在北方黄河中下游地区,流传着生孩子“插谷草”的风俗。孩子落地后,婆婆立即给灶君上香,报增人口,还在大门门楣插上谷草,“生男,插有根者;生女,插无根者。”“插谷草”的风俗,其最初的意义与远古人类的生殖崇拜有关。那时,生存繁衍是第一要务,人们渴望种族繁衍,人丁兴旺;他们不懂得生殖的真正原因,对 In the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in the north, there is a tradition of giving birth to children and planting corn grass. After the child landed, her mother-in-law immediately incense Zao Jun, reported the population, but also in the door lintel into the asparagus, "male, inserted with the root; Custom, its original meaning and ancient human reproductive worship. At that time, survival and reproduction were the top priority. People were desperate for their ethnicity to flourish. They did not know the real reason for reproduction.