Jiexi Fortune Teller _ Brief Introduction of Jiexi Fortune Teller Li Hongji

Who can talk about the custom of "going out of the garden" in Chaoshan area?

Out of the Garden (1)

The unique adult customs in Chaoshan area. Families with 15-year-old boys and girls should prepare three kinds of fruits to bid farewell to their parents-in-law on the seventh day of July and the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of July in the lunar calendar, indicating that their children have grown up and can leave the garden, and are no longer children who play in the garden all day. The ceremony is to put the fruits of the three animals together, divide them into four or eight or twelve pieces, put them on the commonly known "skimming glue", and invite them out of the in-laws' furnace. The children who come out of the garden will bow down and then stop worshipping. Children who leave the garden should wear red leather shoes, eat chicken heads and eat a little of all food. The custom of wearing red leather shoes and eating the head of a chicken.

The custom of going out of the garden is also slightly different in Chaoshan. In some places, only boys go out of the park, but no girls; In some places, we should ask God's advice first and know that there is no "taboo" and "collision" before holding ceremonies. The customs in Chenghai County are basically the same as those in Chaoan County: 12 All kinds of flowers should be soaked in water for gardeners to bathe in; Put on new clothes, red shoes and a new Chinese-style chest covering; Hiding in the house that day. Besides in-laws and gods, we should also worship Huahua's mother. When a man leaves the garden, there should be a rooster in the sacrifice, a woman should use a hen, and relatives should be invited to eat food and wine. . Banyan branches, bamboo branches and pomegranate flowers are used in Raoping County. A pair of peach branches, champion bamboo and grass are soaked in 12 sample for the gardener to bathe in. Fifteen-year-old men and women in Huanggang Town, the county seat, were told by fortune tellers that they were not allowed to leave the garden. They just held a simple ceremony, dressed their children in new clothes, bought a pork belly, cooked it for them behind the door, commonly known as "changing intestines", and then bid farewell to their in-laws and discarded the incense burner. Those who leave the garden in Jiexi, Puning, Huilai and other places will eat fried pork bellies and pork bellies on the same day, and at the same time invite children to eat around the "plastic broom" in the field, congratulating those who leave the garden on "putting on the intestines and stomachs of adults" and bidding farewell to childhood. The gardener's home in Jiexi County will give fermented grains, chickens and ducks to relatives and friends, and relatives and friends will give back cloth. The adult ceremony of local Hakkas was held on 2 1 year-old, which was called 2 1 birthday, and neither coronation ceremony nor going out of the garden. There is also the custom of going out to visit the garden in Hailufeng area. There is a saying in Chaoshan, "15% d, 16% adult. Zhong Jingwen, a famous contemporary folklorist in China, said in his speech at the inaugural meeting of Guangdong Folklore Society 1983 that leaving the garden in Chaoshan is a special adult ceremony.

Out of the garden (2)

Going out of the garden is an adult ceremony held by Chaoshan people to bid farewell to childhood.

Parents and grandparents of children will organize their children to leave the garden when they are 15 years old (nominal age). Going out of the garden is usually in March, May and July of the lunar calendar every year, especially on the seventh day of July.

On the day of leaving the garden, children should wear new clothes sewn by their parents-in-law and red clogs given by their parents-in-law, which looks chic and mature. Early in the morning, the children's parents cooked the pig's internal organs, including pig intestines, pig bellies, pig livers, pig kidneys and pig hearts, and added some sugar to the children. The moral is that when people reach the age of 15, they must renew their internal organs and discard the dirty things. Then, I worship my in-laws, which is the last time I worship my in-laws. Prepare a hearty lunch at noon, with meat and three eggs, a total of twelve courses. Vegetables are mainly thick green garlic, which means that after eating thick garlic, it is "Liuhe" everywhere after leaving the garden; Green garlic, when you grow up, can count and divide, smart; Qin is a hardworking man all his life. The gardener's seat is also exquisite. On this day, he (she) sits in the right position, the chicken's head is facing him (her), and others can't move. The gardener eats it himself, and the head of the chicken becomes the gardener's patent. It means to be somebody when you grow up. Prosperity.