Branches representing the blessing of growth. A potted tree with 1,000 origami cranes standing on it.
When people pray for their families, in addition to going to the temple to pray and fulfill their wishes, there is another way to send blessings. This method originated from Japan is a unique way of blessing in Japan - Thousand Paper Cranes. The famous Japanese artist Onogawa Naoki used his superb skills to fold hundreds of paper cranes, and all of these paper cranes were glued to the branches, and finally made into many trees. Beautiful potted trees in bright colors and different shapes take the previous origami skills to a new level.
In fact, there is a warm and touching story here. This story happened during World War II. The US military dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the explosion occurred, there happened to be a two-year-old girl next to her. The girls name was Sadako Sasaki. Although there was no trauma at the time, when the girl grew to 12 years old, she was suddenly diagnosed with leukemia.
Although the little girl was lying in the hospital bed, she still prayed that the people around her could be blessed as soon as possible, and used these paper cranes after taking medicine every day. Eight years later, the little girl died quietly.
