How are we have can to participate in tanabata day’s ?
Every year on July 7th, Japan celebrates a special holiday known as the Star Festival or Tanbata. (2) The Tanabata Festival is celebrated throughout Japan with a variety of carnivals and customs. Many regions hold decoration competitions or parades, and some even have beauty pageants to crown a Miss Tanabata.(1) On this day, people write their wishes on colorful strips of paper called tanzaku. After writing their wishes, people hang their tanzaku on bamboo branches.(2) Special decorations like paper kimonos and cranes are hung to ask for specific blessings such as long life or good business. Colorful paper streamers decorate the streets in honor of the strips of cloth used by the weaver of the legend. (1) There is also a cast net decoration that symbolizes luck in fishing, which translates into prosperity. (2) The holiday has spread in popularity beyond Japan, in particular to San Paulo, Brazil. This city, which has a large Japanese population, began honoring the festival in 1979. The Tanabata Festival is now held on the first weekend of July every year, and draws large crowds to its parades and cultural performances of dance and music. (1)
(1) http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-tanabata-festival.htm
(2) http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/tanabata_japans_star_festival