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Birth celebrations in ancient China include a lot of customs and traditions. Spread from the rich
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the poor, people would hold celebrations for a newborn baby on the birthday, one month, a hundred days, and one-year-old birthday.
Today, celebrations of a full month and a hundred days, besides birthdays, are still
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(common) held in China. Draw Lots(抓周) or One-Year-Old Catch, named Zhuazhou in Chinese, is an
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(importance) activity. Formed no later than the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Draw Lots celebration has been believed to show the baby's future, personalities
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hobbies.
On the newborn baby's one-year-old birthday, after bathing the baby and putting new clothes on the baby, the parents would put him or her in the Draw Lots place—a big room with Draw Lots objects set in
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circle. Those objects should be in similar sizes and should be the things that the baby has never
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(play) with or never seen before to ensure it's fair. Then, the baby will be put in the middle
to see
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(see) which one he or she would catch.
Typical Draw Lots objects include books, pens, money, food, rulers, instruments, toys, painting
brushes
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(brush) and sports goods, and some parents also add modern things like a smartphone. After this celebration, a dinner is usually held to celebrate the baby's
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(one) birthday, when some people would let the baby taste a little bit of grown-ups' food, representing the taste of life. Till then, the whole celebration process of the newborn baby is
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