1, when the child is one year old, adults will dress the child in brand-new clothes and choose traditional Tang suits or small dresses.
At the birthday party, friends and relatives will give their children some gifts symbolizing good wishes, such as longevity locks and Jin Ruyi.
The most important thing is to grasp the week.
The ceremony of "grasping Tuesday" is usually held before eating "longevity noodles" at noon. Rich people who pay attention to some things should display major cases in front of the bed (kang), and put them on: seals, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism classics, pens, ink, paper, inkstones, abacus, coins, account books, jewelry, flowers, rouge, food, toys, and shovels and spoons (cookers) used by girls to catch Tuesdays. The average family, limited by economic conditions, often simplifies it, using only a copper tea tray, which contains a private school textbook "III" or "Qian", a writing brush, an abacus and a set of sesame nuts. Girls plus pendulum: a shovel, scissors, ruler. Adults will take the child to sit up without any inducement, let him choose and see what he catches first and then what he catches. In this way, we can predict his interests, future and future career.
If the child catches the seal first, it means that when he grows up, he will take advantage of God's grace and prosper in his career. Grasping stationery first means that when you grow up, you will be eager to learn, and there will be splendid articles, which will eventually be ternary harmony; If a child grasps the abacus first, it means that he will be good at managing money when he grows up, and will become the career of Tao Zhu. If a girl first masters sewing utensils such as scissors and rulers or cooking utensils such as shovels and spoons, it shows that she is good at housework when she grows up. On the contrary, children should not be dismissed as "delicious" or "playful" on the spot when they grab food and toys for the first time. They should also say that "children will have a good mouth and be good at eating, drinking and having fun when they grow up". In a word, the elders have high hopes for their children's future, so it's good to bless them when they are one year old.
During the Southern Dynasties, Zhou was popular in the south of the Yangtze River, which happened earlier. Therefore, some people pushed the origin of the Zhou Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period according to the folk biography of the Three Kingdoms.
According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Wu Zhusun soon gained power, and Prince Sun Deng died of illness. Sun Quan can only choose the prince among other sons. There is a West Lake named Jingyang who asks for Sun Quan in a cloth. It is the great cause of several generations to say that it depends not only on whether the prince is virtuous but also on the talent of the emperor's grandson. He said that he had a way to try to say goodbye to the emperor Sun Xianyu, and Sun Quan ordered Jingyang to choose a good luck. It was the day when the princes took their sons into the palace, and Jingyang brought out a plate full of pearls, ivory, rhinoceros horn and other things for the little emperors and grandchildren to snatch at will. Children either catch jade or take rhinoceros horn. Only Hao, the son of Sun He, grabbed the simple book in one hand and the ribbon in the other. Sun Quan was overjoyed and made Sun He a prince. However, the other princes refused to accept it, and they made friends with their ministers and infighting, forcing Sun Quan to depose Sun He and make Sun Liang his successor. After Sun Quan's death, Sun Liang was only in power for seven years, and was later overthrown by a coup and changed Sun Xiu to emperor. After Sun Xiu's death, ministers all wanted to promote an older prince to be emperor, so they chose Sun Hao who was over 20. At this time, it is not surprising that some old ministers recall the way in which prospective parents chose their heirs. Since then, many people have used similar methods to test the future of future generations, thus forming the custom of grasping Zhou.