What's the name of the Japanese doll hanging under the eaves?

Most sunny dolls in Japan are wrapped in square handkerchiefs (white), and the balls are painted with five senses. They are puppets hanging on the eaves to pray for sunny days.

Mainly popular in China, Japan and other places, in China, they were called "sweeping mothers" and "sweeping women" in ancient times. It was a paper-cut, which showed a woman hanging under the eaves. At that time, people were praying for the rain to stop clearing up. Cut into adults with white paper, and then cut into red and green pants with red or green paper. Holding a broom in one hand, I cut my head into a lotus shape. The task is to sweep away the haze, usher in a sunny day, and facilitate the travel of drying grain.

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In ancient times, the custom of hanging "Qing Niang" was popular in Beijing, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Gansu, Jiangsu and other places.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of Qingyang became more popular among the people, and this custom was also recorded in Fu Cha Dunchong's Yanjing Years and other books describing the scenery of Beijing.

Up to now, there is still a song in Henan Province, "The Maid Sweeping Sunny Days to Shelter the Rain": "The Maid Sweeping Sunny Days will clear up in three days, and I will put on flowery clothes for you. If it doesn't clear up for three days, tie your light back. "

It is said that after this custom spread to Japan, because all the monks in Japan presided over the ceremony of praying for rain and sunshine, the clean mother became this shape, and later it was dubbed "sunshine doll".

The ballad of a doll on a sunny day is similar to our Song of Sweeping the Sunny Mother to Stop the Rain.

The history of China's "sweeping monk"

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of clearing Japan prevailed among Chinese people, and it was also recorded in Fu Cha Deng Chong's book Yanjing Age. In fact, it is a kind of voodoo activity of praying for rain among the people in China, just like sticking a dragon king to pray for rain. Its purpose is to keep out the rain and facilitate drying grain and traveling.

In Shaanxi, Gansu and other areas of the Yellow River Basin, "Sweeping the Goddess of Heaven" is one of the gods and a reproductive goddess similar to "Nu Wa". However, this deep cultural connotation is concealed by the superficial meaning of "Sun-Sweeping Mother", which is still preserved in the northern countryside and occasionally seen in remote areas.

The image of the "sweeping mother" is mostly a portable broom, and there are also variants with lotus flowers on her head and two portable brooms in her hand. However, the figures are all silhouette-style intaglios, which emphasize the shape and spirit likeness of the outline, and at the same time reduce the detailed description of the face and clothing lines, representing the unique style of China folk paper-cutting art.

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