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On August 17, 1969, the largest hippie party in the world was held

On August 17, 1969 (the fifth day of the seventh lunar month), the largest hippie gathering in the world took place.

Jimmy Hendrix's performance is the most memorable event of the Woodstock Festival. As he plays the American national anthem, excited audiences will tear apart the Stars and Stripes that guide the country to Vietnam

From August 15 to 17, 1968, a large music festival was held in Woodstock. The festival became the largest hippie gathering in the world, with 400,000 young people shaking crazily to the harsh music despite traffic jams, food and water shortages, and heavy rains. They had long hair tied, wore bell-bottom pants or denim batik shirts, had sex in wet sleeping bags in mud, smoking marijuana as if they were breathing air.()

With Woodstock came music festivals across America, Europe and the world, and the young hippies have turned these shows into a powerful symbol of generational unity. They seek human love and peace in an extreme way.

The crowd was twice as large as people expected. Reports said traffic was stalled on 20 miles of road around the venue. Thousands of people abandoned their cars, passed through the small town of Bethel, New York, and flocked to the music and art market near Woodstock. This is a 600-acre dairy farm belonging to Markos Yasgar. Marcos lent the land specifically for this purpose.

Attendees at the festival were drawn to a list of performing artists whose names read like a dictionary of pop musicians: Rich Havens; Jefferson-Al Plain; The Dead; Crosby, Stiles, Nash and Young; Credence-Clearwater-Rivifall; Howe; Band; Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.

"Make love, don't fight"-this was the slogan of the generation in the late 1960s and their way of life. For their peers fighting in the quagmire of Vietnam, all this is a protest or a mockery.

400,000 young Americans gathered in Woodstock, two shocking rainstorms drove them crazy in the mud. Under the call of "love and peace", the music festival became a strange anti-war way

The anti-war revolutionary slogan of "Make love, not fight" resounded throughout the venue. Many couples are naked and even making love in public to return to the era of Adam and Eve, using this return to nature to express their contempt and anger at the U.S. government's war policies

On the huge performance platform, music and poetry are recited all night long, tweeters are deafening, and 400,000 pairs of dancing feet turn the surroundings into mud. After the meeting, nearby farmers demanded compensation from the government for trampled fields and many mental damages for being unable to sleep. This is where many people are climbing high on the stage shelves and looking into the distance.



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