12-year-old garden locking ceremony

When the child reaches the age of 12, it means that the child has grown up, and a round lock ceremony is required, which is also called unlocking and "doing twelve". Before unlocking, you should put some sacrificial items, such as cakes, fruits and dishes, in front of the ancestral tablets in your home. Some steamed bread and rice can also be provided to the poor. On the altar, light the incense in the incense burner. The whole family gathered in front of the ancestral tablets, burning incense and kowtowing. Needless to say, the elders should instruct the children who unlock the lock, and then those who unlock the lock should pray to their ancestors, and those who unlock the lock should bow down before the ancestral tablets. After that, the unlocking person (usually the uncle of the unlocking person) uses the key to unlock the lock hung around the unlocking person's neck in advance (there are twelve layers of red cloth around the lock, one layer a year), so that the unlocking ceremony is over, and then the whole family gets together to arrange a family dinner to celebrate.

The round lock ceremony is usually held at noon. When the time comes, put all the sheep and gifts on the big table in the center of the hospital, put the lock tied by the head rope around the child's neck, and at the same time bring an iron chain, lock the two ends of the chain together with iron locks, kowtow to parents facing God and the earth first, and finally the child's mother will stand beside the child with a towel and kowtow with the child, then unlock the child with three surnames and say, Then have lunch. The scale of operating round locks depends on their own economic strength and social interaction, but the forms and operating procedures of round locks are basically the same. The bowstring depends on an auspicious day. On this day, grandma's family will show their ownership. First of all, you should bring 3 to 5 big sheep steamed with flour, and the eyes of the sheep should be connected together, not broken into a circle; Steamed 15 lambs, 4 sheep-raising steamed buns and a "lock" and 17 small copper coins (one per year, one per day) tied with a red head rope more than five feet long to show that adults should be as warm as sheep. Secondly, you should also bring quilts, blankets, clothes and some related gifts, and the rest of your relatives and friends will give them accordingly. Relatives and friends often use money and things as gifts, and grandma's gifts are particularly heavy, such as steamed vegetables, clothes, trousers, longevity locks and so on. On that day, the children celebrating 12' s birthday set the stage in the hospital, offered sacrifices, lit incense and fired guns. They should wear new clothes and have long hair. Longevity locks are usually given by my grandmother's family. They are made of 12 copper coins, and a red line indicates that 12 locks are round and the children have grown up.

After Yuan Suo's birthday, the parents of the child should give the "foster mother" the gifts that have already been prepared, such as pants (cloth) and shoes, and thank the foster mother for worrying about the child's birthday from 12. This shows that since the child is 12 years old, the foster mother will no longer steam "sheep" for the child's birthday. Unlocking is a folk custom. This custom, mainly popular in the north, is a spiritual enlightenment activity for children over 12 years old. In the old society, the object of unlocking was generally limited to the eldest son who had just turned 12, but with the passage of time, it has greatly exceeded this range.