One-year-old ceremony is a child's first birthday, which is generally considered as the end of the birth ceremony. The host family should enjoy the banquet hosted by the grandfather to entertain the guests. Parents send out invitations. Single and double stickers, please. The post is concise and generous, with fixed terms. For example, "bear nose" is an auspicious term for having children, and "one year old" is written as "Zhou mouth". Write "Mijing" on the outside, boys write "Nongzhang" and girls write "Huazhuan" or "Dai Zhen".
Gifts are mostly clothes, shoes and hats, and the custom of trying on shoes. Trying on shoes is to let the baby try on new shoes. Tiger-headed shoes, which are popular among new shoes, are carefully made of yellow cloth, with a tiger head embroidered on the toe and a "king" embroidered on the tiger forehead.
Symbolic significance of one-year-old ceremony
In the one-year-old birthday ceremony, there is a unique ceremony, which is usually called "grasping the week", also called "trying the week", "picking the week" and "testing the child". On their first birthdays, babies put all kinds of symbolic objects and rob them, so as to predict their temperament and interests all their lives. Buy the things that catch the week online in advance, put all the things in an arc shape, and guide the baby to catch it by himself. If you count to more than 3 seconds, let the baby catch it three times.
Generally speaking, Four Treasures of the Study represents reading, abacus and balance represent commerce and trade, expensive toys represent fun, cookers and chopsticks represent housework, knives and needles represent female workers, jewelry and flowers represent dressing preferences, and so on. This custom appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and has prevailed ever since.