Going out of the garden is an adult ceremony held by Chaoshan people to bid farewell to their children's childhood. Families with 15-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 in the lunar calendar, indicating that the children have grown up and can go out of the garden.

children who play in the garden all day are no longer. Children who go out of the garden should wear red leather shoes and eat cock's head, and eat a little of all food. And it's the first one to eat at the table.

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Origin of going out of the garden: The custom of wearing red leather shoes and eating cock's head in going out of the garden is said to have originated from Lin Daqin, the champion of Chaozhou in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that Lin Daqin studied when he was young and couldn't afford red shoes, 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 there was a pair of red paper beside him. One had no words, and the other said, "The rooster has a bun on his head."

The old man asked passers-by to respond. If he can get the rooster, he will only pay him a page of couplets if he can't. Lin Daqin stood for a moment, then said to him, "To mow the beard." That's right. The old man gave him the rooster. When he got home, his father slaughtered the rooster, scalded it, and chopped off a chicken's head to reward Daqin, to show his superiority.

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