Hey guys!!
you know what, today is 7th July.....yeah, it's star festival!! we call it Tanabata!
Unfortunately, it seems reain today
but...
why don't you look up at the sky!???
What is your wish!????
I WILL WISH ON A STAR tonight even if I would not see the satrs clearly.....haha :D
*here is a story of star festival*
The star festival originate from Chinese legend of two bright stars, Altair and Vega.
Vega, a weaving girl and Altair, cowherd boy, loved each other.
They had so much fun being together and the stop working hard.
The king got angry and separated them by the big river, Milky way.
He allowed them to meet once a year across the Milky way only on the night of 7th July.
One that day, people decorate bamboo branches with pepar strips and ornaments to celebrate their reunion. It is believed that a wish comes true when you write your wish on the pepar strips and hang them on bamboo.
by the way, do you know the food related this star festival?
It's "thin wheat noodles"(so-men)!!!!
Why thin wheat noodle??
Because Vega was famous for good weaving girl and thin wheat noodle is look like weave.
That is why people hope they can weave well like her.
also, this tradition is famous as well, if you have thin wheat noodle, you would not get sirious sick during hot summer.
This summer is going to be very hot!!! so, Why don' you have thin weat noodle!?
I think is cool food for the summer!!! :D
Have a nice star festival!!!! ☆
Hi, Chiemi:)
返信削除I'm Kaori, this is my first comment to you.
I know the story of star festival but I didn't know the food is related to this festival!!
Thank you for sharing this.
I also look up the sky tonight even though it cloud:)
Enjoy star festival;)
Hello!
返信削除I wrote tanzaku, but I didn't eat thin wheat noodles because I didn't know the custom:(
I talked about star festival with my Chinese friend, but star festival in China is different from Japan!!
Anyway, I like star festival:)
Hi,this is Mariko!
返信削除I didn't know that so-men is the star festival food! I couldn't write tanzaku this year:(
Getting hitter and hotter, and it means "so-men season" is coming!! The very very hot day, I can only eat so-men xP
Good evening, Chiemi:)
返信削除I'm Maiko.
I gave away tanzaku card to children on my part time job. Star festival is nice and fun event, isn't it?
Also I didn't know the food of the festival.
Pink and Green somen is similar to weaves.
Thank you for your updating!