couvade

they had the old custom, known as the couvade, of sending the father to bed and rest when a child was born, and they had as a luck symbol the well-known Swastika.

他有一种古老的风俗，通常叫拟娩，当孩子降生时，把父亲送到床上去休息；而且他把著名的万字饰当作幸运的象征。

Under the influence of this classic evolution thought, there are some misunderstandings in historical documents in the research of couvade in China.This problem should draw the scholars' attentions.

我国学者在古典进化论思想的影响下，在研究“产翁制”时，对古文献的理解存在著差，应该引起文化史研究者的视。