After accepting children's kowtow, elders must do two things. First, they should say, "All right, get up." First, give children some "gifts", such as gadgets, candy and so on. , or give some change. The "head" can't be collected for nothing! In the old days, many people said "no need" in time when their children said they had never knelt. And stop the children from kowtowing, so as not to be embarrassed to take out gifts.
Second, bowing and knocking at the door are common gifts for adults to meet their elders. Generally speaking, when visiting or visiting elders, you should take the initiative to say, "I (my name or seniority, identity) kowtowed to XX." And you can say a blessing, then bow to your elders, and then kneel down and kowtow.
If the elders accept this "head", they should also show it, mostly by giving money and saying something like "give you a pot of tea (or a pot of wine)" or "buy a pair of shoes to wear".
Otherwise (for example, to show modesty or not to spend money), the younger generation should say "Don't knock" and "Don't knock" in time after bowing, and it is best to reach out and hold the other person's body at the same time to stop kowtowing, because as long as the "head" knocks, it will cost.
Three, one worship and three knocks, this is a grand etiquette, mostly in the following occasions, elders who meet for the first time, elders who meet their ancestors, people with high moral expectations or high status, teachers, New Year greetings, birthdays, thank humbly and so on.
The ceremony is to take a long bow first, then kneel down. After the first head, kneel straight up, then knock the second head, the third head, and finally stand up. Don't "pound garlic", it won't be straight if you touch your head three times in a row. That's impolite (children can).
In addition to the above family etiquette, there are some rules related to a certain ceremony, such as offering sacrifices in ancestral temples, offering sacrifices to gods in different temples, praying for rain and heaven, and various complicated etiquette in officialdom.
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College students' "kowtowing homework" reflects "educational naivety"
A college of Zhengzhou University assigned students a "kowtow" homework problem, which is to kowtow to parents.
"kowtowing" is gratitude, can it stimulate gratitude? In ancient times, "kowtowing" was a habitual way of etiquette, which was caused by the environment. Today, there is no "flattering environment".
This assignment is bound to commit "educational infantilism".
An assignment is quite "naive", looking for the most common way to thank parents from traditional culture, and then thinking that this can reflect "family" and express "gratitude";
Second, I have no experience. I don't know if the homework scheduler and approver have done it themselves. But at least they don't understand the psychological feelings of students in today's times and lack the investigation and research on the connotation of gratitude. Taking formalized things as the content and extending "traditional culture" out of context is "educational naivety".
The problem of "kowtowing" really captures the key point of the era of "lack of gratitude", but unfortunately no suitable solution has been found. If we insist that this is the inheritance of traditional culture, it can only be said that it is a mechanical inheritance, not a passive promotion. Mechanical inheritance is not only harmful to the realization of good intentions, but also easy to endanger the spread of traditional culture.
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