The season of good brothers (the other shore)

Author Little Sun's Star and Heart

It’s the season of Zhongyuan Purdue again….

It is the eighth month of the lunar calendar when the gates of hell open. There must be many ceremonies such as Zhongyuan Purdue and Chaodu in Taiwan. In Japan, although there is no large-scale Purdue worship, there are people who return to their hometown to worship their ancestors in the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Habit, here called "おpen" (o bon). It is called Penlan Festival in Chinese. This should have come from China. The country has a few days of national holidays, which are called o bon yasumi (o bon yasumi).

The old man's mother passed away due to illness last year. In Japan, she calls her husband's mother "Mother of Yoshiri", which means that she is not related by blood. Because of her marriage, she became my mother in justice.

My mother Yoshiri, my mother-in-law, passed away last year. In Japan, the first August after death is called "sin bon" (sin bon). In some places, it is pronounced "ni i bon". The meaning is the same, that is, the first eight months after a person dies to become a Bodhisattva.

What to do when you have a new pot? Usually, a table for worship is prepared, with flowers and vegetables, rice, soup, and lotus lanterns and Pudu lanterns on the left and right, symbolizing the light leading to the other side.

What's special is that in addition to rice and miso soup, side dishes and red bean mochi, wine and coffee, there are also cucumbers and eggplants on the altar. You must be wondering what is this? Here is a horse made of gherkins and a cow made of eggplant. This is for the old man to ride.

"Early come て, ゆっくり帰る" means, please come back quickly on a horse made of cucumber to reunite with us. When the pot festival is over and you want to go back, please ride a cow made of eggplant and slowly pull it back the other side. This horse and cow, I find it very interesting.

I should also make two next time and let my Taiwanese mom ride.

When a new pot is made, it is necessary to carry a white lantern to the cemetery to greet the deceased. This year, this task falls to the eldest Sun Yangping. My son, Yangping, really carefully carried a white lantern with a real candle in it. Sitting in the car, it flickered and flickered, which scared Yangping to death. When he got to the cemetery, when he went up and down the stairs, Yangping had already given up and was white. Zhang Lian insisted on handing over the white lantern to me. I don’t understand Japanese customs very well, and I don’t dare to mention it. Fortunately, at this time, my uncle, Yang Ping’s uncle, took the lantern and put the white lantern safely. Successfully mentioned in front of the cemetery.

When I arrived at the cemetery, I offered incense to worship and told my mother-in-law that the new basin has arrived, please go home with the white lantern. I saw Yang Ping's face was white again, and nervously brought the white lantern back to grandma's house.

After arriving, put out the candles and hang the white lanterns in front of the house, indicating that the family is making new pots this year.

The new pot will be made for three days, and during the day, relatives and friends of my mother-in-law will come to offer incense and worship. You may be curious, when you passed away, you already wrapped the incense book, do you still need to wrap the white bag when you have a new pot? The answer is, Yes! When a new pot comes to the house to offer incense to the deceased, it is still necessary to wrap another white bag. Of course, the mourner will return the gift. When the incense maker returns, he will give him some tea or a gift box of cookies and candy at the door for him to take back. , which means to miss an old friend.

It seems that reverence for ancestors and devout worship are languages shared by all countries in the world!

On the first day of the new basin, the Master should be invited to recite the scriptures and Chaodu. It was August, and the mage seemed to be in a hurry. We waited and waited, but we didn't see the mage. Finally, after the master chanted the sutras, there would be no more people offering incense at night (common knowledge in Japan would not come to offer incense at night), and the families had to stay and watch the night. The euphemistic name is Gu Ye, but in fact, everyone can go to sleep, as long as the lotus lantern and the Purdue lantern are on.

On the third day, he was going to send the deceased back to the cemetery. It was raining heavily that day, and Yang Ping received his task again to paste lanterns on white paper. At this time, the uncle found the LED from nowhere, and the three of us immediately gave him a blank eye. (Why didn't you take it out when you went??)

Yangping happily held the LED white paper lantern, successfully completed his task, and brought his grandmother back to the cemetery smoothly.

But after all, it was a paper lantern. Under the heavy rain, after the task was completed, its lifespan also ended. He was taken to heaven by Yangping's grandmother.

Recently, August 15 is the festival for ancestor worship and the anniversary of the end of the war.

I remembered that I once took Yangping to visit the Atomic Bomb Memorial Hall in Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of people were burned, their bodies were scorched, and they died in pain and despair. They are all civilians.

War is an era that no one wants to experience. In that era, if you didn't obey the military orders and didn't kill people, you would immediately be killed in violation of the military law. Everyone wanted to go home alive to see their wives and children! Nobody wants to die. Could it be that those who were hacked to death were more serious, and those who were killed by atomic bombs were not humans? In this world, there is absolutely no one whose life is more noble, whose death is more pitiful, and which country is particularly miserable! Everyone is a victim of politics and war.

I tell my children, I didn't bring you here to watch the dead and remember hatred. In the land battle on Okinawa, 200,000 people died, and I didn't want you to settle a big account with the United States that threw the atomic bomb and hit Okinawa. , I want to tell you, war is so terrible, we must never forget the war, we learn from the war, we must learn the enemy's strengths, try hard to reflect and stand up strong, and use other technologies and new knowledge to defeat the former enemy. , let them look at us with admiration, instead of saying "I hate you", we can defeat the enemies of the past, cherish and share our hard-won freedom and peace now, only in this way can we become a truly advanced country.

To be strong is not to rely on one mouth to say that you are strong, strong, you must be convinced, strong, and definitely not to play small tricks to harass yourself and others. (Although I have changed it many times, I decided not to delete this paragraph)

All I can say is that the good brothers all over the world are our ancestors in modern times. Without their contributions, we would not be able to get to where we are today. The good brothers all over the world are spiritual and sexual, and definitely not just from a certain country. A good brother will cry. Death is the biggest thing, I hope everyone has a respectful attitude towards good brothers. Now, your attitude towards your good brothers, one day, will come back to yourself.

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