the custom of "grasping the week" at the age of one-year-old----------------.
Song Zimu's "Dream of Liang Lu Yu Zi" contains: "His family lists brocade seats in nave, burning incense and holding candles, gold, silver and seven treasures toys, books for study, Taoist scriptures, scales and scissors, lifting buckets, colored satin flowers, official money, women's needlework, applied objects, and children's toys. Song Meng's "Tokyo Dream Record: Childbirth" calls this a "grand ceremony for children".
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, this kind of children's "grasping Zhou Er" ceremony was still popular in Beijing. Although children don't set up a tent to hold a banquet or invite guests, all their close relatives invariably congratulate and get together.
Generally, no big gifts (such as wedding presents, gold and silver jewelry) are given, only some cakes, food or toys are bought for children. In addition, in the habit, all elders who meet children at first use a white line to tie coins and put them around their necks, which is called "hanging the line".
(this gift is also applicable at ordinary times). The ceremony of "grasping Zhou Er" is usually carried out before eating the "longevity noodles" at noon.
Rich people who pay attention to some things should display major cases in front of their beds (kang), including seals, classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, pens, ink, paper, inkstones, abacus, coins, account books, jewelry, flowers, rouge, food and toys. If girls "catch Zhou Er", they should also put them on display. The average family, limited by economic conditions, often simplifies it, using only one copper tea tray, containing a private school enlightenment textbook: a three-character classic or a thousand-character text, a brush, an abacus and a set of sesame seeds and nuts.
girls add pendulum: a shovel, scissors and a ruler. Adults will bring the child to sit up, without any induction, and let him choose, depending on what he catches first and then what he catches.
This can be used to predict his interest, future and future career. If the child catches the seal first, it means that when he grows up, he will take advantage of the grace of God and prosper his career. If you grasp the stationery first, it means that when you grow up, you will be eager to learn, and there will be a splendid article, which will eventually be three yuan and; If a child grasps the abacus first, it means that when he grows up, he will be good at managing money and will become a career of Tao Zhu.
If a girl grabs sewing tools such as scissors and rulers or cooking tools such as shovels and spoons first, it is said 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 catch food and toys first, but should also be said that "when children grow up, they will have a good mouth and be good at eating, drinking and enjoying".
In short, the elders have high hopes for their children's future, and they just wish them well when they are one year old. By grasping the children's weeks, this paper objectively tests how the birth mother, nanny and wet nurse lead the children and how they carry out enlightenment education.
Therefore, some parents are not superstitious, but they still advocate letting children catch Zhou Er, which is one of the reasons why this custom has been circulating among the people for a long time. (Konglin. com). 2. Children's grasp of the week
If you want to have a very formal and grand performance, you can buy a set of 12 pieces of "Grasping the Week
Music", the name and symbolic meaning are as follows
The official star seal hits the official, and the official luck prospers
Blessed in the mouth of the god of food box, enjoying all the delicious food
The rich star hits the rich, and the life is rich
The wine order is raised. Friends all over the world
Cang Xie's bamboo slips are knowledgeable and have a bright future
Lu Ban is clever and skillful at designing bells
He is kind-hearted, and he can practice medicine all over the world
Wang Hai is easy to do business and good at business, and the business tycoon
Yi Yin defends his family and loves it, and he is happy all his life
Hong Ya-le is lively and can sing and dance
Gyro likes sports. Sports superstar
General's helmet is good for martial arts, Yi Jun Yi Wu
If you just do it in general, you can put money, pens, football, food, computers, computers, etc. 3. What is catching Zhou
The Dream of Tokyo in the Southern Song Dynasty? "Childbirth" contains: when you have a child for a hundred days, you will have a meeting, which is called "a hundred days". When you come to your birthday next year, you will call it "a week". You will list the things that are used in sewing, such as pots and lanterns on the ground, fruits and vegetables, food, official records, pens and inkstones, and scales. If you look at them first, you will think it is a sign and call it a test.
Zhou Xi is the first birthday. Grasping Zhou is to put all kinds of stationery, toys, food and other things in front of the baby when he is one year old, and see what he grabs first, so as to measure the baby's temperament, interest and future in the future.
The custom of catching Monday originated very early. It is said that it originated from Sun Quan, the ruler of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. When the prince died and the sons fought for power, Sun Quan was worried that his career would be wasted, and his heart was quite distressed.
