Two men in traditional robes hold up an elaborately embroidered garment during a ceremony in a sunlit East Asian temple garden, with many onlookers.

Two men in traditional robes hold up an elaborately embroidered garment during a ceremony in a sunlit East Asian temple garden, with many onlookers.

They have a ceremony for that son. They take the sun out and put him on the special garment, put him in a public place and perform the ceremony of adoption and place that sun. From that time that son's name is just as good on the check as his father's is. See more

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