Introduction: Some sacrificial activities are also held in winter, so it is very important to choose an auspicious day at this time. A gust of cold wind blows by, and we enter the early winter season inadvertently. In winter, we should store our food and replenish our body. Let’s make plans for this winter together, understand the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the tenth month in the lunar calendar, and spend a healthy October.Is the fourth day of the tenth lunar month in 2017 suitable for offering sacrifices?Lunar calendar for the fourth day of the tenth month of the year 2017. Gregorian calendar for Tuesday, November 21, 2017:【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Pray for blessings, get married, travel, move, move into new house, open the door, remove the mourning clothes, fast and offer sacrifices, receive wealth and seek heirs, erect pillars and raise beams, plant livestock, offer sacrifices, open the market , set up tickets, seek wealth, raise livestock, seek medical treatment, and consecrate. [Today’s taboos in the almanac] Separation, burial, property purchase, construction, groundbreaking, taking office, groundbreaking, funeral, marriage proposal To sum up, the fourth day of the tenth lunar month in 2017 is a suitable day for sacrifices, and everyone can go out to worship their ancestors. Where are sacrifices held?This is the most primitive and simplest place for sacrifice on flat ground. The ancients believed that the most important sacrifices were held in the most simple places. Often, there was no need to build an altar with earth. They could hold a sacrifice by just sweeping a flat piece of ground. The ancients called it "墠".Altar "Book of Rites·Sacrifices" notes: "Mound the earth to form an altar", that is, pile up earth and stones to form an altar above the ground. The altars have different shapes depending on the objects of worship. The round altar used for offering sacrifices to heaven was called "round mound" in ancient times; the square altar used for offering sacrifices to earth was called "square mound" in ancient times. The height and width of the altar vary according to time, place, and level. Offering sacrifices to gods in graves in cemeteries is a relatively primitive and simple method, which is mostly used to worship ancestral gods. The ancients believed that offering sacrifices at the tomb was closest to the ancestors and the ancestral gods could hear them most clearly. The Book of Rites Tan Gong Xia records that when Confucius went out to persuade people, "when he left his country, he would cry at the tombs before leaving; when he returned to his country, he would not cry but open the tombs before entering." |
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