The "Adult Gift" of the Qixi Festival: Chaoshan non -heritage "out of the garden"

"Head Lottery" ceremony

Text/Picture Yangcheng Evening News All -Media Reporter Ant Luya Correspondent Shao Xuan

A few days ago, the third provincial -level non -heritage project "Garden" ceremony organized by the Shantou Cultural Museum and the Shantou Cultural Heritage Protection Center, hosted by the Shantou Cultural Museum and the Shantou Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, was held in the Mother Palace.

The seventh day of the seventh day of the lunar calendar each year is the most romantic festival in my country, also known as "Beggar Festival" or "Qixi Festival". In the Chaoshan area, there is still a unique adult polite folklore event- "out of the garden" in this festival. In the Chaoshan area, boys and girls will hold an adult ceremony on the seventh day of the seventh day of July in their fifteen years old. This adult ceremony is called "out of the garden". The child who "out of the garden" means that they formally bid farewell to their childhood and become a young man with responsibility and responsibility.

At the event site, a total of 16 children in 15 groups were under the guidance of Cai Jingyan, a city -level non -genetic inheritor in the "Garden", wearing a mahogany cricket, and completed the bathing and changing clothes, thanksgiving gifts, worshiping the mother -in -law, and "jumping their feet". In the form of rituals and colorful food ceremony, the traditional adult etiquette is presented to everyone in the form of scenarios.

Thanksgiving session, teas for respecting tea thanks to their parents

Among them, "head color food" refers to the elders prepare a special "adult meal" for the children, and let the children bite the chicken head symbolically, which means "monopolizing the head and the head", and eating "chicken tongue" represents " "Small lips"; vegetables and vegetables are selected from spring vegetables, thick, celery, shallots, etc., which means good fit with others, diligent and clever. "Every link represents the blessings of their parents on their children. I hope they will be smooth sailing in the future of life, learn to be successful, and learn to take responsibility for the society. Such activities have continued to inherit the excellent tradition of Chaoshan, so that the ancient non -heritage is glory in the new era. "Cai Jingyan told reporters.

Finally, everyone recite "the core values ​​of socialism" in unison. Relevant responsible comrades of the Shantou Cultural Museum told reporters that this unique sense of ritual is to allow teenagers to further feel the responsibility and responsibility of the new youth in the times.

It is reported that in 2018, "Out of Garden" was selected as a provincial intangible cultural heritage list. Until now, in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other places, the Chaoshan Club will hold a "garden" ceremony for children in the local area.

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