There are red eggs on the full moon wine, what is the meaning of this red egg?

In Chinese folklore there is a folk song: "red eggs, full face string, this year to eat your happy bun, next year to eat your red eggs." Hi bun is a wedding ceremony auspicious customary food, popular rumor: hi bun to bring back, loved ones ate to get lucky. Therefore, this song belongs to the blessing of auspicious words, and then literally understand, the sentence at the beginning and end of the two red eggs represent the meaning is not the same, the former "red eggs" is as a sacred object, have prayed for the blessing of the son.

The second red egg is a sign of the birth of a child, and an object that announces the birth of a child. Distributing red eggs dyed with pigment to friends and relatives is a popular way of expressing joy throughout the country, and is often used on various occasions such as marriages, births, and full-moon celebrations, as a sign of celebration and for good luck.

Rural children, especially the birth of the first child, from the day of the child's birth to the full moon, the old custom of many. Announcement of good news. On the day of the child's birth, the child's father must go to his father-in-law's home to honor his ancestors and set off whips to report the good news, report the peace of mother and child, and tell his father-in-law that he has a grandson. Sending rice wine. When a daughter gives birth to a grandchild, the mother has to make rice wine and prepare eggs, and on the third day, she carries the rice wine and eggs to see her daughter and grandchild. When a child is one month old, the family will be busy making a full moon for the child to celebrate. The mother's family has to buy new clothes, shoes, hats, seats, strollers, cradles and other pediatric items for the grandson and deliver them on the day of the child's full moon, usually called sending blessed rice.

Eating red eggs. Children full moon please wine, also known as eating full moon egg, is one of the folk celebration feast, the family to receive guests, relatives need to rush love. This kind of wine and other banquets is different, where the guests sit down to eat wine hosts are issued four boiled and dyed red eggs, people take back as gifts. Later, some people do full moon will not be boiled eggs, only raw eggs dyed red on the line. Out of the nest. Children do the full moon, the daughter to carry the child to her mother's home, the grandson was born for the first time with his mother to his grandmother's home, called "out of the nest" in common parlance. When the child went home, the grandmother also gave the grandson shoulder on the flower line, neck hanging silver pendant, to show that I wish the grandson long life and wealth.