What does earring ceremony mean?

Hello, starting today, Eisen is going to compile some popular science articles about the Kazakhs. I will make an album based on what I have heard and heard and the books I have on hand. I definitely can’t do it. to a comprehensive explanation of everything. After all, the culture of a nation must be as vast as the sea, as Mukhtar Awuyezvov, the author of the famous "Abai" and "The Road to Abai" said : Abai, it is a sea, and I just took a scoop and drank it. Today we will talk about the Kazakh earring ceremony.

Nowadays, the earring ceremony for Kazakh children usually involves piercing a girl’s ears when she first starts to remember, and then gathering relatives and friends to hold a banquet. There is a way to tell the world, “I have a daughter in my family. The taste of "first grown". Let me first talk about the origin of the earring ceremony: the Kazakhs, who are very concerned about the reproduction of the nation, first held the earring ceremony to give earrings to boys.

The origin of the custom is this: Kazakh families who are eager to have another baby boy or do not want their baby boys to die one after another will usually punch a hole in the ear of a young boy and then give him a baby. Wearing earrings and wearing girls' clothes, until he starts to remember, when he feels shy about his earrings, he holds an earring ceremony and takes the earrings off the boy's ears. This is called an earring ceremony.

(---Excerpted from "Kazakh Happy Event Culture" Kazakh version 2014.11) But in today's era, the earring ceremony is equivalent to a specific ceremony for girls. Generally, families with two girls at home It will be held when the younger girl is just old enough to get earrings, or it will be held separately for the two girls. More families will hold a special banquet for the daughter who is their only favorite. In this happy event, besides the parents, grandparents, and grandparents, there is one person who is the most important, and that is this child’s Kendeke Ana.

Kendekana means umbilical cord mother in Kazakh. It is generally a woman who serves and accompanies a pregnant woman during her delivery period. I will introduce the details of Kendekana later. Kendike Ana will buy a small set of jewelry or a set of clothes for the girl during the earring ceremony. This of course depends on her family situation. After the earring ceremony is over, her parents will also prepare a relatively generous gift in return for Kendeke Ana. In the growth process of a girl, earring ceremony is not indispensable, nor is ear piercing necessary. It is also a kind of thing that people begin to pay attention to when the living standard, mental state and civilization of the entire nation are improved. A sense of ritual.

So why must it be earrings? This is because in Kazakh poetry, the jingling of earrings is an image description of girls. It is said that in ancient times, girls’ behavior was regulated by not making their earrings jingle too loudly, and girls were taught elegance from an early age. However, I feel that as a fighting nation, this statement is a bit harsh on women, and there is no way to verify it.

As a girl grows up, hold a ceremony for her to make her feel that she is a girl, to feel loved, to wear jingling earrings, and to grow up happily and healthily. This should be the original intention of modern parents to hold earring ceremonies for girls.