An old shrine

There is an old shrine near by where I was born.I used visit with my family when I was child every new year at midnight. It was just like one of culture we used to do.I like that shrine since I was child , about six hundred years old trees are makes the place holly and silent , I like to feel it. This shrine has history since 13century and then rebuild in 15century, of course it's made by wood. People around there lived with this shrine and my family also with in long history. In this new year I went there with my daughter ,there was a lot of snow but people in that town walking to the shrine at midnight in the snow, I used to do so when I was child,we stop the car beside the river and we walked the bridge road to enter the shrine looking up snow falling. It was amazing scene and beautiful to see falling snow at midnight ,I felt I was used see same scene since I was child.There was crowd in the shrine ,people are coming from everywhere to spend new year time with someone in the snow, and through the new year more than three hundred thousand people visit there every new year . In usually this shrine is just stay in silent side by the river. It's something so funny why I like that place and feel holly air in that place, maybe in my blood ? And my sons also they are going to enjoy to visit the shrine with their friends in new year .Maybe that's my parents told us kind of a culture through our old history.But I'm sure the people who was visited the shrine in new year they can say no religion ,just turn to ordinary life in next day and me too. Faith in living as culture with old history... I think so.Even we live in our life with any new technology human will never throw away old culture which lived with in long history in our life and I feel to proud it.