My Japanese lessons are very pleasure oriented. They meet twice a week, learn few sentences about himself, his interests and his life to say and then leads the conversation with other students. This is usually quite funny and we also learn much about Japanese culture.
Today I just heard there the story of Osechi. This is the food prepared for the Japanese women for new year, so it's good aufbewahrbar. The food consists of many ingredients that have a meaning. I try to enumerate some of you, which I can remember.
IT IS as the herring, the many lay eggs for fertility in the new year, a rod-shaped vegetable stands for Guardian Angel, as it shows through in the future, such as through a telescope. The vegetable stew is a good cohesion of the family, as indeed from all different vegetables, which, however, but good fits. And the crab, the curves during cooking, stands for good health into old age. Because its shape is reminiscent of the spine of an old Japanese man who wanders happily with bent backs through the streets.
addition to these symbols, there are also linguistic associations. "Seaweed" in Japanese means "KOBU" and "satisfied" means "yoroKOBU. It stands for quality in the new year. The
I wish you well. Does well.
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