Traditional etiquette-one-year-old ceremony

Understand the process of life etiquette and the significance of life etiquette in different stages of life.

First birthday ceremony

? One-year-old ceremony is a child's first birthday, which is generally considered as the end of the birth ceremony. The host family will enjoy the feast hosted by their ancestors to entertain guests. Parents send out invitations. Please send single post and double post. The post is concise and generous, with fixed terms. For example, "Xiong Bi" is an auspicious term for having children; "One year old" is written as "Zhou Zui". Gift money, cash in red envelopes, with "Secret Sutra" written on the outside; Boys write "Nongzhang" and girls write "Huazhuan" or "Dai Zhen". Gifts are mostly clothes, shoes, hats and shoes. Trying on shoes is to let the baby try on new shoes. Tiger-headed shoes, which are popular among new shoes, are carefully made of yellow cloth. The toe is embroidered with a tiger's head and the word "Wang" is embroidered on the forehead.

In the one-year-old ceremony, there is a unique ceremony, usually called "grasping the week". Also known as "Kao Zhou", "Kao Zhou" and "Kao Zi". On the first day of life, babies will put all kinds of symbolic objects and grab them together to predict their temperament and interest in life. The ceremony of seizing the Zhou Dynasty first appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, the custom of grasping Zhou was very popular. In order to predict your future ambitions and hobbies, you have the etiquette of grasping the week. The specific method is to put on new clothes, bows and arrows, paper and pens, food, treasures, toys and so on after bathing the children. In front of them. If you are a girl, you should also add a knife and a needle. Don't induce adults to see what children catch, so as to predict their future greed, ignorance and hobbies. This custom was formed in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Yan Zhitui's "Yan Family Training Style Exercise" in the Northern Qi Dynasty said: "Jiangnan custom, children are born for making new clothes, bathing and decorating, while men use bows, arrows, paper and pens, while women use knives, rulers and needles to add food and treasure to play with children to test their greed, honesty and stupidity."

? At this point, the birth etiquette came to an end.