It's really evil.
I was cleaning up the drawers just now and found a dusty small box. Inside was a wisp of lanugo hair, mine.
My mother used to wrap it in red paper. The paper was brittle and squeaked when touched.
Her hair was as thin as a spider web, yellowish, and without any luster.
It’s hard to imagine that I was once so small, so small that even my hair was soft.
Who still does this now?
The content posted by new parents in WeChat Moments is crystal pendants and amber seals. They seal the baby's few thin yellow fetal hairs inside these, as if they are sealing up a sacred specimen.
Take a look around in the sun, bling bling, beautiful.
It is said to be able to "ward off evil spirits" and "keep peace".
Can a piece of hair really ward off evil spirits?
I stared at the dry wisp of lanugo hair and suddenly felt like laughing.
If this thing could ward off evil spirits, where in the world would there be so many evil spirits to ward off?
The child cries at night, gets sick, falls, what kind of things can this little strand of hair stop?
However, it is only in the hearts of adults that they can find a visible and tangible object that is difficult to overcome in the past, and then put this emotion into it before they can give up.
Making fear into jewelry is the earliest craft of mankind.
The “perfect” souvenir on Taobao
Go shopping on Taobao, and the comment area of those DIY kits is simply a scene of parents' self-impression on a large scale.
This is the first gift made by hand for the baby. When he grows up, show it to him to see whether the resin glue is applied evenly and whether the air bubbles are completely eliminated. It seems that if these are completed, the love will be complete.
However, if you take a closer look at those pendants, they are crystal clear and flawless, just like the so-called "perfect parenting scriptures" posted by mother and baby bloggers. They are free of bacteria, dust, and worries.
An old custom in my family: throwing it on the roof
At that time, I remembered that in my hometown, there was a saying that a boy's lanugo should be thrown on the roof, and a girl's lanugo should be buried under the threshold.
Why?
have no idea.
This is how it was passed down from the elders.
I guess that by throwing it on the roof, you probably hope that your child will have a great and strong career in the future, as if you are standing up to the sky; by burying it under the threshold, you may hope that your daughter will stay at home and stay safe, as if you are guarding the home.
Nowadays, no one does this method of removing soil and debris. The house is too high and there is no threshold.
But there are such panicked wishes, and there are also bewildered wishes, which seem to contain more human flavor than the current carefully crafted handicrafts.
When the lanugo was being shaved, the child cried heartbrokenly and the adults were in a hurry.
Now known as the "Senior Infant and Child Barber", the hair clipper in his hand made a buzzing sound, and the broken hair fell out all over the child's face and neck, and the child kept shrinking due to itching.
That scene was embarrassing, noisy, and smelled of body heat and milk.
To shave or not to shave?
Lao Lier fights with science
I checked online and found that, good guy, there are so many things to pay attention to.
It is said that you cannot shave your hair in March, because if you do, you will get bald sores; May is called the poisonous month, and if you shave in May, it will be a poisonous head; July is the ghost month, and you cannot use a knife to shave your hair.
Some people say that they should shave their heads on the twenty-fourth day to get the "twenty-four filial piety" bonus.
Another group of experts quickly jumped out: Don’t shave blindly!
Baby's scalp is tender, and shaving it can easily damage the hair follicles and cause infection.
Yes, both sides are reasonable.
In the end, everyone compromised and shaved their hair short instead of completely.
Like everything in life, find a middle ground to make yourself feel better.
I chose the lanugo patch because I wanted to hold on to something.
Among the various souvenirs, I actually secretly like the lanugo badge.
Seal the hair into a seal, it's heavy, holds it in the palm of your hand, and has weight.
Imagine that twenty years later, that young man, who was more than 1.8 meters tall, could completely cover the entire chapter in his palm. He opened this small box sealed by dust, and what he touched was not a fluttering lock of hair that might break at any time, but a hard stone with his name engraved on it.
Or, follow my mother’s advice and go to the temple to ask for a peace charm and sew those few soft hairs into it.
Wearing it close to the body, soaked with sweat and covered with body heat, the object really came to life. It was no longer a cold handicraft, but a thought that breathed with him and grew up together.
In fact, there is nothing auspicious or unlucky about it.
That strand of fetal hair is still that strand of fetal hair. If you make it into a writing brush, your child will come to the world like a Wenqu star; nor if you inlay it into a pendant, will it really drive away evil and avoid disasters.
The so-called commemoration is nothing more than our desperate attempts to grab something in the torrent of time.
It proves that he has been here, we have loved each other, and those days of war and chaos really existed.
Those soft filaments cannot tie fate, nor can they block wind and rain.
The only thing that can be done is to let you be in a daze for a while when it is accidentally dug out one afternoon.
It reminds you of that little guy who smelled like milk and held on to your finger tightly and refused to let go, and that young self who was at a loss in the past but was eager to hold the whole world in front of him.
That's enough.
It's more auspicious than anything else, it works.
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