Introduction to Worship

Worship is an occupational folklore practice in various trades such as handicrafts, services and entertainment. A new practitioner or apprentice forms a master-disciple relationship with the person who teaches him or her through a ceremony called "Shidoshi".

Usually, the master has to have a sponsor and a guarantor, and the master and the apprentice sign a corresponding contract and then hold a ceremony of worship, in which the new practitioner performs the ritual of worshiping the master, and then the master leads him to pay respect to the grandmaster of the industry and introduces him to the senior brothers and others one by one. Each industry's worship ritual procedures are similar, but also has its own industry characteristics, and even the rules of the line into the master.

The formation of the custom of paying homage to masters in China was mainly influenced by the Confucian system of teaching academics, which can be traced back to the practice of accepting apprenticeships by Confucius and evolved from there. In modern times, Chinese traditional medicine, traditional arts, and other professions continue to adopt the practice of apprenticeship and the teaching of skills.

The purpose of apprenticeship and apprenticeship is to clarify the responsibilities and obligations of both parties and to ensure that the scholar achieves something. Master and apprentice responsibilities and obligations of both sides, mostly by the industry rules and specific contracts to regulate, qualify. Such as the general prohibition of masters of various disciplines to compete with the teacher to learn the art of students are not allowed to learn from the teacher in the process of another teacher, so as not to cause the former teacher effort and after the teacher to enjoy the situation. Some industry regulations, an apprentice to recruit another one, not at the same time to recruit two apprentices. There are many regulations on the top of the apprenticeship. Such as pawn industry apprentices named "students", daily routine not only to hang early when the front, the evening pick when the front, pouring buckets and urine pots and other chores, but also to learn when the pawnbroker's specific "when the word spectrum" and "when the spectrum", and shall not be free to go out and relatives, violators to be punished accordingly. This apprenticeship statute system in feudal society by the law. Japan and other countries, some of the traditional trades also exists in a similar custom of apprenticeship. European medieval city crafts, commercial guilds organization statute, also tends to accept apprenticeship, apprenticeship and master and apprentice obligations and other provisions of the corresponding system.