Every year after mid September, the Confucious'temple will hold an adult ceremony.
September 6th news (reporter Qiao Xianjia) after the opening of Confucious'temple, the young students in Ji'nan have a great place to hold the ceremony of "adult gift". The reporter learned from the Confucious'Temple Management Office on the 6 day that 4 units, such as the municipal Party committee of the Ji'nan municipal Party committee, will be organized to participate in the "crown ceremony", which symbolizes the age of adults, in the middle of September every year.
according to the introduction, about 6-7 people in Ji'nan every year will enter the age of 18. To this end, Ji'nan Municipal Committee of the municipal Party committee, the Education Bureau, the new Bureau of Wen GUANG new Bureau and the 4 units of the city school of school decided that in the coming September 24th "adult Festival" in Ji'nan City, the adult collective oath ceremony will be held for young adults aged 18 in the Confucious'Temple of Ji'nan. At that time, the students will wear Han clothes, pass the gate of the Liang Xing gate and the first tier bridge, and worship the teacher Confucius at the Dacheng hall. Before the Dacheng hall, students will be respectful to teachers, respectful to their parents, and respectfully to the teachers. I also need to chant the oath and finally get the adult certificate. Lv Zhiyong, deputy director of the Management Office of Confucious'temple, said, "the students meet the teacher for a bow. The teacher himself feels embarrassed, and the hall provides a place for the students to make a gift."
according to the introduction, in ancient China, there was a tradition of "crowning ceremony" (adult) at 16 years old, and choosing 18 years old in Confucious'temple was a habit of modern people. In addition, abandoning the expression of kneeling kowtow by the ancients has been changed to a modern man's acceptable bow. In addition to this year's adult ceremony to be selected at the end of September, 2010, the adult ceremony of the Confucious'temple will be arranged two weeks after mid September.