On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, three kinds of fruits should be prepared for children to bid farewell to their parents-in-law, indicating that children have grown up and can leave the garden, and they are no longer children who play in the garden all day. On the day of leaving the garden, children should put on red Chinese corsets and mahogany shoes, indicating that they have grown up, are blessed by the gods and are safe all their lives.
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The content of the ceremony of leaving the garden shows the characteristics of diversity and unity.
First, the preparation of the garden sacrifice. Three animals, fruit, red round, red candle, dragon incense, silver ingot, fragrant tea, fine wine and "plastic broom" (a round bamboo dustpan) are combined into an even number, or two, four or six or eight pairs.
Second, prepare bath products for leaving the garden. On this day, the mother will prepare new clothes for her children, and take 6 pairs of flower hearts or 12 pairs (Cao Xian, safflower, champion bamboo, babao flower, fig branch, peach branch, etc. ) give them a bath, and in some places she will take five kinds of seeds (dried longan, wine cakes, spring rapeseed, mung bean seeds and early rice) and put eight coppers in it. ?
There are many details in the process of holding hands out of the garden. All the above children's bath products are put into the "plastic sweep". When the child is ready to take a bath, put the flower heart into the water and let the child soak it, which indicates a complete transformation. After the bath, the children put on the red Chinese-style chest covering (commonly known as changing stomach, which means changing clothes) prepared by their mother, put on new clothes and put on red clogs.
Then came the worship of in-laws. Mother invited the in-laws stove under the bed and put it in a plastic bag. The child bows to her in-laws and the mother prays. Generally, she thanked her in-laws for wishing her children healthy growth, and promised her grandmother that the children would be a good person and everything would be decent.