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Adult ceremony, also known as "adult ceremony", "adult ceremony" and "adult ceremony", is a transitional ceremony, which refers to all ceremonies, ceremonies and practical activities in different cultures that mark the transition from childhood to adolescence or adulthood.

Nowadays, children's adult ceremony is often that children invite their good friends to parties. This form, born out of the West, is not an ancient gift from China. According to modern western tradition, when a certain age is reached, it will be regarded as a formal entry into the social circle, and families with conditions will carry out some ceremonial activities according to their own class.

Now that everyone has a good life, bar mitzvah has gradually flourished in some places. According to Article 17 of China's Civil Law, natural persons over 18 years old are adults. A natural person under the age of eighteen is a minor. Therefore, we usually regard the child's 18 birthday as a child's adult gift, usually in the form of family celebration and school holding.

Ritual essence

In academic circles, scholars have equated adult ceremony with "physical maturity etiquette" or "sexual maturity etiquette". Arnoldvan Gennep, a famous French folklorist, refuted this view in "Transitional Etiquette".

Take the age difference of circumcision in different regions as an example: the same etiquette sometimes marks the beginning of childhood and sometimes marks the beginning of adolescence, but it has nothing to do with physical maturity. Therefore, Fan Jiepu proposed that the rite of passage marks "social maturity", and its essence lies in social and cultural significance rather than physiological significance.

At the same time, American scholar ruth benedict also mentioned in his book Cultural Patterns that people in different cultures have different ages for puberty.

Adolescence is actually a social and cultural problem, and all kinds of ceremonies held for this period are to show that children have entered a new adult stage through different forms. The so-called sign of entering the adult stage is not the physiological maturity in the biological sense, but the adolescent adult ceremony restricted by culture.

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