1. As an ethnic group with distinctive characteristics, the Qixi Festival of the Chaoshan people not only follows the Chinese historical context but also has unique local characteristics. Festival", there are also Chaoshan local customs such as "worshiping parents-in-law" and "going out of the garden".
2. Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as "Qiqiao Festival" and "Girl's Day", is a traditional Chinese festival with rich connotations. The folklore of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting on the magpie bridge adds a mysterious and romantic color to the Chinese Valentine's Day. .
3. Chaoshan people have the custom of "worshiping their parents-in-law" on July 7th. The "in-laws" here do not refer to the child's father-in-law and mother-in-law, but to the legendary protector of children.
4. Chaoshan people hold "out of the garden" coming-of-age ceremony for children who are over fifteen years old to "worship their parents-in-law", and they often choose it on the Chinese Valentine's Day. Children grow up happily under the care of their parents and other elders, and they are as carefree as living in a "garden". When they "come out of the garden" at the age of fifteen, they begin to enter their youth.
Families with children who "come out of the garden" will entertain family members and guests, and the children will wear new clothes, red clogs and eat rooster heads on the day of "going out of the garden".
This custom of "going out of the garden" contains multiple meanings: first, "filial piety", by inviting relatives to a banquet, so that children can learn to be grateful to their elders for their upbringing and care; second, "begging for cleverness", By eating the rooster head, it means to be the best, hoping that the children will excel and become pillars when they grow up; thirdly, through the ceremony of "worshiping parents-in-law", it "announces" the end of the rosy childhood, and they must gradually learn to understand the world's customs.