A West Lake civilian named Jingyang came up with an idea for him-drawing lots, that is, putting all kinds of things on a plate for the princes to choose freely. Among them, only Sun Hao, the son of Sun He, grasped the teaching tape with one hand and the simplified book with the other.
Sun He became emperor by his son's lottery. After Sun He was abolished, shortly after Sun Liang Sun Xiu succeeded him, the throne finally fell to Sun Hao who drew lots that year.
this custom became popular among the people. "Yan Family Instructions" Volume II: Jiangnan customs, the first phase of children's birth, for making new clothes, bathing and decorating.
Men use a bow, arrow, paper and pen, while women use a knife, ruler, needle and thread, add food and drink, and play with precious clothes, and put them in front of their children. Look at what they intend to take, test their greed, honesty and ignorance, and call it "trying children". They gather in person and enjoy the banquet.
It can be seen that the things placed in the week are different according to gender. In the traditional concept of our country, men are martial and literate, so they put bows and arrows and pens; Girls work hard, so they put a needle and thread knife ruler.
However, some people are caught against their own gender. For example, in the second time of the famous novel A Dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty, Baoyu wrote, "I put countless things in the world and grabbed them with him.
who knows, he didn't take anything, but stretched out his hand and took away some powder hairpin rings. Master Zheng didn't like it, saying that he would be just a debauchery in the future, so he was very unhappy. "
interestingly, after grasping Zhou, it really worked. When Baoyu grew up, he really just circled in girls' circles. The custom of grasping Zhou was widely popular in all parts of China, but the items placed are different because of different nationalities and regions: the Korean people grasp Zhou with bows and arrows, books, pens, cakes, money, scissors, red bean porridge (which has the function of avoiding evil spirits) and so on; In addition to pens, inks and inkstones, there are also abacus, ruler and seal used by children in Beijing to display various social roles such as scholars, farmers, workers and businessmen. The Dong people put their children on a bamboo screen, carried by their parents, and circled around the charcoal fire three times. They also said that "sitting on the screen is too much, and the mind is full", which is a test of sitting on the screen as a difficulty and danger, symbolizing the wisdom, courage and courage of children when they grow up.
in some areas, placing objects also has the significance of allowing ancestors to identify with them. When the children of Gaoshan nationality in Taiwan Province are one year old, the grandmother's family will give them a full set of clothes and decorations. These gifts should be sent to the ancestral tablet first, so that the ancestors can enjoy it first, and then hold the children in front of the ancestral tablet to catch the week.
In addition to symbolizing social roles, they also put bananas and pears, which means attracting younger brothers. Placing an impression represents prosperity; Putting oranges represents auspiciousness, and so on. In modern society, the custom of grasping Monday is still lingering, but the things we grasp have changed, such as calculators, dictionaries, mobile phones, CDs, etc., replacing the original pen, ink stone, needle and thread, which shows that the traditional thought of dreaming of success still exists in modern people's hearts. 4. articles about grasping the week
List of articles about grasping the week 1. Dictionaries or dictionaries: representing writers or scientists, knowledgeable talents.
2. Books and pens: have the meaning of formulation, representing calligraphers, literati and civilian work. 3. ruler: it has the meaning of scale and represents lawyers, judges and revolutionaries.
4. Calculator and abacus: representing businesses or businessmen. 5. Renminbi (money): a rich man or a rich man who is good at saving.
6. Credit card: banker or financial industry 7. Seal: representing official position or power. 8. Paintings, water color boxes and colored pens: represent painters and artists.
9. Wool ball and cloth: representing fashion designers. 1. Table tennis racket, badminton racket and football: representing sports-related occupations.
11. Flute, violin, electronic organ and CD: representing musicians. 12. Chopsticks and shovels: on behalf of chefs and hoteliers.
13. Little shoes represent travelers and explorers. 14, moisturizer, lipstick: on behalf of beauty, care about their appearance.
15. Mobile phones, floppy disks and mice: the representatives are engaged in IT industry, high technology and communication industry. 16. Globe: Represents geographer.
17. Cotton swabs and gauze represent doctors and nurses. 18, screwdriver: engineer, industry 19, toy car: car owners, drivers 2, building blocks: construction industry, designers, etc. 21, rosary: for practicing hard. 5. What is the meaning of grasping the week?
When a baby is born for one year, it was called "week" in ancient times, but now it is called one year old.
On the first birthday, the whole family should not only celebrate, but also hold a grand ceremony to grasp the week. Grasping the week is also called trying on children, trying on weeks and pressing birthdays.
