What are the rules and requirements of the weekly rituals

Grabs the week, the Chinese traditional custom, is now East Asian countries, a child's birthday when the baby's future is foretold the custom. When a newborn baby turns one year old, a variety of items are placed in front of the child, allowing him or her to 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 decorations, 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 their hair to take in order to check 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 physical objects for the baby to grasp.

The ceremony is usually held before the midday meal of "longevity noodles". Some of the rich families to be more sophisticated in front of the bed (kang) set up a large case, on the seal, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism scriptures, pens, ink, paper, ink stone, abacus, coins, books, jewelry, flowers, rouge, food, toys, such as the girl "to catch the week of the child" but also additional shovels, spoons (cooking utensils), scissors, rulers (sewing equipment), embroidery threads, flowers like (embroidery equipment) The family is usually limited by economic conditions, and most of them have a small amount of money to spend. General family, limited to economic conditions, more simplified, only a copper tea tray, inside the private school textbook "Three Character Classic" or "Thousand Character Classic" a book, a brush, an abacus, a set of baked fruits. Girls plus pendulum: shovel, scissors, ruler each one. Adults will carry the child to make it sit down, without any inducement, and let it choose, depending on what it grabs first, and what it grabs later. In this way, to measure their interests, future and occupation to be engaged in.

If the child first grabbed the seal, it is said that when they grow up, they will ride on the heavenly grace of ancestry, official luck; if they first grabbed the stationery, it is said that when they grow up, they will be good at learning, there will be an article, and ultimately, the three yuan and the first; such as the child first grabbed the abacus, it is said that, when they grow up in the future, they will grow up to be good at financial management, they will be a career of Tao Zhu. If the girl first grasp the shears, rulers and other sewing utensils or shovels, spoons and other cooking utensils, it is said to grow up to be good at housekeeping. On the other hand, the child first grabbed food, toys, can not be on the spot to repudiate as "delicious", "playful", but also to be said that "the child grows up, there will be a mouth Road Fuer, good at 'timely fun'". In time, he will be good at having fun". In short, the elders have high hopes for the child's future and wish the child well on his or her first birthday.

Through the child to catch the week child, in the objective test of the birth mother, see mother, nurse to the child is how to lead, is how to carry out the enlightenment education. Therefore, some parents are not superstitious, but still advocate for children to catch the week child, is also one of the reasons why this custom can be enduring in the folklore.

Precautions

1, the selected Zhoule should be of the same size (non-interference, easy to grab).

2, the selected Zhoule should be the same color (do not cause visual interference).

3, the selection of the week to catch the music must be the baby's first contact.

4, the process of the week to catch friends and relatives do not intervene.

5, catch twice can be. 6, to be held before eating a midday meal to catch the week activities.