Is the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2019 a suitable date to burn incense and pray? What are the customs on the sixth day of the first lunar month?
Introduction: Burning incense and praying for blessings is an important thing, so you usually need to choose an auspicious day to do so. So is the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2019 a suitable date to burn incense and pray? What are the customs on the sixth day of the first lunar month? Follow the editor to find out! For more details about the 2019 New Year and the first month of the lunar calendar, please visit Mr. Shuimo’s website for consultation!2019 Year of the Pig Lunar Calendar Query:The sixth day of the first month of the lunar year 2019 (lunar calendar)February 10, 2019 (Sunday) Aquarius 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Repairing graves, getting married, offering sacrifices, fasting, amnesty, seeking wealth, traveling, enrolling in school, seeking help [Today’s taboos in the almanac] Wedding, building a house, building a house, breaking ground, buying property, breaking ground, building a dike, releasing water, seeking medical treatment, taking up a post, accepting marriage proposal, praying for a son, shipping, raising beams and erecting pillars, burial, drilling, lifting, migration, boating Based on the above contents of the lunar calendar, we can know that praying for blessings on this day is taboo in the lunar calendar, so this day is not suitable for praying for blessings! There are four aspects to the meaning of burning incense:1. To show sincere and respectful offerings to the Three Jewels, and to demonstrate and guide sentient beings.2. It means transmitting information to the void Dharma Realm and gaining blessings from the Three Treasures in all directions. 3. It means burning oneself to spread fragrance to all directions, reminding Buddhist disciples to make selfless contributions. 4. It means that the Buddhists' precepts, concentration and true incense have been lit, which contains the silent vow to "diligently cultivate precepts, concentration and wisdom, and extinguish greed, noise and ignorance". The Buddha does not like the big and expensive incense in the world, but he likes the precepts, concentration, truth and incense of his disciples. It is best to burn three incense sticks. This represents the three non-leakage studies of precepts, concentration and wisdom; it also represents the offerings to the permanent Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. This is the most complete and civilized way of burning incense and offering. It is not the number of incense sticks you burn that matters, but the sincerity of your heart. As the saying goes, "Burn three civilized incense sticks and offer a sincere heart." Generally, it is enough to light three incense sticks in front of the main hall. After lighting the incense, they should be inserted in the middle of the incense burner. The first incense stick should be inserted in the middle, and you should silently recite in your heart: offering to the Buddha, awakening and not being confused; the second incense stick should be inserted on the right, and you should silently recite in your heart: offering to the Dharma, being righteous and not evil; the third incense stick should be inserted on the left, and you should silently recite in your heart: offering to the monks, being pure and not being tainted. What are the customs on the sixth day of the first lunar month?1. Send away the poor ghostOn the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, people offer pancakes, banana boats, light candles and send the poor ghosts on their way. The sixth day of the first lunar month is the horse, which means sending away the poor ghost. Legend has it that the Goddess of Poverty was Jiang Ziya's wife. In order to prevent the Goddess of Poverty from entering their homes during the Spring Festival, people hang red notes on their doors to ward off her. At some point, Beijing's God of Poverty became a male and became the god worshipped by porters. On this day, housewives of the house have to throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called sending away the ghost of poverty. The hanging notes on the door can also be taken down and thrown out at the same time, which is called sending away the god of poverty. 2. Fertilizer The sixth day is the Horse Day, which was called Yifei in ancient times. Since the beginning of the first lunar month, the toilet cannot be cleaned until the fifth day, and feces accumulate in the toilet. So on this day, a major cleaning must be done, and sacrifices must be made to the toilet god to clean the usually dirty toilet. That’s why it’s called “挹肥” (but nowadays most families use new bathroom equipment, so this custom no longer exists). This day also represents the day when farmers in the old days began to go to the fields to prepare for spring ploughing. In Chinese folk beliefs, it is generally believed that the toilet god is Zi Gu, who is also known as Zi Gu, Toilet Gu, Mao Gu, Keng Gu, and Dong Shi Niang. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zi Gu is no longer simply a toilet god. People say that she can predict the future and has foresight. She is often worshipped at home and can predict various things, becoming one of the great gods who practice divination. The Hakka people commonly call the Zi Gu Goddess as Qijie or Qigu. 3. Good luck in opening the market On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, shops and restaurants officially open for business, and firecrackers are set off, just as loudly as on New Year's Eve. The sixth day of the first lunar month was the day when all businesses, big and small, would "open for business" in the old days, and a big red couplet with the words "Good luck in opening the business, and everything will go well" would be posted on the door panels. Firecrackers are set off before opening to bring good luck. Some families find a "complete and charming person" (a woman with a husband, children, and parents-in-law) to go around each house and say auspicious words before opening the market on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, such as "good luck in opening the market, more than enough blessings, everything will be safe, make more money, and earn enough gold and silver to fill a kang", etc. Before the market opens, it is taboo for women from other families to visit one's home. After the market opens, all Spring Festival taboos end, everything returns to normal, and neighbors can resume visiting and interacting with each other. Put one or more large pots of oranges in front of the stall. There must be a lot of oranges, otherwise there will be more empty spaces than oranges (homonymous in Cantonese as “凶多吉少”), which is a bad omen. Four, three, six, nine, go out On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, people should go out for fun. If they consciously plan their walking route to form a circle, it is said to bring good luck in the new year. The new wave of annual fortune in 2019 has already changed. Calculate your own fortune in advance, correct your mistakes if there are any, and encourage yourself if there are none, so that the new year will be smooth and safe. To calculate your new fortune in 2019, please click on the [Premium Calculation] below to learn about your new fortune. I wish you peace and happiness in the new year! |
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