Download the PDF version of Shao Weihua’s Complete Book on Folk Auspiciousness and Date Selection. Introduction To seek good luck and avoid bad luck, seek good luck and avoid disaster, like life and hate death, can be said to be a kind of human nature. It is based on the lowest level of human instinct for survival and security, and no nation can be an exception, the difference is only in the degree and the way of expression. China…

Download the PDF version of Shao Weihua’s “The Complete Book of Folk Auspiciousness and Date Selection”.

Introduction

It is human nature to seek good fortune and avoid evil, to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, to love life and hate death. It is based on the lowest level of human instinct for survival and security, and no nation can be an exception, the difference is only in the degree and the way of expression. Chinese people believe in choosing auspiciousness because it can satisfy people’s instinct-based psychological needs. The ancients regarded marriage as the “beginning of human affairs”, and it is also a major event to continue the ancestors’ incense and strengthen the family. However, in the feudal era when arranged marriages were practiced, it was difficult for people to clearly understand the health status and temperament of the marriage partner, and they also hoped that after marriage, they would increase their wealth, achieve harmony between husband and wife, harmony between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and family happiness. Therefore, it is not only necessary to carefully study the horoscopes of birth and the five elements of both parties in the marriage, so as to avoid “combining each other”. Waiting to select auspicious days and good days, thinking that it is not enough to show the importance of marriage, not enough to seek the blessing of the gods, the protection of the ancestors, and it is impossible to obtain a happy marriage and a prosperous family. Western religious countries are used to going to the church to invite priests to officiate marriages, which is similar in essence to our country’s wedding of choosing a date. The former obtains God’s approval, blessing and protection directly through priests, while the latter seeks the gods’ favor through carefully selected “auspicious days”. Marriage on a chosen date satisfies people’s psychological expectations for marriage. As for whether it can really have such a miraculous effect, people generally don’t pursue it, just like Western religious youths who get divorced or have any misfortunes after marriage, they will never blame the original officiant Father same.

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