Things to do in December in Japan
To welcome God of the new year, we clean the house. At school students spend more time cleaning than usual. sweep away the dust of the house, trying to sweep away dust on our minds.
That’s why most Japanese are doing cleaning the house without thinking that we are going to welcome God of a year. Me either, I did not think of why until I become a Japanese Culture Consultant,
I personally like the idea to clean and welcome a new year. It takes time too! However, it’s a custom we have done for a long.
We call this spring cleaning. Osoji 大掃除
大；Oo means big 大きい
掃除；Soji means cleaning 掃除 そうじ
Why don’t you try spring cleaning in December?
You will feel clean and get ready for meeting a new you!
One more thing we do before we welcome a new year.