Lei Day celebrates the spirit of aloha and proves that the meaning of a lei goes beyond flowers on a string.
Hearing the word"Hawaii" may drum up visions of ocean waves, soft sand and, of course, colorful flower necklaces, known as lei.
The making and giving of lei is so special in Hawaii that there is an entire day dedicated to it each year on May 1: Lei Day.In 1927, American poet Don Blanding wanted to celebrate the idea of making, giving and wearing lei. “Hawaii observed all of the mainland holidays as well as those of a number of the immigrant nationalities in the Islands. But there was no day that was peculiarly and completely Hawaii’s own; that is none that included all of the polyglot population there,” he wrote.
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