Is it taboo to break ground and move graves on the eleventh day of the first lunar month in 2020? What does the word "dachun" in "Lichun" mean?

Is it taboo to break ground and move graves on the eleventh day of the first lunar month in 2020? What does the word "dachun" in "Lichun" mean?
Introduction: It is necessary to choose an auspicious day for breaking ground and moving graves. So is it taboo to break ground and move graves on the eleventh day of the first lunar month in 2020, the beginning of spring? What does the beginning of spring mean? In the first month of the new year, both adults and children are immersed in the joy of the festival. To learn about the auspicious and inauspicious days in the first month of the year, please pay attention to the special column on the first month of 2020 on Shuimoxiansheng.com!

Is it taboo to break ground and move graves on the 11th day of the first lunar month in 2020?

2020 Lunar calendar for the 11th day of the first lunar month:
Gregorian calendar: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 Aquarius
Lunar calendar: 2020 January 11th day of the lunar calendar → Mingtang (ecliptic day)
Year: Gengzi Year, Rat Zodiac, Wuyin Month, Dingchou Day
Conflict: Conflict with Sheep (Xin Wei) and East
Today's suitable things: pray for blessings, get married, bring in wealth, open the market, set up the bed, build the stove, accept the bride price, recruit a son-in-law, offer sacrifices, seek an heir, release the burial, take up a post, plant, seek medical treatment, perform funerals, seal the grave, and write a contract
Today's taboos: building a house, moving, moving into a new home, installing incense, building, breaking ground, returning home, traveling, buying property, breaking ground, building embankments, releasing water, opening warehouses, acupuncture, receiving livestock, and erecting pillars.
Based on the above content, we can know that breaking ground [i.e. moving graves] on the beginning of spring on the eleventh day of the first lunar month in 2020 is taboo in the lunar calendar. Therefore, breaking ground and moving graves on the beginning of spring in 2020 is taboo!

What does the beginning of spring mean?

Dachun is the common name for the Beginning of Spring, which is the solar term when spring returns to the earth. It is the first of the 24 solar terms.
In the Zhou Dynasty, on this day, the emperor personally led the three dukes and nine ministers to the eastern suburbs to welcome spring and offer sacrifices.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, there were customs such as whipping the spring ox and sending small spring oxen to encourage farmers to plough in spring and pray for a good harvest. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been customs such as eating green vegetables, welcoming earth oxen, bathing silkworm seeds, and drinking spring tea, which have a strong traditional folk customs and local flavor.

The Origin of Spring Festival

This Chinese folk custom is popular in many parts of the country. In the old days, county officials would welcome the spring ox made of clay on the day before the beginning of spring and place it in front of the government office. On the day of the beginning of spring, they would whip the ox with red and green whips to pray for a good harvest. Therefore, the beginning of spring is commonly known as "da spring".
This so-called "Spring Ox" is made of mulberry wood as its frame and is sculpted from soil on the day after the winter solstice.
It is 4 feet tall and 8 feet long, with patterns of the four seasons, eight solar terms, 360 days and 12 hours. On the day before the beginning of spring, people go to the ancestral altar to worship, and then whip the "Spring Ox" with colorful whips to drive it back to the county government, where they set up wine and fruit offerings in the lobby. Men, women, old and young lead the "oxen" and hold the "plow", sing rice-planting songs and pray for a good harvest.
There is another saying about "Da Chun", which refers to the unemployed vagrants in Hunan in the old days. Around the Spring Festival, they would beat small gongs, bamboo clappers, etc., sing lyrics, and go from door to door to ask for money. This was called Da Chun.
There is another saying that the custom of Beginning of Spring originated from the imperial palace. Legend has it that the day of Beginning of Spring was treated as a festival inside and outside the palace and celebrated with extra grandness, especially by smashing the clay spring ox standing in front of the palace gate. Historical records show that "Duke Zhou was the first to make the clay ox for the Beginning of Spring". If that is true, the custom of "Beginning of Spring" is almost as old as our Chinese nation.
The book “Kyoto Customs” also recorded that in front of the palace, “there is a Mang God in the east and a Spring Ox in the west.” After the ceremony, the servants would burn stones and burn things, so it was called "Da Chun". At that time, breaking the Spring Ox into pieces was meant to urge the old ox to go to the fields to plow. People rushed to take the pieces of the Spring Ox home and regarded them as a symbol of good luck.

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