How to arrange the civil construction commencement ceremony?

Building a house is also called "breaking ground" and "opening the foundation". Once the homestead is selected, you can ask Mr. Feng Shui to choose an auspicious day to worship the gods and prepare to start construction. The groundbreaking ceremony varies from place to place.

The groundbreaking ceremony was held on the other day. The so-called "breaking ground like a pregnant woman" in general books mainly means that a hoe starts to break ground during construction, which is called breaking ground for the first time, that is, the word "breaking ground" when building a new foundation mainly refers to a yangzhai, while "breaking ground" is used in a yinzhai. At present, the groundbreaking ceremony is generally presided over by Mr. Feng Shui and the person in charge of the company, but sometimes Taoist ceremonies are added according to local actual needs. The main significance of the groundbreaking ceremony is to inform the gods, ghosts and gods who are in charge of this land that they will build houses here. On the one hand, they will hold a ceremony to inform them so as not to offend the gods and evil spirits, on the other hand, they will ask the gods to help the construction work go smoothly and expel evil spirits and filth.

When preparing sacrifices, there are often differences between raw and cooked vegetables and meat because of the different sacrificial objects. The objects of worship are mainly the gods who are in charge of this land, the ghosts who once lived in this land, and the devil. Therefore, a sacrificial platform is usually set up to prepare sacrifices (one for the three zodiac signs and one for the five-cooked shaw), incense sticks, flowers, five fruits and gold paper (five-colored gold).