Chaoshan chuyuan jingle

Chaoshan out of the garden jingle: hearts, hearts, hearts; It is more interesting to grind slaves and build palace furnaces; Hearts, hearts, you do business and I'll be a woman; Grandma embroidered public works, and she has no worries about food and clothing; Hearts, hearts, and slaves all say that adults are good; If you want to be an adult, go out of the garden and worship your parents.

In the past, 15 years old meant that the child had reached adulthood. At this time, adults at home will prepare three kinds of fruits for their children to worship their in-laws on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month or another auspicious day.

Here, there are roughly two meanings: worshipping in-laws is to pray for the safe growth of children; Walking out of the garden is a sign of a child's adulthood. In order to ensure the safety of their children, parents entrust their children to the flower owners for protection, so they also call them "flower girl". When the age of 15 comes, they can go out of the garden and stop playing in the garden all day. This is the origin of the word "out of the garden".

Custom culture

Going out of the garden is an adult ceremony held by Chaoshan people to bid farewell to their children's childhood, and it is a unique adult ceremony custom in Chaoshan area. /kloc-Families of 0/5-year-old men and women should prepare three kinds of fruits to bid farewell to their parents-in-law on the seventh day of the seventh month and the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, indicating that their children have grown up and can leave the garden, and they are no longer children who play in the garden all day.

With the change of people's concept, the ceremony of "leaving the garden" is gradually fading away. Although some places still follow the ancient ceremony, in some economically developed areas of the city, the custom of "leaving the garden" has evolved into a simple ceremony. What is certain is that no matter how the form changes, the meaning of "leaving the park" will not change. This day means that children should bid farewell to childhood and step into the ranks of adults.