In order to ensure that their children's health and longevity, happiness, and parents of the children in naming practice base for the kids, family name, in addition, also in the field of etiquette of one thousand tries to seek ways, methods, and even expanded thinking in the field of religion, let a monk, Taoist named the child.

Let monks and Taoist named the child, such as folk call "JiMing", refers to the children born after the full moon, to deliver the baby parentstempleTaoist temple, the monk, soil take a dharma name or the name and symbol in the etiquette, children will be entrusted to the basis of buddhist and Taoist temple, thus forming a kind of religious and secular kinship.People will children JiMing deities, is buddhist, Taoist temple are charismatic procession of the holy place, the children entrusted to them, it is only natural that the bodhisattva, god bless, evil evil thing, evil plague disease is not easy to infringe.

In our country, the custom of JiMing was once widespread.The classical novel "jin ping mei", "dream of red mansions" is wrote JiMing custom."A dream of red mansions" 22 back wrote: "the next day, there is treasure jade JiMing's foster mother. The woman to the house to..."In addition, 29 back, sixty-four are written back to the artful face", and the treasure jade JiMing.The west door celebrate in the "jin ping mei" is the son to the jade emperor pagoda Wu Daoguan JiMing.Nearly, modern life, we can also give examples of JiMing.Lu xun in childhood JiMing temple, right "evening".And there is a children, there is a call "bolas" thing, hang above some sporadic dot, such as the almanac, mirror and silver screen, it can ward off evil spirits.Hu Piaoan "the national customs" also recorded JiMing convention in south and north.Recorded such as southern wuxian a pediatric JiMing deities of the vulgar.-- the whole territory.Prosperity of the homeThe child, spoiled, half the body weak, when the above diseases.Their home or temple incense, a bag with a red cloth, pediatric heptyl in among them, the common name for a mail bag, hanging Buddha on the cabinet.Naturally, every lunar year-end, monks prepared meals, sending children home, called eve, the family will give money to the monk.Whoever sent three years beginning tomorrow.When have send, monk named the child, such as deities is gold, which is named kinson, Jin Shou class, etc.

JiMing has certain rituals, nothing more than to burn incense pray category.JiMing, monks to give their children some things, such as the monk agriculture, clothing and so on.The most prominent is the JiMing descriptor and JiMing lock (cable).Wu Daoguan in jin ping mei, besides a lot of things for the west door celebrate son gave a FuYin collar, top write "prosperity, longevity with wealth and honor", there is a Zhu Shu yellow twill, writing on "destiny too b, peach delay kang", silver collars and yellow line operator is JiMing locks and JiMing operator.

Children JiMing later, some are dressed as monks, monks, in becoming a monk.But not after JiMing deities and sendoh never secularization, keep this relationship forever.Because the author designed the baby for the nurse's sake, they not let the child dun, a monk of the word, they just want to borrow the deities sendoh bless from a temporary woes.In they believe that their child has spent the woes of spirit and flesh, to be independent to resist foreign invasion, the relationship is terminated.Terminate the relationship between ritual called "secularization", "bag", namely the JiMing JiMing bag back to the temple, when the return to secular life.This etiquette ShunYi County in Beijing, the past is called "jump stool", which is in the children grow up, choose an auspicious day, for the ritual to the temple to tribute, head priest of a temple nitpicking punish children, children would have to skip the bench, stay home.In tianjin, the etiquette behavior jump wall is 12 years old, still quite cumbersome: "jump wall in advance, must choose a good day, a buy dustpan, hair brush, prepare old eight pieces of copper.And period, lead the children for their parents, and the idol incense pray, side to hold the dustpan and brush, MAO wipe table sweetmeats, cleaning the ground.Never put off till tomorrow what you can, evenHave a haircutPotter for children leave hair, then make the children standing on the bench, four from both the old money.Watching people, Shouting, 'the old monk "held by the hands of children will be back to the money, jumped off the bench and not look back, go straight to the home.The so-called jump wall also."