With that, Zhou caught the pen.

Books and pens mean that babies love to learn and can become talents.

Generally speaking, when the baby 1 year-old, books and pens will be kept at home, indicating that he hopes that the child will read, write and learn when he grows up. Especially the older generation of children, when grasping the week, they like to grasp books and pens, because it means that the baby loves learning and can become a talent when he grows up.

In fact, it is understandable that the elderly have this hope. After all, many elderly people have not read many books or even can't read at all because of the problems of the times or poor families, and have suffered a lot. So they hope that their descendants can study hard and become promising people in the future.

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It is said that the custom of "grasping Zhou" comes from the concept of mutual induction between things and people. The ancients who believed in God also believed that people's future could be predicted by nobody's induction.

Therefore, when a child is one year old, adults will put tools, stationery, documents, weapons, daily necessities and other items in front of him and let him grab them at will, so as to predict his future and interests with the items he catches first. This activity is called "trying children" and is called "grasping the week" by the people.