Why do old people still believe in auspicious days?

The auspicious day of the zodiac is a good day for everything. Farmers' calendars, or Huang Li and Tong Sheng, can choose auspicious days, such as marriage, engagement, dating, business opening, market opening and moving. The word "auspicious day" appears very frequently in China folk culture. In civil life activities, we often hear or see weddings, funerals, sacrifices, occupations, business cooperation, construction and ground breaking, business trips and so on. We must look for it. Especially in the period of the revival of traditional culture in China, the idiom "auspicious day" has once again become a hot spot, and more and more people are practicing it. However, due to historical reasons, there is a fault in the traditional folk culture of China, so that many modern people don't understand the origin of "auspicious day", so blind pursuers appear and regard it as a classic: one-sided critics regard it as a scourge. Waiting for social weird events.

The word "auspicious day" is not superstitious, but represents the longing for all good things. "If you do good things and avoid evil, you can seek happiness for future generations, and you can enjoy it endlessly. This is also 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). The auspicious day of the ecliptic is an example of the combination of Chinese and western.