Offering full month for the baby girl needs to prepare what?

Cradle and full month are two important rituals of a baby at 1 month old and 1 year old. If you know how to calculate the date and prepare a full month ceremony for a girl, it will be easier for parents because the day of cessation has a similar ceremony.

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What is the full month?

What is needed in the full month ceremony for girls?

Specifically, the offering includes:

How to calculate full day for girls?

What is the full month ritual for girls?

Attention when performing full month rituals for girls

Full month (full month) is a very long and meaningful belief of the Vietnamese people. This is also an opportunity to share joy with relatives, relatives, neighbors ... so parents need to prepare carefully for the ceremony to be complete, bringing luck to the baby after birth .

What is the full month?

From birth to a full month old , the babies will be celebrated by the family for the full month ceremony. This ceremony also has the meaning of thanking heaven and earth for giving birth to a baby, bringing new members to the family, adding joy, and smiles.

In addition, the full month ceremony is to thank the 12 women Mu for the work of shaping the baby and Duc Ong for protecting the "round and square mother".

This is also an opportunity for the family to pray to the gods to pray for a healthy, bright, and lucky child in life.

Full month holidays mark an important milestone for the baby

What is needed in the full month ceremony for girls?

Preparing a baby girl's full month offering can be confusing for parents. Especially for young couples who have just given birth for the first time.

Because they will not know what gifts to choose with full meaning, how much quantity, how to decorate the offerings, which direction the tray is, the offering essay ...

According to folk beliefs, the babies are born that Lady Chua and 12 Midwives mold out, in which the Lady has the most important role and 12 Midwives are responsible for each person to shape 1 part of the body. baby.

The full month offerings usually have 12 items to worship her

Therefore, in the full month offering for girls, there must be 12 cups of small water-drifting tea, 1 cup of big water-drifting tea, 12 small cups of porridge, 12 small cups of sticky rice and 1 big cup of sticky rice and 1 large bowl of porridge.

In addition, parents need to prepare offerings of Monsignor and 3 Masters such as flowers, fruits, incense, candles, salted rice, wine and tea, betel and phoenix wings. There are also cups, forks, spoons and a pair of flower chopsticks.

Specifically, the offering includes:

Fruits (you can choose from 5 fruits such as pineapple, orange or tangerine, banana, apple, mango, ...)

Fresh flowers (optional flowers such as rose, lilac, lilies, ...)

Incense)

Candles (candles).

Rice, clean grain salt.

Water (12 cups)

Wine (12 cups)

Betel areca (betel and phoenix wings stamp)

Gold coins

Pork (can be roast pork, pork hock, ...)

1 boiled chicken.

Sticky green bean sticky rice or sticky rice with Gac (12 small dishes, 1 large plate)

Confectionery (12 plates)

Tea (12 bowls, if the boy is a boy, offer white bean tea and the girl can offer it with water)

Full month's offering (including a comedy tray and items for the midwife and queen)

How to calculate full day for girls?

Traditionally, the method of calculating the date of cradle and full month is according to the lunar calendar and depends on the sex of the child (whether a boy or a girl).

Her grandparents often have the phrase "a girl backwards 2 boys back 1". Therefore, for girls, the way to calculate days of bloating is slightly different from that of boys, "girls lose two boys and lose one".

According to traditional rules, parents often choose dates according to the lunar calendar. For example, a baby born on November 18th on the lunar calendar is held full month on December 16th lunar month.

What is the full month ritual for girls?

All the full month offerings should be arranged in a harmonious and balanced manner in the upper middle of the incense stick. In it, the offering is dedicated to the midwives divided into 12 equal parts and a larger part for the midwife.

A salty ceremony with incense, flowers, white water on top and a tray of shrimp, crab, and snails to the bottom. Prepare a tray on the head of the baby's bed and then light a candle to worship Mu.

Then burn gold-money clothes for the midwives, peel off snacks and fruits for the children in the house, distribute books and pens to the children for fortune, and keep a few items for their children.

After the full month rite for girls, there is a flower-opening ceremony, also known as the "catching piece" rite. The baby will be placed on the middle table, parents pouring tea to burn incense asking permission to catch pieces.

Full month rituals in the regions are quite similar

After that, an elegant person will hold the child with one hand, hold a scallop branch in the other hand, or maybe another flower, hovering over the baby's mouth while teaching the following good words:

“Open your mouth for flowers and flowers. Open mouth for loved ones, remember. Open your mouth to have silver and money. Open your mouth for your beloved neighbors ... "

After wishing the baby good things, parents will continue with the naming ritual. Accordingly, parents will take 2 ancient coins made of real silver and sow into a plate.

If there is one face down, one face up, the name is verified and approved by the ancestors. On the contrary, if they are both face down or 2 opposite sides, they must proceed to sow this coin. If you have 3 times and still have not been, they must put the name of the girl's back.

Attention when performing full month rituals for girls

According to her grandparents' conception that before worshiping, the order on the offering tray must be properly arranged. .

Normally, the full month offering for the baby girl will be arranged in balance on two tables:

A small table and a big table. The big table displays the offerings of 12 Mrs. Mu and the small table is placed 10 inches away, used to display the offerings to Notre Dame.

Before the ritual of worshiping, everyone in the family must be present, especially the owner.

The full month ritual is  usually done in the early morning or in the afternoon ...

The person who stands for the worshiping ceremony must pray: "Today is a good day, my granddaughter turns one month old, my family has prepared this hearty tray, inviting 12 women and 3 Notre Dame to come back to receive the ceremony. At the same time, I hope that all of you will be able to quickly grow up, be gentle and talented, and hope that you will bless the family peace and happiness all year round.

For a parent, a child is the most valuable asset. Watching their children grow and develop through each stage is the parents' happiness.

In general , they  do not differ much between the North, the Central and the South. The offerings are mainly familiar everyday things such as a plate of sticky rice, a cup of tea, a chicken or a duck, and fruit ...