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三月三日，是日本的女兒節。

日本女兒節（又稱雛祭，Hina Matsuri）是為祝福家中女兒健康快樂成長的一個節日。日本女兒節的由來其實是受到中國唐朝風俗影響，人們會把用紙做成的人偶放入河中讓它流走，代表將自己身體的不適轉移到人偶身上，以祈求身體健康，現在日本有些地方還有保持這種女兒節習俗呢。
在女兒節的這段時期，父母會為女兒擺設鋪有紅布的小台階，並擺放穿著日式和服的娃娃，又稱為雛人形（Hina Ningyo）。一般來説七層的台階，會需要15個娃娃，再加上其他飾品，其實價値不菲。基本上最上層的兩個娃娃代表的是天皇和皇后，第二層則是宮女，手執酒、酒杯及酒壺，第三層是樂師，第四階是隨從，第五階是僕人，第六階通常擺些小型嫁妝用傢具，七階是牛車、籠、轎子等。而且因為擺設人偶需要不少時間、金錢和空間，所以有很多家庭礙於家裡空間不大，而選擇層數較少的台子，相對之下價錢也比較便宜，對現代忙碌的人們來説也比較方便。
另外，日本人説三月三日一過就要趕快把娃娃收起來，因為會影響到女兒的婚期，如果太晩收女兒就會晩婚，甚至很難嫁出去，相當的有趣。

p.s.這張照片是工作人員去年四月去一位朋友的日本媽媽家特地留著給我們看的，一次七層真的相當有氣勢！她説還好她的女兒都結婚了不然不會擺這個久都還沒收XD
Staff Chien

3rd of March, Hina Matsuri
In Japanese tradition, Hina Matsuri is a festival day blessing for the daughters of each families growing healthily and happily. The origin of this festival actually came from Tang Dynasty of China (618–907 AD) when people let the dolls made of paper flowing with river. It exemplifies transforming people's illness into the dolls in order to pray for the health. Nowadays some places in Japan still remain such customs.

In Hina Matsuri time, parents place Hina Ningyo, the dolls wearing Japanese kimonos, on the red-clothe decorated stairs in house for their daughters. Generally speaking, it requires 15 dolls on 7-layer stairs with other accesorries, which actually costs quite a fortune. The top layer sit Tennoh (Emperor of Japan) and Kougou (E

mpress of Japan), the second sit court ladies with Sake, cup and pot, the third layer musicians, the fourth layer attendants, the fifth layer servants, the sixth layer some small sized furnitures for dowry, and the seventh layer oxcart, basket, sedan chair. Besides, because it takes time, money and space to place dolls thant many families don't really have enough resources to make such installations, people would choose less layered stairs with less budgets, which is also more convenient for busy modern lives.

On the other hand, there is an interesting tradition for Japanese to remove the Hina installation as soon as the festival ends after 3rd March, otherwise it would effect the marriage time of the daughters that if removing the installation too late, the daughters would tend to have a late marriage, or making it difficult to even have one. 
P.S. This photo is taken in April last year at a Japanese host mother's of a friend of staff Chien's. She was kind enough to leave the Hina installation especially for the cultural exchange. Thankfully her own daughters were all married already, otherwise she would not remain it for so long!

edited by staff Yu