At the end of the year, the annual meeting will be grandly staged. Similar to the year-end gathering in China's cultural circle, the Japanese New Year's Eve reunion was originally a spontaneous gathering of relatives and friends to comfort themselves with all the hard work in the past year and look forward to the arrival of the New Year.
In recent decades, with the prosperity of Japan's economy, it has become a routine activity of enterprises, universities and other institutions. A colleague between a department and a laboratory pushed a cup for a change in the hotel restaurant, and the work pressure of the past year was released at this node.
Decoration in the first month
The first month decoration is a blessing decoration before the New Year, and the hanging time generally lasts from 65438+February 65438+March to 65438+February 30, before the big black day. But because the "9 (bitter)" on the 29th is unlucky, the decorations for the first month will not be hung on this day. The first month ornaments taken off will generally be sent to the shrine for unified treatment; Or burn it in the first month of the lunar calendar (65438+ 10/5) to get rid of diseases and eliminate disasters.
Mensong
Mensong is a prop that every household puts outside the door to welcome the gods in the first month. Traditionally, the trees used by Mensong are usually coiled trees, which are considered to be the places where immortals live; Sometimes it is replaced by pine trees that represent immortality and prosperity.
At the same time, the pronunciation of "loose" in Japanese can also be written as "waiting", so Mensong also means waiting for the arrival of the gods. In recent years, the main body of door pine has been replaced by more beautiful bamboo.
Mirror cake
According to ancient Japanese legend, the gods lived in the mirror when they came down to earth in the first month, and the mirror cake was an important prop used to pray for the gods to appear. Because the ancient bronze mirror was very thick, the shape of the mirror cake handed down by this influence was also thick and round. After the New Year, we will eat mirror cakes separately by hand or with a mallet, which is also called "opening the mirror".
The first visit this year.
The first day of junior high school, formerly known as "Nian Cage", is one of the most important New Year activities in Japanese religious belief. Simply put, people go to temples or shrines at the beginning of the new year to burn the broken Maya, which has accumulated a year of bad luck, and thank the gods for their blessing in the past year.
At the same time, I will ring the bell, make a wish, ask for a sign, buy a new broken Maya, windmill, guard, and pray for peace and good luck in the new year. According to the different time, the initial concepts are divided into the concept of going to night and the concept of Yuanri.
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Brief introduction of Japan:
Japan is an archipelago country in the East Pacific of Asia. It is bordered by the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Korean Strait and the Sea of Japan in the west, the Pacific Ocean in the east and China, Korea and Russia in the east.
The territory consists of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku, four major islands and more than 3,900 small islands, with an area of 37. 7? 7? Ten thousand square kilometers. Honshu Island is the most important island in Japan, with an area of 22. More than 740,000 square kilometers, accounting for about 60% of the country's total area. The total length of coastline is nearly 30,000 kilometers.
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