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Hinamatsuri?What is that?
This is my first time hearing this word too…
Hina Matsuri is…
When you see from the Kanji.
雛 （ひな）Hina ： youngbird, chick(girl), doll
祭り （まつり）Matsuri：festival, ~day
雛祭り（ひなまつり Hina Matsuri：So it means, Girls’ Day or Doll’s Day!
This extraordinary day is celebrated every year on the 3rd of March easy to remember, isn’t it?
3/3 every year!
Well, what does Girls and Dolls have to do with it?
This day is a day where we pray for a girls’ or women’s health and happiness in life.
Long time ago, during Heian Period...
This was the way people celebrates Hinamatsuri before…
Each family that has a daughter must make this little doll like this picture above this picture above.
A doll covered with paper clothes and put it in the river to flow away.
Which means this doll takes over the bad luck of a girl which means that all the bad luck will come to the doll and good luck will come to the girl herself.
But since year 1392 Muromachi until now,
The habit changed, people will display something called hina ningyou = festival doll(which there is also another article that I have wrote you may look there :)
It looks something like this.
But it’s 3D and is actually a decorated doll which the kimono used are adopted from the Heian Period.
Before Gregorian Calendar was used by Japan, Japan celebrates Hinamatsuri on the 3rd of the 3rd month of the year according to the Lunisolar Calendar.
And according to the Lunisolar Calendar, 3rd March is called Momo no Sekku (The Peach Flower Festival) because on the exact date is the blooming of peach flower.
Which is now → Hina Mats
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