What began as a local festival has blossomed into an international event.

起初的一个地方性的节日已经发展成了一项国际盛事。

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Logic dictates that our ancestors could not have held a yearly festival until they figured what a year was.

依照逻辑推论，我们的祖先在弄清1年是什么意思之前，不可能举行过每年一度的节庆。

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What kind of festival is it?

那是什么样的节日？

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We asked festival visitor Tonya from Beltsville,Maryland what brought her to the event.

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What I tried to do was to encourage the children not only to learn about a new culture, the Japanese Culture, from this Star Festival, but to also start thinking about what their own background was.

我所做的就是鼓励孩子们,不仅仅是通过七夕节来，了解全新的日本文化，而更要开始思考,自身的文化背景。

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Finally, another thing that is important is that all the stories that are generated as a result of using Star Festival as a model are becoming communal story So people share what they create with Star Festival.

最后，另一件重要的事就是,通过使用“七夕“这一模型发掘的所有的,这些故事正成为共同的故事,人们将他们用“七夕“创造的东西与他人共享。

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