"Send Mi Zhu" to carry a gift box, why is it taboo to use a bamboo basket?

In the traditional fertility custom, no matter who gives birth to a child, relatives and friends, especially the maternal family, will bring some gifts to visit and congratulate them, commonly known as "sending rice to the next month" or "sending rice with porridge".

The time to send Mi Zhu is the twelfth day after the boy was born and the ninth day after the girl was born. Aunties, aunts and sisters-in-law took eggs, brown sugar, rice, millet, trousers and coats to congratulate the woman's in-laws under the leadership of the maternal mother.

Anyone who gives birth to the first child should "carry the box" and put clothes, necklaces, longevity locks, eggs, brown sugar and so on. Put it in a big box. Two hens were tied to the top of the box with a rope, and the outside was sealed with red paper, and a festive message was written. Women ride or walk with their children and squeeze into a woman's husband's house.

When grandma sees her nephew or niece, she should bring a gift, which is also called "seeing money". A woman in confinement has experienced the life and death of childbirth. When she saw her family's relatives, she revealed incomparable happiness from her heart. Mothers or elderly close relatives teach mothers how to feed their babies.

Fitness experience. The husband is busy distributing cigarettes and pouring tea, holding a grand banquet, and doing everything possible to warmly receive the guests of his in-laws. Everyone is happy and lively.

After the banquet, my husband's family will boil a lot of eggs, dye them pink, put them in an incubator and give them to the children at home, so that everyone can share the joy of having children.

Nowadays, when someone gives birth to a child, they don't take some eggs and rice noodles as gifts, but just seal the gift money and celebrate it with relatives and friends in the hotel to create a festive and auspicious atmosphere.