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The Top Knot Cutting Ceremony is called Khon Juk (Thai: โกนจุก) and is an ancient Thai ceremony that used to be popular in the reign of the four. It is often held with other auspicious ceremonies such as the House Blessing Ceremony. Khon Juk is a ceremony for children who are between seven to thirteen years old.

Before the Khon Juk Day
People have to prepare a place where is a children' home or a temple and prepare items which include of a table for auspicious ritual items, a table altar, scissors, holy thread, holy water, conch shell, and food for monks. Buddhist monks are invited for the ceremony.

On the Khon Juk Day
The child must be dressed in new and beautiful clothes. Then parents of child takes the child to the place where is prepared for the Khon Juk ceremony, and the monks will start chant Chayanto, which is a Thai prayer. When the chanting is finished, a monk cuts a little bit of the child’s hair, and then adults who could be mother, father, or a person who the child highly respects can continue to cut the child’s hair. Next, parents of child take the child to a place where is prepared for pouring holy water. Then adults start pouring holy water on the child from the most respected person to the less respected person. The child’s hair that was cut is put on a lotus leaf that is floated on the water, and the adults will pray for the child.