The traditional practice of the child's birthday folk

There is a family traditional practice in the folk of Zheshi, which is the custom of celebrating the birthday of a week-old baby. One is to send dumplings to the grandmother's family, and the other is to catch the week-old child.

Birthday of this day, the home is decorated with lights, the gold table in front of the hall lit a pair of red candles, at noon when relatives and friends came to congratulate, this day the birthday boy dressed in a very beautiful, head wearing a tiger hat, feet wearing tiger shoes, wearing new clothes, from inside to outside, from head to toe are brand new. First of all is to pay homage to the ancestors, by the male host holding the baby, hand-held ancestor worship items, came to the ancestors' graves set up offerings, three kneeling and three worship, tell the ancestors baby full of a year of flooding, praying for the baby can grow up healthily, after the worship, back to the home, and then invited to come to congratulate the relatives and friends*** into the dinner, scratching the weeks before the child to prepare a large rice sieve, which is placed in a number of items, there are books, seals, stationery four treasures, Abacus, coins, jewelry, etc., then let the baby sit in the center of the rice sieve, let the baby arbitrary grasp, as a prediction of the baby will choose the future industry and fate.