How to celebrate the birth of a child in ancient language?

Celebrating the birth of a son in the ancient Chinese language includes:

1, Joy of the birth of a son

2, Joy of getting a jangzhang (弄璋之喜)

3, Joy of the birth of a son

The traditional Chinese expression for the birth of a boy, known as "getting a jangzhang (弄璋)", can be found in the poems of the Zhou Dynasty. The name was first mentioned in a poem of the Zhou Dynasty. It refers to the ancient Chinese who gave birth to a boy and gave the boy a jang to play with. Jang refers to a kind of jade, in the hope that the son would have the same character as jade in the future, so later people called the birth of a boy "getting jang". Later on, the birth of a male child was called "Jangzhang Zhixi".

The traditional Chinese term for a girl is "弄瓦之喜", which means that the ancients gave the girl a tile to play with, which was a part of a spinning wheel, in the hope that she would be able to work as a female laborer in the future. In the old days, it was often used to congratulate people on the birth of a girl. Spindle (tile) and jade (jang) the value of nature can not be compared, the owner of the degree of joy is a world of difference. In fact, this kind of name is a bit patriarchal.

"Get Jang", "get tile" in more than two thousand years ago in the Zhou Dynasty, has been used as a Chinese folk birth male and female pronouns. In later times, it was customary to celebrate the birth of a dragon and a phoenix in the family of a friend or relative with the words "弄璋之喜", "弄瓦之喜", which became a popular form of congratulatory speech in the olden days, and is still occasionally used today.

The name "Zhang" and "Tile" first appeared in "Shijing - Xiao Ya - Sgan". It is an ode to congratulate the nobles on the construction of their palaces, with two separate stanzas in the poem:

A man was born, carrying a bed, a garment, and a jang. He was sobbing, Zhu Fu Shi Huang, the king of the room.

The woman was born, and she was given a bed to sleep on, a garment to wear, and a tile to wear. The only thing that I have to do is to talk about food and wine, and I don't have any parents to talk to about it.

The previous paragraph says that after building this new palace, if a boy is born, he will be given a bed to sleep in, clothes to wear, and a jade ornament to play with. Listening to his loud cry, he will definitely have a future success and honorable status. At least vassals, perhaps even wear the brilliant clothes of the son of heaven (Zhu Fu, there is called the clothes of the son of heaven).

The latter paragraph then says that after building this new palace, if a girl is born, let her lie on the ground, wrapped in swaddling clothes, playing with a pottery spinning wheel. The girl grew up to be a good housekeeper, not to let her parents angry, but also good husband's family, was praised as a good wife and good mother never to cause trouble (no non-compliance, not only no violation, able to be submissive and submissive; non-yi, that is, things will not be out of the ordinary).