What is Chinese Bar Mitzvah

Chinese Bar Mitzvah is the Crown Rite, a kind of ancient Jia Rite, which is the rite of passage for male Han Chinese in ancient China. Crowning ceremony indicates that the male youth has reached a certain age, sex has matured, can be married, and from then on, as an adult of the clan, to participate in various activities. In ancient China, Han Chinese men practiced the crown rite of passage and women practiced the maturity rite of passage. In ancient times, the crown ceremony was performed first before the wedding ceremony.

Anciently, in the era of clan societies, there was a popular ritual of "becoming an adult". The minors in the clan could not participate in the production, hunting activities, and did not have to participate in the war, and the clan had the responsibility to nurture and protect them. However, when they reach the age of majority, the clan will test their physical fitness and production and war skills in various ways to determine whether they can qualify for full clan membership.

As society evolved, the rite of passage disappeared in most areas, but Chinese Confucians saw its rationale and transformed it into the "crown rite," one of the most important parts of life's rituals.

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Chinese Taiwan has organized an annual classical coming-of-age ceremony since the 1990s. In front of the Dacheng Hall of the Confucius Temple, more than 300 young men and women*** aged 20 and above, men in blue robes and women in white and black dresses, participate in the coming-of-age ceremony.

After ringing the bells and drums, offering incense, presenting jewels and food, and reading the benediction, all of them bowed three times to the god of Confucius, the supreme master. The 12 delegates then walked to the red carpeted receiving platform, where the VIPs placed black crowns on the heads of the boys and a silver hairpin in the girls' hair to symbolize the "crowning" and "maturing" of the girls.

The significance of the ceremony as a sign of adulthood for young people who represent the future, which is recognized by society and managed and regulated by society, and more importantly, which fosters a sense of social responsibility and obligation among the recipients of the ceremony through the rites of passage to adulthood, must not be erased. After a long period of time since the disappearance of the traditional ceremony of marriageable buns, the organization of collective coming-of-age rites of passage has quietly emerged on both sides of the Taiwan Strait at almost the same time.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Bar Mitzvah