The Oni Festival in Japan is also centered on the 15th day of the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, so the date of the festival varies from year to year. The time will be different in Tokyo and outside of Tokyo. Generally, the festival is held in mid-July in Tokyo and mid-August outside of Tokyo, depending on the local customs.
What is the Japanese name for the Festival of the Middle Ages
The Japanese festival of ghosts is also known as the "Bon Festival", also known as the "Festival of the Middle Ages" (in a certain sense, the Festival of the Middle Ages belongs to the Taoist religion, and the Festival of the Bon belongs to the Buddhist religion), and is commonly known as the "Festival of the Ghosts" in some places. "Ghost Festival", "Shi Ku", also known as the Day of the Dead, half of July.
The Bon Festival was introduced to Japan during the Bird of Prey era, and has now become a grand festival in Japan, second only to New Year's Day. Obon is also known as "Soul Matsuri", "Lantern Festival" and "Buddhist All Souls Festival" in Japan. Originally, it was a day for memorial service to ancestors and praying for the blessing of the dead, but now it is a festival for family reunion and village happiness. During Obon, Japanese companies take a 7-15 day vacation, and people rush back to their hometowns for a reunion. On the day of the festival, every family sets up a shrine, lights a fire to welcome and send off souls, and honors their ancestors. Nowadays, the spirits of the ancestors are usually welcomed around August 13 of the solar calendar and live with the living for four days, and on the 16th, they are sent back to the underworld in the form of a fire to send off the spirits. The "Omonogatari" festival in Kyoto is the culmination of this event. Another form of farewell is the Bon dance, in which men, women and children dance in yukata to the sound of drums on a summer night, which is now a famous sightseeing event in Japan.
What are the customs of Japan's ghost festivals
The Bon Festival was introduced to Japan during the Bird Period, and has now become a great festival in Japan, second only to New Year's Day. Bon is an annual Buddhist event honoring ancestors. It is believed that the spirits of ancestors return to this world to visit their relatives during the annual Bon Festival. It is a tradition to hang lanterns in front of the house to show the spirits of the ancestors the way, and to perform Obon dances (Bon-odori), visit graves, and make offerings of food at home altars and temples. At the end of Obon, the floating lanterns are thrown into the rivers, lakes and seas to guide the spirits back to their worlds. Customs vary greatly from region to region. Bon is also known as 'Soul Matsuri', 'Lantern Festival', and 'Buddhist All Souls Festival' in Japan. Originally, it was a day for memorial services to ancestors and prayers for good fortune, but now it is a festival for family reunion and village happiness. The festival is now a time for family reunion and village joy.
Obon Week in mid-July is one of Japan's three major festivals, during which domestic and international travel is intense and accommodation rates increase. Every Japanese company takes a 7-15 day vacation during Obon, and people rush back to their hometowns for reunions. On the day of the festival, every house sets up a shrine and lights a fire to welcome and send off the spirits to honor their ancestors. Nowadays, the spirits of the ancestors are usually welcomed around August 13 of the solar calendar and live with the living for four days, and on the 16th, they are sent back to the underworld in the form of a fire to send off the spirits. The "Omonogatari" festival in Kyoto is the culmination of this event. Another form of farewell is the Bon Odori dance, in which men, women and children dance in yukata to the sound of drums on a summer night, which is now a famous sightseeing event in Japan.
Japanese Ghost Festival, what ghosts are inside the 100 ghosts of the night
01, wood charm
Wood charm, also known as tree charm, refers to the tree inhabited by the soul. The appearance is similar to that of an ordinary tree, but it is said that if one intends to push the tree down or injure it, the person or even the whole village will suffer a great disaster.
