Editing Radish (section)

=== Culture ===
The [[daikon]] varieties of radish are important parts of [[East Asia|East]], [[Southeast Asia|Southeast]], and [[South Asia]]n cuisine. In [[Japan]] and [[Korea]], radish dolls are sometimes made as children's toys. Daikon is also one of the plants that make up the [[Japanese holidays|Japanese]] [[Festival of Seven Herbs]] (''Nanakusa no sekku'') on the seventh day after the new year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.transparent.com/japanese/jinjitsu-%E4%BA%BA%E6%97%A5/ |title=Japanese Culture: Jinjitsu (人日) |author=Ginny |date=2009-01-07 |access-date=2014-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424103535/http://www.transparent.com/japanese/jinjitsu-%E4%BA%BA%E6%97%A5/ |archive-date=2012-04-24 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Citizens of [[Oaxaca]], Mexico, celebrate the [[Night of the Radishes]] (''Noche de los rábanos'') on December 23 as a part of Christmas celebrations. This folk art competition uses a large type of radish up to {{convert|50|cm|in|0|abbr=on}} long and weighing up to {{convert|3|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}. Great skill and ingenuity are used to carve these into religious and popular figures, buildings, and other objects, and they are displayed in the town square.<ref>{{cite web |title=MEXICAN HISTORY |url=https://www.donquijote.org/mexican-culture/history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325201613/https://www.donquijote.org/mexican-culture/history/ |archive-date=March 25, 2023 |access-date=March 25, 2023 |work=don Quijote Mexican Culture}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studyspanish.com/comps/rabanos2.htm|title=La noche de los rábanos|work=StudySpanish|access-date=2014-07-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110071604/http://www.studyspanish.com/comps/rabanos2.htm|archive-date=2015-01-10|url-status=live}}</ref>