Why do Japanese people always hang a white doll like "Brother Yixiu" at home?

Sunny doll, also known as Qingniang, Tianpo and Sunny Monk. Popular in rural areas of China and Japan, it is a puppet hanging on the eaves to pray for sunny days.

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Sunny dolls in China are often made into doll images in the form of cloth heads or paper-cuts, with brooms in one hand and lotus heads in the other.

Japanese sunshine dolls wrap table tennis or cotton balls with square handkerchiefs, and then draw the five senses on the balls.

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It is said that Sunshine Baby comes from the folk custom in northwest China, and there are three kinds of sayings:

Stop raining: This is also the origin of the name of Sunshine Doll. Poetry: "Roll up your sleeves and hold a broom. When you hang it in the shade, you will wave. "

Reproductive worship: sunny doll is a kind of god's saying, which means to pray for his son Sun Yinsheng. This statement comes from China.

Body double: Japanese believe that sunshine dolls can take the place of people to bear disasters and diseases. There is a song:

Sunshine doll, sunshine doll, I hope it will be fine tomorrow. If so, I will give you a golden bell.

Sunshine doll, sunshine doll, I hope it will be fine tomorrow. If so, I'll give you good wine.

Sunshine doll, sunshine doll, I hope it will be fine tomorrow. If not, cut off your head.