International Children's Day: National Customs

Children are the future of the country and the hope of the nation. Creating a good family, social and learning environment for all children and making them grow up healthily, happily and happily has always been the goal of all countries in the world. The annual "June 1 International Children's Day" is a festival specially set up for children. Japan celebrates Children's Day the most times in the world. They celebrate Children's Day three times a year in an interesting and Japanese way.

March 3rd Girls' Day: This festival is specially set up for little girls. On this day, parents with daughters will set up a display stand at home to show beautiful female dolls wearing Japanese kimonos as holiday gifts for their daughters.

Boys' Day on May 5th: On this day, families with sons will hang a "carp flag" in front of the door, which means carp yue longmen. The carp flag is cut into "hollow carp" with cloth or satin, which is divided into three colors: black, red and blue. Black, representing father; Red, representing mother; Blue represents the boy himself. There are some boys at home, and there are some blue flags hanging at the door. The more blue flags there are, the more buddies there are in this family. In the eyes of the Japanese, carp symbolizes strength and courage.

165438+1October 15 "Children's Day": In Japanese customs, children are three, five and seven years old, so this day is specially celebrated for these three age groups every year. On this day, children will wear the best traditional kimono and carry a small paper bag with patterns of pine trees, turtles or cranes on their backs. The paper bag is full of candy and toys bought by their parents. After dressing neatly, parents will take their children to the shrine to pray and thank the gods for bringing them health and happiness. Sweden also divides Children's Day into smaller parts. August 7th every year is "Boys' Day", also called "Lobster Festival", which means to encourage boys all over the country to learn the brave spirit of lobster. On this day, children will dress up as lobsters and perform some very lively and lovely programs.

65438+February 65438+March is Sweden's "Girls' Day", also known as "Lucia Goddess Day". Lucia is a legendary Swedish goddess who specializes in protecting girls. Every time this festival, girls should dress up as goddesses and do good deeds for other children. Russia's Children's Day is completely in tune with the world, just in June 1. Whenever Children's Day comes, children all over Russia will happily celebrate their festivals, perform some folk songs and dances, and hold celebrations in schools.

In fact, the origin of Children's Day has an important connection with Russia. 1949165438+1October, the board of directors of the International Democratic Women's Federation was held in Moscow. In order to protect children's rights of survival, health care and education and improve their lives, the meeting decided to designate June 1 day as International Children's Day every year. 65438 10 5 is Children's Day in Spain. In fact, this is a religious festival, which is translated from Spanish as "Devil's Day". Legend has it that a long time ago, three kings came to Spain from the East-the Black King, the Yellow King and the White King. These three kings brought happiness and joy to people. They are also "imperial envoys" who give gifts to children. The annual gift-giving time is set at 1.5, so this festival is linked to children.

In order to celebrate this festival, floats paraded all over Spain on the evening of October 5th and the morning of October 6th, 65438/kloc-0. On the float, the "Three Kings" sprinkled all kinds of sweets to express their condolences to the children. When the parade arrives at the gate of the municipal government or district government, all children who can sit on the king's lap can get a beautiful gift, and the children who get the gift must also assure the king that they will study hard. During the Cold War, East Germany and West Germany did different things on Children's Day. First, the dates are different: East Germany is scheduled for June 1, and West Germany is scheduled for September 20th; Its name is also different: East Germany calls it "International Children's Day" and West Germany calls it "Weltkindertag". In addition, there are differences in the traditions of festivals.

In the GDR (East Germany), Children's Day began at 1950, and every year since then is the happiest day for children. I often receive blessings and gifts from my parents, and the school also holds special celebrations, such as outings. In the Federal Republic of Germany, Children's Day has no special significance, and many people don't even know the existence of this festival.

With the reunification of Germany in 1990, the date and name of Children's Day in West Germany became the official unified standard in Germany. However, in many places in East Germany, people still can't change old habits and titles. So every June 1, many parents still celebrate Children's Day with their children. Article 1 of Singapore's Holidays Ordinance stipulates that Children's Day 10, 1, not only children but also all adults have holidays. The reason is that if only children are given a holiday, adults will go out to work and no one will play with them. Poor children can only watch TV at home on Children's Day. In addition, Singapore is a country with extremely high welfare, but a small population. This law on Children's Day is also conducive to promoting young couples who like to take vacations to get more vacations by having more children.

More interestingly, Singapore's largest national playground has also formulated special regulations for Children's Day, in which children buy full tickets and adults buy half tickets. In this way, not only children can happily experience the feeling of growing up, but also adults can rediscover their long-lost childhood. And because of this special rule, an anecdote happened that made Singaporeans laugh. Singapore Children's Day: 10 June 1

China Children's Day: June 1.

China, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Children's Day: April 4th.

Korean Children's Day: May 5th.

British Children's Day: July 14

Children's Day in Japan: May 5th for boys and March 3rd for girls.

Russian Children's Day: June 1

Indonesian Children's Day: July 23rd.

Children's Day in Thailand: the second Saturday of 65438+ 10 every year.