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Chapter 21: The New Year


The Japanese New Year is a little different from the Celestial Empire, which is calculated on a lunar calendar and generally looks like the end of January and the beginning of February.Read the novel to.23us.com but Japan is different, although before the Meiji Restoration, Japan also used the lunisolar calendar modified from the summer calendar to calculate the year, but after Japan changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1873, Japan lived the New Year of the solar calendar, so the Japanese New Year is the first day of January at the beginning of the year, and the Japanese New Year is generally the same three days as the New Year's Day of the Celestial Empire, that is, January 1 to January 3.These three days are the days of the national holiday in Japan.As a group of students, the spring break of the school is seven days, so it is a holiday until the seventh day of January, and the first day of school is not until the eighth day of January.However, in Japan, the New Year is celebrated until the 15th day of the first month.Just a week after Christmas, Li Ye ushered in the first big holiday after the crossing and a different New Year, which is also Li Ye's real contact with how the Japanese celebrate the New Year, although Li Ye, who was a house in his previous life, can be regarded as having some understanding of Japan because he likes anime and Japanese romantic action dramas, but after all, it is just hearsay, and now Li Ye can maliciously really feel the New Year in Japan.The whole nation of Japan is a nation deeply influenced by Confucianism, and they take etiquette very seriously, and even now, when the Celestial Empire, the origin of Confucianism, is about to forget the traditions of its ancestors, Japan still values these as usual.In the past, the Japanese used to send holiday greetings to distant relatives and friends who could not see each other during the New Year, but later there was no such boundary.Every year, every family member in Japan sends hundreds of New Year's greeting certificates.With the popularization of computers, printers have gradually replaced brushes.However, in order to show politeness, polite Japanese people should add a sentence to the printed New Year's greeting certificate to express good luck, encouragement, or report the current situation.Like the Celestial Empire, the New Year's Greetings also have lottery numbers.There is another one, the New Year's money, which is similar to the New Year's money of the Celestial Empire, where people have to give their children and the children of their relatives some pocket money.The Japanese used to celebrate two New Year's Festivals, New Year's Day and Spring Festival, similar to the current situation in the Celestial Empire.It was only in modern times that it was changed to a new calendar year.On Chinese New Year's Eve, the Japanese call it "New Year's Eve", and on Chinese New Year's Eve, the Japanese also have the custom of keeping the New Year, and people eat soba noodles while watching TV programs arranged for the New Year, and male and female singer solo competitions are the most popular.At midnight, the temple is filled with incense smoke and bells ring in unison, often one hundred and eight times.It is said that this is because there is a saying in the Buddhist scriptures that "when you hear the bell, your troubles are cleared".The Japanese believe that every time you knock it, you get rid of one kind of trouble, and one hundred and eight times it means that you get rid of all your worries.After the bell rings, people flock to shrines and temples to burn incense to worship the Buddha and count fortune telling, which is called "Hatsuyi" which means the first visit.It is estimated that nearly 80 million people visit the shrine each year from midnight to New Year's Day.On the night of the New Year's Eve, Japan also had its own Red and White Song Contest for the Spring Festival Gala.From the first day of the first month to the third day of the first month, the first day of the first month of the first month is on the first day, and the juniors must first go to their parents' place to greet the New Year, greet their parents, and then go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings.It is customary to eat rice cake soup, which is called Oza-saki in Japanese.A straw rope or a circle made of straw rope is often pulled up above the door of each household, which is called Zhulian rope or Zhulian ornament.Some also put some pine and bamboo, called door pine.Many company buildings and streets and alleys have set up novel and unique archways with pine, bamboo and plum trees to celebrate.Animals symbolizing longevity, such as cranes and turtles, are also decorated with paper-cutouts inside and outside their homes to pray for safety.At the same time, according to the 12 zodiac signs, carve a year and give each other away.The Ministry of Posts and Posts also issues a large number of New Year's stamps depicting the New Year's signs.Whether it is an individual or a group, the exchange of New Year's cards has become the most popular way to congratulate, and the Japanese call it a fluttering kite, which is affectionate from afar.Whoever receives more New Year's cards in the New Year will feel that the new year has a bright future, prosperous financial fortune, and special joy.During the New Year, the custom of greeting neighbors, relatives, friends, and children is still prevalent.The first thing we say when we meet is to congratulate the New Year.Li Ye only then found that the Japanese New Year is really very complicated, Li Ye he didn't even understand the New Year of the Celestial Dynasty except for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the New Year's money, and the firecrackers, and now it is strange that the New Year of a new country can be understood, although some can be known from the memory of Takashi Ogura, but it is like watching a movie, how much can you remember?

And how much can you understand?

It can be said that all this of the Japanese New Year is new to Li Ye, except for the night of the night and the Komuro couple went to the shrine to worship, look here and there, everything is so attractive in Li Ye's eyes, as for going home and watching the so-called Japanese-style Spring Festival Gala Red and White Song Contest with the Komuro couple, Li Ye said that he couldn't understand the Japanese appreciation angle at all, and he didn't look at it for 10 minutes and fell asleep on the ground.

The Spring Festival Gala of the Celestial Empire, Li Ye has never lasted more than 30 minutes, let alone now, the next day is the first day, pretending to pay New Year's greetings with the Komuro couple, and after taking a little bit of New Year's money, he was kicked out of the house by the Komuro couple and asked Li Ye to go to Gaocheng's house and Miyamoto's family to pay New Year's greetings, as for the Komuro couple said that it would take a while, the two of them were speechless, what age are these two people, one is almost 40, and the other is also thirty-five or sixteen, and he still plays this set of words, and the parents of Japanese high school students seem to be younger than those of the Celestial Empire.Li Ye went to the nearest Miyamoto house first, heard the doorbell that Li Ye rang, and it was Miyamoto Li who came out to open the door, because it was the New Year, Miyamoto Li, who always wore a sailor suit in Li Ye, actually wore a kimono that made Li Ye's eyes shine, and sure enough, Japanese women's kimonos are pleasing to the eye, of course, Li Ye will never admit that all he knows about women's kimonos is from the love action drama "Congratulations on the New Year!"

”Li Ye and Li worshiped each other, after the year, Li Ye stayed at Miyamoto's house for a while, and by the way, he was stuffed with a belly of Japanese rice cakes, Li Ye's bitterness, what he hated the most was to eat rice cakes, and then escaped from Miyamoto's house with the excuse of going to pay New Year's greetings, and slowly Li Ye came to the door of Gaocheng's house, in the memory of Komuro Xiao, in previous years, although Komuro and his wife also let Komuro go to Gaocheng's house to pay New Year's greetings, but every time Komuro Xiaoxiao is open, Li Ye really doesn't know what is terrible about Gaocheng's family, Saya is clear and bright, although a little arrogant, Mrs.

Gao Cheng's sexy, noble and beautiful has a great temptation for Li Ye, although the head of the Gao Cheng family looks a little scary, but he has always been kind to Xiao Muro, Li Ye really doesn't understand what Xiao Muro's idiot is afraid of.Although Li Ye had never entered the door of Gao Cheng's house because he didn't want to behave too differently before, he was afraid that someone would see that something had changed, but today was different, on the first day of the New Year, it was natural to come to pay New Year's greetings, and it was also ordered by the Komuro couple, so Li Ye pressed the doorbell at the gate of Gao Cheng's house.It didn't take long for the subordinates of the Gao Cheng family to open the door and let Li Ye walk into this familiar and unfamiliar manor.Read the novel to.23us.com,!