Is it appropriate to get engaged on New Year's Eve in the Year of the Rat in 2020? What does New Year's Eve vigil mean?

Is it appropriate to get engaged on New Year's Eve in the Year of the Rat in 2020?

Gregorian calendar: A.D. 065438+20201October 24th Friday Aquarius.

Lunar calendar: 2065438+2009, the 28 th day of the twelfth lunar month? Synopsis of the Golden Chamber (Zodiac Day)

Year: Ji Hai Year, Zodiac Pig, Ding Chou Yue, Bing Yin Ri.

Running to the North: Running to the Monkey (Geng Shen)

Fetal god occupies the side: the kitchen stove is due south of the furnace.

Yin Naxing's position: The fire in the stove was removed from this position.

Auspicious Auspicious: Virtue is in harmony with heaven, and the golden chamber and jade hall are not matched with dogs.

Evil spirits should be avoided: thieves rob five deficiencies

Peng Zu 100 bogey: if you don't repair the stove, you will see disaster, and if you don't sacrifice ghosts and gods, you won't taste it.

"Today is appropriate": adopted daughters go to the market to seek inheritance, break ground, take off clothes, bury sacrifices, pray for blessings, carry wealth, plant columns, feed animals, travel, raise animals, seek wealth and seek medical treatment.

"Today's taboo": breaking ground to build a house, opening a warehouse, moving into a house, and marrying into a card to accept.

Based on the above, we can know that engagement on this day is a taboo in the yellow calendar, so it is not suitable for engagement on New Year's Eve of the Year of the Rat in 2020. Suggest another auspicious day! What does New Year's Eve always mean?

Keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve is one of the most important activities, and the custom of keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest records can be found in the local chronicles of the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts to each other, which is called giving gifts to the New Year; Wine and food invite each other, calling it another year; Young and old gather to drink and wish a complete blessing, which is called the age of; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for the dawn, which is called keeping the year.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the stove and chat, wait for the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and expecting good luck in the new year.

This custom gradually became popular. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, wrote a poem: Cold comes and summer goes, warm comes and spring comes. To this day, people are used to celebrating the New Year's Eve.

In ancient times, observing the age has two meanings: the old man's observing the age means resigning from the old and cherishing time;

Young people keep their age in order to prolong the life of their parents. Since the Han dynasty, the time between the new year and the old year is usually midnight. The custom of posting Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve is:

According to "Jade Candle Collection", the original form of Spring Festival couplets in the story of Yanjing's age is what people call peach symbols. Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and delicate words, which are unique literary forms in China.

Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of bright red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. This custom began in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph Poetry of Spring Festival couplets discusses the origin of couplets and the characteristics of various works.

There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, cross string, spring strip and bucket square according to the place of use. The door core is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The frame pair is attached to the left door frame and the right door frame; The shawl is attached to the crossbar of the goalkeeper; According to different contents, attach spring pieces in corresponding places; Dou Jin, also called door leaf, is a square diamond, which is often attached to furniture and screen walls.