{"id":4507,"date":"2021-02-17T22:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2021-02-17T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:28:30","slug":"y-feb3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/y-feb3","title":{"rendered":"Y-Feb3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Creates Public Holiday for M\u0101ori New Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-54q8sn\"><span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">The M\u0101ori New Year, Matariki, has been made a public holiday in New Zealand.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">The country will officially celebrate Matariki for the first time on June 24, 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-54q8sn\"><span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">M\u0101ori, who are the indigenous people of New Zealand, celebrate Matariki when the cluster of stars of the same name is seen in the sky for the first time each year.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">According to the M\u0101ori calendar, the Matariki stars appearing in the sky means the old year is over and a new one is beginning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-54q8sn\"><span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">People would look at the Matariki stars to learn what the next harvest would be like.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">Bright, clear stars were believed to mean a good harvest was coming.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">If the stars couldn&#8217;t be seen well, then there would be cold weather and a bad harvest.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">Matariki is also a time for M\u0101ori families to remember those who have died.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-54q8sn\"><span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">The Matariki cluster is also called the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters in English, and\u00a0<em>Subaru<\/em>\u00a0in Japanese.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">Because the Matariki cluster first appears on a different day each year, the date of the public holiday will change too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-54q8sn\"><span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">Matariki is celebrated with large meals with family and friends.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">People also play games, tell stories, sing, dance and fly kites.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-54q8sn\"><span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, promised to make Matariki a public holiday during the country&#8217;s 2020 elections.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"css-79elbk\"><span lang=\"en\">Ardern said at the time that celebrating Matariki would be good for tourism, and that it was an important part of New Zealand&#8217;s national identity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New Zealand Creates Public Holiday for M\u0101ori New Year The M\u0101ori New Year, Matariki, has been made a public h&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4508,"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tyah.jp\/catherine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}