What are the contents of ancient men's bar mitzvah?

In ancient times, children were crowned at the age of twenty. "Book of Rites Quli" said: "Male twenty, the crown." In other words, when a person reaches the age of 20, he will be given an alias (word), which means that he will be an adult from now on, and society and family will require him to be an adult. Wearing a crown is a sign of adulthood. It is indecent to wear a crown instead of a crown. This is especially important in the pre-Qin period, such as Yanzi Chunqiu. "Internal Miscellaneous"; (qi)? Being (the same person with long hair, riding six horses, obeying women, leaving the right boudoir (palace gate), kneeling (the person whose feet were cut off for sin, here kneeling refers to the gatekeeper) and returning to his horse, saying,' You are not my king'. "Gong Jing ashamed (meaning ashamed, but not in court). The reason why I knelt down and criticized Gong Jing was that he had no hair on his head. "The Biography of Ma Yuan in the Later Han Dynasty", when did Ma Yuan not become an official? "If you respect a widow, you won't come into the house without a crown. It can be seen that the ancients attached importance to wearing a crown.

Adult coronation ceremony

A crown is different from a hat, which covers all the heads. This happened after the Han Dynasty. Wearing a crown refers to wearing a crown on a bun with a narrow crown beam and placing it on the top of the head from front to back. Its function is to tie hair, and it is also a decoration. There are silk ropes on both sides of the crown ring, which are tied under the mandible (chin) to fix the crown on the top of the head. These two silk ropes are called tassels, and the rest are tied and hung under the chin, called Wei, which also plays a decorative role. For example, Zuo Zhuan describes the fifteen-year civil strife in mourning for the public, and Luz (a student of Confucius) was beheaded. He said: "When a gentleman dies, it is inevitable to be crowned." So put down the weapon and "tie the tassel"? The result was killed by the other side. Because the crown will fall off after the silk rope is broken, Luz lost his life because of the rope, so Confucius lamented: When a gentleman dies, his clothes will be on his head. ?

A ancestral temple/shrine of a ruling family

Since wearing a crown is so important to people, the coronation ceremony of the ancients is equally grand. This process is recorded in the Book of Rites: the coronation ceremony is held in the ancestral hall, that is, the father of the crowned youth first decides the date of the ceremony through divination (an ancient divination method) and asks which guest will crown the youth with divination. Notify the trash bin date after confirmation. On the day of tribute, the crowned man stood in the room, and his father invited the guests in and took a seat in the temple. Take the crowned man out of the room, enter the temple and salute. Bing added the prescribed clothes to the teenagers and made three trips, which were called the first addition, the second addition and the third addition. So he offered a glass of wine to the young man, and the young man went downstairs to visit his mother. After meeting his mother, he returned to the east of the west stage and was nicknamed by the guests. The ceremony was completed.

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Salute with a crown is the process of wearing a crown. First, tie the tied hair into a bun on the top of your head, wrap the bun with a hairpin (purple and black silk with a width of 2 feet 2 inches and a length of 6 feet), and add a crown (crown cover). After the crown is added, the hairpin should be fixed through the crown ring and bun. Hairpins are also called hairpins. "I stroked my white hair. It has grown too thin, and it can't hold the hair clasp anymore. "In Du Fu's" Spring Hope ",it means that the hair is short and sparse, and it is difficult to insert the hair clasp.

(of young people) reaching adulthood (20 years old)

The ancients called a man who had just turned twenty? Weak crown ",Qu Lishang:? Twenty is a weak crown? Wang Bo's Teng Xu? Finally, when the army was weak, there was no way to volunteer? It refers to the person who will hold the bar mitzvah. Generally, a coronation ceremony is held among nobles, but the coronation of ordinary people is much simpler, called a towel. There were four kinds of men who didn't wear crowns in ancient times: children, civilians, criminals and foreigners. However, the hair of the uncrowned yellow-haired boy is allowed to droop, which is called a strip. "The Biography of Fu Zhanchuan in the Later Han Dynasty": "The hair is sharp and the white head is not lost. "Parallel hair generally refers to boys. Civilians don't wear crowns, and their hair is covered with towels all the way to their foreheads. It's called Ai. Ying Shao's Han Guan Yi said, "Ai Gubei, a deacon without a crown. ? It can be seen that in ancient times, not everyone had to hold a coronation ceremony. In fact, the ceremony is exclusive to princes and nobles.