Colorful Kobe Lantern Festival in memory of earthquake victims?

Japan is known as the "country of festivals and celebrations", and festivals and celebrations with different themes, large and small, never stop all year round: cherry blossom viewing in spring, fireworks in summer, maple viewing in autumn, and various lantern festivals and lighting styles in winter. Today's Japan Festival will introduce you to the profound winter lantern festival in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan-Kobe Lantern Festival.

Kobe Illuminati was held from 1995 (the seventh year of Heisei) to 65438+ February. At first, it was a large-scale lantern memorial activity to comfort the souls of the victims of the Hanshin Awaji earthquake, imitate the brilliance of the immortal bird symbolizing Kobe's revival and reconstruction, and place people's hopes on the revival of the disaster area.

1995 When the first Lantern Festival was just held, it was less than a year before the Hanshin Awaji earthquake. Although Kobe was still full of broken walls and ruins at that time, the warm light of neon lights made people in the confused street reappear their courage, emotion, dreams and hopes.

Since then, Kobe Lantern Festival has been held every Christmas, which has gradually become a landscape poem in Kobe and a fixed project for local people to celebrate Christmas. Kobe Lantern, made by Italian artist Gularelio Fierst and works producer Kazuo Imaoka who lives in Kobe, is also famous all over the country, and there are more and more tourists from all over the country and even overseas.

Of course, foreign tourists may simply think that the Lantern Festival is just to celebrate Christmas without knowing the inside story, but in the hearts of Kobe citizens, every time they see lanterns, they will always think of the earthquake and pray for the dead. Every time before the Lantern Festival, the lighting ceremony and memorial ceremony of "Heart Freedom Day" for the disabled and the elderly will be held to mourn the victims of the earthquake.

Kobe Lantern Festival is not only a Christmas decoration for the Japanese people, but also represents hope for a stable future. It seems to show people every step of post-disaster reconstruction, reminding people to cherish every day they have.

Related reading: Great Hanshin Earthquake The Great Hanshin Earthquake (known as Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in Japan), also known as Kobe Earthquake and Hanshin Earthquake, refers to an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 at 5: 46: 52 (Japan Standard Time) on Kansai Time 1995+ 17 in Japan. It is named after the disaster-stricken areas are mainly cities between Kobe City, Awaji Island, Kobe and Osaka in Hyogo Prefecture.

Hanshin earthquake is the largest underground earthquake in Japan since 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Kobe is an important city in Kansai, Japan, with a dense population (at that time, the population was about 1.05 million). The earthquake occurred in the early hours of the morning, causing considerable casualties. According to official statistics, * * 6,434 people were killed, 43,792 people were injured, and 320,000 victims had their houses damaged and had to live in combined houses.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake is of great significance in the history of earthquakes in Japan, which directly aroused Japan's attention to earthquake science, urban architecture and traffic prevention. In addition, the earthquake has also had a certain impact on Japanese politics, and the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party has once again returned to the political core.

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