Yao Nationality-Daojie

The Rite of Adulthood of Boys of the Yao Nationality -- Daojie

Degree ring, indigo Yao called "plant luxury", red head Yao called "degree gill", more than December held. Daojie is a religious ritual activity that Yao men must go through when they are adults. Only after the precepts can he be regarded as a member of the society of his own nation, can he start a family and enjoy various rights to participate in social activities, and his soul can "ascend to heaven" after death ". Therefore, the ceremony was extremely solemn.

Boys to about 10 years old, to hold adult ceremony for its. The ceremony usually takes three to seven days, but the core is two things:

One is the teacher. Finding five adult men as masters means that these five people are responsible for enlightenment and supervision throughout their lives in the growth of their children. After visiting the teacher, the boy should be given a book of scriptures, mostly of the kind of admonition and obedience.

The second is "off the cloud". The ordained boy, led by his master, walked to Yuntai. Along the way, the people who saw them off "Romance" farming, planting trees, hunting, cutting wood and other life actions, in the hustle and bustle, put the boy on the "Yuntai" (I. e. a platform set outside), to be disciplined, the boy rolled over from the "Yuntai" and fell into the vine net, then covered him, and then slowly opened on the ground. The boy had to hug his knees and buckle his big toes, then use the "knife" to slowly separate the feet and hands, the boy can stand up. As if it is the second birth, from the chaos of ignorance to the road of life. This kind of ceremony gives the young men who are about to become adults a sense of urgency and responsibility, and is the beginning of a real man.