[Before that - 18] The sparkling party powder at the wedding.Noun. 1. Confetti 2. confetti 2. party .. - MK (2024)

[Before that - 18] The sparkling party powder at the wedding.

"You know what, that." It introduces the name and history of objects that you often encounter in your daily life but don't know their names and call them 'that'. Even the most trivial objects are born out of a pretty tumultuous appearance, ambitious inventions, a rich cultural code of the time, and a desperate need. [It's a prelude] is directed toward a largely joyful, sometimes intelligent, sometimes humorous journey that follows its trail.

Noun. 1. Confetti 2. confetti 2. party powder 3. pollen, flower shower [example] I threw my phone at him for spraying confetti. Unfortunately, the priest has yet to regain consciousness.

It's confetti. Because it is an unfamiliar foreign word, domestic shopping malls sometimes use expressions such as colored paper powder or party powder. It refers to a piece of colored bell that is sprinkled during highlights of events such as festivals and weddings. They also use thin, shiny plastic materials rather than paper.

Confetti is derived from the Latin word "confection", which is derived from the word "confect". Confetti is also the plural form of confetti (also known as Jordan almond, draze), which means sugar-coated almonds in Italian. As a traditional Italian gift, there is a custom of delivering five confetti coated with white sugar at weddings and light blue or pink confetti to guests at baby christening. It also means wishing for five wishes: health and wealth, happiness, fertility and longevity, and tasting the bitterness of life (almond) and the sweetness of love (sugar). If there are any married people who are only seeing bitterness, I would like to express my regret.

Why did a snack that tastes and has a special meaning become a "throwing object"? The custom of sowing grains such as rice and wheat to newly married couples wishing for fertility and prosperity dates back to the Celts and ancient Rome in BC. Depending on the times and regions, it has also become candy or fruit. Anyway, it's an old ritual to celebrate and bless a special event.

Also, in medieval Europe, marchers used to throw objects such as chunks of mud, eggs, fruits, flowers, and coins to the crowd during festivals. On the contrary, there were cases where crowds threw at the parade's protagonists. Throwing objects with special meanings to each other has become a part of the festival. In 1597, Spanish aristocrat Juan Fernández de Velasco, who ruled the Principality of Milan at the time, disappeared for about 100 years and revived in the 1700s by throwing small candies (many of which were sugar-coated on coriander seeds).

Enrico Mangili (1840–1895), a Milan businessman, invented confetti in the modern sense. He ran a textile company in Milan, famous for its silk production area, and began selling small pieces of paper, or garbage, from the process of making paper sheets made holes for silkworm breeding as "throwing objects" at the Milan Carnival Parade. Kim Sun-dal, who sold the water of the Daedong River, is also a business skill that needs to be folded. Anyway, this confetti powder, cheaper than candy, safer than hard objects, and suitable for a festive atmosphere, quickly spread throughout Europe.

Then, in Italy, where the word confetti was already used to mean sugar-coated almonds, what do you call confetti powder? It is coriàndolo, which means coriander. This is because there were many sugar-coated cilantro seeds among the items that were mainly thrown at the festival. Let's make some words and use them, please.

A typical event for spraying confetti is the ticker-tape parade. Ticker tape is a "main telegraph printer" used from 1870 to 1970. Information such as stock prices and trading volume was received by wire and printed on thin and long paper, which is also called ticker tape. Previously, stock prices were delivered in writing or verbally. In financial companies, young employees called "runners" traveled between exchanges and offices to deliver stock trading order tables and report market prices.

The ticker tape allowed market participants to check transaction information regardless of physical distance, enabling "almost real-time trading," which revolutionized financial markets. The ticker tape, which was invented in 1867 by Edward Calahan, an employee of the American financial firm Western Union (then the Western Union Telegraph Company), became a necessity on Wall Street after an improvement by Edison, the inventor of 1869. It is an object that can only be seen in museums now, but traces remain. What are the names of the stocks in abbreviations such as MSFT (Microsoft), AAPL (Apple), and SBUX (Starbucks) in the U.S. stock market? It'll be "Ticker" right away.

The ticker tape parade originated from the New York City celebration held on October 28, 1886, when the Statue of Liberty was dedicated. From the windows of the surrounding building on the parade route, ticker tape and other pieces of paper are thrown to express their warm welcome and congratulations. War hero Douglas MacArthur, Charles Lindbergh, who succeeded in the first solo transatlantic flight, and astronaut John Glenn were the main characters of the New York ticker tape parade. Now that ticker tape has disappeared as a trace of history, it has been replaced by toilet paper, waste paper cut into small pieces, or confetti provided by the city.

There are two things that are good when you feel good, but it is difficult to clean up after. One is a planetary magic held by a child, and the other is a fun-sprayed confetti. Environmental pollution is also a problem. Freeze-dried petals have emerged as an alternative. Garbage is the same, but since it is a biodegradable material, some events allow only petals instead of confetti. Domestic marriage companies sometimes use the beautiful expression of 'flower shower' over these petal confections. If you look in the dictionary, it is presumed that the expression used mainly in Japan is not an English-American expression. It seems to have originated from a "bridal shower" where small gifts are exchanged for brides-to-be, and a "baby shower" to celebrate a pregnant woman or newborn baby who is about to give birth, but it's not exactly right.

Among the pre-items for opening portal sites in which users participate, there were also opinions that recommended "Flower Blossoms" in Confetti's pure Korean. The image of the flower bouquet and confetti, which means "numerous petals falling and blowing in the wind," goes quite well with each other. However, there are already places where floral flowers are used to mean "small pieces of paper of many colors sprayed when celebrating a happy occasion." It is North Korea. Oh, my. This makes it difficult in many ways.

The following sentence appears in the novel "Ryeongmaru" published in 1980 by North Korean author Eom Dan-woong. He must have started spreading the white sand on the clean riverbed with the feeling of sprinkling flowers.

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