Fun 1st birthday for Taiwanese babies with Zhua Zhou 抓周
Fun 1st birthday for Taiwanese babies with Zhua Zhou 抓週
Fun 1st birthday for Taiwanese babies
What is Zhua Zhou or 抓周?
Zhua means to grab or grasp and Zhou means week. If you put it together, Zhua Zhou literally means to seize the week. However in Taiwan, Zhua Zhou is not just to seize the week, it is a very important tradition for babies turning one.
I never heard of Zhua Zhou until my first child almost turned one year old. I was told by my Taiwanese husband that we will find the perfect place to celebrate her first birthday and it would be her “Zhua Zhou” experience too.
Luckily, Taiwan has so many online forums about “everything under the sun” and we found the place just we imagined. In Taiwan, it is pretty easy to find a place or discover something new. Just search the keyword and you’ll surely get enough information about what you are looking for.
As expected, we had read so much information about where to have a Zhua Zhou experience in Taiwan and we chose “Luzhou Lee Heritage Residence.”
Fun 1st birthday for Taiwanese babies
Why Luzhou Lee Heritage Residence?
After reading so many reviews online, many Taiwanese parents recommend Luzhou Lee Heritage Residence because it offers an authentic Zhua Zhou experience to the babies. Apart from the traditional Zhua Zhou style, they also provide brochures about Zhua Zhou allowing the parents to understand the tradition.
The parents can also read the meaning of every objects included in the Zhua Zhou basket. For me, it is very important to know the meaning of the things in the basket because it adds the thrill and the curiosity of what my baby would grab and imagine the future based on the three things my baby grabbed.
Fun 1st birthday for Taiwanese babies
How is Zhua Zhou done?
In Luzhou Lee Heritage Residence, they have the host and the guide for the Zhua Zhou process. The host will recite the important details for Zhua Zhou and at the same time guide the parents on what to do next. The host also facilitates the tradition.
As all the necessary details is being said for the Zhua Zhou tradition, the host facilitates the event. The basket full of 12 objects are situated in front of the one year old baby for him or her to grab. The child will get three objects and after all three are grabbed, the basket with the remaining objects are taken away.
The host will express the meaning of the three objects grabbed by the child and then the official family photo will be taken for souvenir.
The Luzhou Lee Heritage Residence provides a video for the Zhua Zhou, a Zhua Zhou certificate, a laminated family picture, souvenir chains for the objects grabbed and so many others depending on the available giveaways.
It was indeed a perfect way and place to experience the fun tradition of Zhua Zhou.
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Fun 1st birthday for Taiwanese babies
How to contact Luzhou Lee Heritage Residence?
Address: No. 19, Lane 243, Zhongzheng Rd, Luzhou District, New Taipei City, 247
Contact Number: 02 2283 8896
The luxurious house of a general in the past becomes today’s cultural heritage. The Li Family Historical House is a traditional residence over 100 years old preserved amidst an urban forest of concrete buildings. The mottled roofing tiles and brick walls have a special kind of nostalgic beauty to them.
This traditional residence was the home of Lee Yo-Bang, the first general to fight against the Japanese during the invasion. After China ceded Taiwan to Japan for losing the Jiawu War, the Li family renovated the residence as a symbolic gesture to demonstrate their Chinese identity with the traditional Chinese architecture.
It took nearly nine years to complete the construction of the residential compound, which became the landmark of the district. The antique furniture of the historical residence have been preserved, an eight-legged bed, a dressing table, a stone mill and furnace, which are exactly the way they looked 100 years ago. They are precious historical relics of Taiwan.
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