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Hina Matsuri, the Japanese Doll Festival (雛祭り), or “Girls’ Day” takes place on March 3. This is the day families pray for the happiness and prosperity of their girls and to help ensure that they grow up healthy and beautiful. The celebration takes place both inside the home and at the seashore. Both parts are meant to ward off evil spirits from girls.A girl’s first “Girls’ Day” is called her hatzu-zekku. On a girl’s hatzu-zekku it is very popular for the girl’s granparents to buy her a display doll. Most families take out this display of dolls around mid-February and put it away immediately after Hina Matsuri is over. There is a superstition that says that families slow to put away the dolls will have trouble marrying off their daughters!
Source: http://farstrider.net/Japan/Festivals/HinaMatsuri/
More Information on Hina Matsuri: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri
It’s so cool of Japan to celebrate such a cute event! Unlike Chinese, Japanese treasure the girls, wishing that their young girls will obtain happiness and prosperity. Not like most Chinese, even in this new era, still prefer to have sons more than daughters. Or treasure the sons more than the opposite.
(Although it’s late ><)
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March 17th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
oh wow~ you are really interested in Japanese culture huh?
There’s boys’ day too, on 5th May. But then we’ll be back to Japan. So won’t be able to see how’s it celebrated. Hehe..