Asuka
2004-01-01, 03:48:07
So, Leute - habt ihr den Jahreswechsel gut überstanden?
Wer sich unter den Tisch getrunken hat, bitte mal die Hand heben.
Frohes neues Jahr 2004!
Zur Abwechslung mal was interessantes über die Neujahrs-Traditionen in Japan :D (Quelle (http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/new_year.html))
Oseibo
In Japan people give some gifts at occasions. Oseibo is the most common issue as a year-end gift. They give it to their superiors, customers and teachers to express appreciation for the special services they have extended to them. Picture: Asakusa Temple (c) Tomoyuki.U (http://www.yun.co.jp/~tomo/photo.html).
http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/asakusa_temple_tu.jpg
Bonenkai
Bonenkai is a party usually held among office colleagues and bosses. Bonenkai litarelly means a "Forget-the-year party" to forget the unpleasant memories of the passing year and to welcome the New Year with a fresh and serene mind. At the party, bosses usually tell their staff to be Breiko (to forget their position and be impolite!), because the relationship in the workplace in Japan is a bit strict. For example, Japanese language has various expressions for each word. One is called a polite word and another is called a modest word. People use these words in formal situation such as in a workplace. Picture: Hanazono shrine.
http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/hanazono_shrine.jpg
Omisoka
Omisoka is the day of New Year’s Eve. Since the New Year is the biggest event in Japan, people celebrate the Eve as well. People work so hard to prepare the New Year around one or two weeks such as cleaning (like spring cleaning in here) and shopping. The reason people do the cleaning in the middle of winter is to get rid of the dirt of the passing year and to welcome the New Year with a fresh and serene mind. And on Omisoka, with preparing the New Year’s special dishes called Osechi-ryori, people finish up all the work of the year. People eat Toshikoshi-soba at night and stay up till midnight to listen to the 108 chimes of a nearby temple bell. Toshikoshi-soba is a bowl of hot brown noodles in broth. The noodle is a homophone for a word that means “being close” and therefore signifies the approach of the New Year. The 108 chimes called Joya-no-kane, rings out the old year and rings in the New Year. It is supposed to release people from the 108 worldly sins. Pictures: Stone statue of Jizo (religious icon) and inside shrine (c) Hirotsugu Oi (http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~mediah/kakuchi.htm).
http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/jizo_ho.jpg http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/shrine-inside_ho.jpg
Wer sich unter den Tisch getrunken hat, bitte mal die Hand heben.
Frohes neues Jahr 2004!
Zur Abwechslung mal was interessantes über die Neujahrs-Traditionen in Japan :D (Quelle (http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/new_year.html))
Oseibo
In Japan people give some gifts at occasions. Oseibo is the most common issue as a year-end gift. They give it to their superiors, customers and teachers to express appreciation for the special services they have extended to them. Picture: Asakusa Temple (c) Tomoyuki.U (http://www.yun.co.jp/~tomo/photo.html).
http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/asakusa_temple_tu.jpg
Bonenkai
Bonenkai is a party usually held among office colleagues and bosses. Bonenkai litarelly means a "Forget-the-year party" to forget the unpleasant memories of the passing year and to welcome the New Year with a fresh and serene mind. At the party, bosses usually tell their staff to be Breiko (to forget their position and be impolite!), because the relationship in the workplace in Japan is a bit strict. For example, Japanese language has various expressions for each word. One is called a polite word and another is called a modest word. People use these words in formal situation such as in a workplace. Picture: Hanazono shrine.
http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/hanazono_shrine.jpg
Omisoka
Omisoka is the day of New Year’s Eve. Since the New Year is the biggest event in Japan, people celebrate the Eve as well. People work so hard to prepare the New Year around one or two weeks such as cleaning (like spring cleaning in here) and shopping. The reason people do the cleaning in the middle of winter is to get rid of the dirt of the passing year and to welcome the New Year with a fresh and serene mind. And on Omisoka, with preparing the New Year’s special dishes called Osechi-ryori, people finish up all the work of the year. People eat Toshikoshi-soba at night and stay up till midnight to listen to the 108 chimes of a nearby temple bell. Toshikoshi-soba is a bowl of hot brown noodles in broth. The noodle is a homophone for a word that means “being close” and therefore signifies the approach of the New Year. The 108 chimes called Joya-no-kane, rings out the old year and rings in the New Year. It is supposed to release people from the 108 worldly sins. Pictures: Stone statue of Jizo (religious icon) and inside shrine (c) Hirotsugu Oi (http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~mediah/kakuchi.htm).
http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/jizo_ho.jpg http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/shrine-inside_ho.jpg