What does May Day mean?

Five days is a term in Taoism, and it is also the most important one among many stresses in Taoism. It is commonly called Pentecost or every Pentecost.

May day is pushed from the old yellow calendar in the order of 60 jiazi, every 60 days is a round. Among them, Wuzi, Wuyin, Chen Wu, Wuwu, Wushen and Wuxu are called Wuri, also known as "Liu Wu". Liu Wu is divided into "Black Wu" and "Black Wu". "Wu Ming" refers to: Wuzi, Wuyin, Chen Wu, Wuwu, Wushen and Wuxu Day. This is the so-called "Wu Ming" Reading is the old habit of advocating quiet fighting and avoiding "dark e"

The formula of "dark e" is: "Zhengyang (not yet), two dog (not yet), no shade in the morning and April, six sons and seven chickens in the afternoon (unitary day), nine snakes (fourth day), ten pigs (first day), eleven rabbits (first day) and twelve cows (ugly day) in August.

May Day related records:

According to the Taoist works of the Qing Dynasty, Nine Gods and Five Taboos (written by Cheng Pengcheng, Zhao Jianxin and Wang Yuanxiang). ) cloud: "In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was good at seeking immortality. He looked at the sun in July of the first year of Yuanfeng and felt the arrival of the Queen Mother of the West. The emperor asked: What caused the floods and droughts? The Queen Mother said, "This is the ignorance of the people. In the four seasons, the cultivation of farmland on the sixth day of June violated the taboo of Yin and Yang, which led to the failure to plant crops and harvest crops in Shui Ze, and the people were hungry and cold. "

"The emperor said: The most important thing is how to solve the problem, so as to avoid this disaster. The queen mother said: Eban is the heaviest and cannot be solved. Don't push pests, locusts, floods and droughts. What you commit at four o'clock has its own disasters and should be banned. Don't pour dung on May Day, and don't touch evil spirits. If you commit six evils in spring, you will live a long life and break the ground and commit the emperor. If you commit six evils in summer, you will be blind and fly into disaster. If you break the ground, you will commit the stars in the main house. "

"If let a 65-year-old man, flat is ill. If you break the ground for peace, you will read the five mountains and four times. In winter, if you commit sixty-five crimes, it will make people talk, squander property and break ground, then you have committed the crime of anti-Hou Ji monarchy. The world can fear the heavens and the earth, and don't make the six or five taboos, that is, check the date and month, and naturally have food and clothing. Say that finish, the queen mother got up and left soon. The above is excerpted from the Law of the Woman's Sky.

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