Why do children celebrate 100 days? What are the traditions?

People call children centenarians. In ancient times, babies were called "centenarians" when they were born for a hundred days. However, people generally believed that it was lucky to live to be centenarians, so they called it "centenarians". On this day, relatives and friends send clothes, food, locks and other gifts to congratulate them. Centennial clothes are also called "Hundred Clothes". After the baby was born, the baby's grandmother asked her neighbors for all kinds of cloth heads and made clothes to wear on the baby. It is said that wearing a hundred clothes symbolizes the elimination of disasters.

A probe into the meanings of "hundred years old" and "one year old"

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When a baby is 100 days old, it is called "centenary". In fact, "centenarian" originally means "a hundred days' death" and "a day's death", which means an anniversary, especially when the baby is one year old or more. In the Song Dynasty, Meng Fu said, "A son will die in a hundred days, and he will die every day until his birthday next year." It can be seen that "death in one hundred days" and "death on Sunday" refer to ceremonial banquets held to celebrate the centenary and one year old of babies respectively.

In the development of Chinese vocabulary, the form and meaning of "Japanese pawn" are relatively obscure and astringent, and then abandoned. Because in the centennial celebration of babies, "I wish children a long and healthy life" is the only theme; Therefore, it was later mistaken for "centenarians" by the people. In the old folk custom, when a boy is over 100 years old, his parents ask the barber to shave off the child's hair, leaving only a tuft of hair at the lower part of the back of his head. This is called keeping a hundred-year-old hair, which means hoping for a long life.

When a baby reaches his next birthday, it is called Sunday death. In this ancient ceremonial celebration, a long life lock is tied around the baby's neck to hold a "grab the week". The so-called "grasping the week" is a folk activity to predict the future of babies. Wu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, recorded in detail the situation of "seizing the Zhou Dynasty and trying to kill the Japanese": "His family listed nave brocade seats, burning incense and lighting candles, eating fruit and eating food, his father's and his father's patents, seven treasures of gold and silver toys, study books, Taoist scriptures, scales, knives and scissors, climbing and fighting, and so on. Yan Zhenqing's "Inscription of Mr. Mao Shan Xuan Jing Guangling Li Jun" records: "My husband was different when he was a child, and he took the word" filial piety "alone every day. "This is a positive example of grasping the effectiveness of the weekly forecast. In the second time of A Dream of Red Mansions, Baoyu focused on the whole body, and he only focused on the pink hairpin ring. As a result, Jia Zheng said angrily that he would be a prodigal son in the future. In fact, Baoyu's life prediction is not ineffective, but contrary to his parents' expectations.

Since the "hundred-day pawn" is called "hundred-year-old" by the people, it is logical that the "Sunday pawn" becomes "one year old". Later, the word "Japanese pawn" rarely appeared. A Qing poet Shen Deqian wrote a poem entitled "On the Death of Poetry". Why is the title "Japanese language of death"? The author wrote in the preface: "The child who is going to be tried dies every day, and there is nothing to explain." The author compares his various opinions and discourses on poetry to various articles put in Japanese pawn trays for readers to pick up at will.