Chapter 1025: The Third Day of the Month, the Full Moon (Plot Fans Can Skip This)
When Han Li heard his father asking about the names of his two children, he immediately knew that his father still had not made up his mind. However, Han Li would not rob his father of this right and fun, so he smiled and said.
"Dad, Grandpa has the final say on naming his grandson, so you can only make the decision on this matter."
Father Han smiled helplessly and said: "The names of my two grandsons are a big deal and cannot be taken lightly, so I plan to think about the names again, but I have already thought of their nicknames, so let's call them first."
"Dad, what's the nickname you gave them?"
"Da Ming, Xiao Ming."
Han Li said in surprise: "Da, Xiao Ming?"
Dad Han has put a lot of effort into this area during this period. When he has nothing to do, he will look for some allusions to read, and look up words in the dictionary if he doesn’t know them, so he can now speak very confidently.
"Yes, Da, Xiao Ming. The word Ming is good. The left is the sun and the right is the moon. This means that the sun and the moon shine together and shine brightly. Moreover, the number of strokes in the word Ming is eight, which means that everything is bright in all directions. Bright.
Moreover, the explanation given in the national dictionary is bright, profound understanding of righteousness, aboveboard, smart and wise, profound understanding of righteousness, wise and open-minded, so this bright character is a perfect nickname for my grandson. "
Han Li was also stunned by his father's remarks. He didn't expect that the word "Xiao Ming" that appeared in many jokes in later generations would have such an explanation, but these meanings were really good.
Father Han's explanation made Mother Han and Mother Yun very satisfied, not to mention that it was just a nickname now.
This is much better than Gu Kaizhi's nickname "Tiger Head", Tao Yuanming's nickname "Xigou", and other things like Ah San, Ah Si, Tiedan and Zhuzi.
So the son Yun Jingjing gave birth to is now wrapped in a red blanket, named Xiao Ming.
The son Yun Yingying gave birth to is now wrapped in an orange blanket and is named Daming.
Mother Han also prepared blue and yellow blankets. Unfortunately, there were only two children this time, and those two blankets were temporarily unavailable.
Han Li then took out a brand new notebook from the drawer and carefully wrote on it with a pen.
[Jiwei year, Yihai month, Bingshen day, November 25th, 79th year of the Gregorian calendar, Sunday, the sixth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, Sishi, Yuzhong; my wife gave birth to two Lin children, and their grandfather used the sun and the moon to shine together, and the big The meaning of shining out the light determines the nicknames of Da Ming and Xiao Ming. 】
Next, the family began to work on "bathing" the two children. To this end, Han's mother and Yun's mother even grabbed Gu Xuehong, who wanted to leave, and asked her to stay for two more days.
Because in Sijiu City, special emphasis is placed on the two "threes", one is "washing three", which is a matter of taking a bath three days after the child is born.
The other one is "Jie San", which refers to the process of the first sacrifice on the third day after death.
Why did Mother Han and Mother Yun want to keep Gu Xuehong and the others for two more days? This is because midwives usually do the "three baths" for children in Sijiucheng.
The process of "washing three" is like this in Sijiucheng. First of all, except for the mother-in-law, most of the relatives and friends of the family will be present. The family will arrange a banquet at noon, and treat everyone to braised noodles and lunch. It will start later.
The old habit is to burn paper first at this time, but now no one knows what to burn or what to chant. Rather than making more mistakes and making more mistakes, it is better not to do it, so Han Ma suggested skipping this step.
Washing the third day starts directly with adding pots. At this time, in order of eldest and youngest, scoop a small ladle of water into the copper basin specially bought by Han's mother, and put some red dates, peanuts, longans, chestnuts and other things in it.
Of course, this water is not ordinary water, but water boiled with locust tree strips and mugwort leaves for several hours.
Because the custom of washing three things in Bingcheng and Sijiucheng is influenced by the Manchus, she basically doesn’t need to be taught by others to do this kind of thing. She just watches what others put in and says something auspicious. words.
The one who pours water said, "Long flowing water makes you wise and clever."
When putting longan, say longan, longan, lianzhong sanyuan, etc.
After everyone has finished, the second step is to give the child a bath. The louder the child cries, the happier the family will be. This is called "ringing the basin" in the bathing process.
Gu Xuehong simply stirred up some water and muttered it while giving the child a symbolic bath.
"First wash your hair, and you will become a prince; then wash your waist, and you will become taller than the previous generation; wash your eggs, and you will become a county magistrate; wash your ditches, and you will become a state magistrate."
Next is the third step. Gu Xuehong took a ball made of mugwort leaves and symbolically circled it around the child. Then he first took a comb and started to make gestures. He also chanted while making gestures.
"Three combs, two combs, and a red hat when you grow up. Draw your eyebrows on the left side, and do your hair on the right side. Find a wife in the fourth village. Brush your teeth, rinse your mouth, and talk to people to avoid being embarrassed."
After finishing talking, Gu Xuehong picked up the egg and rolled it gently on the child's face while saying,
"The egg-rolling face, the face is like egg skin, and the willow red is as white as white. He is truly a cute person."
In the fourth step of washing, Gu Xuehong picked up the green onions that had been prepared long ago, lightly hit the child twice, and then threw the green onions on the roof.
Green onions are used because green onions are homophones for clever Cong. The saying in Sijiucheng is that one dozen is clever and two dozen are smart. The last one is thrown on the roof, which means that the child will grow up to be extremely smart.
