Wednesday, July 10, 2013

收涎 saliva collection ceremony

寶寶四個月,做了四月日(收涎)。雖然家裡沒有長輩了,但是我還是很想走過一次傳統。

在網路上找到了做客製化收涎餅乾,因為太貴,所以只買了六個,心意到就好嘛,不用買到傳統的12個或24個。

一早和他說聲生日快樂就餵食,吃飽喝足後就進行儀式啦!

台語不好,所以亂唸了之後就讓他舔舔餅乾,玩一玩。結束之後餅乾全進了我們肚子。不錯吃哦! (這麼貴還難吃就太超過了!)

Saliva collection is performed in Taiwan when babies are four months old. It is to collect babies' saliva with cookies so that babies will stop drooling and grow up smoothly.

So we did it on Nathan's four-month birthday!

Traditionally, 12 or 24 round cookies are hung around the baby's neck with red string and we put the cookies around the baby's mouth to collect baby saliva.


But I found a fashionable version of the cookies online and ordered them. I asked them to put Nathan's Chinese and English name on those cute little cookies.




This is scallion, whose pronunciation is the same as "smart" in Chinese.







Trying to figure out what those weird looking stuff is







After reading the poetry for the ceremony, Jonathan and I ate those cookies of course. Yum! 




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