Chapter 329: Becoming a Father at the First Time 4

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After returning to school, he went to the principal's office in the spring to ask Zhao Zhiqiang for leave.

Zhao Zhiqiang congratulated the young son in the spring, and said that the school will have summer vacation tomorrow anyway, so let the spring arrange the work at hand and serve the confinement at home with peace of mind, and the spring expressed his gratitude.

In the spring, there are two major parts of the work at hand that have not yet been completed, one is the summary ranking and classification of the quantitative results of each class of the school's Youth League Committee and the Political and Educational Office, and the other is the general ranking of the final examination results of the students of the grade department and the quantification of the examination results of each class and the teacher in the grade department. Because both of these jobs involve the personal quantitative points of the class teacher or teachers and the amount of bonuses, it is not allowed to be sloppy in the spring.

After leaving the principal's office, Spring called Wu Xiao and Wang Li to the political and educational office, and asked the two of them to help him complete the rest of the work at hand. Wang Li and Wu Xiao learned about the birth of their baby son in the spring, and congratulated the spring together.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, Spring and Wu Xiao and others finally finished the work in hand. In the spring, he handed over the two materials that had been transcribed to Wu Xiao, and asked him to hand over the results of the students and teachers of the grade department to Sun Chengzhang, the director of teaching, tomorrow, and the head teacher would ask Wu Xiao to announce the results of the quantification in the spring at tomorrow's teachers' meeting.

After all this, I hurried home in the spring, packed some of Xu Dan's necessary clothes, and rode back to Shimengouzi Village on a motorcycle in the spring.

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At this time, Lao Chun's house in Shimengouzi Village had become a pot of porridge. There was an endless stream of neighbors who came to see their children in the spring, but because of the old rule that people were afraid of "stepping on the children" when they entered the house, the women who came to see the children could only peek through the glass window, and then leave in admiration.

Spring's mother was busy killing chickens and cooking soup for Xu Dan in the kitchen to prepare lunch, and the second aunt and sister-in-law were also busy dyeing a large basket of boiled eggs in the hall. According to the customs of the Toyama area, who has a child, added joy, relatives and friends or good relations of the village neighbors are to come to "send Tommy", the items to send Tommi are generally eggs, millet, four-foot flower cloth or finished baby clothes, etc., according to the custom, the main family to give back a few red eggs to the "send Tommy" family, in order to express gratitude, the host of the red eggs, to men's singles and women's doubles, the number is not limited. There is also a special approach to dyeing eggs, generally dyed vermilion for boys and pink.

Spring greeted the family one by one, and rushed into the bedroom.

It was the height of summer, the temperature outside the house was almost 30 degrees, but the bedroom was closed and the windows were closed, and the fan could not be turned on; not only that, Xu Dan, who was half-lying on the bed, was covered with a thick quilt, and a blue handkerchief was tied to his head, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on his smooth forehead, looking tired and lazy; lying beside Xu Dan was the son Chunguang who had just been born in the spring, and the little guy was sleeping soundly at this time, the corners of his mouth and eyebrows twitched in his sleep from time to time, and his demeanor was cute, and the spring couldn't help but bow his head and kiss his son's forehead, which caused Xu Dan to complain。

At lunchtime, the elders of the Lao Chun family gathered in the hall of the spring family, and discussed the wedding banquet for the children and some other things to pay attention to in the folk rules while drinking.

According to the customs of the Hushan area, on the first day after the birth of the baby, the main family should hang a peach branch on the gate facing the street, tie a red cloth strip on it, called "pick red", and pay attention to the people who pay attention to it should also string dates, chestnuts, green onions, money and other things on the peach branch, "escape with peach harmony, it is said to escape from disaster; with jujube harmony, chestnut harmony, it is said that it was established in the early years; with onion harmony, money and wealth, it is said to be smart and rich", after picking red, the main family should also send red boiled eggs to neighbors, that is, "annunciation eggs", and the neighbors should take eggs, brown sugar, millet, flower cloth, blankets, Clothes and other items to congratulate you.

