The Seven Herbs Festival (七草の節句, nanakusa no sekku) is a very old custom Japanese which consists of eating a gayu with seven herbs (nanakusa-gayu, a kind of risotto) THE (Jinjitsu).
The festival of seven herbs, nanakusa no sekku
The seven herbs are: seri (celery Chinese), nazuna (shepherd's purse), gajyo (hahakogusa), hakobera (starwort), hotokenoza (koonitabirako), suzuna (turnip or radish), suzushiro (white radish).
The custom was that preparing a hot soup with seven kinds of spring herbs and eating it on that day would ward off evil. This custom spread to Japan Around the middle of the Heian period and during the Muromachi period, it was changed from soup to rice porridge, becoming nanakusa-gayu.
Nanakusa-gayu is also effective in allowing our stomachs to rest when they are exhausted from the copious meals of the new year. This is because the rice porridge is good for digestion and the herbs used are also effective in helping the functions of the digestive organs.
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