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What does the Gregorian calendar Yang Gong mean?

Yang Gong is an important teacher of Taoism. At the turn of Xia and Shang Dynasties, he served as an adviser to the royal family of Yin and Shang Dynasties, and was highly respected by more and more people in the society at that time. Later, he was named one of the taoist sanqing, and visited his desire to become many people who want to learn Taoist teachings. Yang Gong's teachings and works in the Yellow Calendar have influenced China's culture and traditional customs, and even been widely quoted in daily life, becoming legendary and mysterious.

The Taoist philosophy advocated by Yang Gong in the Yellow Calendar advocates "keeping in good health at the right time". He believes that people should adjust their life rhythm according to the laws of nature, and learn how to arrange a reasonable daily life according to their physical condition and life rhythm, so as to achieve the purpose of protecting health and preventing diseases. Yang Gong also pays attention to spiritual culture and moral education. He emphasized that a person should be moral, upright, and face himself and the people around him with kindness and friendship.

The Application of Yang Gong in Folk Culture

In the daily life of ordinary people in China, Yang Gong has become an image representative who is knowledgeable, loves wisdom, cheerful and optimistic, and is often used as an auspicious blessing for getting married, building a temple, moving, traveling and opening a business. In traditional customs, people will arrange various activities and sacrifices according to Yang Gong's calculation in the Yellow Calendar, and think that people can get the protection and blessing of Yang Gong in the Yellow Calendar by praying for peach blossom luck, offering sacrifices to ancestors, lighting incense and sweeping houses.