The day before the beginning of spring.

Today is the day before the beginning of spring.
We have a traditional event today.
We scattered the parched soy beans to drive out bad luck.

When I was a little, my teachers appeared in the likeness of a damon/ogre in a preschool.
And we(students and some teachers) aimed the parched soy beans at the teachers as we said "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!"
It means that we hope good luck come on in, bad luck and damon/ogre go away.
Some teachers with damon/ogre uniforme was very scary and ugly.
They scared us very much!

Damon/ogre scare people.

You can get the parched soy beans and a damon/ogre mask at a store.