Nieumu
It is believed that nieumu is the goddess that was sent to guard children by cinienma.
 
Toujuan
According to the local custom, parents would visit the temple and pray to cinienma or cushennienien, guanyinma or Machu for protecting their children when they were about one year old. Then parents also put an ancient coin, silver medal or pendant-like object around the neck of their children with a lace called juan in Mandarin. They also promised to redeem a vow to the deity when their children were sixteen years old. Since then, they would bring their children to the temple and worship the deity on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. If there was no temple nearby, they would set up an altar at home and replace the lace in front of the deity. The action is referred to as huanjuan ( replacement of lace). When children were sixteen years old, parents would take off the ancient coin, silver medal or pendant-like object from their children on the birthday of cimanien. It was referred to as toujuan (removal of lace). They must visit the temple again to thank cimanien.
     The custom of 16 years old began from the story of Wutiegang in front of Suisien Temple  located outside of Dasimen  of Tainan. In olden days, it was an important trade port controlled by five families. Many of them hired underage workers who could only receive half of the wage because they were under 16. Therefore, when workers had children of sixteen, they celebrated their sixteenth birthday because they could earn as much money as adults did.

     On that day, grandmothers had to prepare clothes, shoes, a hat, a watch, a necklace, a bicycle or sewing machine, a red rice cake, bananas, a chicken, noodles and a duck to celebrate the sixteenth birthday of their grandsons or granddaughters. The foreman and friends were also invited to witness the ceremony so that they could receive full wages since then.

Cinienma is the guardian deity of children. According to the Taiwanese legend: sympathizing with Cinu  and Niulang after they were separated by wangmuniennien (queen of heaven), sisters of Cinu secretly protected their children, so that they could grow up healthily. As Taiwan was an offshore island of China, it followed the tradition of the Chinese culture and worshipped Cinu and Kueixhing  in the evening in earlier days.

Later, local people developed their own customs with a focus on children. Cimanien is worshipped at Kailong Temple . On Cisi, local people will organize the rite of passage, i.e. celebrating the sixteenth birthday of children. It is a Tainan-unique custom.

Features:

   On the first Cisi day of a child who is sixteen years old, parents must prepare a nieumuyi, four kinds of fruits, a cihsing kiosk, five finds of animal sacrifices, seven bowls of sweet taros (good luck for future), red rice cake, dumplings and rice noodles, together with several cockscombs and globe amaranth, as well as two tailed sugarcanes. Some also offer tobacco and betel nuts for the “good brothers” during the Ghost Festival. After the ritual is completed, parents or elder members of the family will raise the cishing kiosk with its back facing the temple door and ask their children to pass under the kiosk. Then, children will crawl around the altar of cinienma thrice (boys on the left and girls on the right), representing that they have left the cinienma kiosk and become adults. To boys, it is known as cunieumugong; to girls, it is called cupoma. From now on, they are all on their own.

     After worshipping cinienma, they will burn the jicien (paper made to resemble money and burned as an offering to the dead) and jingyi (paper made to resemble clothes and burned as an offering to the dead), and the cishing kiosk as well. The bamboo framework that cannot be burned will be dumped away on the roof, known as the ceremony of cupojiehcien (pojieh, the maid of the madam of Lisui Temple). Then parents will take away the necklace on the children’s neck (known as toujuan) as the final step of the rite of passage.

Cishing Kiosk

     Also known as the Cinienma Kiosk, it is the residence of deity cinienma. According to legends, cinienma loves living in luxurious buildings and dressing up. Therefore, the kiosk has been beautifully built. Often made of papers, the kiosk has three sides, two or three stories. The idol of cinienma is printed on the front side of the kiosk, while decorations of other fairies, personages, flowers, birds and mascots are on the other sides.

Nieumu
     It is believed that nieumu is the goddess that was sent to guard children by cinienma.
 
Toujuan
According to local custom, parents would visit the temple and pray to cinienma or cushennienien , guanyinma  or Machu for protecting their children when they were about one year old. Then parents also put an ancient coin, silver medal or pendant-like object around the neck of their children with a lace called juan in Mandarin. They also promised to redeem a vow to the deity when their children were sixteen years old. Since then, they would bring their children to the temple and worship the deity on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. If there was no temple nearby, they would set up an altar at home and replace the lace in front of the deity. The action is referred to as huanjuan ( replacement of lace). When children were sixteen years old, parents would take off the ancient coin, silver medal or pendant-like object from their children on the birthday of cimanien. It was referred to as toujuan ( removal of lace). They must visit the temple again to thank cimanien.