What do you mean don't touch the ground?

If you don't break ground, you can't break ground to build a house on this day. This is taboo. There is a saying in the countryside that if you break ground on the day when it is forbidden, it will be not smooth and unlucky in the future, so you will generally choose the day when you break ground.

Extended data

When building a villa, according to the selected date, the time to hoe the first soil in Kyrgyzstan with a hoe is called "breaking ground". Ji's choice is to postpone the position as the first hoe according to the breakthrough of Eight Houses Feng Shui. If the building is built after the ground is broken, a "thank you meeting" will be held after the completion. After the ground is broken, a haunted house will be built. When it is finished, please scatter the corpse salt around the cemetery.

Ming? Tao's "Record of Dropping Farms and Palace Que System": "Miyagi (August 17, 2008) will start construction on March 15 next year, which is divided into six sections." The fifth and second times of Journey to the West: "Move the stone gate, break ground and build, and rearrange the outline of the house."

Ye Zixing: "Don't worry! No one dares to touch the ground above my head! "

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia groundbreaking entry