The people of Daitian call the pregnancy of a married woman of childbearing age, "Get Hei", "Sick Boy", after which the mother-in-law brews rice wine and red wine, and hatches chickens to feed them, preparing for the daughter-in-law's "month of After that, the mother-in-law would make rice wine and red wine and hatch chicks to feed them, so as to prepare for the daughter-in-law's "month" of nutrition. Close to the due date, but also to make pearl powder to prepare for the "three Dan" when eating. Note: "Pearl powder" is a snack in the dialect of the area around Houlu, Daitian and Xinyang, Youxi. The rice is ground, filtered and dried, squeezed through a rice sieve, and then formed into sieve-sized particles, which are placed in an iron pot and repeatedly turned over by both hands to make the particles even and round, and then dried in the sun to be molded. After the delivery of a baby in October, the first thing to do after the delivery of a pregnant woman is to cook eggnog for the mother to eat, and then kill the chicken (give birth to a man, slaughter the hen; give birth to a woman, kill the rooster) stewed and eaten, known as "drop earth chicken", Guangping area called "on the bed of the chicken", the name is different, but the same meaning, which means that the baby was born! The name is different but the meaning is the same, which means that the baby is born in the month of the "drop earth (ground)" and the woman in labor "goes to bed" to do the official start. Mothers do not have milk initially, usually the day after the birth of the baby by the neighborhood breastfeeding women to breastfeed once.
Sandan
The third day of the baby's life, locally known as "Sandan", usually have to deal with the townspeople (usually sent women) to bring a chicken ten eggs to the door to eat "Sandan wine" to congratulate. The master of the chicken slaughtered clearly, cooked, the whole chicken is divided into two halves (chicken breast first removed), half dismembered into a bowl with the chicken breast, red eggs to congratulate the female guests to eat, the remaining half of the gift back to let them take home, where the three days of wine is also known as chicken wine. The owner of the busy half a day to "earn a" chicken gizzard and chicken wings, so that the folks ate three days is a hilarious. According to the custom, in addition to eating chicken wine on the third day, is to eat "pearl powder" paste at lunch. Nowadays, in addition to eating chicken wine and eating pearl powder rice paste and rice kuey teow, etc., the guests are not limited to men and women.
No distinction between male and female babies, according to custom three days of the first bath, called "wash three days". Fresh water into the calamus, mugwort, tea, salt (a little), a few white stones (meaning that the child's roots such as stone firm), boil cool to moderate water temperature, please husband alive, children and grandchildren, health and happiness of the good fortune of the woman, holding the baby sitting in front of the kitchen stove in front of the God of the kitchen stove to bathe the baby. Then they rolled and rubbed a cooked chicken or duck egg on the baby's body once, and wished the baby good luck and respect in the future - "Egg head, duck egg face, three whiskers, four corners of the face (which means a four-sided face), A-Di is born well, and is honored by some people at the head of the hall." The baby is dressed and carried back to bed, pressed a pair of clean cloth shoes worn by his father (in some places, the door should also be closed three times), in order to strengthen the child's courage.
Announcement
After the birth of the baby three days, the son-in-law to choose an auspicious day to the in-laws to announce the good news, commonly known as the "send wine", "speak wine". Qianping, Meishan, Wenjiang, Qitao area is to the father-in-law's home to send a boiled rooster (including chicken blood, gizzards, chicken intestines), a pot of boiled rice noodles, a pair of red eggs and a urn of red wine, is filial piety, thanks to the father-in-law means. The Shangjing, Taihua, and Jianshe areas also give a gift of wine to each of the father-in-law's brothers. In the past, the wine urn containing red wine also have to pay attention to: urn head must have a prominent urn mouth (only good pouring), urn body with urn ears, can be strung on the red head rope, can be picked up can be lifted to facilitate the carrying of the kettle with a spout is now more often used as an alternative. Wine urn open mouth tightly masked a new towel to prevent flying dust into the towel pasted on the red strip of paper to indicate festive.
