The origin of giving Dongmi to children in the North

There are different opinions in various places about giving rice when a child is born. When it comes to sending rice, there is another saying related to dogs: In ancient times, people ate grass roots and tree bark. The Jade Emperor sympathized with the people of the world and asked God to fetch grain seeds. Who to send? The dog volunteered that he would go. People said to the dog: "There are so many kinds of food in the sky. If the Jade Emperor asked you what kind you want, just say 'five feet long fruit and five inches long pole, don't say it upside down'. The dog said, ' He couldn't, so he left happily. ;u;PH

The dog kept running and kept saying, "The ground fruit is five feet long, and the ground pole is five inches long." .... He was just talking, and accidentally tripped over a stone on the road. This trip knocked his memory upside down, and he kept chanting "Five-inch-long fruit. Five-foot-long pole." To the sky.)

The Jade Emperor praised the dog and asked him, "What kind of food do you want?" The dog waggled its tail and said, "I want a five-inch-long fruit and a five-foot-long pole." The Jade Emperor said, "Oh, this is Baogu." He took a five-inch-long Baogu to it. The dog held it in his mouth. When the dog returned to the human world, he was filled with unspeakable joy. When the dog handed the bag to the people, the people became anxious and said, "Oh, how did you confuse our words?" "The dog was stunned for a moment. Then he remembered that he had fallen on the road and his memory was messed up. kcf

People did not get angry at the dog. They just said: "Forget it, if there is not enough food, just save it. "Just order it." The dog said, "It's my fault. If there's not enough food, I'll eat shit!" ". People said: "This can't be done. You worked so hard to swallow it. If you want to be hungry, everyone will be hungry. If you want to eat, everyone will eat. "Having said that, the dog knew it was sorry for people. From then on, it wanted to save some food for people and ate its own shit. This became a habit passed down from generation to generation. *[

Because the grain is Food seeds taken from the sky. People send rice, which means "good seeds". They also want to have many descendants like Bao Gu. Dogs also make up for the fact that people have recently volunteered to look after people's homes by bringing them grain seeds. , Baogu bowed his head in shame and matured. v"I*

It took six days to send rice, and eight days (the child's hair grew stronger). Day (good luck all year round). Generally, it is very grand for the mother's family to send rice as gifts, and the number of coriander seeds is used to show the family's honor. There are things in the coriander. The must-have items are a coriander of millet, a coriander of brown eggs, and children's cotton trousers and jackets. Some recipients also made a pair of small pillows with double tiger heads and hung copper bells on them, which symbolizes the wisdom and loudness. &ku";I

Relatives used to send rice or noodles, but now if the conditions are good, they will send a coriander and an egg. The worse ones will be filled with a coriander and wheat, with a layer of eggs on top. The worse ones will be just a coriander. Wheat. But the coriander is covered with a red bag, and a piece of cloth or a child's clothes is placed on it. Only the host keeps a note of what so-and-so gives as a gift x

Neighbors gave me a box of tofu (five or six kilograms), fried dough sticks, twists, and eggs, just as a favor. 92

In order to prepare the rice, the host was busy setting up the pots and stoves. The owner borrows the square table and the seat from the west. When someone asks him what he has given birth to, he will smile and say: "Congratulations on the birth of a daughter." Said: That’s fine. (38`o

On the day of sending rice, the owner puts the emptied coriander seeds upside down in a conspicuous place in the yard. People will know the family’s relationship from the number of coriander seeds. All right. Put on the prepared food and wine, and have a great time. But don’t forget to put a few boiled brown eggs or sugar in the coriander before the relatives leave. They will laugh at you for not having any contact with me. vEys"

When the child is one month old, he will take it out and find his sister-in-law who has three children and two daughters. He will symbolically say "Hold your forehead to broaden your horizons". .Twin your ears and hear things far away. Twist your toes and you will have a bright future. Twist your fingers to grab a lot of money. "Boys still have to twitch their penises when they grow up and don't look at their wives...F

< p> Sometimes when children are naughty and don't sleep at night, people will write a yellow note "Emperor of Heaven. Emperor of Earth. There is a man who cries at night in my family. Gentleman passing by. Recite it three times and sleep until dawn." secretly Posted on the tree outside. It is said to be quite effective n"J

After the child has gone through "three lying, six sitting and eight climbing", when he is one year old, he has to put a pen on it. .Book.Calling.Abacus.Seal.Tukela and so on "grasp Zhou".

If you grasp the pen, you will become a scholar; if you grasp the seals, you will become an official; if you grasp the seal, you will become a businessman; if you grasp the abacus, you will be able to calculate; if you grasp the earth, you will be able to repair the "earth"! H^x,

"Note" 芸子 - is a strip-woven oblong basket-like utensil