CATDOLL: Is the Spring Equinox in Japan so evil? Let's eat black and long

Just like we eat dumplings on the winter solstice, Japan also has some customs on "Setsubun Day". "Setsubun Day" is the day before the beginning of spring, which is February 3. There are some local customs on Setsubun Day in Japan, such as shouting "Good luck is within, evil spirits are outside" and throwing beans to drive away evil spirits.

Another thing to do is to eat a special food called Eho-maki (rolled sushi). This is a super long roll of sushi about 20 cm long, with seven ingredients such as pickled gourd strips, cucumber, egg roll, eel, meat floss, and shiitake mushrooms rolled in it, representing the "Seven Lucky Gods". It is eaten on Setsubun Day, facing the direction of the year's fortune, symbolizing rolling up the fortune and eating it all in one go.

Especially since eating Eho-maki is similar to "biting", it has inspired everyone's creative enthusiasm, so there are all kinds of pictures of anime characters eating Eho-maki on the Internet. Of course, most of them are girls, but there are also some strange characters mixed in.

Regarding this strange black and long food, many Japanese netizens also expressed that this custom should be abolished, because no matter how you look at it, it is just vulgar...

This... don't be so straightforward.

Not only that, the female anchors of TV stations also started eating Eho-maki in front of TV programs when Setsubun came. As a result, the Japanese people turned on the TV and saw only a group of female anchors eating something long and black...

They even don't let go of little kids and high school students, it's too much!!!