What does Shangliang mean?

The upper beam is the most important part of building a house, and the time should be chosen at the time of "full moon" and "high tide", which means family reunion and money pouring in.

When boarding the beam, if your family's birthday coincides with the boarding time, you must avoid it. Before you climb the beam, you must make a sacrifice to the gods. The sacrifice is "whole pig" (that is, a pig's head and a pig's tail, which means whole pig), commonly known as "profit market".

Fish, goose, tofu, eggs, salt and soy sauce are five or seven colors. They are served in wooden red lacquer sacrificial plates, as well as 24 bowls of other dishes and 12 pots of fruits from north and south. Post couplets such as "The morning of the ecliptic, the column meets the purple star". Use yellow or green paper for couplets, and avoid using red paper. HongLing hangs from both ends of the beam, and a brass cymbal hangs from the HongLing, which means "peace and harmony".

Related customs

In front of the beam, the host will sing the song of the beam and pour the wine from the beam head to the beam tail with a hip flask while singing. After pouring, the master gave the craftsman a "red envelope". Then the chef greeted each other and shouted, "Come on, good luck!" " Pull the beam up to the end of the column slowly with a rope. The eastern end of the beam is higher than the western end, because the eastern end is the "dragon seat", the western end is the "white tiger seat" and the Buron of the white tiger is lower.

At this time, firecrackers exploded, the main beam was knocked into the tenon, and the steamed bread on the beam was thrown down. At this time, the son and daughter-in-law took the red quilt cover and caught the steamed bread left behind, indicating the home line. Anyone who is thrown out or deliberately thrown into the crowd outside the stadium will be taken away one after another, calling it "grabbing the steamed bread on the beam" to celebrate. At the latest, the host family presented Liang wine to entertain craftsmen, relatives and friends. Liang Panyu means "it rains in time and life is rich".

Make a fire after the beam is put on, and make a fire when you move into a new house, which means "roast". On this bright day, neighbors use red cloth as a flag and hang it on their roofs to avoid being "occupied by Feng Shui". Building houses by the people is a custom of "capping beams", which is called the Joy of Gai Lou. On the day of Liang Shang, the host made a banquet and relatives and friends came to congratulate him. When the beam was erected, Ji Hongtian had a large audience. Chicken blood is used as a sacrificial beam for carpenters. Dongfanghong worships Liang.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shangliang