Festivals around the world

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Japan

Festival (February 3rd): It is a festival for Japanese to drive away evil spirits, welcome spring and wish happiness. On February 3 every year, temples and shrines hold special exorcism ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits, and welcome to bless the gods. There are "Fudou" specially sold in the store to save money. According to Japanese folklore, on this day, if you eat the same number of "blessed beans" as your age, you will be disease-free and disaster-free.

Puppet Festival (March 3rd): Also called "Daughter's Day". On this festival, men, women and children in every household will drink white rice wine brewed with glutinous rice and get together to congratulate the girls. Although the customs of Girls' Day vary from place to place in Japan, every family with a girl, parents, especially grandparents, must buy her a set of beautiful dolls on March 3 every year when the girl turns one year old. These puppets, which girls have had since they were one year old, will be displayed in the living room on March 3 every year until they leave their parents and get married.

Cherry Blossom Festival (March1May-April 15): Cherry Blossom is the national flower of Japan. Every year from mid-March to mid-April, it is the cherry blossom season in Japan from south to north. People put a sumptuous banquet under the cherry trees, or get together with their families, or invite three or five friends to drink and get drunk while singing poems and painting. Young men and women chase and have sex among cherry blossoms, and more people bring rice wine and picnic food and enjoy the flowers late. Cherry blossoms in Lanshan and Yuanshan Park in Kyoto attract many tourists every year. Ueno Park, Shinjuku Imperial Garden, Thousand Birds Garden and Sumida Park are also famous cherry gardens.

Mountaineering Festival (July1-August 2 1): Japan is a mountainous island country, and Japanese people have loved mountaineering since ancient times. Every July1-August 2 1 is the mountaineering festival. The highest peak in Japan is Mount Fuji, which is located in the central part of Honshu Island, about 80 kilometers away from Tokyo. It is the pride and symbol of Japan and the "holy mountain" in the eyes of the Japanese. In the past, the Japanese regarded climbing Mount Fuji as a feat. Only when a person climbs the top of this "holy mountain" will he not be ridiculed as "worthless". Mountaineering Festival, the foot of Mount Fuji is particularly lively. Not only Japanese families living nearby go out, but also many energetic young people come from distant cities or villages to participate in the annual mountaineering activities. Young people sleep outdoors, swim and fish in the rippling Fuji Five Lakes, bathe in mountain hot springs, enjoy lakes and mountains, watch waterfalls and sunrise in the mountains, and there is a lively and joyful atmosphere in Shan Ye.

Qixi (July 7th): This is the product of the combination of Japanese customs and customs inherited by China, also known as "Chinese Valentine's Day". It turns out that this day is a day to celebrate the annual meeting of Vega and Altair separated by the Milky Way. Now on this day every year, people will tie a note with their wishes on a bamboo branch with leaves, hoping that their wishes will come true as soon as possible.

Arahara Festival (around August 15): It is the largest traditional festival among Japanese people, also known as "Ghost Festival" and "Lantern Festival". Initially, it was a ceremony held by Buddhists to worship the souls of their ancestors and pray for the blessings of the dead. The Japanese believe that if no one prays for the dead, those dead will never cross over, and comforting the dead will make their lives better. The annual Kogasawara Festival celebration, with more and more incense, has become a day for Japanese family reunion and rural entertainment. The Bonihara Festival is just in the summer vacation, so most families will pack their bags and prepare for a long trip. People who work outside the home go back to their hometown to participate in the celebration of the Kasahara Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15, September 13): Japanese people used to call it "seeing the moon", which is held on the full moon night of August 15 and September 13 every year. At this time, people decorate houses with Miscanthus, offer wine and zongzi to the moon, and enjoy the moon with their families. Some places, like China, have the habit of eating moon cakes.

