Kurijmoj

September-October through mid-JanuaryKurijmoj is a four-month Christmas celebration lasting from late September or early October through mid-January in the tropical Marshall Islands. For these Marshallese people, this is the Christmas season. December 25 itself is called ronoul lalim raan, "The Twenty-Fifth Day." Preparations begin in March or April, after Easter. Kurijmoj is celebrated by people who had been living on the atoll of Enewetak in the Marshall Islands and were forced to move from their homes to the atoll of Wujlan in 1947 so that the U.S. could test atomic bombs on their islands. They were able to return 33 years later.
People begin forming singing and dancing groups called jepta and practice together in early October. The jepta groups compete with each other in church at Advent with songs, dances, jokes, food, and a "money tree" constructed like a piñata, and again on the Sunday nearest New Year's Day. Each group chooses a theme which often has a biblical foundation, such as the birth of Jesus, the Gospel word, or God's plan. The "money tree" is really more like a parade float, decorated on the outside according to the group's theme and filled on the inside with gifts for the minister of the church. Nowadays the dances resemble a mixture of hula-style dances and Japanese bon dances.
Games are also played during this holiday. In karate, the women in a jepta play at being Japanese warriers and loot a men's jepta. In kalbuuj, the men of one jepta capture and "arrest" the women of another jepta and confine them to a "jail" the men have created from women's cooking and sleeping houses in the town until the women agree they are well-treated and have no reason to leave. Before the relocation, kalbuuj was a regular game, but since the people have returned to Enewetak, it has been attempted only a few times because the women were traditionally captured after returning from gathering fronds from which to make various handicrafts for the festival. After their return, the plants were not large enough to produce good fronds, so the women's pretext for leaving the town was gone.
The feast on Christmas Day is the largest of the year, with roasted pig, coconuts, rice, bread, fried doughnuts, and bwiro, a special treat made from breadfruit. After a short church service at 6 a.m., people divide up the food baskets they have worked hard to prepare and exchange them with each other. By 10 a.m. the jeptas are assembling at the church to perform and compete with each other, dressed up in new clothes, often wearing leis of flowers in their hair and around their necks and other accessories, which are promptly seized by spectators as well as by members of competing jeptas (though people are left wearing at least minimal clothing), who in turn adorn the jepta members with sprays of perfume. Each jepta performs up to 20 songs, so this is a day-long event.
SOURCES:
EncyChristmas-2003, p. 459

单词	kurijmoj
释义	Kurijmoj Kurijmoj September-October through mid-JanuaryKurijmoj is a four-month Christmas celebration lasting from late September or early October through mid-January in the tropical Marshall Islands. For these Marshallese people, this is the Christmas season. December 25 itself is called ronoul lalim raan, "The Twenty-Fifth Day." Preparations begin in March or April, after Easter. Kurijmoj is celebrated by people who had been living on the atoll of Enewetak in the Marshall Islands and were forced to move from their homes to the atoll of Wujlan in 1947 so that the U.S. could test atomic bombs on their islands. They were able to return 33 years later. People begin forming singing and dancing groups called jepta and practice together in early October. The jepta groups compete with each other in church at Advent with songs, dances, jokes, food, and a "money tree" constructed like a piñata, and again on the Sunday nearest New Year's Day. Each group chooses a theme which often has a biblical foundation, such as the birth of Jesus, the Gospel word, or God's plan. The "money tree" is really more like a parade float, decorated on the outside according to the group's theme and filled on the inside with gifts for the minister of the church. Nowadays the dances resemble a mixture of hula-style dances and Japanese bon dances. Games are also played during this holiday. In karate, the women in a jepta play at being Japanese warriers and loot a men's jepta. In kalbuuj, the men of one jepta capture and "arrest" the women of another jepta and confine them to a "jail" the men have created from women's cooking and sleeping houses in the town until the women agree they are well-treated and have no reason to leave. Before the relocation, kalbuuj was a regular game, but since the people have returned to Enewetak, it has been attempted only a few times because the women were traditionally captured after returning from gathering fronds from which to make various handicrafts for the festival. After their return, the plants were not large enough to produce good fronds, so the women's pretext for leaving the town was gone. The feast on Christmas Day is the largest of the year, with roasted pig, coconuts, rice, bread, fried doughnuts, and bwiro, a special treat made from breadfruit. After a short church service at 6 a.m., people divide up the food baskets they have worked hard to prepare and exchange them with each other. By 10 a.m. the jeptas are assembling at the church to perform and compete with each other, dressed up in new clothes, often wearing leis of flowers in their hair and around their necks and other accessories, which are promptly seized by spectators as well as by members of competing jeptas (though people are left wearing at least minimal clothing), who in turn adorn the jepta members with sprays of perfume. Each jepta performs up to 20 songs, so this is a day-long event. SOURCES: EncyChristmas-2003, p. 459
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