In Japanese, "summer is over" is actually the same as "tonight the moon is beautiful", which has a vague hint. It represents that one day suddenly felt the wind on the riverbank bring coolness, the mood of admiration could not be extinguished, the hand that was not held, the letter that was not sent, and the door was closed after the end of the sloppy end of youth.
It's like waking up after a long nap, getting dressed and washing up and getting ready to go to school, looking for half a day but not finding textbooks and backpacks, only to remember that I was pushed to grow up many years ago when I was obviously not prepared. It was too late to wave goodbye to the hasty life of summer, and when he was young, he was full of expectations for everything in the world, and in the blink of an eye, he fell into the sea of mediocrity.
Originally did not understand this passage, to Japan after a summer, only to find that the Japanese summer is too beautiful and beautiful, fireworks festival, Obon festival, summer festival, all the beauty appears in the summer.
There are eight regions, the Hokkaido region, the Tohoku region, the Chubu region, the Kanto region, the Kansai region, the China (this China is not a country) region, and the Shikoku region. For example, the more familiar Tokyo belongs to the Kanto, Osaka Kyoto belongs to the Kansai, and Shikoku does not refer to the four countries, but refers to Kagawa Prefecture, Kochi Prefecture, Tokushima Prefecture, and Ehime Prefecture. This prefecture is not the same as a Chinese prefecture, and a Japanese prefecture is equivalent to a Chinese province.
A week before departure, we found out that the day we arrived in Kochi coincided with the start of the yosakoi festival.
The yosakoi Night Festival is one of the three major festivals in the Shikoku region of Japan. It first began in Kochi Prefecture, and the Yosakoi Festival is held in Tokyo, Hokkaido today.
In Kochi's Yosakoi Night Festival, which starts on August 9 every year, every year on August 9 (the night before the festival), on the 10th, 11th (official festival), and on the 12th (the night festival), tens of thousands of people from all over the country come from all over the country to perform vibrant dances freely in 16 places in the city. Not just the performance, it's also a grand dance battle, and after the performance, the best dance team will be selected from hundreds of dance teams.
In the summer of Japan, there are dance festivals celebrating festivals everywhere, and at first, it is also in the lazy summer, mobilizing everyone's enthusiasm and making everyone cheer up in the summer.
Yosakoi Night Festival originated in 1954, when the Japanese economy was in a slump, in order to rejuvenate the spirit of the people of Kochi, but also to fight with the neighboring Tokushima Prefecture, because the next door neighbor Tokushima Prefecture already had Awa dance, in order to create a festival no less than Awa dance, so Kochi Prefecture invited Japanese dance masters to design a performance, using the "Naruko" used by local farmers in Kochi to drive sparrows in the field, with the change of times, Kochi, who is full of original character, gradually develops a variety of costumes and dance moves, and the style is also quite free, achieving a dance style full of enthusiasm and vitality.
In the festival dances of other cities, most people probably wear traditional costumes, but in the Kochi Night Festival, the costumes are not restricted, everyone wears a variety of beautiful costumes, there are traditional yukata robes, there are also costumes of various cos characters, and dance, also from traditional Japanese dance to street dance, samba and a variety of dances that people can't name, people are surprised.
Locals say that during the yosakoi night festival, it is probably the time of the most people in Kochi every year, after all, there are few people in the alleys, and from the 9th is the Obon Festival, all the Kochi people in other places go home to worship their ancestors, and the dance teams of other cities have also arrived in Kochi to be ready, and the whole city has suddenly become lively.
The first night of the Festival kicked off with the previous year's Yosakoi Festival Champion Dance Team performing at the main venue and the anticipated Fireworks Festival, which is the most anticipated day for the Japanese, where everyone puts on their yukata (the summer version of the kimono) early, brings snacks and snacks, and takes the best viewing position on the grass. Like Chinese temple fairs, the streets are lined with food stalls and cold drink stalls, small octopus balls, Japanese chicken nuggets, ice cream, shaved ice, and enjoying the fireworks festival on the side of the road while tasting the food.
Fans of deep Japanese dramas will definitely have an obsession with the fireworks festival, young girls wearing bathrobes and clogs, shaking fans to catch goldfish, eating snacks and watching fireworks, and finally confessing and kissing under the fireworks, romantic and beautiful. This scene was so profound that the fireworks festival became an obsession in my heart.
In fact, from July every year, various places in Japan began a variety of fireworks festivals, the top ten are definitely the big cities in Tokyo and Osaka, of course, the scale is large, there are many tourists, and in Kochi, perhaps this place is too niche, even friends who have studied in Japan for several years do not know the place name, there are almost no tourists. What you can see is the locals, wearing beautiful yukata robes and holding delicate small bags, rushing to the lively crowd.
Although Kochi's fireworks festival is not as famous as That of Europe, there are few tourists, there is no need for people to squeeze people, although the scale is small, but as long as you go to see it with a good mood, you will feel particularly moved.
At eight o'clock, there were suddenly two loud noises in the sky, and suddenly two flowers bloomed from the dark sky, accompanied by a burst of cheers around, more and more flowers appeared in the sky, and the continuous explosion and the exclamations around them merged together.
Then, scattered sparks and scattered stars fell into the mortal world.
Remembering Kotaro Isaka's description of the Fireworks Festival in Golden Dreams,
The primitive pleasure brought by the fireworks washed away the fatigue and meaningless attachments of everyone present, and brought everyone back to the most innocent childhood.
People who are engaged in various industries and live different lives gather together to see the fireworks and admire the beauty of the fireworks being thrown into the sky.
Everyone will think in their hearts: Ah, so big, so beautiful, and then make an appointment with each other to come back next year, this is the most touching place of the fireworks festival.
In Kochi, we stayed at the Sancuiyuan Hot Spring Hotel, the usual room rate is about 400 people a night, and during the festival period it rises to 1,000 people a night, because the sixth floor platform of the hotel occupies the best location for the whole city of Kochi to enjoy the fireworks. Obon Festival in Japan, in addition to commemorating the deceased, is also a day for Japanese family reunions, we live on the floor on one side of the guest rooms, on the other side is a private room restaurant, at the beginning of the evening almost all the boxes are out of all kinds of drinking and cupping, wanton laughter, all kinds of noisy sounds. The usually polite and cautious Japanese people seem to have suddenly changed people and began to release themselves