As soon as the child is born, wrap the child with a piece of cloth (single cloth or cotton cloth) about three feet square. Then pinch the baby's nipple. It is said that otherwise the girl's nipples will sag and itch in the future. The boy will grow into a room. Some add umbilical cord blood and yellow wine to let the parturient drink it to promote lactation; If the mother's milk doesn't come for 3-5 days, or it is rare, the family will add honey to the old yellow hen stewed by the mother, and stew the pig's trotters with medulla tetrapanacis, pangolin scales, cowseed and so on. For the purpose of lactation (commonly known as "throwing the mother"). Drinking black hawthorn with yellow wine can relieve postpartum uterine contraction pain (commonly known as "two pimples"). In order to strengthen maternal nutrition and facilitate digestion and absorption, "egg wrapped in pimples" and "scrambled egg noodles" are essential staple foods. So that most women gain more than ten kilograms a month!
On the third day after the birth of a child, you should report the good news of the birth of the child to your grandmother's house, commonly known as "good news". The man who gave birth to a boy brought a live rooster to give good news, and the other party gave back a live rooster, that is, the man who gave good news gave back two live cocks; If a girl is born, a live hen will be brought to report the good news, and a live hen will be given back. If the other person really doesn't have a chicken in return, you can get some eggs in return.
On the third day after the birth of the child, the family who gave birth to the child should make some fine noodles, also called "happy noodles", and give them to the neighbors. One is to convey the good news of giving birth to the child to the neighbors, and the other is to let everyone bite or suppress the disaster for the child. At the same time, noodles mean "longevity", in fact, it is hoped that children can grow up healthily.
Due to the poor disinfection conditions in the past, there is a high probability that a child will get umbilical cord madness (commonly known as April 6 madness and July 7 madness) within four to seven days of birth, and it is still uncertain whether he can survive, so there will be no celebrations in these days.
On the twelfth day of the child's birth, the child's grandmother's family will come to "send rice and noodles". At this time, because infants and young children have passed the susceptible period and breast-feeding, the children's metabolic function is basically normal, their disease resistance is enhanced, and they tend to develop normally. The "rice noodle delivery" personnel are composed of relatives and friends of the children's grandmother's family. The items sent are rice, white flour, dried noodles (commonly known as "dried noodles") and eggs (some dyed the eggs red, and some cut flowers with red paper and stuck them on the eggs to show happiness. It is said that duck eggs are not sent, for fear that mother will shake her head after eating them. Children's clothes, hats, mattresses, diapers (leave a few stitches in the clothes made before the child is born, and then finish them completely after the child is born); There is also a kind of "hug skirt", which is to use a square piece of cloth and tie cloth belts at both ends of one side, which means to hug a group of children, that is, to have many children and be blessed; Also send a pair of trousers to the father of the child, which means that the child has thick legs to hold; There are also "longevity locks" (usually silver), "Kirin pine nuts" silver labels, silver bracelets, "tiger's head silver money" and silver bells decorated on children's hats. Now I can only buy long-life locks and silver bracelets. The party who gives birth to a child will hold a wedding banquet and have a grand reception, commonly known as "waiting for rice noodles." This kind of wedding banquet is basically the same as the wedding banquet (see the wedding custom in my hometown), commonly known as "the whole table" or "the whole audience", except that the thin (happy) noodles are served first (meaning the same as before). When the rice noodle deliveryman comes back, the host will give back a little dried noodles, commonly known as "return gift", which means that relatives keep coming and going. Now I want to send some symbolic rice-flour clothes, mostly money, and the gifts are basically free. On this day, the family will dress up their children's clothes made of old cloth or other children's old clothes (of course, they won't rot) early to welcome grandma's congratulations and hold them in the "living room" for guests to boast about. Wrapping with old cloth, making clothes with old cloth, and looking for other people's old clothes all say that children can eat enough and live long. In fact, the scientific truth is that old clothes are very soft and will not hurt the baby's delicate skin.
