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What is the name of the festival of the fifteenth year of age in Jieyang

Jieyang Teochew District, all men and women who have reached the age of 15 are generally held on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in the year "out of the garden" ceremony to show that they have grown up; similar to the modern day "Adult Day".

1, out of the garden, the grandfather's family to grandchildren "out of the garden ceremony". Usually there are red roosters, red clogs, and leavened rice cakes. Neighbors and relatives often prepare fabrics or meat and eggs for congratulations. The happy family organizes a ceremony to pay homage to the grandparents. On that day, the children eat sweet red eggs and sweet pig's liver, which is a symbol of success and advancement.

2, Guangdong Chaoshan region, a unique Han Chinese traditional rites of passage. There are 15-year-old male and female children's families, in the lunar calendar, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Beggar's Nest and the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the Chinese New Year Festival or another day for the children to prepare three animals and fruits to pay farewell to the God of God in-laws (commonly known as the God of God in-laws and mother), that the child has grown up, can get out of the garden, no longer in the garden all the time in the play of the children.

3, the ceremony is the three fruit crystals together into four or eight or twelve pieces, placed in the commonly known as "rubber掠"(drying bamboo skips), please out of the God of the Goddess of the Goddess of the furnace, by the children out of the garden kneeling to worship, worship, and will not be worshiped again. The children who go out to the garden wear red clogs, eat rooster's head, and eat a little bit of all the food. And it is the first one to eat at the table.