- Ritual
- 吃花酒（チー・ホワジウ、花酒を食す女子成年礼）
- Region and community
- 中国・雲南省玉溪市新平彝族傣族自治県平甸郷磨皮村／彝族聂苏（Niesu）女子
- Age at the cultural rite
- Age 18
- Transition conditions
- Reaching a recognized age / Community initiation / Marriage-linked transition
- Legal age of majority
- China18 yearsChina · Calendar unspecified · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
Chihua jiu is a girls’ coming-of-age tradition among Niesu Yi communities in Mopí Village, Xinping County, Yunnan, China. Around the age of eighteen, a young woman is honored beneath a flower shelter through flower gathering, songs, riddling and blessings led by a bimo. After the rite, she is recognized as having left girlhood and may enter relationships and marriage as an adult woman.
Xinping County government records document the annual heritage event on 16 March 2024 and an individual ceremony for an eighteen-year-old woman on 29 March 2026. The sources identify the community as Niesu Yi, not Huayao Dai.
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