Double Ninth Festival (September 9th): It is generally called "Huang Jiu Festival" and also called "Palace Day". As an autumn Cai festival, it is particularly popular in Kyushu, and some places even celebrate "March 9" (that is, September 9, 19, 29). Some places have the habit of eating eggplant and drinking chrysanthemum wine on this day.

July 53 (165438+1October15): July 53 is a unique festival in Japan. Every time 165438+ 10/5, families with 5-year-old boys and 3-year-old and 7-year-old girls should let their children wear bright kimonos to pay homage. May God bless their healthy and smooth growth. On this day, all the children will eat "red bean rice" and "chitose candy", which is a red or white bar candy specially used to celebrate "July 53". I hope that children can be lively and healthy and live forever. In ancient times, the Japanese regarded odd numbers as auspicious numbers, among which "753" was the most taboo number.

Christmas Day (February 25th): Christmas Day is very popular in Japan. On this day, children can get gifts from "Santa Claus" prepared by adults, just like in the west.

Festivals and customs in Singapore

According to their own calendars, all ethnic groups in Singapore have different festivals and customs. China people have many traditional festivals, such as Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Vesak Festival.

Chinese New Year

It is an important festival, with many unique customs, such as cleaning, posting Spring Festival couplets on the door, turning the word "fu" upside down, having a reunion dinner with the whole family on New Year's Eve, keeping children alive to prolong their lives, offering sacrifices to ancestors at midnight, and bringing oranges to elders at the beginning of New Year's Eve and giving them "red envelopes"-lucky money. Wear new clothes, say auspicious words and eat well during the Spring Festival. For example, fish symbolizes that there is more than one year, rice cakes represent annual increase, Nostoc flagelliforme represents making a fortune, and oranges represent Geely. Generally, people in China don't sweep the floor during the New Year, or their good luck will be swept away. During the Spring Festival, people in China like to go to Chinatown to buy new year's goods. During the Spring Festival, there are also lion and dragon dance teams formed by the association to give wonderful performances. The government also held activities such as "Spring Arrives at the Riverside to Welcome the New Year" and a make-up parade, which added a rich festive atmosphere.

Qingming Festival

This is a traditional festival for China people to commemorate their ancestors. Two weeks before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people will bring sacrifices and flowers to the cemetery to visit their graves and worship their ancestors.

Dragon Boat Festival

Originally it was Quyuan's anniversary of throwing himself into the river, but now it has developed into a festival of offering sacrifices to the gods by Bao jiaozi. Singapore holds a dragon boat race every year during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Ghosts'Festival

Commonly known as Ghost Festival, from the first day to the thirtieth day of the seventh lunar month, an altar will be set up for a whole month to worship ghosts without owners. During the period, there will be banquets, singing performances, shouting blessings and other activities, which are very lively.

Vesak day

April 15th of the lunar calendar is the birthday, enlightenment and Nirvana anniversary of Buddha Sakyamuni. A few days before the festival, the Buddhist Association of Singapore began to hold a series of celebrations. Various Buddhist groups and temples decorated lanterns with bright lights, symbolizing that the Buddha's glory shone on the world from generation to generation.

Little bailan festival

The most important festival for Malays is Eid al-Fitr. Every September, Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, and they can't fast until they see the new moon for one month. Muslims will clean houses, decorate houses, put on newly sewn traditional clothes, prepare various gourmet cakes and celebrate Eid al-Fitr. The lively atmosphere is comparable to the Spring Festival in China.

Haqi Festival

This is an important religious ceremony, which was held the day after Muslims made a pilgrimage to Muslim holy places. The festival is scheduled for the tenth day of Ramadan, and the celebration ceremony is mainly to slaughter cattle and sheep. Thank god.

Great Paulsen Festival

This is an Indian festival, also known as Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival. Every household will clean the house, light the lights around them and welcome the patron saint and the goddess of luck. Hindus hold grand celebrations and parade their idols in their cars. Some Christians wear iron frames and silver needles to express their gratitude or atonement for God. The celebration center is in Little India.

