God, the wonderful Japanese folk custom "spanking bride"?

Japan is a country with rich festival culture and colorful folk customs. Some customs are well known to foreigners, such as cleaning before New Year's Eve, observing the New Year's Eve, eating rice cakes and making rice cakes on New Year's Day morning. However, some folk customs are still quite strange to foreigners, and it will feel strange if you don't know them in depth. For example, today's Japan Festival will introduce to you: "spanking bride".

In the past, Japan also had a lunar calendar, and the Japanese also celebrated the Spring Festival of the lunar calendar. However, after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan "left Asia and entered Europe", abolished the lunar calendar and took the Spring Festival as the New Year, so the Gregorian calendar 1 month was called "the first month" by the Japanese, while 1 month was called "the little first month" in Japan, which is a day in many places in Japan.

"Spanking" on the 15th day of the first month of every year is a traditional custom in Japan, which originated from the ancient concept of fertility. Those who spank the bride are all local children or women. There are many names for spanking sticks, at least 26 kinds. Of course, this spanking is symbolic, mainly to wish the new wife an early birth without really hurting the bride.

In addition, in some areas of Japan, the custom of "spanking" is not held on 1 month 15, but on the first day of the bride's marriage to the man's house, in order to let the bride have children earlier. At present, there is still such a custom in Chunri City, Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan.

According to the analysis of Japanese folklorists, this custom of "spanking" comes from the worship of genitals in ancient Japan, and the props of "spanking" are symbols of male genitals; Second, it comes from the ancient concept of fertility.

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