Reading guide: Today's May Day is a "fierce day", no matter how busy you are, you must keep in mind: one to worship, two not to move, three not to do, the old tradition can not be lost
Today is May Day, a national holiday, this year's May Day holiday is 5 days off and 4 days on weekends, in fact, it is a day off.
But after the holiday, we have a 5-day holiday, we can go out to travel, and we can also cultivate ourselves at home. For farmers, it is the busy season, and they begin to plant peanuts, seedlings and sweet potatoes in spring and spring.
For traveling, we need to choose a day to travel, according to the yellow calendar, May 1 this year turned out to be a "bad day". How did this come about? What are the particulars of the "Evil Day"?
Our ancestors left us a mantra for choosing a day, and that is." The "black" here refers to the evil day of the underworld. "Yellow" refers to the auspicious day of the zodiac!
"Twelve Jianji" is composed of twelve sequential characters, each representing a Japanese character. This is what we call the auspicious day of the zodiac, the auspicious day of the underworld, the auspicious day of the zodiac is a good day, and the auspicious day of the underworld is a fierce day!
These 12 words represent 12 days. Starting from "construction", it goes through the process of exception, fullness, leveling, stability, persistence, breakage, danger, success, harvest, opening, and the end of "closing".
Zodiac auspicious days: except for the day, the dangerous day, the fixed day, the day of execution, the day of success, and the opening day.
Underworld murder day: construction day, full day, weekday, closing day, breaking day, closed day.
This year's May Day is the 23rd day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and according to the 12th Jianzhi, it is the closing day, which is a criminal day. It also shows that May 1 this year is not a good day, and May 2 is the 24th day of the lunar month, which is a good day, and everything is fine!
In fact, there is another folk saying, that is, there are three bad days in the lunar month, that is, the fifth, fourteenth, and twenty-third days of the first lunar month, that is, these three days are unlucky days, so the first day of May this year meets the twenty-third day of March, which is an inauspicious day.
What taboo practices are needed for this year's May Day? The experience summed up by the ancestors: First, we must worship, second, we must not move, and third, we must do it!
One has to worship
The twenty-third day of the lunar calendar also coincided with this year's May Day, which is the birthday of Mazu Niangniang, that is, to worship Mazu Niangniang.
Mazu Niangniang is very popular in Taiwan and Fujian, and is a sea goddess Niangniang, who can bless the safety of people who go to sea.
Nowadays, there are Mazu Niangniang temples in many places, so on this day, we must worship Mazu Niangniang, especially those who make a living from fishing or those who work at sea, must worship Mazu Niangniang.
Therefore, on this day, not only should you worship, but also do not go to bathe, and do not go into the sea to swim.
Two do not move
One is not to build a house on this year's May Day, so this day is a closing day.
Second, do not move graves and bury them. Some people don't go home on Qingming Day, and they feel that it's May Day, so they can go home to the grave, etc., and there is even the possibility of moving the grave, so try not to do it.
Three don't do
First, May Day is the day of receipt according to the lunar calendar, so don't lend money to others on this day. It was originally a day of contraction or harvest, and it was possible that lending money to others would not be recovered.
The second is not to get married. Because this day is indeed one of the most unlucky days in the third lunar month, and it is also an odd-numbered day. If you want to get married, you can choose May 2nd.
The third is not to travel far. Since it is an unlucky day, it is not to travel, or not to go to a particularly distant place. Of course, you can depart on May 2nd, which is a day of opening and a day when everything is fine.
If you believe, you will have, and if you don't believe, this is just a kind of reverence for nature in ancient times. After all, there was no high technology at that time, so many problems were difficult to explain.
Nowadays, the application of high technology and astronomical science and technology, many natural phenomena and the operation of celestial bodies have been revealed. We also understand the origin of some phenomena, so we should make scientific arrangements for our lives, and reasonable arrangements are enough.
Where are you going this May Day?