With each monkey festival, not only would each young man be one year older, he would rise one level in the palakuwan system, so that the monkey festival has always been seen as a coming-of-age ceremony.
而每經過一次猴祭，少年不只長大一歲，在會所中也上升一級，因此少年猴祭也被視為少年的成年禮。