摘要
FOR generations, girls of the Daur ethnicity from northern China have learned the art of making hanicas, or paper figurines, from their mothers and grandmothers. A hanica can be as simple as a paper-and-stick figurine, or as complicated as a heavily-ornamented figurine made of animal skin. When looking at the charming dolls, it is not difficult to understand the joy that this simple toy brought to young Daur girls in the olden days, before electronic toys were ever heard of; gathering on the heated kang (a brick bed) to play with their hanicas, children could quite easily forget about the cold weather outside.
