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What is China traditional culture grasping Zhou? A brief introduction to China traditional culture grasping Zhou.

1. Grasp the week, also known as swab, test _, test week, and test week. English is Drawlots. This custom originated from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. It is a ceremony to predict the future and temperament when a child is one year old, and it is also a way to celebrate the first birthday anniversary. It belongs to the traditional birth etiquette, just like giving birth news, washing children in three dynasties, full moon ceremony and centenary ceremony. Its core is the wish for the continuation, smoothness and prosperity of life, which reflects parents' deep affection for their children, has the nature of family games, is a belief custom with human relations and the pursuit of parenting, and objectively tests how mothers lead and how to carry out enlightenment education. With the improvement of living standards, the custom of grasping the week has been paid more and more attention by many families, and many places are also holding organized collective activities to celebrate the baby's birthday.

2. The ceremony of "grasping Zhou Er" is usually held before eating the "longevity noodles" at noon. Rich people who pay attention to some things should display major cases in front of their beds (kang), and put on them: seals, classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, pens, ink, paper, inkstones, abacus, coins, account books, jewelry, flowers, rouge, food, toys, and shovels, spoons (cookers) for girls to "catch Zhou Er". The average family, limited by economic conditions, often simplifies it, using only a copper tea tray, containing a private school enlightenment textbook "San Zi Jing" or "Qian Zi Wen", a brush, an abacus and a set of sesame seeds and nuts. Girls add pendulum: a shovel, scissors and ruler. Adults will bring the child to sit up, without any induction, and let him choose, depending on what he catches first and then what he catches. In this way, we can predict his interest, future and future career.

3. If the child grabs the seal first, it means that when he grows up, he will take advantage of the grace of God and prosper his career. If you grasp the stationery first, it means that when you grow up, you will be eager to learn, and there will be a splendid article, which will eventually be three yuan and; If a child grasps the abacus first, it means that when he grows up, he will be good at managing money and will become a career of Tao Zhu. If a girl first grasps sewing utensils such as scissors and rulers or cooking utensils such as shovels and spoons, it is said that she is good at housework when she grows up. On the contrary, children should not be dismissed as "delicious" or "playful" on the spot when they catch food and toys first, but should also be said that "when children grow up, they will have a good mouth and be good at eating, drinking and enjoying". In short, the elders have high hopes for their children's future, and they just wish them well at the age of one. By grasping the children's weeks, this paper objectively tests how the birth mother, nanny and wet nurse lead the children and how they carry out enlightenment education. Therefore, some parents are not superstitious, but they still advocate letting children catch Zhou Er, which is one of the reasons why this custom has been circulating among the people for a long time.