When did dolls appear in ancient China? What's in it?

I think ancient dolls are negative materials. The explanation is as follows:

The art of witchcraft.

The way is: make an idol of your enemy with wood, mud, paper, cloth, etc. Hide somewhere and curse the idol every day, or shoot it with an arrow or acupuncture it, thinking that this way can make your enemy sick and die.

The curse of witchcraft

In the later years of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, Manjiangchong lied that Emperor Wu's illness was caused by witchcraft, and falsely harmed the Prince with a pre-buried doll (note that this doll was made of mahogany), resulting in the death of all the Prince and his family, with tens of thousands of casualties before and after. This is the earliest description of the couple.

At the same time, in the twenty-fifth and eighty-first chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions, Aunt Zhao bribed Ma Daopo, a witch, to make paper-cuts as a puppet frame-Feng and Jia Baoyu, just like on TV.