Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 1025: The Full Moon of the Third Day (Plot experts can skip this)

When Han Li heard his father asking about the names of his two children, he immediately knew that his father still hadn't made up his mind. However, Han Li would not deprive his father of this right and pleasure, so he smiled and spoke.

"Dad, the name of our grandson is decided by Grandpa, so you have to make the decision."

Father Han smiled helplessly and said, "The names of my two grandsons are a big deal, and we can't be careless at all, so I plan to think about their full names, but I have already thought of their nicknames, so let's call them that first."

"Dad, what nicknames did you give them?"

"Da Ming, Xiao Ming."

Han Li said in surprise: "Da, Xiao Ming?"

Han's father has put a lot of effort in this area recently. When he has nothing to do, he will look for some historical allusions and look up the dictionary when he encounters words he doesn't know, so he is very confident now.

"Yes, Big Ming and Little Ming. The word Ming is good. The left is the sun and the right is the moon. It means the sun and the moon shine together and the light shines brightly. In addition, the word Ming has eight strokes, which means that there is light in all directions.

Moreover, the national dictionary explains that "Ming" means bright, understanding the great principles, aboveboard, smart and wise, understanding the great principles, wise and open-minded, so this word "Ming" is perfect for my grandson's nickname."

Han Li was also confused by his father's words. He didn't expect that the word Xiao Ming, which appeared in many jokes in later generations, actually had such an explanation. However, these meanings were really good.

Han's father's explanation made Han's mother and Yun's mother 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 "River Dog", and Asan, Asi, Tiedan and Zhuzi.

So the son born by Yun Jingjing, the one now wrapped in a big red blanket, is called Xiao Ming.

The son born by Yun Yingying, now wrapped in an orange blanket, is called Daming.

Mother Han also prepared blue and yellow blankets, but unfortunately there were only two children this time, so the two blankets could not be used for the time being.

Han Li then took out a brand new notebook from the drawer and wrote carefully on it with a pen.

[Year of Jiwei, Month of Yihai, Day of Bingshen, November 79, 11 in the Gregorian calendar, the sixth day of the tenth month in the lunar calendar, Sunday, at the hour of Si, midday; his wife gave birth to two sons, whose grandfather named them Da Ming and Xiao Ming, meaning the sun and the moon shine together, and shine brightly.]

Next, the family began to prepare for the "third day" celebration for the two children. For this reason, Han's mother and Yun's mother stopped Gu Xuehong, who wanted to leave, and asked her to stay for two more days.

Because in the old city, people attach great importance to two "threes". One is "washing the third day", which is to bathe a baby three days after birth.

The other one is "Jiesan", which refers to the process of the first sacrifice on the third day after a person's death.

Why did Han's mother and Yun's mother want to keep Gu Xuehong and the others for two more days? Because in the old city, the "third day bath" for children is usually performed by a midwife.

The process of "washing the third day" in the old city is as follows. First, almost all the female relatives and friends, except the mother, will be present. At noon, the family will arrange a banquet and invite everyone to eat noodles with gravy. The meal will start after lunch.

According to the old custom, paper is to be burned first, but now no one knows what to burn or what to say. Rather than doing more and making more mistakes, it is better not to do it, so Han's mother suggested skipping this step.

The third day of bathing starts with adding a basin. At this time, according to the order of age, people scoop a small scoop of water into the copper basin specially bought by Han Ma, and put some red dates, peanuts, longan, chestnuts and other things into it.

Of course, this water is not ordinary water, but water that has been boiled for several hours using locust tree branches and mugwort leaves.

Because the customs of bathing the third day of the newborn in Bingcheng and Sijiucheng were both influenced by the Manchus, she basically didn't need anyone to teach her how to do this. She just watched others put things in and said some auspicious words.

The one who pours the water says, “The flowing water is smart and clever.”

When adding longan, say "longan, longan, three longans", etc.

After everyone has finished bathing, it is time to give the child a bath. The louder the child cries, the happier the family members are. This is called "noisy basin" in the third bath process.

Gu Xuehong simply stirred up some water and symbolically gave the child a bath while muttering something.

"Wash your hair first, and you will be a prince; wash your waist later, and each generation will be higher than the previous one; wash your eggs, and you will be a county magistrate; wash your gutters, and you will be a prefect."

The third step came next. Gu Xuehong took the ball made of mugwort and symbolically circled the child. Then she started to gesture with a comb, while also chanting.

"Three combs, two combs, you will wear a red hat when you grow up. Draw eyebrows on the left and tie the temples on the right, you will find a wife who is as good as four villages. Brush your teeth, rinse your mouth, and don't embarrass yourself when talking to others."

After finishing her words, Gu Xuehong picked up the egg and gently rolled it on the child's face while muttering,
"She has a face like an egg, and her face is like the skin of an egg, and her skin is as red as a willow. She is truly a lovely person."

In the fourth step of the third bath, Gu Xuehong picked up the green onions that had been prepared long ago and gently hit the child's body twice, then threw the green onions onto the roof.

The reason for using green onions is that green onions and the Chinese character for smart, Cong, are homophones of each other. In the old city, the saying for hitting the child twice is, one hit for smart, two hits for smart, and finally throwing it onto the roof, which means the child will be extremely smart when he grows up.

