Here in Japan, it was "ひな祭り(Hinamatsuri)" today. Hinamatsuri is a day of traditional festival for girls.
What we do on this day in Japan? Well, people who has daughters celebrate this festival, like decorating "Hina dolls", eating "Hishimochi(a kind of japanese cake)" or special dishes, drinking "Shirozake(white sake made from sake and malted rice)", well it depends on a family custom but something like this. When I was a kid, we also decorated "Hina dolls" at home from a week before Hinamatsuri to the day of Hinamatsuri. You have to put it back in the box the day after because people say "If you didn't put it back in the box earlier, daugher can not get married when they grown up". Well ok, it's a kind of superstition, maybe old people hoped their daughter will have a happy life.
What we do on this day in Japan? Well, people who has daughters celebrate this festival, like decorating "Hina dolls", eating "Hishimochi(a kind of japanese cake)" or special dishes, drinking "Shirozake(white sake made from sake and malted rice)", well it depends on a family custom but something like this. When I was a kid, we also decorated "Hina dolls" at home from a week before Hinamatsuri to the day of Hinamatsuri. You have to put it back in the box the day after because people say "If you didn't put it back in the box earlier, daugher can not get married when they grown up". Well ok, it's a kind of superstition, maybe old people hoped their daughter will have a happy life.
So anyway, we had "Temaki zushi" for dinner to celebrate this festival. Well except that, I didn't do anything special... I just enjoyed having japanese food :P
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