- January 7, 2025
Savor the seven-herb rice porridge slowly
January 7th (Tuesday), 2025 January 7th is known as "Seven Herbs Day," and on this day people eat rice porridge containing the seven spring herbs—water dropwort, shepherd's purse, gogyo (Japanese laurel wort), chickweed, henbit, turnip, and Japanese radish—to ward off evil spirits and pray for good health. The young spring herbs are said to be good for the stomach and intestines […]