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The Significance of "Records of the Yellow Emperor's Ancestors"

The legend of Peng Zu's 100 taboo is a skill of choosing good fortune summarized by Peng Zu, a longevity alchemist in the pre-Qin period of China, which lists daily taboos, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations and also reflects the psychological trend of ancient China people to seek good fortune and avoid evil. Then today's auspicious day will explain the meaning of Peng Zubai's taboo: "If you don't repair the stove, you will see disaster."

"If you don't repair the stove, you will see disaster. "This sentence means that you should not repair or build the stove on the third day. Because C is fire, which is the responsibility of Vulcan. For the ancients who lived in ancient times, there was a natural awe of Vulcan. On this day, repairing and building stoves will subconsciously disrespect Vulcan; If you don't do well, you may offend Vulcan, so you need to be careful.

What does C Day mean?

In the ancient calendar, heavenly stems and earthly branches was used to mark days. The method of marking the days is to use the ten days of "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "Ji", "Geng", "Xin", "Man" and "Ghost" circularly, with a total of 30 days each month. 1-.

From this, we can see that taking the third grade as an example, it refers to the 3rd,13rd and 23rd of each month. Of course, what is mentioned here is the lunar calendar. For example, the time to enter plum blossom every year is the first third day after mango seed, which means that if mango seed is on the 2nd, it will enter plum blossom on the 3rd; And if the awn is planted on the 4th or a few days later, then the time to enter the plum blossom is 13.