Chapter 7 The fifth quarter catches the week

When a child is one year old, parents have the custom of "grabbing the week" in order to predict their future aspirations and hobbies.According to Yan Zhitui's "Yan's Family Instructions" in the Northern Qi Dynasty, when a child is one year old, he is bathed, dressed, and put on new clothes.Then place bows and arrows, pens and paper, food, treasures, toys, etc. in front of the children. If it is a girl, add a knife, ruler, needle and thread.The adults don't add any inducement, and watch the children grab what, so as to predict their future greed, ignorance, wisdom and hobbies.At that time, this etiquette and custom were called "test children", and in "Tokyo Menghualu" it was called "test 晬 [zuizui]".The second chapter of the famous classic literature records the situation of Jia Baoyu's arrest of Zhou.When Baoyu was one year old, he "laid out countless things in the world and asked him to grab them, but he didn't take them all. He just stretched out his hands and grabbed some hairpins and hairpins to play with." only.There is no scientific reason for catching the week and trying children. It is actually a kind of superstition and etiquette, but it was regarded as "a grand ceremony for children" (Volume 5 of "Tokyo Menghualu") in ancient times and was widely popular.