Whenever a family or friend has a newborn at home, my heart is both happy and a little troubled.
Happy is the arrival of new life, and troubled is that with it comes all kinds of gifts.
The gifts in our hometown are relatively heavy, the birth of children, the full moon, the full hundred days, the full year, the first visit, the first Mid-Autumn Festival, the first New Year, so many complicated days are to send gifts to red envelopes.
The full moon ceremony and the first birthday naturally need not be said, and in many places, when the child reaches the age of 100 days, it is also necessary to celebrate.
Usually, whether it is a full hundred days, a full moon, a full year old, etc., it is the adults who get together and celebrate, and then bless the child in various ways, giving the child a long life lock, a hundred clothes and other gifts.
In ancient times, due to the limitations of life and medical conditions, the infant mortality rate was very high.
From the time the child was born, people's fears began, and the birth of a woman was tantamount to a ghost door being closed, and even today giving birth to a child is still full of dangers, let alone in ancient times.
At that time, if you were a little careless, it might be the result of the death of mother and son, or the mother and child could not be saved equally.
If the child comes to the world safely, all peace can not be relaxed, because the child is very young, in the era of very bad living conditions, the child is still easy to die early, and it is even more important to be careful.
Not only among the people, but also among the royal family, the Yongzheng Emperor had ten sons under his knees, and as a result, six of them died prematurely before they reached adulthood, and so on.
Therefore, when the child is young, the whole family is careful and careful, afraid of something wrong.
If the child reaches the full moon safely, people will breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate, and in the hundred days, it will remain so.
In the past, many children had to go to their grandmother's house in advance on the ninety-ninth day after birth, and then returned in the 100 days.
Just as the so-called "riding a hundred years old, living to ninety-nine", the first hundred days of the birth of a baby, the folk call it "over a hundred days", also known as "a hundred days", traditional culture to a hundred years old as auspicious, so also called over a hundred years old.
When the child passes the hundred days, all the people who are close to each other are to give gifts to celebrate, wear a long life lock for the child, wear a hundred family clothes to prepare a hundred quilts, and the long life lock is used to lock the blessing.
At that time, the long-life lock was built by a large group of relatives and friends who pooled money together, not a single family.
And like a hundred clothes and a hundred quilts, it is the same reason, people find rags from their homes and put them together, ask the prestigious old people to make them for their children personally, the more rags, the more blessings.
Nowadays, many places have long been not popular with the like of a hundred quilts, or even do not give children a hundred days at all, in fact, whether it is a full moon or a hundred days, etc., are a blessing for children in traditional culture, I hope that he will grow up safely and smoothly.