Traditional events

    Most countries have their own traditional events and we talk about them, they tend to be seen from only one side. Also if the events themselves are slightly different we sometimes can not talk about them.

    For instance, Obon is one of the most famous Japanese traditional events in summer and many people talk about Obon, but indeed, some people do not know what Obon is. Because of very traditional events, every regions has it's own way of dealing with Obon, and I do not know much of them.

    In Kyushu, there are some famous event as Obon festival, one of them, in Nagasaki, is called Shoronagashi. In this ceremony, they put a candle in a small paper boat and lit it up, then float it on a river. I'm not sure what they do in the other areas as Shoronagashi, they are usually aired on TV every year but most of them do not mention much about why they do this or where come it from but impress people just by their beautiful scenes.

    My parents are not buddhists, so I didn't have such event in my family therefore I only know about very normal common sense things. If you want to be an "international person", you should study a lot about Japan. People think, because you are Japanese, you suppose to know about Japanese traditional events well.