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2065438+June 6, 2008 Is the Gregorian calendar suitable for ancestor worship?

Sacrifice is an important custom in our tradition, and it is generally celebrated on auspicious days of the ecliptic. Then, 2065438+June 6, 2008, is the Gregorian calendar suitable for offering sacrifices to ancestors? Auspicious day of the ecliptic 2065438+June 6, 2008 (solar term of awn species) Lunar calendar 20 18 April 23 (lunar calendar)

Gregorian calendar 2065438+Wednesday, June 6, 2008 Gemini (Gregorian calendar)

Today's almanac is appropriate.

Don't use it when the daily value is dead.

Sacrifice, pray, accept, get married, ask for an heir, and remove burial.

Take money to seed forgiveness and set up coupons.

Today's old almanac is taboo.

Don't use it when the daily value is dead.

Leading livestock, building soil, purchasing property, breaking ground, building dikes and releasing water.

Go to bed, travel, move into a house and build a house with columns.

Auspicious and auspicious: Fuhou, Longde, Phase IV, Wangri and Yueen.

XiShen, God of Wealth: Northeast God of Wealth: Due South God of Wealth: Due North.

Avoid fierceness: decline, hooking up with the past, death, earthly mansion, yang difference. Based on the contents of the above lunar calendar, we can see that 20 18 is not suitable for ancestor worship! What are the taboos of sacrifice? (1) It is forbidden for women and foreigners to participate in sacrifices.

Many ethnic groups, such as Yi, Miao, Nu, Dai, Wa, Hani, Lisu, Oroqen and so on. There is a custom of prohibiting women from participating in sacrifices and outsiders from breaking into places of worship.

(2) Don't sacrifice to the gods with unclean people.

When offering sacrifices to the Han people, unclean people are forbidden to participate, that is, menstrual women, pregnant women, lying-in women, babies, those who wear mourning clothes and those who are punished are forbidden to participate.

(3) Don't choose a respected person to preside over the ceremony.

When offering sacrifices, people over 50 should be chosen to preside over the ceremony, otherwise, the priest will die immediately because he is not old enough to enjoy this privilege.

(4) Avoid offending the gods by people's words and deeds when offering sacrifices.

When offering sacrifices, you should not talk and cough at will, and you should not behave indecent. During the sacrifice, men and women are not allowed to meet alone, abstain from sexual intercourse, avoid eating meat and so on.

(5) Don't worship gods with gender characteristics regardless of gender.

For example, folks say that men don't worship the moon and women don't worship the stove, because the moon god is a goddess and the kitchen god is a male god, so it is blasphemy.