The difference between unlocking and changing boys

Unlocking is a local custom, which is mainly popular in northern rural areas. It is a spiritual enlightenment activity for children over 12- 15 years old, which is essentially equivalent to the widely circulated "adult ceremony".

Unlocking ceremony is a very important ceremony, which is as important as getting married and having children in a person's life. Many relatives, friends and even people from the same village will be invited to attend, the most important of which is a child of the same age and sex as the padlock child and twelve adults with different surnames, who must be male and female.

The child's elders should find him a "supervisor". This person should be the same age and sex as the child who unlocked the lock. The so-called "accompanying the prison." The child accompanying the prison should accompany the child who unlocked the lock to attend the unlocking ceremony. In order to express gratitude, the offering should be placed on the altar before unlocking the lock. Generally speaking, offerings include fruits, cooked meat, wine, etc. The censer should be placed on the top of the altar. 12 adults with different surnames attended the unlocking ceremony. Each person unlocked the locks for one year, and opened the twelve locks one by one, symbolizing that the children were released from the prison.

In folklore, "changing boys" is a folk custom.

Boys are what we call short-lived ghosts. Generally, you will not live past 19, and you may live to that time, but you will die at several critical moments. The basic critical moments are in March, June and September, and the most common ones are 19, 23 and 53. What we're talking about here is nominal age.

According to folklore in China, Kobanawa boys come from palaces or temples in the sky. They have deep roots. They came into this world for special reasons and will soon be taken back. In fact, this is not a terrible thing, but it means death on the earth, and their relatives can't accept it, so in order to leave their children on the earth, they went to the body double (body double is made of paper). These children are usually weak and sick. It is said that when they find that their bodies are doubled, their health will become better and they will live as long as normal people.

Many masters who push the eight characters think that the best way is to send them to the temple to worship a master when they are young, just like their wish in their last life. It's not too late to enter Buddhism and worship a teacher. The key is to be conscious. All kinds of folk solutions are not the end. To a certain extent, when wisdom is turned on, all kinds of disasters naturally disappear, and it is easier to succeed in the afterlife, and you can go wherever you want. As for parents, we should also persuade them to convert to Buddhism and understand the truth of reincarnation.

Both men and women (especially children) should find out whether this person is really a boy, because he is often ill, difficult to talk about, gets married late, and gets sick every time he gets engaged or married.