Celebrating Spring Festival abroad
( bbs.chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2015-03-05 08:27Michaela (Japan)
Lunar New Year/Chinese New Year is not a public holiday in Japan. But we Japanese still continue to celebrate "Lunar New Year" as "Ko-shogatsu (Small New Year)" or "Now-defunct New Year". We have a variety of events, such as fortune-telling about farming, driving birds away from rice fields, wishing the good harvest of farm products and making a bonfire out of the New Year's decorations, such as pines, bamboo and straw festoons.
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A girl walks through a Chinese portable shrine during Chinese Lunar New Year in Chinatown in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Jan 31, 2014. Japan's largest Chinatown celebrated the Lunar New Year on Jan31, which marked the Year of the Horse. [Photo/Agencies] |
