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What to put in the school bag to beg for good luck

Children at the beginning of school, buy a new schoolbag, usually put a box of chocolate, coquettish, indicating the meaning of reading smart.

And the old method, clever and clever (green onions + rhombus + pears)

All are just a moral, symbolizing good luck. Nowadays, it's a good idea to buy a good book and a box of chocolates

Nearing the beginning of the school year, a lot of parents are busy opening things for their children to start the school year. In Changshu, the popularity of such a "school list" - baked fruit, cake, green onions, lamps, diamonds, pears, kettles, apples, brushes, quick-boiled noodles, Nike, frogs, back corset.

The first day of the child's backpack to school, the relatives of the family will pick a few things from the "start of school list" displayed in the child's schoolbag, to express their best wishes for the child.

Feng Bi, a citizen, recalled that when his daughter first picked up her backpack to go to kindergarten, the child's grandmother prepared a brush and scallions for the child, and the child's aunt bought the child a new school bag. When her daughter came to school with her backpack containing a brush and scallions, she realized that some students in her class had brought baked fruit, cakes and other food to share with everyone. Feng Bibi said, onions represent "smart", two board brush represents "the teacher once taught to understand", cake represents "step by step", and the handbag with roasted fruit, it is a symbol of "exams will pass". "exams will pass".

Citizen Zhang Ziyi prepared two bags full of roasted fruit for her son, who will soon enter elementary school. She said that for good luck, but also can be shared with children to enhance the relationship.

Not only are parents busy preparing for their children these days, but some pastry stores in the city have also taken many orders for roasted fruits and cakes.

At 7 a.m., a reporter came to the door of a pastry store in Guri. Two shopkeepers were busy packing the cakes pre-ordered by customers as they opened for business. "In the past few days since the start of the school year, there have been more people booking cakes, whether it's steamed cakes, square cakes or Ding Sheng cakes, it's too late to make them." Store owner Xu Sheng said. Just see the two-meter-wide square table stacked full of steamed cakes, some have been packed, waiting for the guests to send out, more is too late to pack.

Because this season is still the moon cake season, the moon cake business is good, and now in time for the start of the school year, all of a sudden there are many more people to buy cakes, Xu Sheng himself can not remember how many cakes can be sold a day. "Anyway, from morning to night, simply can not stop." He said.

A baked fruit store in Bai Mao has been open from 2 a.m. these days. At 8 a.m., when the reporter came to the store, the four people in the store had no time to pay attention to the reporter, two of them were busy making roasted fruit embryos, and the other two were busy packing the roasted fruit embryos. Just see them do embryo maneuver is very skillful, pick up the cut skin, hand over a roasted fruit appearance appeared. Even if two seconds to do a roasted fruit, a few people from 2:00 in the morning to 5:00 p.m. non-stop to do, time is also very tight. Store owner Tan Li Zhu told reporters that the opening of the two days of school business is particularly good, every day can sell 100 kilograms of roasted fruit.

Folklorist Hu Xiemin said, Jiangnan known as "culture and etiquette of the state", respect for culture and education, children "school" is quite important. Nephews go to school, maternal uncle's family to send the custom of the schoolbag, still retained in Changshu, this custom is also the product of the ancient society of Suzhou, the prevalence of science and technology. Suzhou custom has the father does not send the school, have maternal uncle maternal uncle send, no maternal uncle uncle send, or other elders send. Grandfather's family to send the schoolbag is also very sophisticated, the schoolbag is a green silk face, peach red cloth clip, face also embroidered a red robe and hat of the scholar, riding a white horse. The corner of the bag, there is a red ribbon, tied with a money. In addition to the traditional for the "prophecy", Figure auspicious to elementary school students in the schoolbag on the rhombus, pears, green onions - "smart and clever" meaning as well as represents the peace of the apple and step by step high "step by step cake", today's parents with the times, there are also in the beginning of the school bag with chocolate and two packs of marinated meat-flavored instant noodles. The former is a metaphor for twice the effort with half the effort, and the latter is because the brand of instant noodles is "Unified 100", which is similar to the past when parents brought their children to school with a stick of doughnut and two big cakes, all in the hope that they can get full marks in the exams with the blessing of the parents.

"China has a traditional practice, is like to use harmonic prayers for good luck, peace, with harmonic mascot onions, diamonds, pears and pastries, etc. for good luck, peace belongs to the traditional Chinese cultural heritage." Hu Xiemin believes that today's increasingly competitive society, parents look forward to more urgent mood, this phenomenon will therefore appear in more kindergartens or elementary school newborns.