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 Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:40 am
Aiko_589 che_hyun Oh yeah, Easter is a Christian holiday too. I don't know where the egg thing came from, but it's the anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he died on Good Friday (the friday before). easter? You don't know about Easter? The date of it is always changing because we try to keep it on exactly the same day as when it happened...there's some sort of relation with the Sundays, but it can be anywhere from the second-to-last Sunday in March to like the third Sunday in April I think. You basically either go to church or paint eggs the day before and supposedly the 'Easter Bunny' (it's really your parents) comes and hides them around the house on Easter morning. I actually didn't know the story behind Easter until this past Easter...I've been learning a lot through church lately. Yeah. Even though we don't know when it is, all the calendars have Easter on them so we just sort of 'Oh look, Easter is on the ___ this year'.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:41 am
I locked your other thread like you asked.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:41 am
NakaTake In Japan 御正月・新年 is more widely celebrated right?
おぞにが好きよッ.
I like osecchi-ryori lots and lots. :]
去年僕ら、おすしを作った (*＾ー＾)ノ
I celebrate Christmas here, though I go to Bukkyoukai.
Just not the Christian aspect, but more the secular "all-american" part of it. yes, new year is more celebrate.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:41 am
NakaTake I locked your other thread like you asked. thank you.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:43 am
che_hyun Aiko_589 che_hyun Oh yeah, Easter is a Christian holiday too. I don't know where the egg thing came from, but it's the anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he died on Good Friday (the friday before). easter? You don't know about Easter? The date of it is always changing because we try to keep it on exactly the same day as when it happened...there's some sort of relation with the Sundays, but it can be anywhere from the second-to-last Sunday in March to like the third Sunday in April I think. You basically either go to church or paint eggs the day before and supposedly the 'Easter Bunny' (it's really your parents) comes and hides them around the house on Easter morning. I actually didn't know the story behind Easter until this past Easter...I've been learning a lot through church lately. Yeah. Even though we don't know when it is, all the calendars have Easter on them so we just sort of 'Oh look, Easter is on the ___ this year'. japanese like all festivals in china, india especially, korea etc. follow lunar calendar, which doesnt desginate day, it desginates something like, full moon night, or 3 day after the new moon, is how it works.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:44 am
Aiko_589 che_hyun Aiko_589 che_hyun Oh yeah, Easter is a Christian holiday too. I don't know where the egg thing came from, but it's the anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he died on Good Friday (the friday before). easter? You don't know about Easter? The date of it is always changing because we try to keep it on exactly the same day as when it happened...there's some sort of relation with the Sundays, but it can be anywhere from the second-to-last Sunday in March to like the third Sunday in April I think. You basically either go to church or paint eggs the day before and supposedly the 'Easter Bunny' (it's really your parents) comes and hides them around the house on Easter morning. I actually didn't know the story behind Easter until this past Easter...I've been learning a lot through church lately. Yeah. Even though we don't know when it is, all the calendars have Easter on them so we just sort of 'Oh look, Easter is on the ___ this year'. japanese like all festivals in china, india especially, korea etc. follow lunar calendar, which doesnt desginate day, it desginates something like, full moon night, or 3 day after the new moon, is how it works. so always fall on different dates
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:44 am
Ah, I see.
Mom (she's natively Korean and immigrated in like the 70s) says that when she was in Korea, they celebrated New Year's for like the entire month of January. I was wondering...I don't doubt that it was true then, but is it still true?
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:46 am
che_hyun Ah, I see. Mom (she's natively Korean and immigrated in like the 70s) says that when she was in Korea, they celebrated New Year's for like the entire month of January. I was wondering...I don't doubt that it was true then, but is it still true? bit of an exaggeration, 2 weeks actually. i n japan anyway.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:48 am
I am pretty sure that Japan doesn't celebrate by a lunar calendar though.
Because I got otoshidama last year from Japan and it was just during the regular new year.
Chinese New Year was close to February I think
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:49 am
What do you do to celebrate? O.o We never celebrate anything for more than a day or two, so I'm rather clueless.
Unless you're Catholic, but it's not really celebrating. Like for Lent (a forty-day period in which is the anniversary of when Jesus Christ went into the desert) we don't eat meat on Fridays and give up something for the period of time, like my friend chose not to eat her most favorite food - chocolate.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:50 am
NakaTake I am pretty sure that Japan doesn't celebrate by a lunar calendar though.
Because I got otoshidama last year from Japan and it was just during the regular new year.
Chinese New Year was close to February I think that how the dates are set, this is why in some areas of japanese tanabata is either in august or july, depending on which calendar you are following
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:51 am
che_hyun What do you do to celebrate? O.o We never celebrate anything for more than a day or two, so I'm rather clueless. Unless you're Catholic, but it's not really celebrating. Like for Lent (a forty-day period in which is the anniversary of when Jesus Christ went into the desert) we don't eat meat on Fridays and give up something for the period of time, like my friend chose not to eat her most favorite food - chocolate. doesnt really sound like celebrating, more like commemorating. it isnt all that fun all the time, sometimes it just oging to peoples houses buying stuff, and some fun stuff,(fire works, that sort of thing)
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:53 am
Aiko_589 NakaTake I am pretty sure that Japan doesn't celebrate by a lunar calendar though.
Because I got otoshidama last year from Japan and it was just during the regular new year.
Chinese New Year was close to February I think that how the dates are set, this is why in some areas of japanese tanabata is either in august or july, depending on which calendar you are following the lunar new year in gregorian is march 14~16, this is why all dates can be set in from lunar to gregorian, it is quite dumb to think other wise, not to mention, everytime you read about festival in japan, it always says march/april or things like that rolleyes
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:53 am
Ahhh! Yes! I've heard of Tanabata...I think I read about a celebration somewhere, but I don't quite remember how the story went, nor what you do to celebrate, (I think I read about girls writing down their wishes so that they might come true), nor when it is.
^^ I want to learn about all the holidays - it's really fun to go to school and be like 'Happy Ash Wednesday' or 'Happy 'take your pants for a walk' Day (O.O there really is a national holiday like that....there's a National Talk Like a Pirate day too).
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:54 am
Aiko_589 NakaTake I am pretty sure that Japan doesn't celebrate by a lunar calendar though.
Because I got otoshidama last year from Japan and it was just during the regular new year.
Chinese New Year was close to February I think that how the dates are set, this is why in some areas of japanese tanabata is either in august or july, depending on which calendar you are following 本来は1月の別名が「正月」だが、現在では1月1日から1月3日まで（三が日＝さんがにち）、または「松の内」とよばれる、それぞれ1月7日まで（関東）および1月15日の小正月まで（関西）を「正月」という。また、1月20日までを正月とすることもあり、1月20日を二十日正月（骨正月）と呼ぶ。
Look what I found
分かったじゃん :]
I get it now.
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