Confinement
In the past, living conditions and medical conditions were poor, and most of them were delivered by experienced elderly people who had given birth to children. When pregnant women give birth to babies, they mostly lay yellow sand in the ear room or in the lower hall, and spread bamboo mats or reed mats on top of the yellow sand, and lay a rag sheet on the mat, and the poor conditions do not lay anything, and give birth to children on the light mat. If the child is born in the cold weather in winter, burn the hot kang, raw stove and boil water in advance. The midwife wipes the blood with straw paper or cotton and washes the mother's body with boiling water. After the baby is born, the umbilical cord is cut with scissors, the baby is held out, and the midwife lifts the baby upside down and pats the back, making the baby spit out amniotic fluid, and patting the foot to make the baby cry. Then put on a washed baby suit for the baby. Pregnant women are not allowed to get out of bed or go out easily after giving birth, and eat and drink Lasa are served by their mother-in-law or aunt. It is forbidden for pregnant women to be cold in the wind. If you get sick in the middle of the month, especially if you get cold or wind, it will leave a joint pain problem, which is difficult to heal. In order to make the blood veins of the mother smooth, find more Chinese medicine to prescribe Chinese herbal medicine to the mother. Pregnant women eat millet porridge or brown sugar water for confinement, and occasionally stew chicken soup or mutton soup to supplement the mother's body. If the mother does not milk or produces less milk, pay attention to the mother's stewed pig's trotters and stewed fish soup to induce milk. When there was no way to induce milk, the witch was asked to do it. To no avail, ordinary people bake millet and use boiling water and millet flour to make rice paste to feed babies; wealthy families hire nurses. Later, it was popular to feed babies with condensed milk, milk and milk powder.
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Women sit in confinement, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, the door pays attention to hanging curtains, and red cloth strips are hung on the curtains to prevent people from entering at will. If there are relatives and friends who visit or people who go out to rush home, they need to enter the delivery room, wait at the door, stomp their feet, and pat themselves to drive away the obscurity. This practice is still preserved today.
After the founding of New China, the state and medical units popularized the new law of delivering babies, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, the state trained a large number of professional birth attendants, who gave birth to children by midwives who went to the clinic and delivered babies at home. The conditions in which mothers give birth have improved considerably. In the 1970s, county and township health centers set up delivery rooms, and pregnant women who gave birth to children generally went to the hospital. In the 21st century, the living conditions and medical conditions of maternal confinement have been completely improved, and they are no longer mainly millet and brown sugar, and pay more attention to nutritional structure. Provinces, cities, and counties (districts) have also set up maternal and child health care hospitals and obstetrics and gynecology departments to implement eugenics and good breeding to ensure the health of mothers and babies.
Over the full moon
Children have a full moon, usually in the morning, adults to the children to change new clothes, dressed, wrapped in mattresses, draped in red silk cloak, carried out of the house by the grandmother, in the sun flowers, out of the alley on the street to greet the joy. If you encounter a neighbor or the first passerby, whether male or female, choose a kind and elderly person, come forward and say: "This grandfather (or this grandmother, or this uncle, aunt), my doll has a full moon, beg for an auspicious." In addition to congratulating the person who was talking, he also paid money and stuffed it into the arms of the doll, if he did not have money on his body, he had to pull a button or give something to the child. Pay attention to meeting noble people, have noble blessings. Adults carry children around the streets and alleys to carry them home, indicating that the children are out of the house for the first time, see the world, and please the head.
On the day of the full moon for children, Zhongwei people also pay attention to setting up banquets at home (later popular in hotels and restaurants). Friends and relatives come to the door to congratulate and send gifts to children. Some households also recognize the child according to the child's genus and birthday eight characters to recognize "dry father and dry mother" Grandparents pay attention to sending silver bracelets and silver chain locks to their grandchildren, indicating that the grandchildren will have silver and silver and wealth in the future. The feast pays attention to eating artemisia long noodles, indicating that the child celebrates the full moon and is auspicious and long-lived.
After the child's full moon, the mother is picked up and dropped off by the mother's family or husband to return to the mother's house to stand in the confinement.
Over a hundred
The doll was born for 100 days, and there is a custom of giving the doll a hundred days in the Zhongwei area, which is called "over 100 lu" locally. Especially the male baby, pay more attention to giving Bailu.
The doll has passed the hundred Lu, and the adult has given the doll a good name in advance. In the old days, male babies were given names such as baby, leash, quanquan, shoushou, cow, dog doll, etc., and female dolls were given names such as Yingying, Huahua, Yaya, Fangfang, Lanlan, Xiaoxiao, Qiaoqiao, and Ugly. In short, the name of the milk is based on gender, birth season, personal will, and desire. If it is called flipping, tuning, brother, and beckoning, it is the master's hope, which has the meaning of preferring sons to daughters. If the dolls are called Qiu Ju, Ai Ai, Duan Duan, Leap Leap, etc., most of them are Born in Li Qiu, Duan Yang, Mid-Autumn Festival, or leap month leap years. Although these milk names are a little bit earthy, they are kind and interesting to call. It is said that the name of the child's milk is "earthy" or "ugly" in order to ward off evil spirits. Now, these local names have completely disappeared, and more milk names sound good, called Bobo, Xinxin, Jiajia, Yangyang, Liangliang, Gang, Nana, Wenwen, Qiqi, Qianqian, Yuyu and other names with rich meaning and connotation, refracting the characteristics and atmosphere of the times.
After the doll has a milk name, it will be opened to call the milk name on this day, and relatives and friends will see the baby with a title later, and the baby will not recognize the birth.
The dolls passed through the hundreds, and the adults had to dress the dolls with new clothes, and they were also busy setting up banquets, inviting guests, entertaining them with wine, meat, tobacco, and tea, and eating artemisia noodles. Dolls over a hundred Lu to catch the week, adults put pens, ink, books, money on the ground, let the doll crawl and scream to grab things, catch what, it means that the doll will grow up to engage in what kind of business. If you catch a pen, book, or ink, it means that the doll will love to write and read in the future; if you catch money, it means that the doll can earn money when she grows up. Later, it was also popular for Bailu to take family portraits and children's commemorative photos, leaving childhood memories for dolls and recording the process of children's growth.