It is a very important ceremony in the one-year-old ceremony, which was first seen in the ancient customs in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and has been circulated among the people to this day. In our familiar classic A Dream of Red Mansions, the etiquette of "grasping the week" was also written.
Jia Baoyu caught rouge and hairpin rings at the age of Zhou. Because these are all women's products, his father was very unhappy. He also said that he would never study hard in the future, and he was a debaucher. The folk "grasping Zhou" ceremony is generally held before eating "longevity noodles" at noon.
In ancient times, the well-to-do rich people had to set up big cases in front of their beds (kang), and put on some instruments representing various occupations, such as pens, ink, paper, inkstones, seals, abacus, account books, jewelry, flowers, food, toys, etc. If it was a girl's birthday, they also had to put on spoons (cooking utensils), scissors and rulers (. Then, without any inducement, children are held by adults to choose these things, and parents can predict their interests, future and future career according to what children catch first and then.
For example, if a child catches stationery first, it means that he must be a scholar when he grows up. Grasping the seal first means that you can be prosperous when you grow up; If the child catches an abacus, it means that he is good at managing money and is a businessman when he grows up. If a girl grasps sewing utensils such as scissors and rulers or cooking utensils such as spoons first, it shows that she is handy and good at housework when she grows up.
On the other hand, if a child catches food and toys first, everyone must not dismiss them as "delicious" or "playful" on the spot, but round them into a good wish, such as "when the child grows up, he will be good at enjoying life" and so on. In short, the elders have high hopes for their children's future, and they just wish them well at the age of one. 6. the story of Baoyu's name and grasping Zhou
name: Mrs. Wang gave birth to a son, and as soon as she gave birth to a fetus, she came with a colorful and glittering jade in her mouth with a lot of handwriting on it, so she was named Baoyu.
grasping Zhou: At the age of one, Jia Zheng tried to test Baoyu's future ambition, so he laid out countless things in the world for Baoyu to grasp. Who knows, Baoyu caught some powder and hairpin rings. Jia Zheng was furious at this and thought that Baoyu would grow up to be a debaucher.
Extended information:
Baoyu was gifted since childhood, and the amount of money he wrote for the Grand View Garden was frequently praised by his father, especially the book "Daughter of the Lotus" written for Qingwen. In the eyes of the police fairy, he is "talented and intelligent."
On the other hand, Jia Baoyu thinks that he is knowledgeable, but he is afraid to read "sage books" such as the Four Books, so that most of them are unfamiliar and he can't recite them. He hates the career path of intellectuals in the world and satirizes those who are keen on fame as "traitors and ghosts"; He even scoffed at the so-called "gentleman's honor" called "remonstration with the dead and fighting with the dead" in Taoism, which was "fishing for fame"
In this process, many people also sounded the alarm for Baoyu. The police phantom fairy was entrusted by Ning Rong's two husbands to persuade her to devote herself to the official economy. Before she died, Qin Zhong confessed to Baoyu that she was young and frivolous and advised him to aspire to fame.
Baoyu didn't take these advice to heart. In the end, the family was in decline, but he was unable to return to heaven. He could only watch his precious daughters go their separate ways, and even the princess in the spring of Yuan became the last grand occasion of the family.
Just as the author was young and rich, he ended up in a miserable ending. In the end, he could only silently recall the talents of his young daughters. The author borrowed Baoyu's life, and the tone of later generations revealed the author's "regret".
Jia Baoyu's character characteristics
1. Jia Baoyu abandons fame and fortune.
Jia Baoyu despised fame and fortune all his life, and hated the so-called "official career economy" the most. This "lack of initiative" runs counter to the requirements of traditional social gender roles for men. In Jia Baoyu's place, as opposed to fame, it is "romantic poetry wine", in which he enjoys himself.
2. Jia Baoyu despises feudal rules and order.
Jia Baoyu, portrayed by Cao Xueqin, embodies many ideas that men believe in emancipating their minds. This rebel image of feudal aristocracy is also a rebel of gender roles in traditional society. Let's try to pay attention to the image of Baoyu from the perspective of men's liberation.
3. Jia Baoyu is considerate of his daughter in every way.
Jia Baoyu subverted the gender role requirement of "men stay away from women". He hangs out with girls all day, which is actually the main content of his life. In Shi Xiangyun's words, it is: "Your adult family is only in our group". And xiren also said in thirty-four times: "he is good at making trouble in our team." Therefore, Grandmother Jia said, "It must have been a girl who miscarried."