Talk:Children's Day (Japan)

message: : May 5th is the Tango no Sekku (端午の節句), Boys' Festival in Japan. It is the festival of hope that all of the boys in each household will grow up healthy and strong. Warrior figures (often the dolls of boys in suits of armor), helmets, and suits of armor are set up in the house during this festival. Iris leaves 菖蒲 【 しょうぶ】 (shobu) are placed under the eaves to fend off evil, and huge, colorful streamers shaped like koi (koinobori) are fastened to poles. Carp are thought to be very strong, as they swim up even big waterfalls. Special rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves (kashiwa mochi) and cooked rice wrapped in bamboo grass and tied with straw (chimaki) are eaten on this day.
feel free to incorporate this in Kodomo no hi. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.229.230.143 (talk • contribs).
:"Tango no Sekku" refers to the date on the lunar calendar and farmers almanac that is observed around the world, but "Kodomo no hi" refers to the specific Japanese holiday. -- Emana 21:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Children's Day" is a recognized national holiday that celebrates children who are both boys and girls, but Japanese families continue to observe separate "Tango no Sekku" (AKA Boy's Day) festivities. Though they are celebrated on the same day, they are actually two separate things. There is a Boy's Day and a Girl's day, but one lands on a national holiday (Boy's Day lands on Children's Day) and the other does not.Solar3939 (talk) 02:22, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tango no Sekku and Children's Day Are Separate 

message: Is the purpose of the holiday to "celebrate children's personalities and their happiness," or to "Celebrate the happiness of all children and to express gratitude toward mothers"? The article says both, and the two are pretty different. The second would be more in line with Confucian values, in which obligation, money, loyalty, etc., all are owed to powerful figures, such as parents. 
Kchwe (talk) 20:41, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of the holiday? 

message: Admittingly I do not have the resources to back this up, but could the gov'ts changing of the Boy's Festival to "Children's Day" have been a deliberate move? On Children's Day, otherwise known as "Boy's Day," the symbolism strongly suggests the Samurai. The article reads that on this day, it was hoped that boys became healthy and strong. Could it be that the hope was for that one day the boys grew up to be Samurai? And the feudal system elliminated, this holiday was elliminated also, symbolically putting a further end to the feudal era? I find it strange that while "Boy's Day" has been eliminated in favor of the more "PC" "Children's Day," while there continues to be a "Girls Day." Girls get celebrated twice. Boys have to be lumped in the "Children's Day." I have a feeling that no matter what, this day will continue to be known by its original name "Tango no Sekku" and "Boy's Day." There's a Girl's Day, there should most definitely be a Boy's day. Our differences shouldn't be shunned, they should be celebrated.222.151.236.116 (talk) 07:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deliberate Change? 

message: This is too much material to merge into Children's Day. Kappa 10:21, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  No merge 

message: Shouldn't the Japanese title be "子供の日", with the Kanji, and not in Hiragana? Moocowsrule (talk) 05:15, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I went to the Japanese Wikipedia and saw that they use Hiragana and when I typed in the Kanji it was redirected to the page with the Hiragana. So I believe it should stay the way it is. Moon  (Sunrise) 01:11, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I went to the Japanese wikipedia page after I posted that comment, and realized that they use "こども" not "子供". But I think it has something to do with the fact that the Kanji for "Hi" is so simple, while the Kanji used for "Kodomo" is not so simple, and it's supposed to be about children, and children don't know that many Kanji. Moocowsrule (talk) 02:28, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Um... 

message: Where is a source to support the claim that such a "holiday" would extend to Vietnam or the Chinese countries? I thought it was a pure Japanese thing. ★Dasani★ 04:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other places?