Adult ceremony in Chaoshan area: out of the garden?

Growth is a far-reaching event in everyone's life. In foreign countries, in Japan, children are not allowed to drink alcohol when they reach adulthood (Japan stipulates that they are 20 years old), and they must solemnly wear Japanese clothes to attend the adult ceremony. In some areas of our country, children should also hold meaningful ceremonies when they grow up, such as the adult ceremony of Naxi people "stepping on skirts" and the adult ceremony of Chaoshan people "leaving the garden". Then today's traditional festival will introduce you to the coming of age ceremony in Chaoshan area-"going out of the garden".

"Going out of the garden" is a traditional adult custom peculiar to the Han nationality in Chaoshan area of China. 65,438+05 Families with boys and girls should prepare three kinds of fruits to bid farewell to their in-laws (commonly known as in-laws) on the seventh day of the seventh month and the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, indicating that their children have grown up and can leave the garden, and are no longer children who play in the garden all day.

The ceremony of bidding farewell to in-laws is to put three kinds of fruits together, divide them into four or eight or twelve pieces, put them on the commonly known "plastic broom" (bamboo dustpan for drying), and invite them out of the in-laws' stove. Children who leave the garden should bow down. This time, they won't worship anymore. Children who leave the garden should wear red leather shoes and eat cock's head. They should eat a little of all the food, and they must be the first to eat at the table.

The details of the custom of leaving the garden vary from place to place. For example, in some places, only girls are allowed to "leave the garden", and in some places, it is necessary to ask God for advice before holding a ceremony until there is no "taboo" and "collision". At Shantou Customs, children who leave the park will receive red envelopes. After receiving the red envelopes, parents need to give them a gift and buy some holiday items, including cooking oil, sugar and cakes. Every family has its own arrangements.

Chao 'an 12 kinds of flowers should be soaked in water for the gardener to bathe, and the children attending the ceremony should put on new clothes, red shoes and new Chinese chestnuts (longan and Shunzhi money are hidden in Chinese chestnuts)-and this outfit must be given by my uncle's family; Hiding in the house that day. Besides in-laws and gods, we should also worship Huahua's mother.

Raoping County used 12 samples of fig branches, bamboo branches, pomegranate flowers, peach branches, champion bamboo and grass to soak gardeners in water and eat them at the same time, congratulating them on "putting on adult intestines" and bidding farewell to childhood. Gardeners in Jiexi County will send fermented ankles, chickens and ducks to relatives and friends, and relatives and friends will return cloth.

Chaoshan people believe that children under 15 live in a "garden" and are sheltered by a pair of gods called "in-laws". Whether children can grow up depends on the gifts of these gods, so Chaoshan people have always attached great importance to the worship of "in-laws". Children living in the "Garden" worship their parents-in-law on July 7th every year, praying for their healthy growth. Children who leave the garden are no longer under the control of their parents-in-law, so after leaving the garden, they no longer worship their parents-in-law on July 7.

In the custom of "going out of the garden", the custom of wearing red leather shoes and eating the head of a chicken is said to have originated from Lin Daqin, the champion of Chaoshan in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. It is said that Lin Daqin could not afford to buy red shoes when he was young, so he wore red leather shoes. One day, when he came home from school, he saw an old man squatting on the ground with a rooster in his arms and a pair of red paper beside him. One was silent, and the other said, "There is a bun on the cock's head." The old man asked passers-by to deal with it. If he is right, he will get the rooster. If not, just pay him a page of couplets.

Lin Daqin stood for a moment and then said to him, "Go shave." That's right. The old man gave him a cock. When I got home, my father slaughtered and scalded the rooster, and cut off a chicken head to reward Daqin to show his superiority. Later, Daqin really won the first prize and became famous all over the world. Influx people think this is a good sign. They buy a pair of red leather shoes for their children when they enter school, give them a big rooster and give them a chicken head when they leave the garden.

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