May you soon have a son!
Wish you early birth of a healthy baby!
例如；
柯里昂阁下，在令媛婚礼这天能受邀到贵府深感荣幸。希望他们早生贵子。
Luca Brasi: Don corleone, Im honoured and gratefully that you have invited me, on the wedding day of your daughter. May their first child be a masculine child.
炕角分放四只萝卜娃娃，萝卜谐音摞辈之意，希望新媳妇过门后，能为主家传宗接代贡献力量。此外还有糖盒，里面有桂圆、莲子、花生、枣，有早生贵子的意思。
It will bring peace to the bride. moreover, they will receive a box with longan, lotus seeds , peanut and jujube , take a homonym, it means they wish to have a son soon and make family prosperous.
当一对新人结婚的时候，饺子里会包着花生和栗子，表示希望他们早生贵子。
When a couple get married, the jiaozi are filled with peanuts and chestnuts to express the hope that they will soon have a baby.
◎ 匮
kuì
〈名〉
(1) (形声.从匚( fāng),表示与盛放东西有关,贵声.( guì)本义:柜子)
(2) 运装土的畚.通“篑” [dungs basket]
纲纪咸张,成在一匮.——《汉书·王莽传上》
孔子曰:“辟如为山,未成一匮.止,吾止也.”——《汉书·礼乐志》
(3) 姓
◎ 匮
kuì
〈形〉
(1) 缺乏,空乏 [deficient;short of]
匮,乏也.——《广雅》
财财不匮.——《礼记·月令仲秋》
其财匮.——《礼记·乐记》
虞不出财财匮少.——《史记·货殖列传》
财匮少而山泽不辟矣.
(2) 又如:匮竭(穷尽,缺乏财货);匮粮(缺乏粮食);匮少(缺少);匮饿(缺粮饥饿);匮矮(缺粮饥饿);匮阕(缺乏)
(3) 通“溃” [rout]
贵而不傲,富而不骄,两而不争,闻而不遥,远而不绝,穷而不匮者鲜矣.——《逸周书》
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