Mid-term Japanese Origins – Festival of Total Schedule
Otsukimi is combined from “tsunami” – meaning to see the moon, and add the word “O” to indicate severity. Like Vietnam, the festival takes place on the full moon day in August, making it an opportunity for everyone to enjoy the most beautiful moon of the year.
The Oskimi Festival is also often held after harvesting for the crop people with a meaning of gratitude to God, heaven and earth. Japanese people use traditional cakes, Susuki Silver Grass,…
Legend has it that the horde born from China was photographed to Japan from the Heyna period (794-1185) by delegations from the Tang Dynasty. Initially, the Middle Prime Minister’s Festival was held only for the royals and nobles. However, later, during the Edo period (1603-1868), it quickly spread widely and became a folk festival associated with many people as loved by the spiritual life of the Japanese.
Mid-item Festival 2 times – Unique features of Japanese culture
Like Vietnam and other Asian countries, Japan held the Prime Minister’s Festival on Middle-Moon Day on the full moon day of August (August 15th of the month calendar). However, the difference is that the second festival will be held on September 13th of the monthly calendar about a month later. This organization is called “The Moon Later.”
In the Japanese concept, if you have seen the moon on the night of August 15th, you definitely have to see the moon on the 13 nights of the moon being totally lucky. This taboo is also known by Japanese people as “kata tsukimi.”
The legend of the moon rabbit
In Vietnamese culture on top of the moon, when there are Hang, Uncle Kuoi and Banyan trees, the Japanese believe in the legend of the hardworking Jade Rabbit who lives on the moon. Every year at night, rabbits beat the dough to make fertilized and thick cakes. Furthermore, it is associated with rabbits that eat and appear in many parts of Japan.
Traditional Japanese cakes for the middle Prime Minister’s Festival
The Japanese Mid-Time Festival is not complete without the traditional cakes, stumbling dangos. This type of cake is made with rice flour, round, opaque white, no filling and soft texture. Japanese also offer to use this type of cake to pay respects to worship the ancestral gods.
The cake is sold at Japanese confectionery shops, and some families make cakes that watch the moon. Japan has very good habits. This means you can feel the food seasonally.
Cakes appear on small wooden brackets (often called “sampo”) that are specialized in storing offerings to the gods. In addition to pancakes, all the intermediate prime minister festivals, the Japanese enjoy other foods, such as taro, edamame, chestnuts, fruit…
Grass is used as decoration for the Japanese Central Festival.
Japanese people use grass to create the most popular decorations at the soybean festival. This is considered to be the embodiment of the moon god. At all mid-minister festivals, flower shops sell a lot of weeds. The grass body is empty, and it is believed that God enters the weed body like a cave. Furthermore, it also means exorcism, and there is a habit of dripping weeds outside the house to prevent evil spirits from entering. Mops often hang in front of the door, as the sharp shape of the grass symbolizes its ability to drive away demons and brings peace to the entire family.
Japan Chubu Festival activities
In Vietnam, the teeth procession, lion dance, broken decks, …the Japanese atmosphere is completely different. Every year on August and September 13th, the full moon day and September 13th, people gather to make traditional dango cakes and display the cake on a large tower-shaped tray.
The mops were also inserted into large vases on the table with plates of dango cakes, brought into the middle of the garden for a country family or carried to the moonlight living in urban areas. At the end of the month, people gather together to eat bread, drink tea and talk to each other about past events. The Japanese also prepare beautiful costumes for this festive season.
The above are the unique features of Otsukimi at the Central Prime Minister’s Festival in Japan. There are certain differences from Vietnam, but this is still an important festival of Japanese culture. The middle Prime Minister’s Festival is coming, Soc
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