What do you mean by breaking ground, breaking ground and breaking houses?

Break ground: To dig with a hoe for the first time (especially a dark house)

Breaking ground: When building a house, hoes were first used for digging. (mostly referring to yangzhai)

Broken houses: broken walls, demolition; Demolition of houses or fences

Breaking ground, breaking ground and breaking houses are proper terms of the Yellow Calendar.

Extended data:

The Gregorian calendar, also known as the old Gregorian calendar and the imperial calendar, was born on the basis of the China lunar calendar. It is a perpetual calendar with good luck and bad luck every day. According to legend, the yellow calendar was created by Xuanyuan Huangdi, so it is called the yellow calendar. The main content of the Gregorian calendar is the 24 solar terms, as well as daily taboos, branches, values, stars, moon phases, good or bad luck and so on.

In modern times, the main contents of the Gregorian calendar include: Gregorian calendar, lunar calendar and trunk calendar, twenty-four solar terms and Sunday (week), taboos, disasters, directions, fleeting time, traditional lunar calendar, nine planets in Kong Xuan and so on.

References:

Huangli-Baidu Encyclopedia