Auspicious Dates For Weddings Recommendations
It is a commonly heard practice among the older generations of Chinese to choose an auspicious date and time for you to perform certain rituals such as bathing of a child during their first month of birth to mundane matters for example going for a road trip for what ever important or quasi-routine significance. The mostly available resource or tool is 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 normally adopted approach could be to pick 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 just good for certain events or matters and not ideal 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 or not it is safe to 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 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 and then for me personally.
The commonly available Chinese Almanac typically produced in areas where you will find strong Chinese Community who are still pro-Almanac referring ritual come from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and and of course the dwindling appreciation in western-oriented Chinese in Singapore. If one were to compare their different editions, you may realize the variations in information provided therein. There are actually often contradictions and misprint of information leading to more confusion and compromised on its quality and accuracy due to its low-cost of producing it just by 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 such as the knowing when will be the different dates of Chinese oriented festivals and remembrance days for example Tomb-Sweeping day, Dumpling festival, Mid-Autumn festival, arrival of summer solstice, winter solstice as well as the beginning of spring where the Chinese celebrates the Lunar New Year.
Within click through the following internet site Chinese Almanac, you will find host of different methods printed therein for the readers to use. However, 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. Although it's useful for multiple purposes, it 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 standard formula to calculate the division of time with their respective deviation over the course of the 28 constellations progression patterns. However, the great news is that such updates are conducted by NASA ( National Aero-Nautical Science Agency ) and give a five yearly review to ensure 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 into the calculation methodology to acquire true local time.
In recent times, people have introduced day-light saving time during summer period and then return to normal standard time in winter period. Also, the whole world are already divided into 24 different time zones for standardization purpose or averaging the time within each time zone for convenience and ease of communication.