Mother-in-law received a cooked rooster, the first unloaded chicken breast, chicken body horizontally divided into three, the middle part of the collection, lending flowers to the son-in-law to entertain with chicken and chicken breast meat (rice noodle eggs another), but the son-in-law is not allowed to eat chicken breast, because it is filial piety to the father-in-law; the rest of the head and tail two parts of the chicken spliced together and fixed with a bamboo stick to be returned in accordance with the custom; the red wine as a whole, but to be boiled conch, The red wine is accepted as it is, but to boiled snails, dried loach and a few white stones in the wine urn gift, white stones, is to wish the grandson's life as a rock solid foundation forever; Yuejia also catch a live chicken gift (born male back to the hen, the birth of a female back to the rooster), the son-in-law must bare hands to carry home, is intended to let him realize that it is not easy to be a father.
Son-in-law "send wine" home, the father-in-law will return a number of live chickens (the front of the Ping, Meishan and Wenjiang area is fourteen or fifteen, Guangping, construction of the area is twenty or thirty); one to two urns of old wine; mixed with peas, boiled glutinous rice balls (commonly known as "beans rice ", which is commonly known as "bean rice", meaning "more rice", meaning more children), which is full of eggs, loaded in a bamboo bamboo drawer layer; drawer cover the opposite side of the lid, which is full of grandson's baby clothes and hats, swaddling clothes, smock, and other baby products, outside the set of green or black cloth bag, carried by the son-in-law. The father-in-law, on the other hand, came to the house glowing and strutting to console his daughter on her visit to the grandchildren.
Eating Chicken Wine
When the grandson is born and the son-in-law delivers the wine, the father-in-law delivers the gifts to his daughter and grandson either on the same day or on another auspicious day. On the day of the father-in-law's visit, the son-in-law has to kill a big rooster for hospitality and thanks. The father-in-law's brothers usually come back the next day to eat the chicken wine, so as to avoid the embarrassment of having to kill an extra chicken for the father-in-law.
Qianping, Meishan, Wenjiang, Qitao area, maternal uncles and aunts, sisters are sent on behalf of congratulations (grandmother, uncle, aunt, aunt generally did not come and go), is still customarily referred to as "chicken wine", the father-in-law and his brother-in-law is to be organized separately to raise the table feast. Shangjing, Taihua, construction of the custom, maternal grandmother, parents, sisters, uncles and aunts, aunts, uncles, aunts and other relatives are unified on the same day to eat chicken wine, but also arranged at the same table. According to custom maternal relatives are to rooster, rice flour eggs and baby clothes as a congratulatory gift (now most have been changed to package gift 200 yuan).
Three rounds of wine on the table, the mother of the mother's family husband's family in the marriage for many years childless or multiple births of women who have not given birth to a man, each with a "chicken head wine" (chicken breasts, chicken legs, chicken pieces and red eggs) to eat, wishing her to dip into the joy of having a child early.
Thanks to the father-in-law
The family is happy to add a male child, son-in-law first father, first of all, to thank the parents-in-law on the daughter-in-law's upbringing. The baby boy was born on the day of the "three days" or a few days later, the son-in-law should organize a family feast to reward and thank the mother-in-law, uncle brothers or cousins, cousins and other relatives to accompany. If a baby boy is born, the mother-in-law will use the fact that the family is busy with farm work to excuse her, and she will half-heartedly accept the offer; on the other hand, if a baby girl is born, the mother-in-law will usually say that she will wait until she gives birth to a grandchild in the future to say so, and then politely refuse, and the person concerned will then go along with the offer. Dada folk have a more serious patriarchal thinking, daughter is not a child, granddaughter is not grandchildren, born a girl piece, happy what, etiquette is also simplified a lot of exchanges.
Daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby boy, the son-in-law has to set up a banquet to invite his uncles, brothers, cousins, cousins and other relatives - "Gong" (the son-in-law's father-in-law and relatives of the in-laws). Usually is the first relatives feast, smaller scale, up to three or five tables, nothing more than relatives and better relations with friends get together; the final finale is the son-in-law feast, larger scale, to the relatives of the townspeople to friends gathered together, can reach ten tables or more, the townspeople to the feast shall be packet gift (before is the rice noodle egg is now the cash of twenty or thirty dollars). The total number of banquets put together to three or five (now simplified etiquette, the next of kin is generally to the in-laws to send a few hundred dollars in lieu of gifts can be).
