Hina Matsuri (Girls' Festival)Hina Matsuri (Girls' Festival)
March 3
Hina Matsuri
Hina
Matsuri (Girls' Festival) is cerebrated on March 3rd and is
an occasion to pray for young girl's healthy growth and happiness.
Most homes with girls display dolls for Hina Matsuri. Therefore
it is also called Doll's Festival. They dedicate to dolls peach
blossoms, rice cake cubes, special colored and diamond-shaped
rice cakes, white sake, and other items. The origin of Hina
Matsuri is an ancient Chinese practice in which the sin of
the body and misfortune are transferred to a doll and washed away
by setting the doll in a river to drift away. When this practice
spread in Japan, it was linked to girl's playing with dolls, and
in the Edo Period(1603-1867) it was developed into Hina Matsuri.
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