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Hi, everyone It's so nice to see everyone is writing about their culture and it encourage me to write as well. I'm from Myanmar, a small Southeast Asian country, located between China and India. We have so many ethnic groups with their own different cultures. My favorite one is the water festival, we called it Thingyan, the date was calculated by Burmese calendar, usually it occurs in the middle of April, we celebrate it from 4 to 5 days. I don't know the history behind it that much, but I heard it is a heritage from India, We celebrate by water-throwing to each other, it was so fun. People usually water-throwing to the person that they like first, Children go around the city and shot at each other by a water gun, when we tired we can go to nearest houses or stage that serve foods, enjoy Thingyan snacks, and in my hometown we go to the river at the evening for swimming. We didn't celebrate this year as coronavirus spread but hopefully, we can celebrate it next year. Thanks Please feel free to correct my granma, usage, or bad writing.

Hi everyone, I really enjoyed reading about your traditions and it's nice to learn something new about another countries. I'm from Bolivia, here we have many traditions, some of them have been told by our forebears in an oral way and since we are on August, I will tell you about the tradition called "mesa". This month is for us earth month, the objetive is to thanks and ask whatever you need to "Pachamama" as our culture used to called the earth. So, the idea is to buy a pack with some candies that have different forms (house, animals, heart, money, etc) and sometimes you can buy a llama fetus dissect, it sound cruel but it i important to know that all the fetus that are used in this purpose have died by natural ways, there is the idea that if a fetus dies it means that earth wants it back. After, you build a bonfire and burn all of this, thinking in everything you want to say to Pachamama and my grandfather used to say that you should wait there until everything have been fired.

Hello everyone! I'd like to talk about our most important tradition. In Mongolia, Naadam is our traditional festival on the 11th of July. It takes 3 days and we called it " Eriin gurvan naadam ".Naadam has three parts of which are wrestling, horse racing, and archery. Beginning of the festival we watch the performance that's about history. President's opening speech and this festival's special food is 'huushuur'. It's similar to a dumpling or Russian cuisines. We really proud of Naadam and it's our most important festival. Even Covid-19 spreads all around the world, however we celebrated this year. I'm really happy to share something. It's we haven't any death case of Covid-19. Thank you

In our city "Kyoto", there is one of the three major festivals in Japan called "Gion Matsuri". That festival has been held to celebrate the growth of the city for more than 1000 years. And this is the long-run event that continues for a month. Like this, as the event has a long history and a long exhibition period, a lot of tourists, approximately two million, come to this event every year. Due to the COVID-19, there wasn't held this year though, I recommend all of you to come if you are interested in that event. I hope the pandemic will weaken soon.

In my country there are many traditions connected to the people's devotion for some popular saints; these traditions derive from the pagan rites often, which the Catholic church has Christianized. But there are other traditions too, that commemorate historical events, enriched with imaginary details, passed down from a generation to the other.

Hello, great to see all this diversities and get knowledge of world traditions. I’m from United Arab Emirates living in Dubai the city of life, one of my favorite traditions is ( Hares ) a special food made with water, rice, salt and meet, Hares is popular food in my country, must have it in each celebration or gathering.

Good evening! I´m greatly happy to read about your traditional celebrations, I´m from Chile and here we celebrate the first join of goberment on september 18th, but usually it can take three o five days to finish. Our traditional dance is called "Cueca" that is refered to a flirt between cock and hen, The dancers are "Huasos and Chinas" whom wear a traditional custome and dress, moving in their hands a white napking. Chileans drink a lot of "Chicha" (fermented apple juice), eat barbeque, "empanadas" (filled dough with meat), and "alfajores" (like a cookie filled with caramilized condensed milk). There are also many different games for adults and children. That Chile is really long, the traditions can changed a little bit, it´s not the same to live in the north than in the south, traditions can be influenced by natives and the weather too. We have many different beautiful landscapes, dances, meals, drinks throught the country!

Reading a lot of your posts is a lot of fun. You can learn about traditions and cultures you do not know. I am Japanese, especially Japanese traditional culture is recommended. There are many traditional cultures in Japan such as Kabuki, tea ceremony, and kendo. Recently, I have been interested in young people and many foreigners by co-starring Japanese traditional culture Kabuki and subculture anime. Many traditional Japanese cultures place great importance on polite manners. In addition, Japan is proud of the culture that expresses our emotions with a few words in tanka and haiku. Traditional buildings are also recommended in Japan. There are many traditional shrines and temples in Japan. They are more than the number of convenience stores. Especially recommended is Kyoto. Kyoto has famous shrines and temples that many people, including foreigners, know. Among them, I especially recommend Ryoanji Temple. The rock garden here is very attractive and there is a mystery that you cannot see 15 stones at the same time. In Japan, the four seasons are clearly separated, so it's very nice to see shrines and temples with cherry blossoms and plum blossoms in spring, autumn leaves in autumn, and snow in winter.