Some festivals abroad are also very weird!
For example, a group of women beat men with sticks, a group of people threw tomatoes at each other, and poured wine at each other.
(Can you save food? If not, you can throw some money.) Now let’s take stock of those weird festivals abroad!
1. Ireland - Cuckold Day This festival is definitely not popular in China. On that day, men and women will also wear green hats and have fun together... When you think about it, there seems to be something wrong. It originated in the late 5th century.
Ireland, the United States began celebrating it on March 17, 1737.
On St. Patrick's Day in the United States, people usually hold parades, church services, and dinners.
Irish people in the United States like to wear clover, decorate their rooms with green and yellow, the colors of the Irish flag, wear green clothes and various green hats, and present clover ornaments to guests.
Time: Tuesday, March 17th every year. Holy Week in Guatemala is usually held the week before Easter. This is one of the most exciting festivals in Central America. The festival lasts for seven days, blending Catholicism and local Mayan traditional cultural characteristics. The peak period lasts for three days.
During these three days, people did not eat or sleep, and they carried images of Jesus in processions.
The festival is also very dangerous, with reports of up to 150 deaths during the festival.
Celebrating the holidays is risky, so be careful when choosing.
3. Spain - Burgos - The Baby Jumping Festival means jumping over the baby. This cliff is the birth of the biological mother and biological father. People will spread a few mats on the ground in front of the altar table and throw the babies that were born that year.
Placed on a mattress and lying on a main road in the village, an adult man dressed in strange costumes and a mask pretended to be a devil, jumped over the baby, and brandished a whip to "purify" the baby, with the purpose of removing
The baby and the evil spirit in the town.
Time: The second Sunday in June every year. 4. Mermaid Festival in Carey, North Carolina, USA. Speaking of mermaids, this is what you may immediately think of.
The reality may be this: This program is prepared for girls who have a fairy tale angel heart and are keen on cosplay, but there will also be some men who will participate. This should be the legendary "girly heart of me"
Bar.
Everyone participating in this show will compete together. The contestants will swim in a large swimming pool and compete to show off their "tails". Every day, their personal "tails" are made with a lot of thought and sparkle while swimming.
Fish scales are also a beautiful sight. The prerequisite is that it is a girl. If it is a group of men, you can imagine the scene. It feels scary just thinking about it.
Time: Every June and Friday, England - London - Pillow Fight "Pillow Fight" is a very popular activity in Europe and the United States. The purpose of its creation is to let people in the city not sit in front of the TV or computer every day, but to go to the city
Center for contact with others.
Those who have watched the first season of Hua Shao Shao should know about this festival~ Nowadays, "pillow fights" have become an interesting way for urbanites to relieve the tense pace of life and release stress.
Time: The first Saturday in April every year, Spain - Bu?ol - Remember to prepare as many tomatoes as possible before the start of the Tomatina Festival. On the day of the festival, people take a large number of tomatoes dumped on the ground and start to pour them on their companions or
Strangers "start a war", when people's clothes are all soaked in tomato juice, and the streets of the town instantly become a sea of ??red.
Guess why it’s tomatoes, which are abundant locally?
A little red?
Time: The last Wednesday in August every year, Japan - Okayama City - Nude Festival. You can know the content of the festival just by looking at the name of the festival. The participants are all male. When participating, they only use a crotch cloth to cover the important parts (you know)
, nearly naked.
At midnight on the festival day, the lights were extinguished, and two pieces of precious wood were thrown together from the second floor of the palace. Participants formed a team and began to grab the treasure wood. When the treasure wood was snatched, the crowd gradually gathered around.
They formed several circles, moved slowly, and walked out of the temple. The ceremony of competing for the treasure wood ended.
This festival is a traditional festival, and every step has strict rules.
It feels very similar to fighting for ducks in the Dragon Boat Festival River.
Time: Mid-to-late February, August, Thailand - Lopburi Province - Monkey Food Festival. It is said that this event originated in 1989. A local businessman believed that monkeys helped him make a fortune, so he designated November 24th every year as "Monkey Food Festival".
"Monkey Food Festival", from then on the monkeys had their own festival.