What do you mean by auspicious days, yin will be yang?

General Yin and Yang: "Men should be married and women should be married". Since ancient times, people generally regard marriage between men and women as a major event in life and attach great importance to it. Jiang Haifeng, a juror of Mount Emei in Wang Lian Town, wrote a book "Examination of the Wedding of Scholar-officials in the Late Qing Dynasty", which extensively researched the wedding of ancient scholar-officials and ordinary Bai surname. Marriage is the beginning of human relations, and two surnames can be combined to serve the ancestral temple and the next generation. It is precisely because it is related to the development of mankind that the wedding is both complicated and solemn. In ancient China, not only the scholar-officials learned the six rites, but even the ordinary people had to follow the six rites of winning the lottery, asking for names, coachable, collecting taxes, inviting guests and welcoming relatives, only the complexity and simplicity of the rites were different. Rongcheng is located in a remote place and under the rule of Shandong, but it has changed the practice of "conforming to customs and not welcoming people personally" and strictly followed the Six Rites. Only "winning prizes", "asking names", "Najib", "inviting people" and "welcoming guests in person" have been changed into "matchmaking", "sending Cambodia" and "sending it outside and sending it inside". As the saying goes, "when a girl is old, she can't stay." Stay and make enemies. "In the past, most men married women very early,/kloc-women over 0/8 were not engaged or married. Not only the woman herself, but also her parents will be laughed at. If a man doesn't get married after twenty, it will also lead to all kinds of criticisms and even affect his future marriage. Therefore, parents should pay attention to their children's marriage when they have children. The phenomenon of early marriage among folk farmers is very common, and some even call their bellies marriage. The proposal stage includes three parts: matchmaking, marriage and small posts, which are equivalent to "receiving color" and "asking name" in ancient etiquette. Matchmaking is commonly called matchmaking. In the past, marriage between men and women was arranged by their parents. Through the matchmaker, the two surnames will be reconciled, so it is called "the life of parents, the words of the matchmaker." To establish a marriage relationship, we must first abide by the same surname and special regulations (such as Cao Cao's social habit of unmarried surnames), and then consider whether the family is suitable and the age is appropriate. Generally speaking, matchmaking is the man's initiative, and the matchmaker plays an extremely important role in the marriage between men and women. Matchmakers in Rongcheng rural areas don't take this as a business. On the contrary, people regard helping others get married as "the beauty of adults" and do good deeds. This kind of person tells the truth according to the matchmaker. Being a matchmaker only matches the bridge. Whether it is successful or not is a matter for both parties, and there is no conflict of interest with the matchmaker: after it is done, the man will either send a cloth or a pig's head to eat. The larger market towns in China are different, and there are matchmakers who specialize in matchmaking. These people are diligent in their legs, diligent in their mouths and clever in their brains. "They can tell the dead alive. "Because they take matchmaking as their profession, they communicate extensively on weekdays and accumulate various information about the married man and woman, such as age, appearance, conduct and family status. And take the initiative to attack and match the bridge without the explanation of the master, and get a generous thank-you gift after the job is done. Therefore, most of these people's insurance media are deceiving and embellishing, leaving two families with no clue and muddle through, which often leads to adverse consequences. There is a folk proverb in Rongcheng that "the matchmaker keeps secrets from both sides, and if he doesn't keep secrets, he can't get married." Therefore, in ancient times, they were listed as one of the "six elders". After marriage, her task was completed, and the family invited two most famous men to be the media. Because the name of the media is written on the post, it is also called "red media", and electricity is the "repair" of the written language. The process of matchmaking proposal was called "winning the lottery" in ancient weddings. Marriage is introduced and explained by the matchmaker back and forth. Trouble comes when both men and women have the desire to get married. The first is the contradiction between parents and children, because this is the fate of parents, and children often have their own ideas. The son wants to marry a handsome daughter-in-law, and the father often scolds: "Say that the daughter-in-law is alive, not taking her as a painting sticker." "As long as you are virtuous, don't look at the color. "My son likes tall people and says," My father is a girl and my mother is a nest. "My father retorted," Experts are not as resourceful as dwarfs. "After the father and son quarrel, still can't sign the engagement. When they get married, they must ask a fortune teller or a yin-yang teacher to see if the marriage meets the requirements. The content of marriage includes birth, fate, date of birth, mutual restraint or complementarity between men and women. Male and female zodiac signs first require opposition. The formula of the zodiac is: white horses are afraid of green cattle, sheep and mice-Danxiu: snakes and tigers are like knives and files, pigs and monkeys are not at the end. A golden rooster fears a jade dog. The zodiac is like a gram, no matter how good the conditions are, you can't get married, and you don't have to get married again. If the zodiac signs coincide, then push whether the "fates" of both sides coincide. The so-called "fate" is based on heavenly stems and earthly branches, who was born on both sides, and forms a "fate" named after the "five elements", that is, Jin Mu has ten lives. According to the "five elements", we can see whether our lives match. When life is harmonious, "five elements" coexist, namely, golden water, aquatic wood, wood fire, fire soil and primary gold; Otherwise, the "five elements" are born together, such as Jin Kemu, Mutuke, Tukeshui, Shuihuoke and Huojinke. " The five elements are naturally a good marriage, but they can't all be so smooth. It depends on the mutual correspondence of the five elements. As long as it's not like Jin Kemu, you can get married in exchange for fire and soil. This is the mutual insult in the "five elements". That is, fire insults water, water insults soil, soil insults wood, wood insults gold, and gold insults fire. Bullying is not as good as life, but it is better than grams. After calculating the zodiac and fate, there is the last level, which is the collision of birthdays. Therefore, marriage is very complicated, and it is generally necessary to ask a fortune teller or a yin-yang teacher to calculate. However, there is also a set of formulas. Without this set, they will sometimes be blind. Niu Chen's eight characters pay attention to Liuhe and Liuhong, which is ancient and fierce. Liuhe is: Hai Yin, Mao E, Chen Wei, Xu Mu, Shen Si and Zi Chou. The six reds are: Shen Yin, You Mao, Woods, Qiu Wei, Chen Xu and Hayes. Zodiac, life and life are completely consistent, and the two items are consistent. One is lucky, and none is a match. In ancient weddings, it was called "asking the name" and "telling the truth"; Small posts are also called "Gai Geng posts" or "Guo Hong posts". After marriage, if the zodiac, life and birth do not conflict, you can sign an engagement. This is a "small post", which is a written agreement between the two parties to initially implement their marriage intentions. Similar to the current "initial", it cannot be regarded as an official text. After a small post, first of all, the man asks someone to write a proposal in red paper, which should clearly indicate the man's three generations and date of birth, so it is also called "red post", "Geng post" or "proposal post". After receiving the invitation, the woman's family should write back, even the "permission post" or "permission post" should also write clearly the woman's birthday. In the past, it was emphasized that "men and women are not close." Therefore, posts cannot be posted by the parties, but must be posted in the name of parents. If there is a grandfather, it will be posted by him, if his father dies, it will be posted by his eldest brother, and if his father dies without a brother, it will be posted by his uncle. That is to say, there are those who rank according to seniority, those who are senior and those who don't let the younger generation; In people of similar ancestry but not far away. Say great virtue to the elders, big marriage to the peers, and great expectations to the younger generation; For the elders, they claim to get married as soon as possible, for their peers, and for the younger generation, they claim to get married as soon as possible. Auspicious day of the ecliptic: The word "auspicious day of the ecliptic" appears very frequently in China folk culture. In civil life activities, we often hear or see weddings, funerals, sacrifices, occupations, business cooperation, building houses, business trips and so on. We should look for "auspicious days in the ecliptic" to make our work go smoothly, especially during the period of the revival of traditional culture in China. However, due to historical reasons, there is a fault in the traditional folk culture in China, so that many modern people don't understand the origin of "auspicious day in the ecliptic", so blind pursuers appear and regard it as a classic: one-sided critics regard it as a scourge. Waiting for strange things in society.