In the fifth step of the third bath, Gu Xuehong held the weight and gestured twice at the position of the child's hand, muttering something.

"A small weight can hold a thousand pounds." The implication of the first step is that the child will have an important position when he grows up.

In the sixth step of the third-day bath, Gu Xuehong first put the baby on a tea tray, then took the gold and silver ingots provided by Han Ma and Yun Ma and placed them under the baby's armpits, muttering something.

"I have gold on my left and silver on my right. I can't spend it all, so I'll give it to my servants."

The implication of this step is that the child will become rich and powerful when he grows up.

In the seventh step of the third-day bath, Gu Xuehong picked up a mirror and pointed it at the child's buttocks, muttering something.

"Use the magic mirror to look at your butt. You will see that you poop during the day and it will be clean at night."

The purpose of this step is to hope that the child will not be a bother, eat and poop when needed during the day, and let the adults sleep well at night.

According to the old rules, there are two more steps, which are burning paper money, gold ingots and other offerings, and finally wrapping the ashes with red cloth and pressing them under the kang mat or mattress.

At the end, the host congratulates the host, and the host gives a big red envelope to the other party, and that’s it.

However, the Han family did not burn it at the beginning, so the next two steps were naturally unnecessary.

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The Han family didn't even have to give Gu Xuehong a red envelope, because Han's mother and Yun's mother asked her to stay for two more days to help host the third day bath.

Gu Xuehong thought for a while and then proposed a condition, which was that she wanted to be the godmother of the two children, Da Ming and Xiao Ming. At that time, Zhang Chaomei also wanted to say the same thing, because in this way she could come to Han Li openly, but she was young and ultimately did not open her mouth.

Han Li agreed to this matter after discussing it with the Yun sisters. As a result, the two children who had just completed their third birthday now had a godmother.

Their godmother not only helped for free, but also put her own thoughts into the basin when adding more water, and promised to come and celebrate when they turned one year old.

After the two children's third birthday, Gu Xuehong and Zhang Chaomei went back to Ice City. However, Han Li's life could never go back to the way it was before. At least, most of the quietness he had before was gone.

Although the two children were taken care of by the Yun sisters, and Han's mother and Yun's mother were there to help take care of them, and there was a large group of people playing with them on Sundays, they would still cry at the top of their lungs when they needed to urinate, defecate, or were hungry.

However, it is precisely because of the crying of the children and the diapers drying in the yard that the atmosphere of life in the home becomes more intense.

However, this situation also stimulated He Mi, causing her to ask for more from Han Li more diligently and 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 and decided that this time he couldn't arrange it as he did for the wedding because there would be too many people and it would be too eye-catching.

Let’s follow the full moon customs and let Han Ma stay at home to greet the Yun family’s relatives.

Let Qi Zhaodi be the chef one day, and it will be easier for others to help.

Han Li and his father contacted a workplace cafeteria and invited his parents' colleagues, neighbors who came to congratulate him, as well as Han Li's friends, childhood friends, and fellow apprentices to all gather together for a feast.

There were fewer people who came to the full moon banquet than when Han Li got married. This was because Han Li did not notify many people. However, the whole process was still very smooth. In the end, the Han family made a profit from the full moon banquet.

After the full-month banquet, it is time for the Yun sisters to "move to a new home", which means they take their children back to their parents' home to live for a few days. If their parents' home does not have the conditions or they do not have a parents' home, they will have to move to another house and live there for a few days.

The girl usually stays with her child at her parents' home for seven days, because there is a saying in the city that goes "Seven days for finesse, eight days for beauty, and nine days for fame."

What it means is that if a nephew lives at his grandmother's house for the first time, he will be smart and clever when he grows up after seven days, and he will like to put on makeup if he lives there for eight days.

Jiu Tian's "Xuan" means that this person likes to show off excessively. In layman's terms, he likes to show off no matter what and is a show-off.

On the day of the full moon when a baby returns to her parents' home, usually the elders of the family come. The one who came from the Yun family today was 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 nonchalant attitude.

But Han Li was fine with what he had to do. After some polite exchanges, Han's mother took out a pair of scissors and asked the youngest sister, Han Sanmei, to come forward and cut some hair from the heads of her two nephews and put it in a box for safekeeping.

After doing all this, Han's mother came in with a bowl of flour, spread her hands in the flour, and then smeared a white line on the two children's noses. When she came back seven days later, grandma would smear a black line with ash from the bottom of the pot.

This behavior is called "white dog goes, black dog comes back" in some places. It is meant to ward off evil spirits and keep unclean things away on the road.

Although each of the Yun sisters was holding a child, they told others that both children were born to Yun Yingying.

After Han Li watched Yun Chengpeng drive away with the two sisters and the child in a car, he stretched out on the spot and said.

"Finally I'm free. Now I'm going to relax for a few days."

But he was hit by Han Ma as soon as he finished speaking. Moreover, Han Li had not been free for three days before Liu Lao's guard Gong Jianglong drove him away to make arrangements for him after the New Year.
(End of this chapter)