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    The National Cherry Blossom Festival is an annual spring celebration in Washington D.C. commemorating the 1912 gift of Japanese cherry trees from Tokyo to Washington D.C. to celebrate the friendship between the two nations. The festival has grown from modest beginnings into a major national event spanning four weekends and attracting over 1.5 million people to enjoy programming and view the cherry blossoms. The Inti Raymi was the most important festival in the Inca Empire celebrating the Sun God. It involved ceremonies honoring the Inca's entrance, scattering of flowers, and lighting of new fires which would then be spread throughout the city.

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    The National Cherry Blossom Festival is an annual spring celebration in Washington D.C. commemorating the 1912 gift of Japanese cherry trees from Tokyo to Washington D.C. to celebrate the friendship between the two nations. The festival has grown from modest beginnings into a major national event spanning four weekends and attracting over 1.5 million people to enjoy programming and view the cherry blossoms. The Inti Raymi was the most important festival in the Inca Empire celebrating the Sun God. It involved ceremonies honoring the Inca's entrance, scattering of flowers, and lighting of new fires which would then be spread throughout the city.

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    The National Cherry Blossom Festival is an annual spring celebration in Washington D.C. commemorating the 1912 gift of Japanese cherry trees from Tokyo to Washington D.C. to celebrate the friendship between the two nations. The festival has grown from modest beginnings into a major national event spanning four weekends and attracting over 1.5 million people to enjoy programming and view the cherry blossoms. The Inti Raymi was the most important festival in the Inca Empire celebrating the Sun God. It involved ceremonies honoring the Inca's entrance, scattering of flowers, and lighting of new fires which would then be spread throughout the city.

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    The National Cherry Blossom Festival


    The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington,
    D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from
    Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Mayor Ozaki
    donated the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States
    and Japan and also celebrate the continued close relationship between the two
    nations. Large and colorful helium balloons, floats, marching bands from across
    the country, music and showmanship are parts of the Festival's parade and other
    events.
    Today’s National Cherry Blossom Festival has grown from modest beginnings to
    the nation’s greatest springtime celebration. School children reenacted the initial
    planting and other activities, holding the first “festival” in 1927. Civic groups
    helped expand the festivities in 1935. The Festival expanded to two weeks in
    1994 to accommodate a diverse schedule during the blooming period. Growing
    again in 2012, the 100-year anniversary of the gift was marked with a five-week
    celebration. Today, the Festival spans four weekends and welcomes more than
    1.5 million people to enjoy diverse programming and the trees. Over the years,
    millions have participated in the annual event that heralds spring in the nation’s
    capital.

    The Inti Raymi


    The "Inti Raymi" or "Fiesta del Sol" was the biggest, most important, spectacular
    and magnificent feast carried out at the time of the Tahuantinsuyo Empire, which
    based its religion on the cult of the Sun festival. The Inti Raymi was made to
    worship the "Apu Inti" (Sun God) also known in some quarters as "Apu
    P'unchau" (God Day). The subjects of the Inca continued celebrating the feast
    hidden from the Spanish authorities, and a mongrel named Garcilaso de la Vega
    collected in his famous Royal Commentaries, descriptions of this unique and
    incomparable party. Her entrance of the Inca to the Main Square or the
    Esplanade of Sacsayhuaman was always presided over by a group of "acllas"
    that sprinkled flowers and accompanied by Pichaq men who were responsible
    for scaring with straw brooms evil spirits that might have in the path. His
    “kumillo” or hunchback dwarf carrying the “Achiwa” sort of umbrella always
    accompanied the Inca in all outdoor performances or parasol made of colored
    feathers.

    Another part of the celebration of Inti Raymi was at the ceremony of the new
    fire. In this part of the ceremony, the Inca order to extinguish the fire in all the
    kitchens of Cusco and surroundings with the purpose of lighting the new fire that
    was spread to all the city´s kitchens. This because the cooks are experts not
    only in cooking but also in keeping the fire from the ashes.

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