The initiation ceremony is an enlightenment education ceremony for people who just started to learn literacy in ancient times. Also called writing, it is one of the four etiquette in life. In ancient times, the rite of passage was usually held at the age of seven, so it was also called the rite of passage at the age of seven. The opening ceremony is not only the traditional etiquette and etiquette culture of the motherland, but also the beginning of traditional culture education for children all their lives.

The purpose is to let children feel the traditional customs left by their ancestors while receiving modern education, and feel the essence of China traditional culture, such as respecting teachers, respecting morality and caring for the world, establishing a good and upright code of conduct, and absorbing the essence of respecting teachers and loving learning. Complete life cognition and role cognition, have knowledge and promote students' healthy growth.

Ancient schools were divided into many types according to different specifications and modes of running schools, including private schools, rural schools, imperial examination schools and so on. With a perfect imperial examination system, the purpose of students' enrollment is to enter the official career. Students take the imperial examination while studying, and challenge step by step. Some people go to be the first early, while others try again and again to make a living.

The ancient academic system was not as regular as it is today, and there were national and formal ceremonies such as opening and closing. Generally speaking, children are sent to school by their parents between the ages of 4 and 6, and they worship someone as a teacher. Teachers hold enlightenment ceremonies for children, that is, they worship Confucius, the teachers and the norms. At the same time, parents pay tuition for teachers.

Opening ceremony process

1. Dress appropriately, check the buttons and tidy the collar.

This is a gift from the teacher. In ancient times, Confucius was worshipped. Now he worships his teacher, and then the teacher returns the gift.

3, it is cinnabar Qizhi, using cinnabar to point a point on the child's forehead, indicating the opening of wisdom. Zhu Shazhi was also called Clever Mole, and opened his eyes. Officially began to learn, hoping that children can learn something.

This is for a clear purpose. The students drum three times one by one, and then tell their dreams when they grow up in public. Some are soldiers, some are doctors and some are policemen.

5, is the opening ceremony, all children have to write a word, this is also the first word at the beginning of learning, but also the beginning of life.

6. Reciting Disciples' Rules: At the beginning of life, people are good in nature and similar in sex, learning from others, and guiding children to grow up based on Disciples' Rules.