Our Nation’s Custom of Preparing the Table in Celebration of the Baby’s First Birthday

The table prepared in celebration of a baby’s first birthday refers to the preparation of the table to celebrate a baby’s first birthday.

Our people put the foods such as steamed rice cake, kaoliang cake, rice cake dumpling covered with bean paste, noodle, songpyon, jujube, apple, persimmon and pear for their children to eat while growing on this table and also put the things such as rice, spool, ink stick, brush, book and bow symbolizing the military arts, scholarship and talent before them.

The foods were the same regardless of the sex but the things different.

Our people put a sword, bow and arrow to the effect that he should become a strong warrior and the book and brush to the effect that he should be a famous writer on the table for a boy.

They put a spool, ruler and scissors to the effect that she should be good at needlework on the table for a girl.

The preparation of a table in celebration of the baby’s first birthday is the good custom marked with our people’s love for their children and with the aspiration of our people who wish them to be loyal to the country and their family as well.