Girls Day or Hinamatsuri in Japan
Girls Day or Hinamatsuri in Japan is held on March 3. Momo-no Sekku. This event in the first decade of the month March is annual.
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Hinamatsuri, also known as Doll's Day or Girls' Day, is an annual festival in Japan held to celebrate the health and happiness of female children and femininity in general.
The main tradition associated with the Hina Matsuri doll festival involves mounting an altar covered with a dankake (a red carpet) on which several platforms of hina-ningyō (ornamental dolls) in the traditional court dress of the Heian period are placed.
There are a few theories about the origin of hinamatsuri, but most likely it started in ancient China around the 3rd century. It was later introduced to Japan and eventually became a part of tradition as Momo no sekku, one of the five seasonal celebrations, in the Nara Period which is over 1,000 years ago.
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