Every year in military training, naughty seniors or sisters will 'welcome' the arrival of new students in a naughty way -- eating watermelon and ice cream under a sun umbrella in front of the younger brothers and sisters who are sweating in military training in the sun, and always broadcasting sunny related songs on demand at the school radio station & hellip& hellip; Recently, some netizens exposed that during the military training for freshmen at the beginning of school, some people in the school were masked and hung sunny dolls. Such a 'sand sculpture' behavior aroused heated discussion among netizens.
Sunny dolls are mainly popular in China, Japan and other places. In ancient China, they were called sweeping mother and sweeping mother. They are paper-cut women hanging under the eaves when people pray for rain to stop sunny. They are cut into adults with white paper, and then cut into red clothes and green pants with red paper or green paper. They hold a broom in one hand and cut into lotus shape on their head. Their task is to sweep away the haze and usher in sunny days, so as to facilitate food drying and travel. Japanese sunny dolls mostly wrap table tennis or cotton balls in square handkerchiefs (white), and draw facial features on the balls, which is a puppet hanging on the eaves to pray for sunny days.
In ancient times, the custom of hanging 'sweeping qingniang' was popular in Beijing, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Gansu, Jiangsu and other places. At least in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, this custom had been established. Li Junmin, a poet of the Yuan Dynasty, had a poem in "sweeping Qing Niang": "roll up your sleeves and bed clothes, hold a broom, hang it in the shade and wave your hand." In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of sweeping clear was more popular among the people. This custom was also recorded in Fucha dunchong's Yanjing Yearbook and other books describing the scenery in Beijing.
This custom can be seen occasionally in today's northern countryside. Henan still has a 'song of sweeping Qing Niang to stop the rain': 'sweeping Qing Niang, sweeping Qing Niang, sweeping Qing in three days. I'll wear flower clothes for you. If it doesn't clear in three days, tie your light backbone.'