In ancient China, if a boy was born, what hung on the left side of the bedroom door?

If it is a boy, hang a bow and arrow on the left side of the bedroom door.

Because bows and arrows are symbols of folk culture, ancient men should know martial arts, learn "six arts" from an early age, and ride horses to shoot arrows. If it is a girl, hang a handkerchief on the right side of the door. So passers-by can know if it's a boy or a girl without entering the house.

Birthday ceremony is one of the traditional birth customs in China, which is usually held three days after a child is born. Different regions and nationalities have different forms. From birth baptism to baby's first birthday, it generally has several meanings such as blessing, health care and divination.

The traditional birthday ceremonies of the Han nationality have different styles and manifestations due to different regions, but in general, most of the traditional birthday ceremonies of the Han nationality include five main ceremonies: birth, three dynasties, full moon, centenary and one year old, and their specific manifestations are basically the same.

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China Ancient Birth Etiquette

1, birthday ceremony

When a baby is born, the first thing is the name.

On the day of birth, firecrackers are essential. The child's father must go to his father-in-law's house to worship his ancestors and flog him, to give good news, to tell his mother and son that he has added another grandson. After that, I visited relatives and friends and went to the ancestral temple to report good news. When a baby is born, announcing good news has become a ritual activity.

If it is a boy, hang a pair of bows on the left door; If it is a girl, hang it on the right side of the side room door (a scarf for women).

If a boy is born, let him sleep under the covers, dress him in gorgeous clothes and play with Bai (I hope he grows up to be an official); If the baby is a girl, let her sleep on the ground, wrap her in swaddling clothes and give her a ceramic spindle to play with.

2. Three Dynasties Ceremony

Etiquette three days after the birth of a child. Three days after the boy was born, his parents took him out and shot him with bows and arrows. The moral is to aim at all directions and expect boys to have great ambitions when they grow up. This gift is unacceptable for girls. On this day, the mother began to breast-feed the newborn, which is called milking.

Step 3 wash three dynasties

The bathing ceremony held three days after the baby was born appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Relatives and friends put things in the bathtub, and the washerwoman read different auspicious words according to different items thrown by relatives and friends. When washing three times, relatives and friends give gifts with red envelopes, the host treats them with cakes, and keeps them for "washing three sides". After washing, the baby's umbilical cord needs to be removed, which means that the newborn has left the pregnancy and officially entered the baby stage.

4, worship the bed mother

Legend has it that the god of bed is divided into men and women, the woman in bed is greedy for cups, and the man in bed is good at tea, so he worships the mother in bed with wine and the man in bed with tea. People have the custom of worshipping their bed mother at weddings, childbirth, the Three Dynasties and the full moon, and most of them worship the meat poured with wine.

Step 5 send rice wine

The daughter gave birth to a grandson, and the mother wanted to brew rice wine and prepare eggs. On the third day, she took rice wine and eggs to see her daughter and grandson.

6. Full Moon Ceremony

Also known as the "Moon Ceremony", it is held one month after the baby is born. A very common etiquette, or full moon wine, is a popular folk custom of full moon ceremony. On this day, relatives and friends came to congratulate them with gifts, and the host held a sumptuous banquet. At the full moon, a child's first haircut is called shaving fetal hair. Generally, a barber is invited to come home and pay after cutting his hair. The children are wearing new clothes.

Step 7 move the nest

Also called out of the nest, full moon walk, etc. According to folk custom, babies can't walk around at birth, but they can at full moon. At this point, the mother carried the baby to someone else's room and walked around, which is called moving nest. Grandson went to grandma's house with his mother for the first time after his birth. As the saying goes, "out of the nest".

8. Hundred Days Celebration

This is also a common custom, wearing "hundred clothes". A child has a hundred days, and folk customs dress him in a hundred clothes. Parents expect their children to grow up healthily and think it needs everyone's blessing. To support everyone's happiness, you have to eat hundreds of meals and wear hundreds of clothes. Each family takes a piece of cloth and puts it together to make clothes, which makes a hundred clothes.

9. Wear a long-life lock

Longevity lock is an ornament hanging around children's necks. People believe that as long as they wear this kind of jewelry, they can drive away evil and "lock" life. The predecessor of longevity lock is longevity rope.

10, one-year-old gift

The most common custom of one-year-old ceremony is "grasping the week". Grasping Zhou, also known as "testing children", often arouses adults' imagination when children inadvertently catch Zhou. This custom is extremely common, and it is still popular among the people, and there are also complete sets of ritual vessels specially used for children to grasp Zhou.

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