What festival is May 5th in Japan? Learn how the Japanese people celebrate this festival.

1 and May 5th are Japanese Boys' Day. This originated from the Dragon Boat Festival in China (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month). After the custom of Dragon Boat Festival spread to Japan, it was absorbed and transformed into traditional Japanese culture. Because May is the period when pests destroy crops, farmers often tie up some fierce scarecrows and plant them in the fields to kill pests. In the Edo period, this custom gradually evolved into the Boys' Day on May 5.

2. Japan Boys' Day was officially designated as a national statutory holiday in Japan on May 5th 1948, which contains the connotation of attaching importance to children's development, praying for children's superiority and a better life, as well as the meaning of thanking their mothers. On this day, families with boys will hang carp flags in the yard. Every household is putting dolls indoors in a spirit. In addition, put calamus leaves on the door, hang Zhong Kui's exorcism map in the house, and eat cakes (called "cypress cakes") or zongzi. According to the principle of "respecting children's personality, pursuing children's beauty and thanking mothers together", this day is designated as a national public holiday.