So, what is an auspicious day? "ecliptic" is a term in ancient astronomy, and the ecliptic is the orbit of the earth around the sun. Its astronomical theory originated in ancient Babylon and was introduced into ancient Greece, from Greece to India around the Gregorian calendar, and from Sui and Tang Dynasties to China with the translation of Buddhist scriptures. At that time, China's astronomical calendar had a mature astrological system of 28 constellations, so the introduction of the zodiac did not have much impact on China's traditional astronomy. It was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that Christian missionaries introduced a large number of western astronomy to China, and the zodiac was gradually widely used.

It's just that the location of the zodiac is the same as the solar calendar in China, and the distribution of the 24 solar terms and the 28 nights is the same, which is why the zodiac is integrated into China astronomy. The formation of China planetarium astrology system itself is based on the ancient astrology theory, so the concept of constellation is naturally used by astrology. He not only used astrology, but also played a great role in agriculture and weather forecast.

In fact, "the auspicious day of the ecliptic" is explained in a great sense from the weather forecast. Imagine what will happen to activities such as marriage, funeral, business cooperation, building breaking, business trip, tourism, and even natural disasters? I don't think anyone wants this to happen.

The word "auspicious day" is not a superstition, it represents a longing for all good things, which is understandable. As for the "old calendar" that guides you to find a good day to see a doctor, make clothes, even take a bath and get a haircut, you don't have to abide by it. Because that is a thing of the past, there are indeed some dross in traditional culture. When we inherit and carry forward traditional culture, we should "take its essence and discard its dross". Make the past serve the present and make foreign things serve China. "(quotations from Chairman Mao). And "auspicious day" is an example of the combination of Chinese and western.