How does Japan celebrate the New Year?

Just after New Year's Day, I believe my friends are going to prepare for the Spring Festival. However, in Japan, New Year's Day in China is the most important festival of the year-New Year.

Japanese people pay special attention to the New Year, and every year 65438+February 29th-65438+1October 3rd is a national holiday. The Japanese call 65438+February 3 1 "Great Dark Day", that is, New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, the Japanese call it "New Year's Eve". At night, they pray for the gods to send away the troubled old year and usher in a beautiful new year. This is the so-called "first day".

Japanese New Year custom

Mensong

During the New Year, "Mensong" (? Pine) or hang pine branches to show good luck in the New Year. The door pine is composed of bamboo and pine branches, as well as wintersweet. There was a saying in ancient Japan that immortals lived in trees. Therefore, before the New Year in China, it means to "welcome God" by putting a door at home.

Mirror cake

During the New Year in China, the Japanese will provide "mirror cakes" at home to worship the God of the Year. "Mirror cakes" are usually stacked together and placed in the middle of the living room. And it must be provided on February 28, 65438. In Japanese, "8" is homophone with "making a fortune". The word "8" is a broad extension of the foot and a fable of "developing and making a fortune".

"9" is pronounced "bitter" in Japanese, so it must not be offered on the 29th. If you don't start worshipping until 30th or 3rd1,it is called "one-night cake" in Japan, because you don't think you are pious enough for Nian Shen, so you won't choose to put "mirror cake" on these two days. This "mirror cake" can't be opened until 65438+1October 1 1 to make soup cakes or bake adult cakes for family members.

New year's eve bell

At midnight on New Year's Eve, the bells of temples all over Japan will ring at 108. In order to exorcise evil spirits, the Japanese sit quietly and listen to the "except the night bell", and the stop of the bell means the arrival of the new year. It is said that this is from the phrase "Smell the bell, and your troubles will be clear" in Buddhist scriptures. Therefore, the New Year bell should ring 108 times to eliminate 108 kinds of troubles for people.

After the bell rang on New Year's Eve, tens of millions of Japanese people flocked to shrines and temples to burn incense and worship Buddha, sign fortune-telling signs and pray for happiness and peace for the whole family in the new year. This is the first visit to the shrine in the New Year.

The temple will give each visitor a white note. The words on the note will inspire you what will happen in the new year. People will hang these white notes on the trees next to the temple after reading them.

On the first day of the new year, the Japanese have the custom of welcoming the sunrise, and the place to worship the sunrise is often the seaside or the mountain. People believe that when they worship the first sunrise of the new year, their wishes will come true, they will be healthy and safe, and get a new aura.

Children will receive "lucky money" from their elders in the new year. Like China, the Japanese also give their children lucky money in the New Year, which is called Yu Nian in Japanese.

"Fu Bao" is the embodiment of Japanese businessmen's wisdom, and it is also a way to promote sales. Now it has become a Japanese custom and a new year's sight. From 6543810.2, all major department stores in Japan will launch various blessing bags. Although the details of the goods in the blessing bag are not clear, the goods contained in it are often several times the marked price of the blessing bag, which is equivalent to a big discount, which is very cost-effective.

The number of blessing bags is limited. In order to buy preferential goods and win the first place in the New Year, the Japanese will queue up early and run to the display counter of the blessing bag at the moment when the store opens. This is the so-called "grabbing happiness".

Just as China eats jiaozi in the north and rice cakes in the south, the Japanese also have the custom of eating "Chinese New Year buckwheat noodles" on the evening of 65438+February 3 1. It is said that buckwheat noodles must be eaten before zero. If they don't finish, there will be no good luck next year. "Year" means "celebrating the New Year".

Eating "buckwheat noodles" on New Year's Eve is said to have three meanings. First, buckwheat noodles are long, which means "longevity" and "permanence". Second, buckwheat noodles are easy to break, so it also means "one year's hard work is easy to break". Third, the Japanese pronunciation of "buckwheat noodles" is the same as "bian", which means "the whole family is around".

Japan also has its own new year's eve dinner, which is called "imperial sacrifice cuisine" in Japanese, also known as the first month cuisine. Yujie dishes are mainly foods that can be preserved for a long time by cooking, stewing, roasting, mixing vinegar and other cooking methods.

Put it in a beautiful paint box when you're done. There are several things that are necessary for Yujie to cook. One is red and white shredded radish, which means happiness comes; One is kelp roll, which means happiness; In addition, there must be black beans, representing efforts; There are also herring seeds, which symbolizes the prosperity of future generations.

On the morning of New Year's Day, the whole family arranged to drink Tu Su wine in turn from young to old, and taste herring roe, black beans and dried fish cooked with slightly sweet soy sauce. It is said that these auspicious foods will bring prosperity and health to future generations.

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