When I just gave birth to the baby, my confinement sister-in-law sat by my bed for two hours with a picture album.
"Rosewood" and "ivory carving" were words like these that I stared at. My mind had not yet recovered from the contractions, but I had already ordered the most expensive set meal.
As if if you don’t spend this money, you don’t deserve to be a mother.
Later, the pen arrived, bare and packed in a thin wooden box.
I held it and looked at it for a long time, but couldn't tell anything except that it was a pen.
Is that small amount of lanugo really sealed in?
Who knows.
Are you sure that's really your child's hair?
To be honest, this is terrifying to think about.
What my best friend made is a crystal seal that is transparent. Through it, you can clearly see that there is a small strand of black hair in it.
It looked really good, but then she told me this: "I always doubt whether the hair belongs to my child. The hair quality doesn't look very similar. When my baby was born, she looked like a yellow-haired girl, and the color inside the seal was so dark and shiny."
I checked online and found out that the water around lanugo souvenirs is very muddy.
There are some factories in Zhejiang that sell a pen holder with a wholesale price of 15 yuan for 300 yuan.
What's even more amazing is that there are some stores that take away the child's lanugo hair and then "match" it with hair of roughly the same color and texture as Bai Tianzhao's.
I spent one or two thousand to buy the hair of someone's child.
This is not a souvenir, this is a blind box.
Those sayings handed down from ancient times
In fact, leaving fetal hair on babies has been around for a long time.
Dating back to the Tang Dynasty, the fetal writing brush already existed at that time. A poet named Qi Ji once wrote a poem such as "The inner body is the fetal hair and the outer hair is thin."
There is a legend in the past that a poor scholar in ancient times had no money to buy a pen, so he made a pen out of his own fetal hair and then took the exam. In the end, he won the first prize, so this kind of pen is also called "the first prize pen".
In addition, there are those traditions in the past. The shaved new hair needs to be thrown on the top of the house, which is said to make the child bolder in the future; shaving the head during the full moon is rolled three times with red eggs, which is called "good luck head".
After all, parents just look forward to their children, okay?
This heart has not changed for thousands of years.
Dumbo, I think I’ve heard this name before
It's the brand from Henan.
It should be customizable in the store.
He said he could make hand and footprint prints, fetal hair paintings, fetal hair stamps and so on.
I had to press the baby's hand and foot prints while he was asleep, but when he woke up he would move around, and what came out looked like chicken claws.
Fetal hair painting is made by pasting hair into a painting. If you think about it, it feels a little eerie. It is hung on the wall every day and is staring straight at you.
The fetal hair stamp is more practical. When the baby grows up, he can take it out and play with it.
But their advertising slogan is really poignant - "Keep the original attachment."
Okay, it poked my lung tube again.
Where did all that hair go?
The tuft of fetal hair from my baby was not turned into a pen in the end.
I found a small red bag and stuffed it in the corner of the drawer.
When they were moved and vacated, they were completely crushed, showing a yellowish color and a thin appearance, just like a few dry weeds.
I was stunned for a long time.
Is this the little hair he had when he was born?
At that moment, he was lying on my chest, his hair was wet and pressed tightly against his forehead, and his little paws clenched one of my fingers hard, and he clenched it so tightly.
At that moment, no rosewood or crystal seal could compare to the broken red envelope in my hand.
Don't take it too seriously, just leave it in your thoughts.
So, if you are thinking about getting a lanugo souvenir for your baby——
Don't be too obsessed with whether the material is real rosewood, don't always worry about whether the hair is completely pure, and don't care about the Feng Shui meaning of the shape presented in the seal.
Just think of it as spending hundreds of dollars to buy a "ceremonial sense" and find a reason that you can use it to tell your children, "Look, this is when you were a child."
As for whether that tuft of hair is here or not——
Is it important?
If you think it's there, it's there.
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