Is there a Lantern Festival in Japan?

Japan has a Lantern Festival.

Influenced by traditional Chinese culture, Japan also has the Lantern Festival, which is known in Japanese as the Little New Year's Day, as opposed to the Big New Year's Day, which falls on January 1st.

During the Meiji Restoration, Japan changed the lunar calendar to the solar calendar, and all the lunar holidays became solar holidays, and the first month was changed from January on the lunar calendar to January on the solar calendar, so that the small first month was also fixed on the day of January 15 on the solar calendar.

On the day of Koshogatu, Japanese people do not have the habit of eating dumplings or dumplings, but they must drink red bean porridge, which is said to drive away the evil spirits of the year.

Japan's Lantern Festival is how to spend

1, stroll Lantern Festival

Talking about Japan's Lantern Festival, it has to be mentioned? The Nagasaki Lantern Festival in Japan. Known as the Winter Scenery Poem, the Nagasaki Lantern Festival lights up the whole world with more than 15,000 traditional Chinese-style lanterns dotting China Street. About 1 million Chinese tourists visit the city every year during the Spring Festival.

2. Spring Festival

The Nagasaki Lantern Festival, a festival celebrated to welcome the spring by the overseas Chinese living on China Street in Shinchi, Nagasaki City, was originally just an event organized by the overseas Chinese thinking of their homeland, but has attracted many sightseers because of its grandeur and splendor, and has grown to be one of the winter poems representing the winter scenery of Kyushu.

3. Fire Festival

In the old Japanese custom, fire festivals are held in many places during the small first month. This thousand-year-old event has always been attended by men completely naked. However, as times have moved on, this naked folklore event has attracted accusations of indecency, and tradition has thrown up its hands in the face of modernity, with men participating in the Sumin Matsuri festival being required to wear bibs since 2008.