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Saturday, October 13, 2007

CHINESE 1ST BIRTHDAY TRADITION

Traditionally the Chinese have some fun predicting a child's future on their 1st birthday, they place items in a semi-circle in front of their child. Each item symbolizes a particular career
brush or paints/artist,
cooking item/chef,
comb/hairdresser,
calculator/accountant,
book/librarian
pen/writer

The child is in the centre facing the semi-circle of items. According to Chinese culture, the item that the child is drawn to gives a clue as to the career/vocation the child might pursue (or is destined to pursue?)


So now I'd like some help and comments please - what other items (with what symbolism) would you include?

1 comment:

Ellen said...

Okay, here are my contributions:

Hair Brush - for Hairdresser/Hairdesigner (what are they called these
days?)

Stopwatch - Athlete

Toy Plane - Pilot/Flight Attendant

ABCs - Teacher

Thermometer - Doctor/Nurse

Tissues - Therapist (okay - there's a better symbol for this but there always seems to be tissues in a therapists office!)

CD - Singer

DVD - Actor

These should get you going!

Ellen xx