Pillow fight Game

Chinese students release stress in A Pillow Fight Game prior to vital exam is a common game mostly played by young children (but can also occur with teens and adults) in which they engage in mock physical conflict, utilizing pillows as weapons.

Being held from June 6th to 9th every year, the National College Entrance Exam, the most important test for Chinese students, is always considered the only access to a bright future in China, which brings much stress to students.

Many times pillow fights occur during children's sleepovers. Since pillows are soft, injuries rarely occur. The heft of a pillow can still knock a young person off balance, especially on a soft surface such as a bed, which is a common venue. A useful technique in a pillow fight is to bundle the nibs. In earlier eras, pillows would often break, shedding feathers throughout a room. Modern pillows tend to be stronger and are often filled with a solid block of artificial filling, so breakage occurs far less frequently. Pillow fighting became part of flash mob culture with pillow fight flash mobs popping up in cities around the world.
































Source;- Imagine China And Wikipedia

Baby Crying Festival in Japan

Children crying contest in Japan

Crying Sumo' contest: Japanese wrestlers compete to see who can make a baby bawl first

So much for the argument that leaving a baby to cry can result in brain damage.

These Japanese sumo wrestlers believe the exact opposite: That a good long wail can be healthy for babies.

That, at least, is the theory behind the bizarre 'crying sumo' or Nakizumo festival held at the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo earlier this month.

University club sumo wrestlers hold babies aloft in the contest and try to make them cry. Whichever baby cries first, is the winner.

If both babies cry at the same time, the one bawling loudest is declared victor.

The babies are persuaded to tears by a sumo judge, who orders them to 'nake, nake' ('cry, cry') as the wrestlers growl and make faces.

Of course, even the best laid plans sometimes go awry, and the babies end up laughing instead. At that point the wrestlers don ferocious masks, which usually finishes the job.

The babies are held aloft so that their cries are closer to heaven. During the 400-year-old competition, their parents pray for the good health of their children.

Evil spirits are supposedly driven away during the festival, which takes place across Japan.

Childcare expert Dr Penelope Leach made headlines last week when she claimed that fresh research proves that long periods of crying can damage developing brains, leading to learning difficulties later in life.












































Source:- dailymail Via Zing

riding logs down steep hills Ki-otoshi ceremony

Young men prove their bravery by riding giant logs down steep hills in bizarre Japanese Ki-otoshi ceremony

Bravery isn't the first word that comes to mind when looking at these images of a Japanese log-rolling ceremony.

But that is exactly what these young men are apparently proving during the bizarre Ki-otoshi ceremony, where they ride the giant logs as they are yanked down steep hills by ropes.

Skidding and bumping over the rough terrain, at times the logs literally drop down the steep inclines.

Someone always gets hurt. I fell off and broke a rib on my first time down,' said Kazuaki Miyasaka, a spry 60-year-old former sushi chef, after taking part in the ceremony in 2004.

The practice forms part of the Yamadishi segment of a Japanese festival called Onbashiri, the 'sacred pillar' festival.

Onbashiri is ancient - it has been celebrated in the Lake Suwa area of Nagano for 1,200 years.

The festival takes place every six years and consists of two segments - Yamadishi, which takes place in April, and Satobiki in May.

Before Yamadishi, which means 'coming out of the mountains', the huge trees are cut down with axes made especially for the job.

They are decorated in the traditional colours of Shinto ceremonies, red and white. Then the ropes are attached, and teams of men drag the logs down the hills towards the four shrines of Suwa Taisha.

In the Satobiki part of the festival, the logs are specially placed to support the foundations of the shrine.

Sixteen logs are used, four for each shrine, in an effort to renew the power of the shrines.

Men sit on the logs as they are raised and sing to mark the occasion.

Onbashiri was demonstrated during the opening ceremonies of the Nagano Olympics in 1998.

Source:- news.google.com

World's Longest Lunch event in Melbourne

World's Longest Lunch event in Melbourne

Melbourne Hosts World’s Longest Lunch People have lunch event in Melbourne March 12, 2010.
Around 900 people lunched on the 400 metre (1,312 ft) long table as part of the annual Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

Simultaneous to the World’s Longest Lunch in Melbourne, the community of Marysville will host one of 19 Regional World’s Longest Lunches one year on from the Black Saturday bushfires. The event forms part of the festival’s program of more than 70 regional events

Launched in 1993, the annual Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is one of Victoria’s hallmark events. Each March the festival celebrates Melbourne and Victoria’s vibrant food and wine culture in a fortnight-long program of over 250 events. Dates for 2010 are 12 – 23 March.

Source:- english.cctv.com

Largest Labyrinth in the World

largest and biggest Ice labyrinth in the world

An ice maze built ever constructed for weekend's winter festival in Buffalo is, officially, the world's largest.

A representative from Guinness World Records confirmed the title Friday after measuring the 12,855.68-square-foot labyrinth.

Volunteers set the last of the 2,200, 300-pound blocks of ice in place Thursday night, in time for the 2010 Buffalo Powder Keg Winter Festival.

The old world record for an ice maze was set in 2005 when the 8,280-square-foot Pontiac Ice Maze was constructed in Toronto.

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