Christmas day

But1February 25th is a festival to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. The Christian church will hold a special celebration ceremony, and believers will also sing hymns and visit their families. Every Christmas, the Orchard Road area will be decorated with lights, and all major commercial buildings will be decorated and attractive. The whole street is full of festive atmosphere.

Good Friday and Easter

Good Friday falls on the third Sunday in April every year. This is a solemn festival to commemorate the sacrifice of Jesus. The Sunday after Good Friday is Easter to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Good Friday and Easter are both festivals of remembrance and gratitude.

South Korea

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival in Korean life, which is called "the beginning of a year" and "January" like China. Before the festival, many delicious foods will be cooked. New Year's Eve is near midnight, and the whole family will sit in the house to celebrate the New Year. On the Lunar Festival, boys fly kites and girls jump on the springboard. Adults also express their desire to ward off evil spirits and pray for a bumper harvest through various forms. New Year's greetings should be given to the elderly at home, and the elderly will give their children and grandchildren "lucky money".

On the morning of January, friends meet and wish each other well. There is a custom of "burning your hair" at night. When you combed your hair last year,

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the Lantern Festival

"Shangyuan" refers to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Shangyuan Festival usually begins on the 14th day of the first month, so it is also called "Little Shangyuan" on the 14th and "Big Shangyuan" on the 15th.

"Medicinal Meal" is a good meal for Shangyuan Festival. It is not only eaten at home, but also used for entertaining guests and offering sacrifices to ancestors. First steam the glutinous rice, then add honey, chestnuts, jujube, oil, sauce and so on. Then steam it, that is, make it into a "medicated rice". Because honey was regarded as medicine at that time, this kind of rice mixed with honey was called "medicinal rice"

Before breakfast on the fifteenth day of the first month, men, women and children drink "Erming Liquor". It is said that drinking this wine not only makes people "hear clearly", but also always hears good news. Eating three meals will bring good luck, so neighbors always taste each other after cooking.

The fifteenth day of the first month is very lively all day. In addition to recreational activities such as springboard and bone throwing, there will also be tug-of-war, stone war, stepping on the ground, torch war and other games between adjacent villages.

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is another biggest traditional festival in a year besides Spring Festival. On this day, women will wash their hair with calamus, cut the roots of calamus into hairpins, carve the words "longevity" and insert them in their heads, which is said to ward off evil spirits. The most representative festival activity is women's swinging. Under the big tree or beside the swing frame, women dressed in colorful national costumes, either single or double, or attracted attention, stepped on the pedals and swung into the blue sky, and colorful skirts danced in the air.

Mid-Autumn Festival

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, children who work outside the home usually go home for reunion, and people who are busy with farm work in spring and summer will enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables. On this day, no matter how far away from home, people will make all kinds of delicious food with new grain to pay homage to their ancestral graves. After arriving at the cemetery, first go to the grave, then put food on the sacrificial table, pour wine and kowtow in turn (elders first), and hold a worship ceremony.

Women's collective knitting competition is a unique folk activity in Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition, there are wrestling and swinging.

Malaysia

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

The first day of the first lunar month is the New Year in China, and the holiday customs are roughly the same as those of the Han nationality in China.

Great Paulsen Festival

It is held in 65438+ from late October to early February every year/kloc-0. This is the dedication ceremony of Hindus to the Indian god LORDMURUGAN. Believers wear chains, bring flowers and fruits, and make a wish to God.

Little bailan festival

This is the most important festival for Malays. Every September in the Islamic calendar, Muslims all over the country fast during the day, and the first day after Ramadan is Eid al-Fitr. On the eve of the festival, Muslims will make charitable donations. On the morning of the festival, Muslims hold a grand prayer ceremony in the church and then congratulate each other. During the festival, people rush home from all directions to reunite with their loved ones, and relatives and friends visit each other to congratulate the festival.

