Can we dig up the ground and move graves on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in 2019? What are the legends about the Ghost Festival?
Introduction: Breaking ground and moving graves is a very important event, so you must choose an auspicious day. So, can we break ground and move graves on July 15, 2019? What are the legends of the Ghost Festival? The seventh month of the lunar calendar is the beginning of the second half of the year, so we also call it the first autumn. To find out what the seventh lunar month of 2019 will be like, come to Shuimoxiansheng.com to find out!Is it possible to break ground and move graves on July 15, 2019?2019 Ghost Festival Almanac Query:Lunar calendar: July 15, 2019 Gregorian calendar: August 15, 2019, Thursday Leo 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Getting married, traveling, taking up a post, repairing graves, recruiting sons-in-law, offering sacrifices, fasting and offering sacrifices, granting amnesty, coming of age, attending school, seeking employment [Today’s taboos in the almanac] Meridians enter the house, build, start ground, buy property, break ground, build embankments, release water, accept marriage proposals, pray for blessings, seek offspring, ship goods, raise beams, erect pillars, bury, start drilling, lift migration, settle incense, and travel by boat Based on the above contents of the old almanac, we can know that today's groundbreaking [i.e. relocating graves] is taboo in the almanac, so the Ghost Festival in 2019 is not suitable for groundbreaking and relocating graves! What are the legends about the Ghost Festival?Legend of the Ghost Festival:The 14th day of the seventh lunar month every year is the Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival or the Yulan Festival. It is a major festival to worship lonely ghosts. The Zhongyuan Festival originated from Taoism, and later Buddhism changed it to what is commonly known as the Ghost Festival. The meaning of Yulan Festival in Hindi is "hanging upside down", which refers to the fact that the mother of Mulian, one of the ten great disciples of Sakyamuni, suffered from the pain of hungry ghosts after her death and could not eat. Later he received help from Sakyamuni. Offer hundreds of flavors and five kinds of fruits to the gods and Buddhas of the ten directions and use the merits to save your mother. Therefore, in order to commemorate the lonely souls, a general festival is held in the seventh month of the lunar calendar in the ghost month, which is now called the Ghost Festival. Generally speaking, people in ancient times were reluctant to hold important events such as marriages in this month. Legend of the Ghost Festival II Regarding the origin of the Ghost Festival, it is said that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, also known as "Lord Yama", had his mother who died and went to the underworld. She was locked up in a cell and suffered all kinds of tortures of the eighteen levels of hell. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was a filial son, and he could not bear to see his mother suffer, so on the fifteenth day of July, he gave in to his private feelings and asked the little ghost guarding the cell to secretly open the cell door to let his mother out. Unexpectedly, as soon as the cell door was opened, the little ghosts swarmed out and ran to the human world to harm the people. That's why there is a saying that "On the fifteenth day of July, ghosts run around." Those ghosts who ran back to their hometowns asked their families for money so that they could use it to live and to open up their joints in the hope of being reborn as soon as possible. Later people designated this day as "Ghost Festival". On Ghost Festival, people burn paper money and place offerings to commemorate the souls of their deceased relatives. Analysis of matters needing attention regarding grave relocation:1) The best time to relocate a grave is before noon, to avoid the Yang energy at noon from burning the corpse. If there are too many ancestors, you can stop digging up the bones at noon, and cover the grave and bones with black cloth. The corpse will be moved after noon.2) The first three shovels of earth in digging the grave must be done by the ancestor’s son or grandson. If there are no children or grandchildren, a "blessed person" will be needed to take their place. (A blessed woman refers to a woman who has both living parents, a husband, and two children.) 3) The burial arrangement should be distinguished by priority: the east is the upper position and the west is the lower position; the northeast is the upper position and the southwest is the lower position; the north is the upper position and the south is the lower position; the northwest is the upper position and the southeast is the lower position (according to the post-natal Bagua, the yang position is the upper position). If a man has two wives, the husband should be buried at the top, the first wife at the second, and the second wife at the third. 4) The eldest son holds the spirit head banner, breaks the funeral basin, and walks in front of the spirit with male relatives, while the female relatives follow the spirit in a car. The coffin is covered with a "coffin cover". Eight, sixteen, twenty-four or thirty-six people would carry the coffin to the cemetery and bury it in a grave that had been dug in advance by a fortune teller. The grave would be covered with soil, and a spirit banner held by the eldest son would be inserted on the grave. Paper gold and silver vaults would be burned in the cemetery for the deceased to "enjoy" in the underworld. 5) When the remains of the ancestor are about to be unearthed, the ancestor's daughter or granddaughter must hold up a black umbrella or a reed mat to block the sunlight. The sunlight must not be allowed to overheat the remains of the ancestor, lest the ancestor's soul be scattered and unable to reincarnate. 6) When digging up a grave (breaking ground), one must set up an altar, burn incense, offer sacrifices to ancestors, burn money, pray about the reasons and address of the ancestor's relocation, and ask for the ancestor's blessings and protection for future generations. 7) Any new grave that has been buried for less than one year cannot be relocated. If the burial is moved within a year, someone in the family may die. 8) After the second burial of the bones is completed, the original grave pit must be filled and leveled with a carrot and nine copper coins. After filling the grave, old coffins, funeral clothes, etc. should be burned completely and should not be taken to the new tomb. 9) After the grave is dug, the remains of the ancestors must be placed neatly, with all joints placed in their original positions. If any knuckles are missing, the soil must be carefully turned over to search for them, in order to avoid physical harm to future generations. The bones of the hands, feet and knees of the remains must be placed according to the normal physiological structure and must not be rotated front to back or left to right. Otherwise, it would be like the ancestors had their hands and feet tied up and were kneeling on their knees, and the descendants would surely have bad luck and no one would be prosperous. The eight-character destiny is predetermined for each person after birth. Knowing your fortune in advance can make your future life smoother. To calculate your fortune for the next ten years, please click on the "Excellent Calculation" below to get an advance prediction. I wish you a smooth life! |
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