>>17975070
The style was copied from the USSR but you're just looking at the form. The form changes over time. But the function of the parade for the Chinese government is actually very traditional and "Chinese." The emperor in the Tang Dynasty stood on a platform and rode past troops, just like what Xi Jinping does. What they've both communicated at various times is: this is a stable, harmonious order under heaven. It wasn't the communists who invented ritualized displays of state power. You're looking at a high-tech, T.V. version of it.