What do you call joy when you have a boy? What is the name of a girl?
Once upon a time, the birth of a boy was called "Jangzhang Zhixi", and the birth of a girl was called "Jangwa Zhixi". The name "弄璋" or "弄瓦" is derived from "诗经-小雅-斯干", "乃生男子,载寝之床,载衣之裳,载弄之璋". ...... is the birth of a woman, the bed she sleeps on, the clothes she wears, and the tiles she makes." A jang is a good jade stone; a tile is a part of a spinning wheel. It is a patriarchal saying that a boy can make a jang and a girl can make a tile. The difference between "getting a jang on the bed" and "getting a tile on the bed" still exists in disguise in the Republican era. In some places, the birth of a man is said to be "great joy", the birth of a woman is said to be "small joy", friends and relatives to give colorful tents, wedding couplets, male book "get jang", female book "get tile "Mr. Lu Xun had revealed in his article. Mr. Lu Xun in his article has exposed and criticized the practice of son preference: give birth to a son, will be treated as a baby, put on the bed, give him good clothes, hand to take a piece of jade (jang) to play with; give birth to a daughter, can only be thrown to the ground, to give her a piece of tile (spinning bricks) to get.