How to celebrate the first birthday?

Generally speaking, weekly feast, weekly ceremony and catching the week are essential.

1, when the child is one year old, the adults will give the child a brand new dress, either traditional Tang suit or a small dress.

2, at the birthday banquet family and friends will give the child some gifts that mean good wishes, such as long life locks, such as gold.

3, the most important is to catch the week

"Catch the week of the child" ceremony is generally eaten at noon before the "longevity noodles". Some of the rich families to be more sophisticated in front of the bed (kang) set up a large case, on the seal, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism scriptures, pens, ink, paper, ink stone, abacus, coins, books, jewelry, flowers, rouge, food, toys, such as girls "to catch the weeks of the child" but also additional shovels, spoons (cooking utensils), scissors, rulers (sewing equipment), embroidery threads, flowers like (embroidery equipment) The family is usually limited by economic conditions, and most of them have a small amount of money to spend. General family, limited to economic conditions, more simplified, only a copper tea tray, inside the private school textbook "Three Character Classic" or "Thousand Character Classic" a book, a brush, an abacus, a set of baked fruits. Girls plus pendulum: shovel, scissors, ruler each one. Adults will carry the child to make it sit down, without any inducement, and let it choose, depending on what it grabs first, and what it grabs later. In this way, to measure their interests, future and occupation to be engaged in.

If the child first grabbed the seal, it is said that when they grow up, they will ride on the heavenly grace of ancestry, official luck; if they first grabbed the stationery, it is said that when they grow up, they will be good at learning, there will be an article, and ultimately, the three yuan and the first; such as the child first grabbed the abacus, it is said that, when they grow up in the future, they will grow up to be good at financial management, they will be a career of Tao Zhu. If the girl first grasp the shears, rulers and other sewing utensils or shovels, spoons and other cooking utensils, it is said to grow up to be good at housekeeping. On the other hand, the child first grabbed food, toys, can not be on the spot to repudiate as "delicious", "playful", but also to be said that "the child grows up, there will be a mouth Road Fuer, good at 'timely fun'". In time, he will be good at having fun". In short, the elders have high hopes for the child's future and wish the child well on his or her first birthday.

Catching the week in the Southern Dynasties has been generally popular in Jiangnan, the time when the occurrence of some earlier. Therefore, some people according to the folk of the "Three Kingdoms", the origins of the time to the Three Kingdoms era.

According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan, the owner of Wu, was not yet emperor for a long time, and his son, Sun Deng, died of an illness, so Sun Quan could only choose a crown prince among his other sons. There is a called Jing Yang Xihu cloth to see Sun Quan, said that the heir to the throne is a great cause, not only to see whether the emperor son is virtuous, but also depends on the talent of the emperor grandson, and said he has a test to distinguish between the emperor grandson of the wise and the foolish way, Sun Quan then ordered Jing Yang to choose an auspicious day. Is the day of the Prince each son to carry into the Palace, see Jing Yang out of a full of beads and shells, ivory, rhinoceros horn and other things on the plate, so that the young grandsons to grab at will. The children or grab jade, or take rhinoceros horn. But Sun and the son of Sun Hao, one hand grasped the simple book, one hand grasped the ribbon. Sun Quan was overjoyed, so he named Sun He as the crown prince. However, the other sons were not convinced and each of them made friends with their ministers and fought in secret, forcing Sun Quan to depose Sun He and establish Sun Liang as the heir. After Sun Quan's death, Sun Liang reigned for only seven years before he was overthrown in a coup d'état and replaced by Sun Xiu. After the death of Sun Huo, the ministers wished to choose an older son as the emperor, and it so happened that Sun Hao, who was over 20 years old, was chosen. At this time, some veteran ministers recalled the way of choosing the heir adopted by the first prospect of raising the emperor, and could not help but be amazed. Later, many people also used a similar method to test the future of their children and grandchildren, thus forming the custom of catching the week.