During the period from the birth of the child to the "full moon", the money, food and things of the family who gave birth to the child will not be lent out and will not go out. Anyone who comes to visit the child needs to rest in the living room before going to the delivery room to see the child and mother. It is said that newcomers are tired on the road and must rest first; In fact, the main reason is that people who are confined to the moon are most afraid of "Zhang Feng" getting sick, which is not conducive to the health of children and mothers. In order to avoid "mother-in-law" (returning milk), under normal circumstances, people with odor are not allowed to enter the delivery room. Especially the taste of pepper, it is very easy to "cross the mother". Due to the limitation of medical and health conditions in the past, the doors and windows of the delivery room were closed during confinement, and the lying-in women were neatly dressed, even their trouser legs were tied with belts. Some women don't even leave the delivery room for a month.
Grandma's rice noodles will stay until the full moon, which is the time when relatives, friends, neighbors and colleagues with children at home send rice noodles. During this period, anyone who delivers rice noodles will drink a bowl of egg bags (at least four eggs) and "egg tea" with white sugar. Wait until the full moon or one day after the full moon, the host family will hold a wedding banquet to entertain the gift giver, and the specifications of the wedding banquet are the same as those of grandma's family. Now most people call it "brewing full moon wine", and the host will send invitations to the givers, which are generally called "the joy of the full moon" and "the joy of the next month"; I used to write invitations, boys wrote "amused" and girls wrote "amused". Nowadays, in order to save trouble, many families invite all relatives and friends who should be present to hold a wedding reception with the guests of the children's grandmother's house on the twelfth day of the child's birth or when the child is full moon. In the past, only the first child was treated, but now someone wants to treat the second child, the third child and the bought baby.
One day after the child's full moon, the mother will take the child and be escorted by her family to her grandmother's house for a few days (not much), commonly known as "Nuosaobo (shop)". It is said that changing the toilet can change children's bad habits, and it also means recognizing relatives. Grandma will give her little grandson a "rice bowl", that is, a small bowl, a small spoon or a pair of chopsticks. According to different times and economic conditions, porcelain bowls, wooden bowls, silver bowls, enamel bowls, plastic bowls, aluminum bowls and stainless steel bowls can be used; Small spoons are made of porcelain, silver, aluminum, enamel, plastic and stainless steel; Chopsticks are made of wood, bamboo and silver. Choose one. Fill a small bowl with rice or flour, cover it with red paper, and tie it with red lines to prevent rice and flour from spilling out, which means that children will have food and clothes in the future. We will also send "thread eggs", that is, 100 cypress seed shells and 100 cypress seeds are wrapped in red cloth, wrapped in a ball shape with white thread outside, and tied with a red rope, which can be hung around the child's neck, meaning that the ancient philosophers will not thread for a hundred years. These threads can only be used to make shoes, socks and clothes for children.
Newborns need a haircut the day after the full moon. In the past, shaving one's head was to shave off a part irregularly and leave a part behind; But you must shave your eyebrows. They all say that shaving eyebrows is long. In the future, you can shave your head according to your parents' wishes, or you can leave a "wooden comb back", that is, leave a hair with a slightly curved top in the middle of the front of your head, and shave all the rest; Or leave an "iron hoop", that is, shave the top of the head and the top of the head, and leave a circle of hair about two centimeters wide in the middle and upper part of the head without shaving; Or leave a "tortoise shell", that is, leave a piece on the back of the head without shaving, and shave everything else, as if leaving a tail; Of course, there are many other shaving methods. Today, at the full moon or 100 days, fetal hair is made into a fetal brush or foot model. Photography is even more common. Some people take photos at birth and carefully record the growth and changes at each stage.
Because in the past, children didn't have a formal name until they were old enough to go to school, when they were young, most children were named Liu Wang, Zhang Dawa and Li Er Wa according to their family or ethnic group. The girls are Li Dani and Zhang Xiaoni; Individuals use nicknames such as black eggs, dog babies and kittens; If you want another boy, call this girl "Huan", which is equivalent to calling the southern girl "Zhao Di".