On the second day after the child is born, the son-in-law will go to the father-in-law's house to report the good news; on the third day, the family will hold a wedding banquet, mainly to entertain the family and the village neighbors who "send Tommy"; according to the rule of "eight men and nine women", on the eighth or ninth day of the child, a big wedding banquet will be held to entertain the mother's family who comes to "send Tommy"; if the wedding noodles are eaten, it should be on the twelfth day, which is also called the "little full moon" According to the old people, the baby arrived at 12 days, the mother opened the bone seam due to childbirth can be closed, has passed the most important pass in the month, so on this day the mother should eat dumplings, called "pinching the bone seam", the old "little full moon" before the wedding banquet, the main family also to wrap the noodles in a square scarf and a pair of leg straps to come to the door to invite the midwife, please come to sit in the chief, in order to show gratitude. Now that children are delivered in hospitals, this custom has gradually disappeared, 28 days for girls and 30 days for boys, and mothers have to do "full moon sweating". During the confinement period, the body is weak and prone to the invasion of "wind, cold and dampness", so on the day of the full moon, you must sweat deeply to drive out the wind, cold and dampness.

When the newborn reaches the age of 30, he or she will eat "full moon wine". Full moon wine, thinking that the baby has passed a pass after the full moon. In order to wish the child a smooth passage, people often hold a full moon ceremony to congratulate the baby, which is a banquet held by the host family to celebrate the baby's arrival in this world for a month, inviting relatives and friends to bless the baby. On this day, each baby is the real and only protagonist of the banquet. On this day, everyone revolves around the baby, and they will send the most sincere blessings and most sincere wishes to the child.

The hundredth day after the birth of the baby is the first birthday of the newborn baby after birth, not the date of birth after a year, but the hundredth day after birth, commonly known as "100 years old", which means that the child may live a long life. It is an ancient custom of the Chinese nation to give the baby 100 days, and it is necessary to invite relatives and friends to celebrate, and wish the baby a healthy growth and a long life. On this day, it is common to eat eggs, which means "consummation", or noodles, which means "longevity". In the old days, when a boy was over 100 years old, his parents would ask a shaver to shave off the child's hair, leaving only a handful of hair on the back of the head, which was called 100-year-old hair, which meant to bless the child with a long life. When the child is over 100 years old, there is also a very important activity is to "draw lots", which is to put brushes, abacus, dictionaries and other items symbolizing various occupations and meanings around the child, so that the child can grasp and predict the child's future career and career according to what he catches. In short, the various activities on the day of the child's 100th day are commonly known as "100 years old". In the old days, the folk thought that the baby grew up to 100 days, basically got rid of the trouble of early death, there is a saying of "a red child for a month, a hairy child for two months, and a child for three months", the baby will be more cute when it grows to more than three months, and some precocious children will also do some babbling small movements or cute expressions, which are very cute.

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The old people don't understand these things in the spring, anyway, when the time comes, they can do whatever they want, and they don't bother to worry about it in the spring. It's boring to stay in the hall, and in the spring, I go to the bedroom to see my son and feed Xu Dan.

According to the old customs, during the confinement period, the mother's food should be moderate, especially not to eat too full, which will hurt the spleen and stomach and make it a lifelong symptom. Therefore, Zhang Xiuli only prepared stewed old hens, millet soup and boiled eggs for Xu Dan, but Xu Dan was born with a "thin throat", and she didn't want to eat boiled eggs, and the old hen was greasy, so she only drank a little millet soup, and she was repeatedly persuaded in the spring to let her eat a little chicken and drink a few spoonfuls of chicken soup.

At night, Spring and his mother Zhang Xiuli take turns to accompany the bed, to stare at the child without blinking, not to warm him, not to cool him, not to warm him to cry, but also to change his diaper from time to time, the bedroom is already airtight, and now the heat of the body of four people has been added, and the room is stuffy like a steamer. This night, the child slept comfortably, and the three adults almost didn't sleep all night. Such days will take almost a month.

The next day, in the spring, according to the arrangement of the parents, he brought the rooster and red eggs to Xu Dan's mother's house to report the good news, although Xu Dan's mother's family had long known about the birth of the child, but the etiquette of the good news was still indispensable. On the way to Lao Xu's house, I didn't forget to go to the town health center and the small shop at the entrance of the hospital in the spring, and gave a bag of red eggs to the doctor and nurse who delivered the baby and the owner of the shop.

Next are the "Three-Day Wedding Banquet", "Eight-Day Wedding Banquet", "Little Full Moon Wine", "Full Moon Wine"... Anyway, throughout the summer and spring, I was almost idle, and I was busy with these things every day. Watching my son become more and more likable day by day, the spring is beautiful in my heart, and it is worth feeling bitter and tired. The only regret for spring is that because of the birth of my son, this year's summer art tutoring class could not be held normally.