Children's bucket, also known as children's treasure bucket.

As the name implies, it is a festive mascot, which will bless future generations and live a long life. Together with the bowls and red wooden boxes of later generations, it became the three treasures of a girl's dowry, which was essential when she got married. Three treasures bucket for children and grandchildren: toilet, footbath and bucket (also called three treasures for children and grandchildren) are one of the most basic necessities in folk wedding clothes.

Toilet is also called children's treasure bucket, which means that children are born early, their feet are healthy and healthy, they mean that children are healthy and rich, and they mean that children are diligent and enterprising and have a successful career. According to the rules, the bride's dowry should be delivered to the groom's house the day before the wedding. In the dowry, the most important thing is the "child bucket".

"Descendants bucket" is actually an old-fashioned wooden toilet. However, the toilet must be brand-new, with a date in it, hoping to "have a baby early"; Longevity fruit (peanut with shell, the more nodes, the better) means immortality, many children and grandchildren. And dried fruits such as longan, litchi, lily and lotus seeds; Then put in five red eggs, symbolizing "five sons entering the company" and so on. In addition, a rafter should be prepared, and a special person should be responsible for using this rafter to send the "children's bucket" to the groom's house.

This "offspring bucket" will come in handy again when the new house encounters difficulties. At this time, a little boy from the groom's family will pee in the "offspring bucket", so that the couple will give birth to a big fat boy next year. Now almost every household uses toilets, and wooden toilets are becoming less and less common. Therefore, the form of "children's bucket" has changed accordingly.

The stars have changed and gradually evolved into modernity. The bucket of later generations gradually withdrew from practical value, so it became a symbolic exquisite handicraft: wooden, with rafters strung at both ends, but it became almost the size of a toy. The elders put this "baby bucket" in the bathroom as a decoration.

2. What should be put in the bucket of children and grandchildren?

When a girl gets married, her children and grandchildren will put chopsticks, dates, shelled peanuts, longan, lychee, lily, lotus seeds and so on. Add five red eggs. It means "Give birth to your son early, and get along well for a hundred years", and five eggs symbolize "Five children get into a university" and "five blessings".

On the wedding day, before the bride entered the new house, the mother's brother (also called "brother-in-law in wooden bucket") carried the child's bucket in a red cloth bag and ran to her husband's house. She advanced into the new house and tidied up the children's buckets. The little boy at home or relatives urinated in the toilet, commonly known as "pulling bucket water", which means that the bride can also have a big fat boy.

Tong Dou is a festive mascot, which will bless future generations and live a long life. Together with children's bowls and red wooden boxes, it becomes a three-treasure dowry for girls.

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Evolution of offspring barrels

Traditional marriage is a necessary dowry to bless the longevity of future generations. Children and grandchildren play bowling, red wooden boxes and cabinets are collectively called the three treasures of dowry, which is essential when he gets married. It is mainly composed of three parts: toilet, footbath and bucket. The toilet is called a treasure bucket for children, which is for the health of early children; The footbath is called Jufubao basin, which means health and prosperity; The bucket is called the treasure bucket of wealth, which means a successful career.

However, with the improvement of people's living standards, traditional practical dowries such as wooden toilets are no longer practical. Modern dowry is also prepared for it, mainly to take its auspicious meaning of blessing future generations and prolonging life.

However, wooden toilets and buckets are no longer physical objects, but exquisite handicrafts in bucket style, which are left to future generations. These handicrafts are exquisite, festive and beautiful, which can be called the perfect combination of ancient customs and modern marriage.