| 释义 |
‖ Bon, n.|bɒn|
Also O-Bon.
[Jap.; also with honorific prefix o-.]
A Japanese Buddhist festival held annually in August to honour the dead; the Festival of the Dead, or Lantern Festival.
[1617R. Cocks Diary 5 Aug. (1883) I. 292 This night began the feast of bonbon, or for the dead, with hanging out of candell light, and enviting the dead, etc.] 1899L. Hearn In Ghostly Japan vi. 79 The time of the Bon—the great Festival of the Dead,—which begins upon the thirteenth day of the seventh month. 1965W. Swaan Jap. Lantern xiv. 167 The most important festival in the lives of the people is that of O-Bon, the Buddhist equivalent of All Souls' Day or the Feast of the Dead. 1966P. S. Buck People of Japan (1968) xii. 149 All Japan celebrates a reunion with the dead during the annual Bon Festival, a Buddhist festival often called the feast of lanterns. 1974G. Wingate in Folklore of Texan Cultures (Texas Folklore Soc. Publ. No. 38) 332 There were harvest dances for the time on the moon calendar known as O-Bon, a three day period beginning August 13, when the spirits of the dead were said to come back to earth. 1985Randle & Watanabe Coping with Japan 146 At special times in the year, particularly New Year and O Bon (when ancestors are remembered) people follow Japan's great traditional ceremonies. |