Now the country does not restrict you from hanging up. Maybe the domestic will is not to follow the Japanese, so don't hang up.
Japan will not cancel this tradition, will it?
If it is cancelled, I think it will be carried forward again with a keen sense of domestic trends. After all, this thing is a new business and can make money.
May 5th is Japan's Boys' Day. As early as 834 AD, Japanese:> In Chinese, 65438+ 10/(New Year's Day), March 3rd (last week) and May 5th (Dragon Boat Festival) from China were designated as festivals. Everyone living in Japan knows that many colorful kites in the shape of carp can be seen dancing under the blue sky every year on Boys' Day. This is a beautiful scenery, which is called "carp" in Japanese. In the Muromachi era of14th century, only samurai were qualified to hang this kite on bamboo poles. In the edo period, it gradually spread among the people. The appearance has also become more beautiful, and it has been used ever since. This custom of flying carp kites on the Dragon Boat Festival, which has faded in China, actually originated from the legend of "carp yue longmen". Carps gather in Longmen in the middle reaches of the Yellow River every March and April. If they can go upstream and cross the waterfalls in the north mountain, they can become dragons. Those carp dancing in the wind really express the feelings of their elders. After the custom of Dragon Boat Festival spread to Japan, it was absorbed and transformed into traditional Japanese culture. Especially in the war-torn Muromachi era, it was highly respected by warriors. In Japanese, the pronunciation of "Acorus calamus" is the same as that of "samurai". On this day every year, warriors put their armor and helmets in the sun to dry. In the edo period, in order to let boys cultivate martial arts spirit from childhood, they hoped that they would become heroes in the future with superb martial arts.
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One of the ideas is that
The culture of worshipping carp originated from the superstition that the ancients tasted the flood in the river and thought carp was a "god". The ability of carp to swim freely in stormy waves is not only admirable, but also amazing. Therefore, in ancient literature, carp is regarded as "the master of scales" and "the length of fish", which has the ability to change gods into dragons and call the wind and rain; Carp can not only symbolize the success of official career, but also make people rich and prosperous, and even live forever (such as "crossing the sea with a carp on the piano"), which are typical manifestations of this imagination.
Archaeological results also show that since the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the ancients had the custom of burying jade fish.
After the Warring States Period, fish-shaped funerary objects such as tong yu, Yu Tao and Muyu appeared again. In fact, carp is regarded as a carrier to guide the souls of the dead to cross the Styx into heaven.
Others, such as offering sacrifices to carp for rain and seeking wealth, are also based on the superstition that carp has divinity.
The second view
The culture of worshipping carp originated from the ancient people's observation and association of carp habits. Carp has strong reproductive ability and high survival rate, so it has become a symbol of large population and prosperous family, and has been extended to a wide range of meanings such as reproduction and making money. Carps like to flock together, and they can't live without water. Therefore, using the love of fish and water as a metaphor for interpersonal relationship is extended to the love of husband and wife and a happy marriage. Carp swim around in the water, sometimes quiet and calm, sometimes lively and smart, so it is considered to be full of magical properties and become a general good thing to pray for rain and get rich.
The third view
The culture of worshipping carp originated from the totem worship of ancestors. Many pottery unearthed from matriarchal social sites in China are painted or engraved with fish patterns. For example, many painted pottery with fish patterns were found in Banpo site near Xi, Shaanxi Province, including the famous "fish face pattern". It is speculated that these exquisite patterns are probably "totem emblems", and some of them are descriptions of "fish sacrifice" scenes. Primitive people thought that human beings evolved from fish, or had some mysterious connection with fish, so they worshipped and feared fish and developed into a long-standing folk complex.
Viewpoint 4
The culture of worshipping carp originated from the worship of female genitalia by early human beings. In appearance, the outline of fish (or Pisces) is similar to the vulva; In terms of connotation, fish are full of children and have strong fertility. Because people only knew the reproductive function of vulva at that time, the combination of these two aspects made primitive people living in fishing and hunting society regard fish as a symbol of female reproductive organs.
Wen Yiduo once quoted a love song from Myths and Poems about Fish: "There is a ditch in front of my sister's house, and there is a golden rooster in the ditch. I can fish with a golden hook, so I can't catch carp with a hook." "Good for carp" obviously implies vulva. At the beginning of primitive human chaos, man and beast were indistinguishable. The similar association between fish and vulva triggers their simulated psychology, and they are eager to produce a functional conversion effect by worshipping the reproductive ability of fish. Therefore, the ancients used fish as a symbol of female genitalia, and a sacrificial ceremony-fish sacrifice came into being at the historic moment to pray for the prosperity of people. After the ceremony, women still eat fish, thinking that if they eat fish, they can get as strong reproductive ability as fish. On Banpo painted pottery, there is a fish in the mouth of the noodle fish, which is a portrayal of Banpo ancestors eating fish on the Fish Festival. With the development of society, the symbolic meaning of fish has gradually changed. From the longitudinal exploration of time, we can sort out the following vein: in the early and middle period of matriarchal clan society, people only used fish to symbolize vulva and a part of female body. About the late matriarchal society, fish has the meaning of symbolizing women. Since then, fish has further become a symbol of spouses, lovers and even love. Therefore, fish has naturally become the mascot of China people's social life.