The rite of passage for boys and girls in China.

Also known as "adult ceremony" and "adult style". Rituals held by young people in the old society when they entered adulthood. Forms have their own characteristics due to different nationalities:

Han male was crowned at the age of 20, and female was crowned at the age of 15.

Local custom

Dress-changing ceremony in the Yi area of Ninglang, Yunnan.

Men and women of Yongning Naxi nationality in Ninglang Yi Autonomous County of Yunnan Province wear skirts and trousers respectively.

Reporting ceremony of Bulang nationality in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.

Yao people in Malipo, Yunnan are performing the "Du Jie" ceremony.

Tibetan women wear bazhu rites.

16- 19 adult ceremony held by Gaoshan men in Taiwan Province province. Including fasting, admonishing elders, holding races, singing and dancing, feasting and other activities. All branches of Gaoshan nationality in the east coast of Taiwan Province Province and the central mountain range have this custom, but the content and time of the ceremony are different.

Specific activities

The traditional friendship festival of Jinuo people. Jinuo people think that young men and women are not mature mentally and physically until they are fifteen or sixteen years old, and they cannot bear and enjoy the obligations and rights of commune members. They are not allowed to go out at night or fall in love. Working in the fields can only be considered as half labor. Only when they were 15 or 16 years old and held a rite of passage can they become full members of the village and fall in love. In this village, the adult ceremony is usually held at the ceremony of entering the new house. In some villages, young men who are about to hold a bar mitzvah will be caught off guard. On the day of going to the new house, the young men's organization arranged for some young men to ambush on the way to work or behind the house, and then took him to the bamboo building of the new house to eat and drink with everyone. The person who congratulates the new house will toast him, and the owner of the new house will give him three pieces of beef wrapped in banana leaves. He accepted the meat and expressed his willingness to participate in the "test bypass" (in Keno). The purpose of the raid is to make him feel scared at the moment of his arrest, increase the mystery of accepting the "bar mitzvah" and make the etiquette style leave an unforgettable impression in his life. On the second day of attending the "detour" organization, his parents will give him a full set of farm tools, a copper box for betel nut, a box for lime, new clothes embroidered with the moon pattern on his back, a tube handkerchief embroidered with geometric patterns, a headscarf, a foot wrap and so on. At the ceremony of entering the new house, the elders led everyone to sing epics, traditional social customs and regulations, production techniques and ancient life, and also gave traditional education to those who accepted the rite of passage.