Stroll around the world, not panic to the end of the world. Today, let's talk about the unique festival of Japan-belly button festival. About? belly dancing? event, we are usually familiar with ? Belly dance? , which is a popular dance among people. But did you know that there is a special kind of ? Bellybutton? activity, that is, today Hokkaido, Japan's belly button festival.
The Belly Button Festival is a special traditional festival in Furano, Hokkaido, Japan. People hold a three-day navel festival on the last weekend of July every year. Fans from Japan and all over the world will gather here.
Participants are expected to expose their bellies and use colorful paints to paint big faces with different expressions of worldly desires on their bellies? faces? , using the entire belly as a face.
People wear large hats to cover their heads and upper stomachs while covering their arms. Underneath the belly, ? wear? Japanese, traditional kimono style clothing, participants' bellies twist and dance to upbeat music. From a distance, it looked like a big face twisting and dancing around, which was fun to watch.
It is well known that the Japanese are very particular about dress etiquette. It is rare to see men naked except at the beach, but on this particular holiday, men and women, old and young, generously show their bellies and draw funny and grotesque ? big faces? patterns and dance happily. Outside the belly dance team, there are crowds of onlookers watching the fun. Some of them swayed with the belly dancers while others cheered and took pictures to the rhythm of the music, enjoying the event.
The Belly Button Festival originated in July 1969 in Furano, Hokkaido. People started the event to pray for good health and a smooth life. At first, only 11 people participated, and because Furano is located in Japan, the center of the city about the navel, the event was named ? Belly Button Matsuri?
Over the next 50 years, the Belly Button Matsuri grew in popularity and evolved into one of the largest festivals in Hokkaido. At most, nearly 5,000 dancers and nearly 10,000 spectators attended the event. Today, the navel festival attracts visitors from Japan and around the world every summer.
Japan's unique navel festival, belly sticking on the painting full of strange - shaped weird face, this scene is comparable to the square dance navel festival of the historical origins of the not too much detailed historical explanations, but at present there are two kinds of claims, one with the ancient Roman era of the headless demon related. The other theory is related to the story of Hoshida in the ancient Chinese book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". Hoshida prayed for good weather by dancing. However, there is still no definitive proof of this claim.
Japan's one-of-a-kind navel festival is full of strange faces and the spectacle is comparable to a square dance