Going out of the garden means that the child has grown up, and the parents hold an adult ceremony for him or her. When children reach the age of fifteen, parents should choose a day to take them out of the garden, which is to hold an "adult ceremony". Early this morning, parents will bathe their children with twelve kinds of boiled water, such as fig branches, bamboo branches, pomegranate flowers, pick branches and champion bamboo.
Then put on the new clothes sewn or bought by grandparents, put on the red clogs given by grandparents, put longan and copper coins in the Chinese pocket, and then parents boil the prepared pig viscera into soup and give some sugar to their children, commonly known as "changing the stomach." "
The origin of the custom of "going out of the garden"
Legend has it that children are like flowers in the garden from birth to fifteen. At this time, the flower owner and the flower girl are taking care of and protecting. On the seventh day of July every year, the parents of children will worship the flower owner and flower girl with fragrant rice cooked with glutinous rice (commonly known as sugar rice), praying for the gods to bless their children's safe and rapid growth.
Boys need a rooster when they leave the garden, and women need a hen when they leave the garden. Finally, there is a "skimming". There are sweets and peanuts in the "skimming". Children who leave the garden have to jump back and forth from the glue skimming several times. Skimming means that they have jumped out of the garden and entered adulthood. From then on, they no longer have to worship the flower Lord and flower girl, and their children's affairs are no longer in their charge.