Why did the ancients choose auspicious days first? What is an auspicious day?

Ancient people's feudal superstitions. They think that only by doing something important on the auspicious day of the zodiac can they finish it smoothly and their future life will be comfortable and frank. Therefore, in some general occasions and events, the ancients will definitely choose the auspicious day of the zodiac, such as relocation, marriage, funeral and so on. In fact, not only the ancients will choose the auspicious day, but also the modern people will choose the auspicious day.

The origin of auspicious days in the ecliptic should start from the traditional calendar in China-the Huangli calendar, which was a method of recording the time, year, month and time invented by Xuanyuan of Huangdi in ancient times. In the Gregorian calendar, there are records of heavenly stems, earthly branches, duty days, stars, auspicious gods and demons. Among them, the auspicious god is the zodiac, including Qinglong, Tiande, Yutang, Siming, Tang Ming and Jingui; The murderers are gangsters, including White Tiger, Sky Patrol, Suzaku, Tianlong, Xuanwu and Gouchen. In the Gregorian calendar, six eclipses and six gangsters are counted together with duties, and it is concluded that the time when six eclipses coincide with duties is the so-called auspicious day of the zodiac.

In modern times, auspicious days have more explanations. In astronomy, when the earth revolves around the sun and intersects with other celestial bodies in the solar system in a circular orbit on the same plane, it is called the ecliptic. The ecliptic will pass through the thirteen constellations in the universe, because the sun and the earth are in motion. When the sun passes through a certain point on the ecliptic and is beneficial to the earth, it forms an auspicious day. In fact, this auspicious day is just a kind of comfort for people. People need such a reason to do something more actively, and hope it will go smoothly.

Whether in ancient times or in modern times, people are used to doing great things on auspicious days, such as building a house, moving to a new house, getting married, going to a funeral, opening a market, etc. They all hope to do it on auspicious days, on the one hand, for smoother, on the other hand, it is also a beautiful vision for the future.