After the full moon, my mother came to pick up my daughter and called' Stop the full moon'. "This record basically reflects the customs and taboos of celebrating the joy of newborn babies in the Central Plains. There are also some subtle differences and characteristics in different places. In Linxian County, the first-born baby, whether male or female, should give the most solemn good news. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the rich people were carrying lunch boxes and jars, and they were rushing two brown goats with two bells hanging around their necks, jingling all the way to let everyone know.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, ordinary farmers put "wedding invitations" in small wooden boxes and put them in wallets to let a boy carry good news. Boys are born on the left shoulder, girls are born on the right shoulder, "men are left and women are right", and you are not allowed to change shoulders all the way. It is clear at a glance whether it is a man or a woman. When I arrived at my grandmother's house, I invited guests to report good news, baked oil cakes, and made egg noodle soup. And avoid making noodle rice for the bearer of good news, otherwise it is said that the baby will love a runny nose. Shangcai area reported good news, commonly known as "eating wedding wine". The male family is also called "eating noodles", and the female family is also called "sending rice".
After giving birth to the first baby, the elder of the man will go to the woman's house to report the good news. When reporting good news, in addition to giving regular gifts, boys should hug the rooster and call it "big joy", while girls should hug the hen and call it "little Xi". Twins, hold two chickens. When a woman sees a chicken, it goes without saying that she knows whether it is a man or a woman. When the good news was announced, the two sides agreed on an auspicious day of "delivering meals".
"Giving a toast" is a taboo in the middle of the year, because "ten" is homophonic with "death", so it is avoided. "Send Mi Zhu" with gift boxes, choose gifts and avoid using bamboo baskets. As the saying goes, "draw water with a sieve", so we should avoid it. A chicken should be included in the gift. Boys keep hens and girls keep cocks, which means that they want their babies to marry adults. The man fetes his wife, and the staple food is generally garlic noodles, commonly known as "eating happy noodles", which is from then on.
According to relevant data, after the Yi people in Yunnan give birth to their children, the children will also go to their parents' homes to report good news. Besides wine and food, you should also bring a chicken. However, unlike the customs in the Central Plains, boys are born hens instead of roosters. Giving birth to a girl is not holding a hen but a rooster.
My parents-in-law seem to have brought a hen, so I know it's a boy. When they saw a rooster, they knew it was a girl. After the mother-in-law accepts the chicken, she will give it to her uncle. Trade a hen for a rooster; Bring a rooster to the hen.
The son-in-law takes the chicken back and feeds it. Don't kill it. This means that the chicken taken away is only for credit, and the returned chicken is the baby's "core historic property of life", so it can't be killed. From the different customs of giving good news to chickens, we can also see the same function of customs.