The ritual didn’t work. On Jan 1st, 1933, Imperial Japanese Army marched frm occupied Manchuria toward Beijing, fighting broke out along the Great Wall.
https://twitter.com/tongbingxue/status/1378277166564007938
Battle against Japanese invasion raged around the Great Wall in early 1933 that Chinese called the Defense of the Great Wall 長城抗戰
Commander of Northeastern Army 何柱國 He Zhuguo speak abt defense of the Great Wall agst Japanese aggression at the Shanhai Pass
Ultimately what kept China safe was not prayer but ability to incinerate cities and turn any invaders’ homeland into a sea of radioactive glass
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