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Today is “Hina Festival”. “Hina Doll” It is a spring festival originally transmitted from China as "Kami". I t is called "peach festival" because it is performed at the time when peach blossoms bloom ... Originally, before the Heian period (almost 1,000 years back), it was performed regardless of gender in the same way as the Dango festival, but it gradually became a girl's festival. The custom of this day is to display dolls on a red carpet. The dolls with dresses of Emperor and Empress are placed at the top and the ladies with ministers are in lower rows of the shelf. It is said that the ebb and flow of the evil to the dolls and the doll play of the girls were linked. The Japanese are a bit superstitious here. They believe that if you're a girl and fail to take the dolls out of the shelf right after the festival, no one is going to marry you for a long period of time.  So hurry up girls!  Put the dolls away! ( © yoshi0511 / Shutterstoc)

Nakamise Memorial, Nakamise Street, Japan.

Christmas decorations in Warsaw, Poland.

Christmas lights in Carnaby Street, London. Carnaby has collaborated with ocean conservation charity Project 0 for year 2019.

Annual Schwäbisch Hall Weihnachtsmarkt in the market square, Baden-Württemberg, Germany   Rathausmarkt Square is dotted with stalls and shops where you can find home-made toys, glassware, jewellery and other delicacies. It's a landmark for Christmas where you can often see Santa Claus hover over in his Sleigh. 

Icelandic sheep   In western countries, most children believe in a friendly Santa Claus who arrives on Christmas Eve but there are Icelandic kids who anticipate the arrival of the Yule Lads. The 13 mischievous troll like characters who live somewhere up in the mountains. Sheep-Cote Clod is the first Yule lad who comes down the town to award the well behaving children with treat at the evening of December 12. One by one, the yule lads start to arrive in the town till December 24.  Beginning on the evening of December 11 Icelandic kids will happily put their shoes out on the window sill, hoping for a nice treat. But the kids with bad manners will wake up to a potato.     Icelandic kids have heard the story of the Yule Lads. That tale has been started to descend from the year 1932. "Yule Lad Peom" is written by Jóhannes úr Kötlum. Jóhannes illustrates Sheep-Cote Clod in the most enchanted way: The first of them was Sheep-Cote Clod. He came stiff...