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Who can introduce me to the custom of Chaoshan area-"going out of the garden"?

Going out of the garden is an adult ceremony held by Chaoshan people to bid farewell to their children's childhood. Men and women 15 families should prepare three kinds of fruits to bid farewell to their in-laws on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, indicating that their children have grown up and can leave the garden.

No longer a child who plays in the garden all day. Children who leave the garden should wear red leather shoes and eat chicken heads, and eat a little of all food. And he was the first one to eat.

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Origin of going out of the garden: The custom of wearing red leather shoes and eating the head of a chicken's head when going out of the garden is said to have originated from Lin Daqin, the champion of Chaoshan in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. It is said that Lin Daqin could not afford to buy red shoes when he was young, so he wore red leather shoes. One day, when he came home from school, he saw an old man squatting on the ground with a rooster in his arms and a pair of red paper beside him. One was silent, and the other said, "There is a bun on the cock's head."

The old man asked passers-by to deal with it. If he is right, he will get the rooster. If not, just pay him a page of couplets. Lin Daqin stood for a moment and then said to him, "Go shave." That's right. The old man gave him a cock. When I got home, my father slaughtered and scalded the rooster, and cut off a chicken head to reward Daqin to show his superiority.

Later, Daqin really won the first prize and became famous all over the world. Influx people think this is a good sign. They buy a pair of red leather shoes for their children when they enter school, give them a big rooster and give them a chicken head when they leave the garden.