* Cut the umbilical cord (time: at birth)
In ancient times, midwives were responsible for delivering babies, and umbilical incision was an important process in production. At the same time, after the umbilical cord is cut, the midwife will apply sesame oil to the wound, which seems incredible in modern times. No wonder there is a folk proverb called "chicken wine, four boards". After giving birth, the placenta must be placed in an urn and buried in the soil. Now the production is in the hospital, and the regular inspection and medical progress have reduced the production crisis a lot. The placenta is also handled by the hospital, so there is no custom of burying the placenta.
Taboo: For fear of a blood collapse, red and running water are not allowed in the delivery room, because these two things make people feel a blood collapse.
* Delivery (time: after delivery)
After giving birth, the baby and mother will begin to enter the confinement stage. During this whole month or forty days, mothers and children are not allowed to go out. The main purpose is to hope that both mother and child can get the best rest.
Taboo: Before 1, people thought indoor rooms were unclean. In fact, they mainly want to reduce the disturbance to their relatives and friends.
Maternal women are not allowed to go out before the full moon, and they must wait until the end of the month to resume their previous lives.
* Three Dynasties (date: the third day of birth)
The third day after a baby is born is customarily called the Three Dynasties. On this day, I want to help the baby bathe. When taking a bath, I put osmanthus hearts, orange leaves and three pebbles in the bathtub. Osmanthus fragrans symbolizes wealth; Orange leaves represent sweetness and prosperity, and I hope that my children and grandchildren will be full in the future; There are two opinions about stones. One is to help the baby be bold, so choose a stone of moderate size (not too timid or too bold), and the shape should be round, so that the personality will be soft and smooth. The second statement is that I want my baby to have a head shell as hard as a stone.
Put on new clothes after bathing, prepare chicken wine and oil rice, and worship ancestors and diners. Generally, the chicken feet of sacrificial ceremony will be stuffed into the chicken's stomach during the sacrificial ceremony, but the chicken feet should be put outside in the ceremony of the Three Dynasties, which means that the children will have strong feet. In addition, as the saying goes, good feet and good food mean that children will have no worries about food and clothing in the future.
Preparation items: 1 osmanthus heart, orange leaves, three stones, bathtub.
Chicken wine, fried rice, worship supplies.
* Wine service (time: the third day of birth)
Reporting wine, also known as reporting good news, is also a custom to be done on this day in the Three Dynasties. After the ancestor worship ceremony, she will send fried rice with chicken wine to her mother's house to inform her that her little grandson was born, and her mother will come back with various supplements to let her rest.
At the same time, they will also send chicken wine and fried rice to the matchmaker to thank the matchmaker for matchmaking and share the good news of a new life. However, due to the preference for boys in the past, some people gave birth to boys and only sent chicken wine and fried rice to the matchmaker. In addition, we will also distribute fried rice with chicken wine to our neighbors, so that everyone can add the joy of a new life together.
Preparation items: chicken wine, fried rice.
* Shave your head (time: 24 days after birth or at the full moon)
Because local customs are different, some people will choose the full moon, and some people will choose the 24th day of birth in order to be filial, hoping that future children can be filial. In addition, if you are more careful, you will see what day the haircut is and what it means, such as the third day (representing wealth), the fourth day (pleasing color) and the eighth day (longevity) ... Sometimes you will deliberately postpone it for a day or two and wait for a good day to shave your head.
When shaving, please ask an experienced barber to prepare yin and yang water (half boiled water and half raw water) in the bathtub, and add red eggs (red top), duck eggs (pressed), wormwood (clean), onions (smart) and stones (representing brave and hard head shells). After the barber shaved the baby's hair and eyebrows, he picked up the eggs on the baby's face.
Preparation items: red eggs, duck eggs, wormwood, onions, stones.
* The joy of next month (time: one month after birth)
After a month (about 40 days) of "behind closed doors", the mother and the baby officially ended their delivery and were ready to return to normal life. In order to celebrate the new life, a full moon wine is usually held on this day. In a small area, relatives and friends will be invited to eat fried rice with chicken wine, and some formal people will reserve seats to entertain guests. In recent years, some stars have officially informed their relatives, friends and audience that they are not only married, but also have children because they are "too late" to inform everyone when they get married. This is also a wonderful sight that appears with the changes of the times!
In addition to entertaining guests, most modern people distribute moon cakes or oil rice to friends, relatives and colleagues. Of course, relatives and friends who receive good news will also give back red envelopes or baby products as congratulations.
On this day, grandma's family will also prepare to send the head and tail, which refers to all kinds of things that the baby needs from head to toe, including clothes, hats, shoes and socks, quilts, shrimp shirts and so on. There are also foreign mothers, red turtles, hearts, gifts and candles. Usually, the clothes sent by grandma's family are embroidered with "ten thousand words" on the back, which symbolizes the meaning of keeping safe.
* Shout owl (time: full moon)
At the full moon, there is also the custom of "calling an owl", which means an eagle. Let my brother or sister go outside with a little doll on her back and walk around the house for a week, holding a pole for driving chickens in her hand, shouting, "Owl, fly up the mountain, be an official!" " The owl flies low, and the baby is going to be a father; The owl flies high and the girl is the champion "(Taiwanese). Then, the manned brother or sister can get a chicken leg.
Preparation items: poles and drumsticks for driving chickens.
* Name (time: about four months after birth)
In the past, children were likely to die young, so it took about four months to name them. Usually, parents will ask a fortune teller or an elderly family member to name their children. In addition, in the past, people thought that the more casual or even difficult the name was, the easier it was for children to raise, so the names of Yao, He and A Gou were heard from time to time.
