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What does Baijiami mean?

Baijiami is an ancient folk custom in ancient China, which prayed for longevity, and entrusted people with a good yearning for health and longevity. Baijia rice is a folk custom. In ancient times, when a child was one year old, the old man would take the child to collect hundreds of grains of rice, and then take the collected hundreds of grains of rice back to cook porridge for the child.

In this way, children can be sheltered by hundreds of families, which can eliminate disasters and diseases and protect people's well-being. Until today, these children who have eaten are usually in good health and are very promising. ?

Later, 100 meters gradually became the custom of collecting 100 fuzes. During festivals, people will collect hundreds of meters, hold hundreds of feasts, enjoy hundreds of fuses and pray for health and longevity.

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Walking 100 meters is a folk parenting custom of Han nationality. Popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. An activity of praying for children. If the child is sickly and afraid of being difficult to raise, parents should choose an auspicious day, go to Niangniang Temple to burn incense and make a begging wish. Then I go to my neighbor's house to collect rice, and every beggar will tie a knot with a red rope. ?

Cooking for children after meals is a popular saying among the people that eating can cure diseases, and it also means being cheap and nurturing. There are also hundreds of meters for sale, some of which are silver collars, or silver anklets and bracelets, which are added for children. The remaining hundreds of meters are ground into thousands of cakes, cut into small pieces and distributed to the people at the entrance to the village or on the roadside, which is called "begging". And buy rice from beggars as 100 meters.