Wedding check date, figure a lucky
It has now entered the Spring Festival. The almanac says that every year around February 3, when the sun reaches 315° ecliptic longitude, it enters Lichun. So, what does 315° ecliptic longitude mean?
It turns out that in ancient times, after our ancient sages learned about the close relationship between the four seasons of the year and the sun, for the sake of convenience, they imagined the sky as a huge ball (that is, the celestial sphere), and then called the trajectory of the sun on the celestial sphere every year as the "ecliptic". This "ecliptic" is the zodiac in the "auspicious day of the zodiac" that is said in ordinary days.
Every year, when the sun is running on the celestial sphere, the trajectory is repeated and cyclical; for the trajectory of the sun for a week, the ancestors gave a special name called "The Yellow Sutra of the Sun". The trajectory of the Sun for a week (360°) in the celestial sphere is divided into 24 equal parts, each corresponding to about fifteen days, which is a solar term.
In this way, according to the calculation of 360 ° in the operation week, the ancestors set the position of the sun on the ecliptic longitude when the continent entered the vernal equinox, and the position of the sun on the ecliptic longitude was 180 ° ecliptic longitude during the autumn equinox. As mentioned in the previous article, the position of the sun is at 315 ° ecliptic longitude, which means this.
24 solar terms
Auspicious day of the zodiac
The Sun travels once a day on the celestial sphere, so it is in a different position each day. In addition to the Sun, there are many other constellations next to the Sun's position. Our ancestors believed that a certain situation formed by the sun and these constellations could affect people on Earth. This effect is sometimes good, called ji; sometimes bad, called fierce.
When the sun moves to a certain position, the situation formed with the constellation will bring a good influence to people, this day is the so-called "zodiac auspicious day"; the opposite is the underworld fierce day.
Mainland folk have the custom of "checking the date" of marriage, that is, to find an auspicious day to do a happy event. Before that, both men and women should exchange "Gengtie", commonly known as "copying the eight characters"; after the exchange of "Gengtie", they can "check the date" accordingly, that is, all parties should take into account and make overall plans to choose a day that is beneficial to both men and women.
Here are some of the principles for choosing:
Choosing a year: Do not get married in a year without spring. The so-called year without spring is that there is no spring day in that year, also known as the "widow year". It is commonly believed that when a "widow" marries, it will be widowed and lack heirs. The "year of life" does not marry, such as the rabbit in the year of the rabbit, said to be unfavorable to itself.
In addition, there are many "forbidden marriage years" associated with the marriage of men and women.
Choosing the month: Based on the woman's "birthday eight characters", each genus has two "big li months" and two "small li moons" in the year. The recipe for the "Great Li Moon" is: "Positive and seven welcome chickens and rabbits, two and eight tigers and monkeys, three and nine snakes and pigs, four and ten dragons and dogs, May and November cattle and sheep out, June and November rats and horses together." ”
The recipe for "Xiao Li Yue" is: "Positive and seven to welcome the dragon dog, two and eight cattle and sheep to go, three and nine rats and horses to go, four and ten chickens and rabbits to welcome, May and November tiger monkey out, June and December snakes and pigs the same." ”
Good day and auspicious day
Date selection: According to the age of the person who married was "single year old" and "double age", check the "Zhou Tang Tu" (this picture is painted in the "Almanacs" of the old times), and avoid the "moon taboo", that is, "the fifth, fourteenth, and twenty-third day of the first year". As the saying goes, "On the fifth, fourteenth, and twenty-third day of the first year, the poor-mouthed rat does not come out of the nunnery."
It is also necessary to avoid "Yang Gongjie", there are "committing 'Yang Gongjie', Pepsi things are not satisfactory"; in addition, there are "Three Niangs Burning Day", "Red Burning Day", "Red Pine Nuts Descending Day" and so on are all fierce days.
In addition to one kind or another taboo day in a month, it is difficult to find auspicious days, so there is no second half of the year in the first half of the year, "Big Li Moon" does not have "Xiao Li Yue" to find, there is no four profit months a year, only to wait for another year.
In addition, folklore believes that after the twenty-third to the twenty-ninth day of the Waxing Moon, the gods go to heaven, everything is appropriate, there are no taboos, and every day is a good day for marriage, so there are more people who marry during this period every year, and there is a saying that "after the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, marry the daughter-in-law no matter which day".