National Etiquette in Birth Ceremony

Hui people regard childbirth as a great gift and maintain many traditional customs. During pregnancy, female pregnancy is often called "happiness". Do you usually just say "happy" when you ask? Not if you're pregnant. Women still have many taboos and taboos during pregnancy. If you don't see your loved ones off, attend wedding letters, and see the dead, there will be no funeral. If you meet someone on the way to see your family off or attend a funeral, you should avoid it as soon as possible and not just walk in front. There are also some commandments in diet, especially not to let pregnant women eat rabbit meat. It is said that eating rabbit meat will give birth to a child with a mouth as big as a rabbit. Pregnant women are also not allowed to laugh at other people's children at will, let alone children with physical defects. During labor, pregnant women should clean up as soon as possible and live in the delivery room. This is called "occupying the house". When the baby is born, even the husband is generally not allowed to enter the delivery room at will, and a red silk or red cloth strip should be hung on the door curtain to remind outsiders not to enter (except in hospital delivery). After the baby is born, if it is a boy, choose a smart, honest and brave person from family or relatives and neighbors to step into the delivery room first; If you are a girl, you should choose a gentle, kind and diligent person to step into the delivery room first. This is called "stepping on life". Hui people believe that after a child is born, whoever goes to the delivery room first, the child's temperament and nature are like who. This is the good wish and hope of the Hui people. ;

After the midwife picks up the child, the host will give her five to ten yuan of Nie Tie, and some will give her a dress. When the child is three days old, the Hui people call it "three washes", also called "three washes". It is necessary to wash the dirty things off the child with hot water. On this day, the host will entertain relatives, friends and villagers with mutton noodles and congratulate the children on their safe and long life. On the day of washing for three days, villagers and friends sent the moon woman long noodles, oil fragrance, pot slices, eggs, meat and other nutrients, which reflected the fashion of caring for each other, helping each other and being of one heart and one mind. Some one-month-old women are short of milk during confinement, so they let their families take small bowls to eat seven noodles. This is called "building canals to divert water".

After the child's full moon, there will be a full moon ceremony, also known as celebrating the full moon. On this day, the barber is invited to trim the children's hair and distribute some money and articles to the poor according to the weight of the hair. At the same time, the shaved child's hair is made into small balls, which are netted with thread and emery cloth and connected to the child's pillow, meaning brave, auspicious and healthy growth. Hui Muslims in Shanghai and other places also leave braids, bracelets and locks for their children to wish them grow up. When celebrating the full moon, we should also cook and stir-fry oil, and entertain relatives and friends, children's uncles, grandmothers and neighbors.

When children reach the age of 100, some even hold a "centenary ceremony", which is also called "catching a hundred ways" by Hui people. I wish children a broad road in life and a bright future. The etiquette of a person's life mainly includes birth ceremony, coronation ceremony, wedding, birthday ceremony and funeral. Among the five etiquette in life, apart from the coronation ceremony, chaozhou people is quite popular.

Birth is the beginning of life, and the birth ceremony is also the beginning ceremony of life. As early as during pregnancy, there are many customs, such as calling pregnancy "happiness" and "identity"; There are many taboos for pregnant women to protect their babies, such as: avoid washing mosquito nets and bedding, cutting cloth, bleaching and dyeing, mending clothes, moving beds and cabinets, repairing houses and avoiding funerals. It is believed that there will be scars and spots when children are born in the future, which will lead to deformity and stillbirth and abortion in severe cases. Some pregnant women were identified as "Tiangou" by Mr Bubu. In order to prevent the child from being taken away by the "Tiangou", the husband went to the jewelry store and bought a silver lock, which was quietly locked around his wife's neck while she was asleep.

Before giving birth to a child, some places have to go to the temple to worship "having a mother-in-law" to bless the birth. Ten months pregnant, before the baby is born, the bride's family will send someone to send a boiled egg, hoping it will be as smooth and safe as an egg.

After delivery, in some places, the placenta should be buried in the riverside beach, saying that the deeper it is buried, the better the child's stomach. In some places, the placenta is sprinkled with plant ash, sealed in a jar and placed under the bed.

There are many ceremonies in the transitional period of birth ceremony. Three to seven days after a baby is born is called "waxing". During this period, strict care should be taken, and the delivery room should not be ventilated, noisy or mobile. The so-called "waxing" means that a few days after the baby is born, the body begins to converge and the muscles turn from red and tender to sallow; Moreover, when midwives used to cut umbilical cords with unsterilized sharp knives, they were easily infected with tetanus toxoid. Generally, its incubation period is one week, so it is regarded as a dangerous period. If it is not strictly cared for, it will cause accidents. On the twelfth day of birth, a "meat-eating ceremony" will be held, and the parturient will start to change from vegetarian to meat-eating, and will also give gifts to neighbors and relatives. Boys will eat candied glutinous rice dry rice, and girls will eat sweet "fish spring dumplings" (a small dumpling made of potato flour). Relatives and friends will also give back candy and noodles to congratulate them. A banquet will be held at the full moon to celebrate the baby leaving the living room from the delivery room. When I am four months old, there will be a "Paxing" ceremony, and my grandmother will send me new clothes, a new Chinese bra and a new baby. From then on, children can wear new clothes and gold and silver.

For various reasons, some babies are sickly and difficult to raise, and they have to hang hundreds of locks. That is, parents go to hundreds of neighbors to beg for money and buy a silver lock to hang around their children's necks, symbolizing that children belong to hundreds of families and are not easy to be taken away by demons. The birth, growth, marriage, childbearing and death of Xinjiang people are the same as others, and there can be no new content and form. However, the unique living environment and cultural traditions make Xinjiang people have different experiences from others in their life. A new life is about to be born, which is a great event. All ethnic groups treat the arrival of a new life with solemn attitude. Tajiks make a fire at the door to avoid disaster and pray when the mother is in labor. Tajiks fired three shots at the skylight or shouted three times immediately after the birth of new life. One is to announce a new boy at home, and the other is to drive away evil spirits with noise. If it's a girl, don't shoot it, but put a broom under the baby's head and wish her to be a good woman who abides by women's morality in the future. Kirgiz, Kazak and other ethnic groups also have this custom. In the past, when there were no guns, they used to shoot arrows.