In the fifth step of washing three times, Gu Xuehong made two gestures on the child's little hand with a weight and muttered in his mouth.
"A small weight weighs a thousand pounds."
The implication of the first step is that the child will have a pivotal position when he grows up.
In the sixth step of washing three, Gu Xuehong first put the child in a tea tray, then took the gold and silver ingots provided by Mother Han and Mother Yun and put them under the child's creaking nest, mumbling in his mouth.
"Tuck gold on the left and silver on the right. If you can't spend it, reward it to someone else."
The implication of this step is that the child will be rich when he grows up.
In the seventh step of washing, Gu Xuehong picked up the mirror and took a look at the child's butt while mumbling.
"Use a precious mirror to look at your buttocks. If you poop during the day, your vagina will be dark."
This step is to hope that the child will not be annoying, eat and play during the day, and allow adults to have a good sleep at night.
According to the old rules, there are two steps later, which are to burn paper money, ingots and other tributes, and finally wrap the ashes in red cloth and put them under the kang mat or mattress.
Finally, the host congratulates the host family, and the host family seals a big red envelope to the other party, and it ends.
However, the Han family did not have a fever at the beginning, so the next two steps were naturally unnecessary.
The Han family didn't even need to give Gu Xuehong a red envelope. This was because Han's mother and Yun's mother asked her to stay for two more days to help preside over the third hour of washing.
Gu Xuehong thought about it for a while and brought up a condition, that is, she would be a godmother to the two children, Da and Xiao Ming. Zhang Chaomei, who was nearby, also wanted to say this, because in this way, she could come to Han Li openly. , but she was so young that she didn’t open her mouth in the end.
Han Li agreed to this matter after discussing it with the Yun sisters, so the two children who had just finished their third day of bathing had a godmother.
Not only did their godmother help in vain, but she also put her own thoughts into it when adding pots, and promised to come over to celebrate their first birthday.
Gu Xuehong and Zhang Chaomei went back to Bingcheng after their two children were washed for three years, but Han Li's life would never be the same again. At least most of the peace he had before disappeared.
Although the two children were taken care of by the Yun sisters, and Mother Han and Mother Yun were there to help take care of them, and there was even a large group of people playing with them on Sundays, they would cry at the top of their lungs when they urinated or were hungry.
However, it is precisely because of the children's cries and the diapers drying in the yard that the atmosphere of life in the home becomes more intense.
But this situation also stimulated He Mi, which made her demand Han Li harder and more frequently.
Time soon came to the day when the two children were about to be one month old. Han Li had discussed this with his family in advance. This time, he couldn't make it as grand as when he got married. There were too many people and it was too eye-catching.
Whatever the customs are for the full moon, Han Ma will be asked to stay at home to greet relatives in the Yun family.
Any day I let Qi Zhaodi be the chef, it will be easier for others to help me.
Han Li and Han's father went to contact the cafeteria of a work unit, and then invited all the colleagues and neighbors from his parents' work unit and neighbors who came to congratulate him, as well as Han Li's friends, childhood friends, and senior brothers, to have a meal together.
The number of people who came to the full moon wine party on that day was a little less than when Han Li got married. This was because Han Li didn't notify many people. However, the whole process went smoothly. In the end, the Han family made a profit from the full moon wine party.
After the full-moon banquet, it was time for the Yun sisters to go to their natal home, where they took their children back to their parents' homes to stay for a few days. Those whose parents' parents didn't have the conditions, or whose parents didn't have the conditions, had to live in another house for a few days.
This girl usually stays with her children in her parents' house for seven days, because there is a saying in Sijiucheng that "seven days are fine, eight days are pretty, and nine days are beautiful."
This means that if the nephew lives at his grandma's house for the first time, he will grow up to be smart and smart when he lives there for seven days, and he will like to wear makeup and makeup if he lives there for eight days.
The meaning of Jiutian's declaration is that this person likes to show himself excessively and excessively. In layman's terms, he likes to show off himself no matter what, and he is a person who loves to show off.
On the day when I go back to my parents' home to live in the full moon, the elders of the family usually come. Today, the person coming from the Yun family is Yun Chengpeng, Han Li's brother-in-law.
Han Li's brother-in-law now knows the situation, but he also knows that things cannot be changed, so he can only express his dissatisfaction with this nose-not-nose-not-eyes-eyes attitude.
But Han Li could do whatever he wanted. After some polite remarks, Mother Han took out a pair of scissors and asked the youngest Han Sanmei to step forward and cut off a little bit of fetal hair from the heads of her two nephews and put it in a box for storage.
After doing this, Mother Han came in with a bowl of white noodles, scratched the inside of the noodles with her hands, and then smeared a white line on the noses of the two children. When she came back seven days later, grandma would wipe it with ashes from the bottom of the pot. The last one is black.
This behavior is called white dog going and black dog returning in some places. This behavior means to ward off evil spirits and to keep those unclean things out of the way on the road.
Although the Yun sisters each held a child, they said to the public that both children were born to Yun Yingying.
After Han Li watched Yun Chengpeng drive the sisters and their children away in a car, he stretched where he was and said.
"I'm finally liberated. Now I'm going to relax for a few days."
But as soon as he said these words, he was hit by Han's mother, and Han Li had not been cool for three days. Mr. Liu's guard Gong Jianglong drove him to pick him up, and it was for his arrangements after the New Year. .