02. Tengu
Tengu is one of the most widely known demons in Japan. Tengu are said to abduct people who are lost in the forest, so the ancients called the abducted children "shinjin," which means, as the name implies, that they were hidden by the gods. The legend of the Tengu was later incorporated into the religion of mountain beliefs (Tendai and Shingon Tantra), and the Kamakura-era "Yeshakubo Eigaku" depicts the Tengu battling the monks of the Tendai Sect and being defeated, with a vivid and entertaining action. In this story, it is said that an army of Tengu from China came to the Japanese Tengu to ask for help, but the Japanese Tengu displayed an arrogant attitude, which is known as "self-centeredness" and "nose high" in Japanese. As a result, in the late Middle Ages, the tengu, which was originally portrayed as an eagle, was transformed into a "snub-nosed tengu," and it was said that mountain monks who had not yet attained a high level of cultivation and who had an arrogant attitude would be transformed into tengu after their deaths.
03. The Gokoku Rattle
The origin of the "Gokoku Rattle" is the refraction of sound due to the terrain of the mountain, which creates a loud reverberation. There is a legend that there is a "hoko" of the god of the mountain in the shady part of the mountain, and that it is an animal like the "hoko bird" that makes a strange sound. In addition, there are also "mountain men", "tengu", "heavenly evil spirits" and other claims to sound, but these claims have a **** the same point, that is, the sound of the valley of the valley of the mountain god appeared after the event.
04. YAMATO
YAMATO, as its name implies, is a mountain demon that haunts the deep forests of the mountains, and among them, it appears very frequently around Kyushu Island (not only on the borders of Kyushu Island, but also in other places in the fall and winter seasons). Because of its many connections with the Kappa, there is a saying in some places that the Yamatomo is the Kappa, and the more common belief is that the Kappa becomes the Yamatomo when it enters the mountains in the fall. Legend has it that not only did the name of the river boy change after he entered the mountain, but even the form and nature of his body changed so much that the mountain boy and the river boy can be thought of as two completely different kinds of demons.
05. Inuyasha - Shiranui
Inuyasha itself refers to the ghost of a dog, and there are many theories about the origin of this "Inuyasha". Legend has it that if you put delicious food in front of a dog that has been tied up beforehand, but you don't untie the rope to give it food, the more it struggles, the more it concentrates on its desire to eat the food, and then you cut off the dog's head violently and throw it to a faraway place, or you sacrifice the dog's head and then throw it to the rocks in the sea and to other faraway places, then the dog's dead spirit will be haunted, and it will be taken as the god of the dogs, and the White Child is a demon that looks like a child and serves the god of the dogs, and it is said to be one of those who is the god of the dogs. demons, which are said to be the souls of children who have died from the bite of a dog.
06、Dirt tasting
In the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping and it is quiet, the demon that sneaks into the bathroom from nowhere specializes in licking the dirt from people's baths, and the bathrooms it licks will not be cleaner, but dirtier.
07, bridge Ji
Seen in the "Meiji Demon Tales", is the resentment of some infatuated women, due to infatuation with others and can not be with their beloved on the bridge to commit suicide by jumping into the water, if a man crosses the bridge at night, it will appear, and lured into the water and drowned, and if there is a woman crossing the bridge, it will be forcibly pulled into the water, it is said that in Japan, women can not easily kill themselves, but only to throw themselves into the river, so this kind of demon is called more pitiful. It is said that women in Japan cannot commit suicide easily, but can only commit suicide by throwing themselves into the river, so this kind of demon is called the more pitiful demon. The Japanese word "Hashihime", in addition to referring to the goddess of the bridge, is also used to refer to the Edo period, standing on the bridge side of the private prostitutes as well as located near the bridge in the "tea house" in the private prostitutes.
08. Naruya
is a small demon that lives in homes and often makes the floorboards of the home squeak.
09、Hai Zatou
If a fisherman who is going out to sea suddenly gets stuck in the fog and can't distinguish between the front and the back, sometimes a silhouette of a person will be reflected in the fog in front of him, and when he gets close enough to see it, it's a qin master with a lute on his back. When the fisherman safely arrives at the shore with him as his guide, the qin master will still be standing on the sea looking at him from a distance, which is a good kind of demon.
10, the reverse column
Since ancient times, the Japanese have believed that the reverse column brings bad luck such as fire and house calls, so carpenters are extra careful. If you ignore the reverse column for a long time, it will also change its shape, such as showing the crying face of a person and so on.