What is the cradle ceremony?
Cradle is the marking of 1 year old baby. Unlike a regular birthday party with only cakes and fruit, the traditional Vietnamese cradle ceremony will have an additional tribute to thank for the protection and protection of 12 Midwives and 3 Mgr. And one thing that is indispensable is the toy tray to see what your future career will be.
The best way of calculating dates to make a cradle ceremony
The question many mothers often ask is, "Will a cradle be counted according to the lunar calendar?", "Is the birth date the most suitable cradle?"
According to the old concept, the moon is the standard for us to estimate the most accurate and reasonable time. Therefore, since thousands of ancient lunar calendar, we have always been chosen to calculate the time points of the year and our people often choose the lunar calendar to worship Tet, birthday, cradle, full month, death anniversary or any worshiping rituals.
Therefore, we will use the lunar calendar to calculate the time for the baby cradle ceremony. However, depending on the gender you will choose a different holiday, so you should calculate the date carefully to avoid the case of two children of the same gender but born on the same day. Specifically:
-If your baby is a boy, counting from birth to 1 year later, the ritual will be delayed 1 day later.
-If your baby is a girl, counting from birth to 1 year later, the ritual will back in 2 days.
The above calculation method is based on the principle of 'two girls backwards, one boy back one', for example: if a baby is born on September 9 of the lunar calendar, if he is a boy, the day of worship will be ceased on September 8 of the lunar calendar next year September 7 in the lunar calendar next year if the baby is a girl.
After choosing the right day for your baby, you should choose the best ceremony time as it will give greater accuracy, bring more luck. Normally, people will do the ceremony in the early morning or evening of the day is most appropriate.
Good hours are understood as the hours that do not commit conflict, from the hours we will consider its aggressiveness and choose the time to suit the work we need to do. In order to choose a good time for the cradle ceremony for boys and girls, we will base on the zodiac hours, because these are considered good hours according to our folk customs.
The zodiac good hours are very specific on the calendars, usually on it shows 6 zodiac hours for each day, you will base on the sand of each hour to choose accordingly. .
In addition, if you want to have accurate time and need more careful advice, you can go to the temple or find an ethical layperson to ask for a better day and time.
Things to note when offering cradle alone
Ceremony ceased to go outside with sticky rice, tea, boiled duck to worship Ba Mu and Duc Ong like in the full month ceremony, there must also be roasted pigs worshiping land deities. This tray is served in the yard, head facing out, do not forget to come with roasted pork to have 5 cups of porridge, 1 bowl of porridge, 1 plate of pig heart, raw vegetables, lamps, wine, incense, fruits, tea and on The back of a pig has to put a sharp knife.
For the part of the house, you present 3 offerings to Thanh to panic, scenes of blood loss and grandparents passing away (note how many altars the house must have as many offerings). In addition, there must be 12 cups of tea, sticky rice, boiled duck with 3 cups of porridge, 1 bowl of porridge to worship 12 Ba Mu and 3 Ong Ong. Specifically as below:
12 cups of drifting water tea for worship.
13 dishes of sticky rice with 13 teachers
1 boiled chicken
1 small glass of wine (used to sprinkle on flowers after worshiping)
12 pieces of betel nut betel + 1 whole leaf + 1 whole betel nut
Fruit 5 fruits (whatever is fine)
2 candles cozy stars + 3 incense
1 set of male figure, write the name of the baby's date of birth, and finish the burn.
After preparing for the ceremony, you must have a vow to bring happiness, peace and health to your beloved child.
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