{"id":578,"date":"2007-07-24T07:23:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T06:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=578"},"modified":"2007-07-24T07:23:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T06:23:47","slug":"chinese-baby-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Chinese baby traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All cultures have a lot of traditions or superstitions around the birth of children and, over the last few months, I&#8217;ve been learning some of the many beliefs held by many Chinese people. This is because Vee and I have some dear young Chinese friends Hua and Zhihao who had a baby on 25 April. The boy&#8217;s Chinese name is Qiyuan and his English name is Joshua. He is a wonderful little fella and I love cuddling him.<br \/>\nI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2007\/05\/welcome_to_the_world_joshua_2.html\">blogged<\/a> about his birth at the time. Since then,  we&#8217;ve visited the family often and each time learn new things about the Chinese approach to babies. For instance, the mother does not leave the house for the first month; on an auspicious day indicated by a special calendar, all the baby&#8217;s hair is shaved off; and, on the 100th day of his life, there is a special celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/JoshuaBW.jpg\"  border=3><br \/><font size=\"-2\">Joshua (he&#8217;s the little one) after his first haircut<br \/>looking like Bruce Willis in the film &#8220;Die Hard 4.0&#8221;<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nYou can learn more about Chinese baby traditions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babyzone.com\/babynames\/china.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All cultures have a lot of traditions or superstitions around the birth of children and, over the last few months, I&#8217;ve been learning some of the many beliefs held by many Chinese people. This is because Vee and I have some dear young Chinese friends Hua and Zhihao who had a baby on 25 April. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}