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Introduction of rainy day dolls

Rain doll, also known as rain monk. Popular in rural areas of China and Japan, it is a puppet hanging on the eaves to pray for rainy days. Rain 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-shaped heads in the other. Japanese rainy dolls wrap table tennis or cotton balls with square handkerchiefs, and then draw the five senses on the ball.