Japan's Bon Festival
In Japan, the Bon Festival is the second largest event after New Year's Day, and according to legend, it is a puja to save mothers from being trapped in the path of the hungry ghosts, and to make offerings of various food items in accordance with the teachings of the Buddhist religion on July 15 every year (according to the lunar calendar). This event was once prevalent in ancient India and China, but in Japan it began only in the Asuka Period and has since spread far and wide. Nowadays, around August 13 of the solar calendar, a shrine is set up in every house and a fire is lit to welcome and send off spirits, and it has become a unique event in Japan to honor ancestors.
Japan attaches great importance to the Bon Festival, and institutions, factories, mines, organizations, and companies take a three-day holiday during the festival and organize festivals. In the countryside, the festival is even more lively, with families going to cemeteries to pay homage to their ancestors, and those who can't come back to pay homage to their ancestors entrusting someone else to do it for them, and in August, when students go on summer vacation, those who have left their hometowns to work abroad also take advantage of the opportunity to go back to their hometowns to be with their family members. Because people in the city go back to their hometowns during the Bon Festival, it's a "national movement" that makes the big cities such as Tokyo seem a little cold.
The bon dance is a natural part of the Bon Festival. It is a folk dance that expresses the joy of the people who are free from suffering, and now it has become a folk dance that has the characteristics of various ethnic groups. On a warm summer night, with the droning of the drums, the people of the village dance in a large circle, making a lively scene. This is a unique way of mourning the dead and cherishing the happiness in front of them, and it has become a unique cultural landscape in Japan.
Syria's "Martyrs' Day"
Syria is located in West Asia, bordering Turkey in the north, Iraq in the east, bordering Jordan in the south, neighboring Lebanon and Israel in the southwest, and bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Syria has a history of more than 4,000 years, and was long conquered and ruled by the Roman Empire, the Arab Khalifa armies, the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty and the Ottoman Empire until September 28, 1961, when Syria seceded from the United Arab ****** States, and re-established the Syrian Arab ****** States.
Every year at the beginning of summer, May 6 is a legal holiday set by the Syrian government, also known as "Martyrs' Day". On this day, various forms of commemorative activities are held throughout the country to lay wreaths at the monument to the dead martyrs, sweeping the graves of the martyrs, condolences to the families of the martyrs. On the night of the festival, the Syrian government dignitaries will also set up a special dinner to entertain the relatives of the martyrs, as a way to comfort those who have fought in the history of the battlefield and sacrificed their lives for the motherland.
Poland's "Day of the Dead"
Poland*** and the country is located in northeastern Central Europe, the northern border of the Baltic Sea. Polish is the official language. Inhabitants of the majority of Catholicism. 1944 July 22, the establishment of the **** and the country. 1949 October 7, and our country to establish diplomatic relations. When mentioning Poland, people will naturally think of Chopin and Madame Curie. Chopin is a great composer and pianist of whom Poles are proud. Madame Curie was the world's first woman scientist to win the Nobel Prize twice.
On November 1 every year, Poland holds a "Day of the Dead" in memory of those who have died. On this day, people take their children and families to cemeteries to pay tribute to their dead ancestors and relatives. When worshipping, the elderly lit candles and lanterns, so that the children respectfully offer, one to remember the deceased, and the other can also be the site of education of future generations do not forget ancestors, always remember their loved ones.
Tanzania's "Festival of Mourning"
Tanzania is located in eastern Africa, south of the equator, is a country that believes in primitive fetishism, Catholicism and Islam. Its capital, Dar es Salaam, is one of the birthplaces of ancient mankind. The Tanzanian people, in order to pay tribute to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country, designate September 2 every year as the "Day of Mourning". On this day, people voluntarily come to the cemetery to lay flowers and sweep the graves. Even the leaders of the country visit the graveyard of the Martyrs' Cemetery in person and participate in the memorial service with reverence. Some people also come to the Independence Square to lay wreaths in front of the monument, as a way to send their condolences to the martyrs.
Mexico's "Tomb Sweeping Festival"
Mexico's "Tomb Sweeping Festival", also known as "Day of the Dead", the earliest from the country's Dallas Gonzalez commemorating the activities of the deceased, and gradually became the Mexican many nationalities of the *** with the holiday. Every year to November 2, Mexican families have begun to pay tribute to the deceased and busy. On this day in the afternoon or evening, they specially prepared "dead people bread", skull-shaped sugar cubes and deceased loved ones love to eat food and alcohol and tobacco, as offerings to the cemetery. After the ceremony, the family spreads a tablecloth over the grave of their loved one, sits on the ground, and lights candles. People wearing strange costumes, wearing human, animal, God, ghost masks while eating and drinking, singing and dancing, and finally *** food offerings, drinking Pug after leaving; or for the deceased wake, to all night long. Tomb-sweeping time also varies in various regions of Mexico, some in the daytime, some in the evening.
France's "All Souls Day"
France's "All Souls Day" is also known as "all the saints look forward to", also known as "Holy Spirit Day", is one of the Christian holidays, the date of November 1 every year. On this day, the whole country of France takes a day off. Initially, the festival was only to commemorate the saints who were martyred, but later it was gradually expanded to commemorate all the "saints" who were saved. Folk custom is that people go to the cemetery to pay homage to their deceased relatives, or remember the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country. The French sweep the graves, mainly to dedicate flowers, and most of the chrysanthemums, seldom seen in the East with the customary green pine and cypress and white paper flowers. This day is equivalent to the Chinese Qingming Festival. Every year is located in the Paris Cemetery not far from the Paris Commune Monument and more than a dozen anti-fascist monuments, is the place where the largest number of mourners, people to the martyrs of the flowers covered the monument around.
Memorial Day in the United States
Memorial Day is a holiday observed in most states of the United States, and was originally celebrated on May 30th, but many states changed it to the last Monday in May.
The U.S. Civil War, countless soldiers were killed in action. At the end of the war, in order to pay tribute to the soldiers killed in the war, regardless of the North and the South, all in the spring to both sides of the graves of the dead dedication of flowers, they regarded this gesture as a symbol of national unity. Today, this has become a national day of mourning, with a meaning very similar to that of the Qingming Festival in China. In the beginning, only all war victims were honored on Memorial Day, but later it gradually evolved into a general family memorial service for deceased relatives. On Memorial Day, long lines of active-duty soldiers and veterans in the United States go to cemeteries, especially Arlington National Cemetery in the United States. People will be many crosses inserted on the beach, they lay wreaths of flowers to the martyrs at the same time, but also up to the sky to fire a gun to the fallen soldiers, and blowing the lights out in the army, so that the dead soldiers rest in peace, long sleep.