Birthday of Buddha

The birthday of Buddha Sakyamuni (May 25th) is also a day to commemorate Buddha's enlightenment and death. In the early morning of this day, all Buddhists burn incense and worship Buddha, everyone is a vegetarian, and every household lights oil lamps, so it is also called "Lantern Festival".

Flower Festival/Parade (July)

It lasted a week. By then, Kuala Lumpur will become a beautiful garden city with flowers everywhere. The climax of Flower Week is a large float parade, and all kinds of flowers attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every year.

National day (August 3 1 day)

Also known as "Independence Day". 1957 August 3 1 day, the day when the Malayan Federation became independent within the Commonwealth, and the independence day was the National Day.

Lantern Festival (10- 1 1 month)

This is a festival of lights, also called Hanukkah. People lit lamps to celebrate the victory of the demon reduction. This is the Indian New Year. During the festival, every household is brightly lit and filled with cigarettes.

Christmas Day (65438+February 25th)

This is a grand festival for Christians to commemorate the birth of Jesus. Holiday habits are roughly the same as those around the world, but now Christmas has become a holiday for the younger generation.

Britain, England

1. On New Year's Day (New Year's Day), 65438+1 October1celebrates the beginning of the New Year. People hold various New Year's parties, the Queen gives New Year's greetings, and various churches hold vigils on New Year's Eve.

2. Valentine's Day (Valentine's Day) on February 14 every year is the anniversary of the death of Valentinus, a martyr in the 3rd century. Couples give gifts to each other on this day, so it is called "Valentine's Day".

3. Every March, St. Patrick's Day, 17, is a festival to mourn the patron saint of Ireland.

4. Holy Saturday is the day before Easter.

Easter is usually on the first Sunday of the full moon after the vernal equinox every year, about 2 1 year in March. This festival is to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and people will eat more Easter eggs during the festival.

Easter Monday is the second day of Easter.

7. Good Friday, Friday before Easter, the church held a ceremony to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus. In Britain, this day is a public holiday, and people eat traditional cross bread.

8. Jesus ascensiontide (Jesus ascensiontide) is a Thursday on the 40th day after Easter, also known as Holy Thursday.

9. pentect is the seventh Sunday after Easter, also known as White Sunday.

10. April Fool's Day (April Fool's Day) on April 1 day every year comes from celebrating the arrival of the vernal equinox. People who are fooled by pranks on April 1 day are called "April fools"

France

New Year's Day

65438+ 10 month 1. Friends and relatives get together, give gifts or money, and drink all the wine at home on New Year's Eve (otherwise it will be bad luck next year).

Notre Dame Day

March 25th. This section commemorates that the Virgin Mary accepted the message from the angel that she would be pregnant by the "Holy Spirit" and give birth to Jesus.

Easter

On the first Sunday after the full moon at the vernal equinox (between March 22nd and April 25th), there will be a week's holiday. Travel, get together, eat Easter eggs and give gifts to each other.

Pentecost

On the 50th day after Easter, there will be two days off.

May 1 day

May 1 have a day off. Lily of the valley is a traditional flower on May Day. The trade union held a large-scale demonstration.

National Day

Take a day off on July 14. There are grand celebrations in both cities and rural areas, and a large-scale military parade is held on the Champs Elysé es in Paris.

Hypothetical day

August 15 (Catholicism) and August 27th (Orthodox Church) will be closed for one day.

Armistice Day of World War I

165438+1October 1 1. Some units have a day off. The president or prime minister awarded medals to military heroes and heroes who survived the two world wars.

All Saints'Day (Nov 1st)

165438+ 10/month 1 one day off. Paying homage to the deceased relatives in the cemetery (with China Tomb-Sweeping Day).

Christmas day

On February 25th, 65438, there were two days off. In fact, the holiday began on February 24, 65438. Together with weekends and New Year's Day, the holiday can reach 10 days. People exchange cards and gifts, have family reunions, hold Christmas dinners (champagne is essential), and Christians go to church to attend mass.

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