Rice flower 稻花

Three and a half months has passed since planting. Now we can see rice flowers. They have a special smell.　Ancient people believed that the rice plants began to seed when lightning hit the rice fields.

水稻插秧後,經過三個半月了。現在稻花開著。這些天有雷陣雨。古代人相信雷落到水田上稻就結實。

粒粒皆辛苦

Ring in Shirasagi shrine 茅輪

At the end of July, which is almost same to the end of June in the lunar calender, people go through the miscanthus wring three times. 農曆六月末日，人們走過三次神社茅輪。