In this time, I had difficulty finding good topic about Japanese traditional culture because I think recently a large number of Japanese are not interested in their own culture, but interested in western or the others' country. Therefore, when I reflected what event was very popular and hot in spring, I came up with a cherry blossom viewing picnic, but this topic was posted by another Japanese student. However, I chose this topic because I have confidence to research and write much deeper ;)
At present, a cherry blossom viewing picnic means the situation that people drink sake, eat Japanese box lunch, and make a lot of noise, singing a song or screaming with joy without reasons under the cherry blossoms.
However, the reason of doing a picnic under cherry blossoms was different from preselnt type. The origin of it was originally a religious event to purify. By enjoying under the cherry blossoms, people drive out evil spilit and spend the time with God. Formerly, people did festivals under the flowers to wish autum's huge harvests and augured the harvest using flowers. Bloom of cherry was the proof of God's Advent, and something bad happened if cherry blossoms suddenly fell.
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Yes, you are correct in that another post about hanami with deeper research and description would be appropriate. But do you think that you have accomplished that here?
Why don't you have any links? Why are your photos overlapping (one on top of the other)? What are the photos of? How are the photos being used in your description of hanami?
Do you like hanami? Can you speak of your own experiences at hanami? As we have been talking about in class, try to put yourself more into your posts (without going to the extreme of navel-gazing).
I like your thesis but I wish you could have done more to fulfill it.
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