Chinese people have traditionally shared red eggs, mainly to celebrate the birth of a child or to pray for an heir.
2. There are also rural areas in the first one or two days before the wedding, the female party to carry out a beauty process: face strangulation, they will be exposed to the forehead and the back of the neck of some of the velvet with two twisted into a twist-like red line "strangled" down, specifically two sisters-in-law to take turns to operate, a tight and a loose, a loose and a tight, to the velvet! "strung" off, "strung" after the face, with two red eggs rolled in the face, while rolling a singing: "red eggs, full face string, this year to drink happy wine, next year to 'hi' see! See you next year!" . Then, in the bride's face to put some powder, both to cover the "strung" out of the blood spots, but also beautify the face. Red eggs in this program also played a role, although the specific lyrics are different, but the expression of the same content;
3. old Jiaoxian boy born on the third day to the bride's family to report good news, the girl on the sixth day to report good news, the in-laws to go to the family with 1 catty steamed buns 20, the bride's family must be all left behind, otherwise the child is not good to raise, the bride's family should be returned to the 19 red eggs, 4 bowls of millet, the road to meet the first person to send the red eggs, which is called "everyone's happy!
4. Penglai County, the birth of a boy with a rooster to announce the good news, the birth of a girl to announce the good news with a hen, which can be seen in the chicken and eggs in the folk customs play an important role in the tradition;
5. Zoucheng, the boy to announce the good news with a book, the girl to announce the good news with a flower, and in addition to the neighbors and friends to send the "good news egg". "Annunciation egg", that is, dyed red eggs, the mother's family and friends and neighbors to come to congratulate the new happy, called send porridge rice or send soup rice; in Kaifeng area, the baby was born after the Annunciation often with red eggs. If it is a boy, to six or eight, must be an even number, dyed red, but also at the end of the egg with a black dot in ink, said the "great joy", the boy to send an even number of reasons is that the child grows up to find a daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law pairs, will be able to spend a good month. If it is a girl, the eggs are only dyed red, without black dots. The number of eggs is 5 or 7, and must be an odd number, which means "small happiness". Sent an odd number of eggs, indicating that the family added a girl, the future good marriage.