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How to draw lots for a child's first birthday?

Grab a week, a traditional Chinese custom, is now a child's birthday in East Asian countries to predict the future of the baby's custom. When a newborn baby turns one year old, a variety of items will be placed in front of the child, let him or her grab, traditionally commonly used items are pens, ink, paper, ink stone, abacus, coins, books and so on. Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties have existed, "Jiangnan custom, children born in a period of time for the production of new clothes, bath decoration, male with a bow and arrow paper and pen, female with a knife and ruler needle wisps, and add the food and drink and treasures of clothing and toys, placed in front of the child to see its hair taken to test the greed, honesty and wisdom of fools, the name is to try the child." Now there are also some will put the mouse, toothbrush and other modern items, there are also some will be the image of the card instead of a physical object for the baby to grasp