Every country has his own special festival which has his special meanings and missions, but there are also some festivals are too unusual to make people in other countries shocked, some of which happen of course on the premise of they don’t know the real circumstances of the festival, merely amazed by the first impression of it, the others are simply very unacceptable, even very cruel. There are 2 weird festivals I will introduce to you.
- Naked festival
This festival is from Japan, which is a traditional festival that Japanese men need to be naked and go to the street, and only one small cloth are required to cover the most private part of their body. So, this is a convention which sounds so deviated from the normal behaviors that we even cannot believe this kind of behavior would happen. But it happens indeed on the third week, in February and the climax of this festival is on Saturday of that week. It’s said that this festival can be originated from the end of …Era. People at that time would put a sort of special paper which is used to wrap very precious things for local people behind the Thousand-arm buddism god for two weeks, the purpose of which is to pray their country prosperous, their people safe and happy, the grain is plentiful. However, now, this ceremony has been changed to throwing precious wood and male follower rush to get it for getting the same purpose as the frontier one. It’s very weird but has a so great sense for them to do it.
- Dolphins Killing Festival
Compared with the frontier festival, this one is more bloody and hard to accept by normal people, which is also from Japan called Dolphins Killing festival. When you heard this name, you may feel sick on your stomach, yet it really exist in Japan. Every year, on the Dolphin Bay where is near Wakayama Prefectures in the Kii Peninsula, Honshu Island, there would be a massacre of the dolphins on August 6th, which are preyed by Japanese ocean fleet, and the killing and preying process will continue for even half an year. Because of this brutal festival, blood of dolphins are filled all over the bay, making ocean water red for a really long time. In the end, some dolphins meat are sent to food factories, some beautiful and suitable dolphins will be sell to the Local dolphin hall which is the biggest one in the world.
This festival’ killing plot was first shot by Ric O’Barry in his documentary called Dolphins Bay, and the main actor in it had a speech about appealing everyone on the earth to protect dolphins away from the killing and hurting from human beings and, what’s more, criticizing Japanese people had slaughters of dolphins as their likes. But the official governments in Japan denied their criminals about this, because they think killing dolphins is as normal as killing any other kinds of livestock in other countries, for the reason that Japanese people has behaved like this for hundred years, they living by the sea and eat the animals in the sea and the only sympathy on the dolphins is to eat them without any waste as other countries people treat their feeding pigs, cows and so on. They even say that our criticism to them is the insult and injury on Japanese people which is unfair.
But everyone know that it’s completely nonsense, because eating dolphins and slaughtering dolphins are totally different, the frontier one is the basic need for human beings, but the later one is bloody, dark, atrocious, which definitely need asking to stop, criticizing and supervising to correct by other people. In the end, hoping this dark industrial chain will come an end.
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