The Shichi-go-san Festival only three-year-old boys and girls, 5-year-old boys and 7-year-old girls can celebrate. They go to temples to pray. The girls wear kimonos, the boys wear hakamas on Shichi-go-san Festival. Their fathers or mothers buy candy for them to eat. So they eat candy, they can grow up.
The Ghost Festival is you have relative who died. (You do something for the relatives who died on Ghost Festival.) You can give ghosts money during ghost festival. You can’t put table in your home, because ghosts can come in home, and your family can have fever and cold. I don’t like ghost festival, because ghosts are very scary. I don’t like ghosts.
In (During) the Ghost Festival we can’t say you go to die. They are bad words. Because the ghosts died. So we can’t say you die. We say it and the ghosts play tricks on you. We don’t go home so (too) late at night. Because the ghosts play tricks on you (too). So the Ghost Festival is so bad. We can’t go to the ocean. Because there are water ghosts.
I am scared of Ghost Festival. Because there are many ghost in my home (around). On Ghost Festival my mother puts ghost money, food, water and towel for ghosts. My mother says, “Ghost money, food, water and food put outside the house, (Put ghost money, food, water and towel outside the house) bucause put food inside the house, and ghosts come into my home to eat. ” So I put food, ghost money, water and towel outside the house. And I burn ghost money.
