Why do old people still believe in auspicious days?

The auspicious day of the zodiac is a day when everything goes well. Farmers' calendars, or the Yellow Calendar and Tong Sheng, can choose auspicious days, such as marriage, engagement, dating, opening, opening and moving. The word "auspicious day" appears very frequently in China folk culture. In civil life activities, we often hear or see weddings, funerals, sacrifices, occupations, business cooperation, construction and ground breaking, business trips and so on. We must look for it. Especially during the revival of traditional culture in China, the idiom "auspicious day" became hot again, and more and more people are practicing it. However, due to historical reasons, there is a fault in the traditional folk culture in China, so that many modern people don't understand the origin of "auspicious day in the ecliptic", so blind pursuers appear and regard it as a classic: one-sided critics regard it as a scourge. Waiting for strange things in society.

The word "auspicious day" is not superstitious, but represents a longing for all good things. "If you do things well and avoid evil, you can seek happiness for future generations, and you can enjoy happiness endlessly. That's understandable. As for the "old calendar" that guides you to find a good day to see a doctor, make clothes, even take a bath and get a haircut, you don't have to abide by it.

Because that is a thing of the past, there are indeed some dross in traditional culture. When we inherit and carry forward traditional culture, we should "take its essence and discard its dross". Make the past serve the present and make foreign things serve China. "(quotations from Chairman Mao). And "auspicious day" is an example of the combination of Chinese and western.