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Families with children experience traditional Chinese rituals
    2021-03-10  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

More than 100 children and their parents attended a traditional ceremony to commence a reading event featuring ancient Chinese classics at the Shenzhen Children’s Library in Futian District on Saturday.

The ceremony started amid thundering drumming, and seven mentors, escorted by two ritual pupils, brought some pastry offerings to produce good omens for well being and a nice academic performance a Confucius shrine. After that, the students followed the instructions of their head mentors in groups to pay tribute to Confucius and read a prayer. Each class picked one student to hand over a ferule to the head mentor that was received from the ritual pupils, which indicated their determination to be hardworking and well behaved.

After the ceremony, each student received a bag of gifts from their mentors, which included apples, rice dumplings, chocolate ingots and pastries.

The ceremony has been held at the commencement of the Chinese classics reading event for the past nine consecutive years

In the afternoon, the students and their parents also experienced hanfu etiquette, a guqin performance, Chinese calligraphy and painting, traditional incense and tea ceremonies, and Chinese pitch-pot games that date back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.).

Many attendees found in the ceremony interesting as it was their first time to experience the traditional Chinese school commencing rituals. In ancient China, every child must undertake such rituals before getting admitted by private schools. Usually the parents would give their kid’s mentor a red gift basket containing celery, green onions, rice cakes and dumplings, the tuition fee and stationery, and the kid would be required to kneel to a Confucius shrine to show their respect.

(Wang Haolan)

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