Son-in-law feast on the day of the Grandfather, the hall several cases around the embroidered star pattern "table curtains", the Grandfather seats covered with blankets to show the solemnity of the head of the hall on the food box, built-in four meat and four vegetarian tributes, lighting candles and burning incense; well versed in the rituals and customs of respectable "Thi adult" (equivalent to the clan). " (equivalent to the patriarch) to organize the table to invite the guests to the seat, inevitably have to make allowances for each other (of course, if it is not appropriate to raise the seat, occasionally there will be the host and guests have to withdraw from the table to go home), after the arrangements have been made to fire the cannon to start the feast.
Chicken is still the head of the hall food box four meat tribute to the first, some towns and villages are white chopped whole chicken, some of them are with the beak of the chicken head, the beginning of the feast chicken beak toward the end of the hall toward the people, expressed respect for the father-in-law. According to custom wine after three rounds, the father-in-law to leave his seat will be the head of the hall box of tribute to turn a direction to the beak of the chicken toward the head of the hall, meaning that should be dedicated to the land God, we dare not a mere mortal "unauthorized".
Maternal grandmothers, parents, sisters, uncles and aunts, aunts, uncles, aunts and other relatives to eat chicken wine, but also on this day set up a separate session to complete.
Doing "Yue Li"
"Doing Yue Li" starts from the birth of the mother until the full moon. During this period, the mother hides in her bedroom and does not move outside the house to prevent "wind (i.e., tetanus)"; the first few days of labor and delivery of the mother can not be "in the water" to wash the diapers to prevent gout (vasculitis) in old age; not full moon can not wash their hair, for fear of getting a "head by the wind". "The first time I saw this, I had to go to the hospital.
Maternity all in the bedroom to eat rice with pickles, not on the public **** table (it is said that maternity stared at the table baby will be gluttonous in the future), do not eat greens (eat greens easy to cause diarrhea in babies). Month to the maternal body nourishing chicken is also stewed hot stew, by doing the month in-laws or mothers sent to the house on the table for the first lighted oil lamps in honor of the bedwife, in order to clip to the porcelain bowl to scoop up the soup mixed with wine and ate. Maternity is nothing more than feeding the baby milk, at most help change a diaper, and then eat chicken and drink red wine (glutinous rice brewed) bed rest, they eat well rested, the body faster recovery, appetite and eat more milk, the baby also grows happy.
Maternity "to do during the month", such as neighbors, friends and relatives to visit, maternity will often clip a piece of chicken breast, chicken pieces for him to eat, but neighbors, friends and relatives customary to give the baby a gift, now the market is thirty, fifty yuan.
Shaving the fetal head
Two or three days before the baby's full moon, to choose an auspicious day to ask the barber to shave the baby's fetal head to remove the fetal venom, according to the custom to give the barber a red envelope. Baby shaved head to avoid the day of death, the day of the moon, the first day of the month, the fifteenth, "Ding" day. Peng Zu hundred taboos said: "Ding do not shave the head, shaving the main sores." Folk taboo. Maternity to cut down the hair wrapped up and placed on the bedroom door frame, and then close the door three times; and then ask one of the closest children (preferred baby sister-in-law or brother-in-law) carrying the baby first "boom boom boom ...... boom boom boom ...... "Turning commonly known as the" wind drum "of the Valley apparatus; Finally, the child carrying the baby holding the ducks to drive the bamboo poles (with a bamboo tail made of small trails of bamboo) while dancing and walking and "啯啯啯啯啯啯" shouted loudly ......" shouting to the outdoor circle, commonly known as "drive the fox", it is said that this will be able to give the baby to practice bold and strong knowledge. Now Tu simple also have to hold to the barber store to shave the head or (a) hundred two (10) days head, but the red envelope can not be exempted.
The Daitian birth rituals reflect the Daitian people after the joy of adding a son, drinking water to think of the source of gratitude to the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the beautiful feelings, both the sky to congratulate their own joyful symbolism, but also to wish others to dip into the joy of early birth of a son of warmth and affection. Despite the evolution of the ritual form, but the connotation of the blessing of wishing is unchanged and new.