Navel Festival is a special traditional festival in Furano and Hokkaido, Japan. People hold a three-day navel festival on the last weekend of July every year. Fans from Japan and all over the world will gather here.
Participants should show their bellies and draw different expressions of secular desires on their bellies with colorful pigments. Face? Treat your whole belly like a face.
People wear big hats to cover their heads and upper abdomen, and at the same time cover their arms. It's under the stomach. Put it on? In Japan, traditional kimono-style clothing, participants' stomachs twist and dance with cheerful music. From a distance, it looks like a big face dancing, which is very interesting.
As we all know, the Japanese are very particular about dress etiquette. People seldom see men naked except at the seaside, but on this special festival, men, women and children will generously show their bellies and draw interesting and strange pictures? Big face? Dance happily. Outside the belly dance team, it was very lively. Some of them swayed with the belly dancers, and some cheered to take pictures and enjoy activities with the rhythm of music.
Beihai Fuliano Navel Festival originated in July 1969. People started this activity to pray for good health and a smooth life. At first, only 1 1 people participated. Because Furano is located in the navel of downtown Japan, this activity was named? Navel sacrifice? .
In the next 50 years, navel sacrifice became more and more popular and gradually developed into one of the biggest festivals on Beihai Road. As many as 5,000 dancers and 65,438+0,000 spectators participated in the event. Nowadays, the navel festival attracts tourists from Japan and all over the world every summer.
Japan's unique navel festival, with a grotesque face on its belly, is comparable to the historical origin of navel sacrifice in square dance. There are not many detailed historical explanations. At present, there are two versions, one of which is related to the headless monster in ancient Rome. Another point of view is related to the story of Xing Tian in China's ancient book Shan Hai Jing. Xingtian prayed for good weather by dancing. However, there is still no conclusive evidence to prove this statement
Japan's unique navel festival is full of strange faces, and the scene is comparable to square dance.