long time.
These parade floats are all beer carriages, although the first few are a little shy and just pass by slowly.
But the floats at the back became more and more bold.
The young man behind her said that in order to promote their own beer, even the CEOs of some beer companies boarded the floats and gave mobilization demonstrations in person.
The floats come one after another.
Some of the big beer companies' floats came one after another, and I was a little tired looking at the chocolates in the end.
Fortunately, the float parade did not take very long, and what followed was a parade of various music performance groups, lion dance troupes and foreign acrobatic troupes.
Before watching the parade, Chocolate ran to the beer tent of the Little God of Wealth.
Since we are here for the Oktoberfest, drinking beer must be the first priority!
Although for a girl who was very hungry and had only eaten two bites of bread, drinking beer so early in the morning was a bit harsh.
But, it’s here now!!
There’s no Oktoberfest without drinking beer!
In the Dream Sea Amusement Plaza,
The large pendulum, aerial car, jumping machine, pirate ship, and Ferris wheel are all lined with people waiting to play.
Walking under the big pendulum, you can still hear a rich male voice shouting:
"Cathama...it's so scary!! Ah!!"
Chocolat was happy to hear that. She ran to the tent door with her luggage bag on her back, spent a 100 yuan deposit to get a 1-liter glass wine glass, and received a small palm-sized white acrylic card.
The card was stamped by a beaming little God of Wealth.
“Hello, here are the instructions for this Oktoberfest~~”
In the small wooden shed, a beer girl with a high ponytail handed out a small colorful book with both hands.
“The tips include introductions and geographical information of the 14 tents of the Oktoberfest, as well as Nanjiang City’s famous attractions, official souvenir sales addresses and food guides.”
"There are emergency telephones and emergency service telephones below, as well as a beach changing area and the location of public toilets."