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Originally Posted by Nyororin
You`ll find discrepancies between the dates of different celebrations based on the region, etc. Festivals that have traditionally been held on the lunar calendar are still mostly set by the lunar cycle. Changing the way of saying the date doesn`t actually change the time of the festival.
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Thank you for your reply.
No! I don't think so.
May be that I am wrong. But as I know, Japanese converted the festival very simply, plainly and naively. I think that is the simple way of Japanese thinking and the "academic"
Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese never understand it.
I can show up some expamples:
1. Kodomo no hi (boys' day May 5th):
Kodomo no hi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although it is not known precisely when this day started to be celebrated, it was probably during the reign of the Empress Suiko (593–628 A.D.). In Japan, Tango no Sekku was assigned to the
fifth day of the fifth month (of course Lunar Calendar) after the Nara period.
And you know there is 1 month from "the fifth day of the fifth month" (5/5) in Lunar Calendar to May 5th (5/5 of Western Calendar).
2. Hana-matsuri:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha's_Birthday
As a tradition of Mahayana Buddhist, Buddha's Birthday (Kanbutsu) occur on
"the eighth days of the forth month" of the Lunar Calendar (8/4). The Japanese converted very plainly to 8/4 Western Calendar (April 8th). Everybody knows that from 8/4 Lunar Calendar to 8/4 Western Calendar, there are more than 1 month long.
But who said Hana-matsuri is "not traditional"?
So you can keep on trying on the wikipedia for Hinamatsuri, Tanabata...
Hope you and your family lot of happiness.
Thank you again for your reply.