A Short Guide On Auspicious Weddings

It is a commonly heard practice among-the older generations of Chinese to choose an auspicious date and period to perform certain rituals for example bathing of a child during their first month of birth to mundane matters for example taking a road trip for whatever important or quasi-routine significance. The most often available resource or tool is the fact that of the Chinese Almanac or Tong Shu which the Cantonese-speaking readers preferably called it "Tong Sheng" (literally translated as Total Victory.)

For the illiterate of the past, the mostly adopted approach would be to choose the Red print text printed therein as "safe date" to use and avoid the Black print text therein. However,this quick and dirty method is severely flawed and that Red print text dates are only good for certain events or matters and not suitable for others. This is the little known caveat that majority of lay people are not aware of till today. Thus, the best knowledge of its significance is important whether it is safe click to read use it or otherwise. The exact same analogy applies to Black print text dates.

I have come across Red print text dates used by my friends and clients experienced unfavourable outcome and also the damage is life-long until today. The rest is history now. It's meaningless to elaborate on it. But a big lesson learned for them as well as for me personally.

The commonly available Chinese Almanac typically produced in areas where you can find strong Chinese Community who are still pro-Almanac referring ritual come from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and not forgetting the dwindling appreciation in western-oriented Chinese in Singapore. If one were to compare their different editions, you will realize the variations in information provided therein. You will find often contradictions and misprint of information leading to more confusion and compromised on its quality and accuracy as a result of its low-cost of producing it by just following the age-old formula faithfully since it was made available from the imperial palace to the common people then who were largely farmers-oriented population.

These commoners and farmers used it then to identify when were the changing 24 sub-seasons and such as when to harvest including the knowing when will be the different dates of Chinese oriented festivals and remembrance days such as Tomb-Sweeping day, Dumpling festival, Mid-Autumn festival, arrival of summer solstice, winter solstice and the beginning of spring where the Chinese celebrates the Lunar New Year.

Inside the Chinese Almanac, you'll find host of different methods printed therein for the readers to use. On the flip side, it can be very confusing if one do not understand the merits and demerits of each system presented therein.

To illustrate, there will be the 28 Constellations method. Even though it's useful for multiple purposes, it really is outdated as it had not been calibrated to reflect the shifting axis of the earth revolution around the sun since it was first observed and then established the common formula to calculate the division of time with their respective deviation over the course of the 28 constellations progression patterns. On the other hand, the great news is that such updates are conducted by NASA ( National Aero-Nautical Science Agency ) and provide a five yearly review to guarantee that all of the navigational and communication are synchronized to compensated for the shifting axis of Earth revolution relative to the Sun position. This planetarium updates are available from NASA but one must incorporate it in to the calculation methodology to acquire true local time.

Nowadays, people have introduced day-light saving time during summer period and after that return to normal standard time in winter period. In addition, the whole world have been separated into 24 different time zones for standardization purpose or averaging the time within each time zone for convenience and ease of communication.