Naming ceremony

There is a certain ceremony for naming, which is nothing more than burning incense and praying for blessings. When giving names, monks should give children some things, such as clothes for monks and farmers, Taoist priests and so on. The most prominent are name symbols and name locks (cables). Wu Daoguan in Jin Ping Mei not only gave Ximen Qing's son a lot of things, but also gave him a pair of silver collars, which read "Happy from now on, live a long life, be rich and prosperous", and a bamboo book, Huang Ling Fu, which read "Taiyi Siming, Yan Tao and Kang". Silver collars and yellow line symbols are name locks and name symbols.

After the children make their names, some will dress up as Taoist priests and monks to show that they are monks. However, it doesn't mean that you will never return to the secular world after you have made a name for yourself to go to Buddhism and Taoism, and you will maintain this relationship forever. Because the original intention of drunkards is not to drink, and they have no intention of letting their children escape from an empty net and become monks. They just want to avoid temporary disasters through the blessing of gods, buddhas and immortals. This relationship ended when they thought that the child had passed the mental and physical disaster and could resist foreign aggression independently. The ceremony of terminating the relationship is called "secularization" and "bag pulling", that is, taking back the bag given to the temple when naming and returning to secular life. In Shunyi County, Beijing, this etiquette used to be called "jumping off the bench", that is, when the children grow up, choose an auspicious day and prepare gifts to pay tribute to the temple. The temple owner found fault with the children, and the children took the opportunity to jump off the bench and go home to keep their hair. In Tianjin, the etiquette behavior is 12 years old jumping over the wall, which is quite complicated: "Before jumping over the wall, you must choose an auspicious day, buy a dustpan, a broom and prepare eight old coppers. At the right time, parents will lead their children, burn incense and worship God, and at the same time let them take dustpans and hairbrushes, wipe incense tables and sweep the floor. When things are done, the barber will leave hair for the child, and then the child will stand on the bench with four old money in his right hand and four old money in his left hand. The onlookers shouted' Old Monk', and the children threw the money back, jumped off the stool and ran straight home without looking back. This is the so-called jumping over the wall. "