JAPAN
Japanese New Year
The Japanese New Year (正月 Shōgatsu?) is
an annual festival with its own customs.
Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year
has been celebrated according to the
Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each
year, New Year's Day (元日 Ganjitsu?).
However, the celebration of the traditional
Japanese New Year is still marked on the
same day as the contemporary Chinese,
Korean, and Vietnamese New Years.
Japanese Cuisine
PHILIPPINES
New Year's Day in Philippines
Many Filipinos consider New Year’s Day as
an important holiday in the Philippines.
This sets the start of a new year in the
Gregorian calendar, which is used in many
countries including the Philippines.
Philippine cuisine
Philippine cuisine (Filipino: Lutuing
Pilipino or Pagkaing Pilipino) consists of
the food, preparation methods, and eating
customs found in the Philippines. The style
of cooking and the
CHINA
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, known in modern
Chinese as the "Spring Festival" ( simplified
Chinese 春节; traditional Chinese 春節;
Pinyin: Chūn jié ), is an important Chinese
festival celebrated at the turn of the
traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.
Celebrations traditionally run from the
evening preceding the first day, to the
Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first
calendar month. The first day of the New
Year falls on the new moon between 21
January and 20 February.[2] In 2017, the
first day of the Chinese New Year is on
Saturday, 28 January.[3]
Chinese cuisine
China is a vast country, and there are many
different regional styles of Chinese
cooking. But although cooking styles
throughout China may vary, there are many
common elements they share that
characterize Chinese cuisine as a whole.
Chinese clothing style
Chinese clothing is ancient and modern.
Chinese clothing has varied by region and
time, and is recorded by the artifacts and
arts of Chinese culture.
food associated with it have evolved over
many centuries from their Austronesian
origins to a mixed cuisine of Indian,
Japanese, Malay, Chinese, Spanish, and
American, as well as other Asian Indian
cuisine adapted to indigenous ingredients
and the local palate.[1]
Philippine clothing style
The first Philippines street style blogger to
showcase her look on Chictopia was
letsdotheCATWALK in Summer 2009. Since
then, 617 Philippines street style bloggers
have uploaded over 5693 photos of their
personal style to the community. Popular
brands worn in Philippines include OASAP,
romwe, Forever 21, and thrifted. In spring
2015, blogger littlemissdoll of
anotsosecretlife2011.blogspot.com wore
her sky blue Forever 21 jumper on
Chictopia.
Japanese cuisine has developed through
centuries of social and economic changes,
and encompasses the regional and
traditional foods of Japan. The traditional
cuisine of Japan (和食 washoku?) is based
on rice with miso soup and other dishes,
with an emphasis on seasonal ingredients.
Side dishes often consist of fish, pickled
vegetables, and vegetables cooked in
broth. Fish is common, often grilled, but
also served raw as sashimi or in sushi.
Seafood and vegetables are also deep-fried
in a light batter as tempura.
Japanese clothing style
There are many styles of street fashion in
Japan, created from a mix of both local and
foreign labels. Some of these styles are
extreme and avant-garde, similar to the
haute couture seen on European catwalks.
The rise and fall of many of these trends
has been chronicled by Shoichi Aoki since
1997 in the fashion magazine Fruits, which
is a notable magazine for the promotion of
street fashion in Japan.