Is Children's Hundred Days Banquet 99 days or 100 days?

China held a ceremony to wish the baby a long life on the first100th day. Also known as centenarians and centenarians. It is contained in Song Mengyuan's Tokyo Dream and Ten Thousand Miscellaneous Notes on the List of Ming Gods. The custom of celebrating a hundred days has continued to this day. Although the content and form of the celebration have changed, many areas still retain the tradition of drinking wine for a hundred days, shooting sunshine for a hundred days and basking in the sun.

Birthday ceremonies include "Three Dynasties", "Full Moon", "Hundred Days" and "One Year". "Three Dynasties" is three days after the baby was born. The "full moon" shaves the fetal hair when the baby is one month old. In the "Hundred Days" ceremony, the uncle was recognized and named. When you are "one year old", you should grasp the rites of the week and predict the fate and career of your child.

The customs of Suzhou Hundred Days Banquet are:

First of all, pray for good luck.

Old Beijing gives children a hundred days, and most of them only do one day. Some of them do it at home, others go to restaurants to do things. Old Beijing called it "doing things". Depending on the rich and the poor, the scene is very different, and some people have to hold church meetings. In addition to getting together with friends and family to celebrate, their purpose is to pray for the baby.

Friends and relatives should give gifts, such as gold and silver longevity locks, gold and silver longevity clocks, gifts, greetings, couplets, silver stoves, silver ding, silver bottles, silver plates or bowls engraved with Kirin's gift patterns, etc. The clothes worn by the baby are also very delicate. In old Beijing, what is important is that "my aunt's family makes cloth and my aunt's family works". Aunt and aunt make a suit for their children together, deliberately making two sleeves or trouser legs of different colors. It is said that children can support themselves by wearing such clothes, so aunts and aunts should send clothes, shoes and hats. During the hundred years, there is also a saying that aunts send socks and aunts send shoes.

Pay attention to the shoes and hats for children, and send a tiger hat to the boy, wishing him a dignified and energetic growth. Give the little girl a lotus hat and wish her water like lotus. The first pair of shoes for children should be tiger-headed shoes, commonly known as cat shoes in old Beijing, which means to guide children to see the road and know the way without stumbling. These are some simple customs of giving children a hundred days in old Beijing. What other customs of offering sacrifices, such as "sacred paper code", "sending the empress" and "holding a festive party", are gone now.

Second, hang up the line

In the northwest of Jilin, when a baby comes to her grandmother's house a hundred days later, she will put some strings around her neck, which means "tie up" and "live a long life".

Third, wear a pocket with five poisons.

In rural areas of Hebei, there is a custom of wearing five poisons for children over 100 years old. The so-called five-poison bag is to embroider five kinds of poisonous insects such as scorpion, centipede, gecko, snake and toad on the small bag worn by the baby, and embroider a small gourd on the upper left corner or upper right corner of the bag, with the mouth of the gourd facing the five kinds of poisonous insects.

Fourth, the custom of "breaking the surname"

In Yang Rong, there is a way to recognize relatives, which is similar to the way of recognizing relatives in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Changdao County, Shandong Province. It is called "grabbing surnames". When a child is born for a full moon or more than 100 days, parents will take the child out at sunrise, and the first person they meet will recognize them as adoptive parents. The other is more common in baby boys. The family of the baby boy will lock the door on his nose. At the full moon, whoever comes to his house first is asked to unlock the lock, and the person who unlocks the lock is regarded as an adoptive parent. Every year when a child goes to the adoptive parents' house on his birthday, the adoptive mother will send a lock, one for each year, until 12 years old. These days, dry parents want to buy clothes for their dry children, which is called "lock", indicating a strong relationship, and then take off the lock, which is called "unlocking" In the future, every major festival, wedding, funeral and wedding, the two dry relatives will be the host.