Is February 15, Year of the Tiger, 2022 an auspicious day for ancestor worship?
Is February 15, Year of the Tiger, 2022 an auspicious day for ancestor worship?
Gregorian calendar: March 2022 17 (Thursday)
Lunar calendar: February 2022 15 (lunar calendar)
Suitability: pick up a car, sign a contract, enter a house, trade, install a bed, cut clothes, build a stove, build a house, start work, erect a horse, open a warehouse by caesarean section, load goods, erect columns, build a foundation, release funds, lend money, get a haircut, enter a mountain, cut trees and sail.
Taboo: marriage, traveling, moving, going to work for burial, proposing marriage, proposing marriage, starting a business, starting a business, using both hands and feet to make up for the broken wall.
Auspiciousness and auspiciousness: Tiande He Yuede and Tianfu Cai Yue Sacred Heart Wufukou Post Horse Queen Day Liu Yixiang Day
Fierce taboo: Fei Lian, the Tiangou Suzaku Mafia, kills and harms the world.
Peng Zu's 100 taboo: If the bondage is not broken, the two masters will not travel far and their property will be hidden.
God of wealth: due north
West Deep: Northeast China.
Wealth: due south
Today's Zodiac: Pig
Yin Na today: Dalinmu
Today's constellation: Pisces
The evil side: the evil east
Looking up the Yellow Calendar, we can see that sacrifice is not among the appropriate items in the Yellow Calendar, so February 15, 2022 is an auspicious day for ancestor worship.
The Origin and Development of Sacrifice
Sacrifice is a part of China's ritual system and a major part of Confucian etiquette. There are five rites, and sacrifice is not more important than sacrifice. Sacrifice is to serve the gods for happiness. The objects of sacrifice are divided into three categories: gods, territories and human gods. The gods are called sacrifices, the land is called sacrifices, and the ancestral temple is called enjoyment. The concept of sacrifice records the explanations of Confucian books such as Zhou Li, The Book of Rites, Justice in the Book of Rites and University Expansion. In ancient China, the gods did not worship non-races, and the people did not worship non-races. There was a strict hierarchy of sacrifices. The gods and the earth are only sacrifices of the emperor. The prince and the doctor sacrificed mountains and rivers. Literati can only offer sacrifices to ancestors and kitchen gods. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival are the days for ancestor worship.
Sacrifice also means worshipping God, praying to God and worshiping ancestors. In primitive times, people thought that the human soul could exist without the body. Sacrifice is a derivative of this concept of soul. The initial sacrificial activities were relatively simple and barbaric. People use bamboo or clay to shape gods, or draw gods such as the sun, the moon, stars and beasts on rocks as appendages to worship objects. Then food and other gifts for God are displayed in front of idols, the host prays, and the worshippers sing and dance to God. Sacrificial ceremonies and sacrifices have certain norms. The old custom prepares sacrifices to pay tribute to gods or ancestors, express reverence and pray for blessings.