The customs and habits of each place are a little different, and for newborns, the third day of washing, the full moon, and the 100th day are all important traditional days for newborns. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info Miao Miao's garden village pays more attention to washing, on the third day of the child's birth, to ask the grandmother to preside, to host the child's baptism.

In the earliest days, it was complicated to do baptism. The main family should prepare umbilical hairpins, pot cloths, gold and silver mules, flowers, flowers, flowers, sheng'er, buckets, small mirrors, new combs, new towels, mugwort leaf balls, green onions, ginger slices, etc. It is also necessary to boil the water of the locust strip and the puai water.

First of all, the grandmother set up an incense case on the front of the outer hall of the delivery room, and enshrined thirteen gods such as Bixia Yuanjun, Qiongxiao Niangniang, Yunxiao Niangniang, Giving Birth Niangniang, Sending Sons Niangniang, Bean Rash Niangniang, and Eyesight Niangniang. The incense burner contains millet, which is used as incense ash for incense. A pair of "small double bags" (small red wax for mutton fat special for sacrifices) are inserted on the wax skewers, and all godly money and food such as yellow coins, ingots, and thousands of zhang are pressed below. On the kang head of the mother's bedroom, there are statues of "Kang Gong and Kang Mother", all of which are made with three to five bowls of osmanthus pot stove or oil cake as offerings.

As usual, the old woman will bow to the incense, and the grandmother will also bow three times. Then, the family will put a copper basin containing a soup made of acacia sticks and mugwort leaves, as well as all the ceremonial items, on the kang. At this time, the midwife's grandmother hugged the baby, and the prelude to "washing three" began.

The family takes the lead in adding a small spoonful of water to the basin according to the respect and humility, and then puts some coins, which is called "adding a basin". If you add gold and silver bills and coins, put them in the basin, and if you add banknotes and silver tickets, put them in the tea tray. In addition, you can also add some cinnamon, lychees, red dates, peanuts, chestnuts and other happy fruits. Relatives and friends also obeyed the ceremony. When encountering people who spend money to buy faces, there are really those who put gold and silver bills and "yellow and white" jewelry in the basin.

The midwife's grandmother has a set of fixed greetings, what you add, what she says. If you add water, she will say, "Long water, wise and clever"; You add some jujubes, guiyuan, chestnuts and other happy fruits, and she will say: "Zao'er Lizi ("jujube" is homophonic to "early", "chestnut" is homophonic to "Li"), and even gave birth to a noble son ("gui" and "gui" are homonymous); Gui Yuan, Gui Yuan, Lian Zhong Sanyuan. "To win the love of the family and the guests.

Finally, there is the addition of pots. The midwife's grandmother picked up the mallet and stirred it into the basin, saying, "One stir, two stirs, three stirs, my brother leads my younger brother to run." Seventy, eighty, crooked, naughty, sighing and snoring! ”

That's when the baby was bathed. When the child cries when he is cold, not only does not commit taboos, but thinks it is auspicious, which is called "ringing basin".

While washing, while chanting the greetings, what "wash your hair first, be a prince; After washing the waist, one generation is taller than the other; Wash the eggs, as the county; Wash the ditch and do Zhizhou". Then, it is lit with mugwort leaf balls, and the ginger slices are used as a support, and placed on the baby's head, symbolically broiling. Comb the baby's hair and dress it up again, and say "three combs, two folds, grow up and wear a red top; Draw eyebrows on the left, sideburns on the right, and find a daughter-in-law and son-in-law in the fourth village; Brush your teeth, rinse your mouth, and talk to people so as not to be embarrassed. "Roll the baby's face with an egg, what to say" The egg is rolling on the face, the face is like egg skin, the willow is red like white, and it is really a lover. ”

After washing, tie up the child, gently hit the body three times with a green onion, and say: "One dozen smart ("Cong" and "green onion" are homophonic), and two dozen are smart. Then he asked someone to throw the green onion on the roof of the house (with the intention of wishing the child to be extremely smart in the future).

Pick up the scale and say: "Although the scale is small, it weighs a thousand catties (I wish the child will have a pivotal position in the family and society when he grows up)." Pick up the lock and make three gestures: "When you grow up, your head is tight, your feet are tight, and your hands are tight." (I wish the child to grow up to be stable and cautious).

Then put the baby in the tea tray, use the gold and silver bills or jewelry prepared by the family in advance to the baby's body, and say: "The left is gold, the right is silver, you can't spend it, and you will be rewarded", (I wish the child a great fortune and a great life when he grows up).

Finally, he used a small mirror to shine on the baby's buttocks, saying: "Use the treasure mirror to shine on the belly, and shit and shit black during the day." The most interesting thing is to sift a few paper pomegranate flowers into the oven and say: "Gardenia, jasmine, peach, apricot, rose, tuberose, flower scarring pea sparse lala's ......" (I wish the child no or less smallpox, and grow up healthy without disasters and diseases).

However, after experiencing the four olds, the complicated baptism almost lost its original taste, especially the incense case, the link of worshiping the Bodhisattva was eliminated, and most of the people now have forgotten which thirteen statues need to be worshipped. Coupled with the development of modern medical treatment, children are basically born in hospitals, and the person in charge of the grandmother who admits the grandmother - Wen Po gradually withdrew from the stage of history. So now the three baptisms in the Garden Village are all streamlined.

Yin Yin's baptismal three ceremonies, although she was delivered by Aunt Yang, but because Aunt Yang didn't understand these common rituals, she didn't like to join in the fun. So it was handed over to my close grandmother to preside.

Grandma hugged Yin Yin, put her in a copper basin containing soup made of locust sticks and mugwort leaves, and gently dipped the extra locust sticks in water and patted Yin Yin's little back and small belly, Yin Yin, who had never been treated like this since birth, immediately cried, crying louder and louder, Miao Miao couldn't bear to look at it. Finally, when Ding's father added water to the child, his grandmother shouted: "Long flowing water, smart and smart", Miao Miao and Xiaolu also stepped forward to add water in turn, and grandma also shouted an auspicious word.

After this round of family blessings, the next step is to ring the basin.