Of course, it is now stipulated that children should register their accounts within one month of birth, so they should start choosing names early. In addition, every child is the darling of his parents, so naming can be a great event, not only to arrange the eight characters and watch the zodiac, but also to be fresh, refined, loud and pleasant. I hope that giving a good name to a child can bring good luck for a lifetime.
* Do April Day&; Take saliva (time: four months after birth)
When the baby reaches the age of four months, it means that it has crossed the dangerous threshold of neonatal period. At this time, April 1 day will be set for the child. Sacrificial ceremonies, hearts, turtles and other sacrifices should be prepared for ancestors, and grandma's family will also give gifts to babies. In addition, there is a ceremony called "taking saliva", which means taking saliva. Because some children are good at drooling and often get wet answers on their chests, I hope that through this ceremony, the baby may stop drooling and grow up.
When collecting saliva, prepare hollow biscuits, string them with red silk thread and hang them around the baby's neck. Then, take the baby to relatives and friends' homes and invite them to collect saliva. Relatives and friends will fold the cookies in half and then draw them on the baby's lower lip like saliva. Then he said auspicious words: "Take saliva to dry up, and the next child will lay eggs", "Take saliva and leave, and recruit a younger brother next year" (Taiwanese), mainly wishing the next child to become a man in one fell swoop. This is the concept of preference for boys over girls in the past. As for modern times, many people think that having a daughter is very intimate, so the auspicious words may need to be revised!
Taboos within four months:
1 Don't eat meat-you will get sores in the future, 2 don't get wet-you will get asthma in the future, and don't go out at night-you will be too angry to praise him in front of your child. If you are good and don't cry, then you will fail!
* Solitary tooth (time: seven to nine months)
As the saying goes, seven sitting, eight crawling and nine teeth represent a child's growth and development stage. Today's children are well nourished and stimulated, and most of them will grow faster than before. A faster baby may have teeth in six or seven months.
Because people in the past thought that only one tooth was bad, they had the custom of "eating rice and wearing shoes".
Please ask auntie to bring rice (soaked rice) to cook porridge for the baby, and also ask auntie to send a pair of shoes for the baby to wear, so as to bless the baby to grow teeth quickly.
Items prepared: rice and water from menstruation's family, shoes from menstruation's family.
* Degree & Grasp the week (time: one year old)
Du Xun means that the baby is one year old. In order to celebrate the baby's one-year-old birthday, sacrificial ceremonies and red turtles worship ancestors and gods, grandparents will also send head and tail (clothes and gold ornaments from head to toe). Some people prepare a steamed stuffed bun, wipe their mouths with it, and then say, "Go with the smelly mouth, come with the sweet mouth", mainly because they hope that the baby will not have a rotten mouth in the future, and it also symbolizes the significance of growing up.
There is also an important program on this day, that is, the baby's first sexual orientation test-grasping the week. According to legend, the custom of catching Zhou began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Parents will prepare twelve items for their children that can represent the interests of all walks of life and the future. As usual, they will put these objects in a rice sieve, and then let the baby climb forward to grasp what represents his future development according to his own preferences. Of course, no matter what children catch, parents always have the ability to add notes such as "billionaire, big boss, big lawyer" to their children. I didn't know until I grew up, but now I think it will bring great joy and expectation to my parents.
& lt Twelve Weekly Items >
Book: can read, literati seal: awesome, be a great official pen: can write, write well, be a writer and reporter abacus: can calculate, be an accountant and businessman: can draw, can calligraphy, can be a painter and calligrapher. Money: make a lot of money, have money drumstick: eat celery: diligent, practical: good at design and calculation, ok.
< Grasp the common modern articles of the week >
Receiver: mouse doctor: computer worker, programming sword, gun: officer, police book: lawyer, writer microphone: singer gold card: rich.
* Taboo before the age of one *
1 Don't eat chicken feet-you'll tear the book later. 2 Sleeping an unfamiliar baby-the child will not sleep well. If you don't take a bath after 3 days, you will be guilty. There was no water heater before, so I would choose to help my baby bathe in warm weather. You can't hit the child with your ruler-it will be rude in the future. Don't eat eggplant-it will lead to tooth decay later. 6 don't eat fish eggs-not in the future. Don't eat chicken intestines-you will talk a lot later.
* Be shocked
Some children are timid, frightened by the noise of cars and dogs, or cry and worry for no reason. At this time, the elders will think that the child is afraid and help the child to be scared.
Generally speaking, teachers or elders who are surprised can be invited to go out and bring more rice, children's clothes and other items to get surprised. Someone went to the temple with children's clothes, and the temple was shocked.
Myth: Newborns will have "frightened" physiological reflex actions. When they sleep, they will suddenly lift their hands symmetrically upward or outward, and their fingers will stick out. This is a normal physiological behavior, which usually disappears after four to six months. Therefore, some elders will wrap the baby's hands and prevent the baby from moving freely, so as not to be frightened. However, after the full moon, it is best to give children room to move their limbs. This is not a shock, it will disappear naturally when you grow up.
* Become a seme
It is said that children cry and are difficult to take care of, so they should be made semes for the gods, mostly Guan Jun, Mazu, Guanyin Bodhisattva and other gods, hoping that the gods can bless the children, be smart and healthy. The copper coins and amulets prayed in the temple will also be hung on the children, so that the children will always be blessed by the gods.
Due to the differences of regions and religious beliefs, the customs of different places will be different to some extent. The transmission of customs can not only record the laziness of our customs, but also hope that our next generation will be safe. Interested parents may wish to pray for your baby from the perspective of appreciation but not superstition!
References: 1 New life saves lives 2 Moon wedding recipes 3 an american in china dinner set.