Is there any special basis in Chinese culture for choosing an auspicious day from the yellow calendar?

The idea of choosing an auspicious day is a custom that only the Chinese have, which is why Chinese civilization has lasted so long.

Selecting a date in the ancient times, is the king can only have the right, after all, after watching the sky and complex calculations, encountered a national event by the great master to determine the time. Just like the Islamic month of Ramadan, not just any day, but by the big imam after the moon to determine the moon.

The fundamental change occurred during the Zhou Dynasty, King Ping of Zhou moved east to Luoyang, a large number of officials out of work, then the official's job is to rituals, the exile of the folk to the royal family within the dissemination of this knowledge to the folk, the folk of the wedding and funeral of the time of the custom of the folk. More popularization is in the Tang Dynasty, issued by the royal calendar, directly appeared in our current ordinary yellow calendar function. This is thanks to the ancients in the astronomical calendar continued for thousands of years of uninterrupted observation, recording, and finally the results of the research results of the folklore of the results.

The Chinese have been practicing this custom for thousands of years, so much so that it has become a part of our lives to avoid bad luck by choosing the day of the week, because it is human nature to aspire to a smooth and auspicious life.

So, you will find that we Chinese people, whether it is a wedding, a funeral, building a house, digging a well; or store opening, going to the sea, go out and return to their hometowns, wherever the arrangement of important activities, we have to choose a good day, in order to figure out a good luck. That marriage is one of the most important things in life, naturally must choose a good day.

In fact, in the highly developed Internet today, the yellow calendar is not just the memory of the small book. In the age of the Internet, almanac software can integrate a large amount of information and refine each day with far richer content than the old yellow calendar. Matters needing attention on each day, through the integration of countless expert research, has formed a fairly perfect system, the dissemination method is often combined with modern digital media technology, the traditional culture with modern people enjoyable way to disseminate, but also the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese culture.