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

For the illiterate of the past, the most commonly adopted approach would be to choose the text printed in red printed on it as the “safe date” to use and avoid the text printed in black. However, this quick and dirty method has many flaws and the text dates printed in red are only valid for certain events or matters and are not suitable for others. This is the little-known caveat that most lay people are unaware of to this day. Therefore, it is important to understand its meaning well, whether it is safe to use or not. The same analogy applies to text dates printed in black.

I came across red printed text dates used by my friends and clients who experienced an unfavorable outcome and the damage is for life until today. The rest is history now. There is no point in giving more details. But a great lesson learned for them and for me personally.

The commonly available Chinese almanac typically produced in areas where there is a strong Chinese community still in favor of the almanac reference ritual comes from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, not to mention the waning appreciation of Western-oriented Chinese in Singapore. . If one compares its different editions, one would notice the variations in the information provided there. Often there are contradictions and printing errors in the information that generate more confusion and compromise its quality and precision due to the low cost of producing it, simply following faithfully the ancestral formula since the imperial palace made it available to the common people. Back then, they were largely farmer-oriented population.

These commoners and farmers then used it to identify when the 24 changing substations were in and, for example, when to harvest, including knowing when are the different dates of China-oriented festivals and days of remembrance, such as Tomb Sweeping Day, the Dumpling Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, arrival of the summer solstice, winter solstice and early spring where the Chinese celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Within the Chinese Almanac, there are a host of different methods printed on it for readers to use. However, it can be very confusing if one does not understand the merits and demerits of each system that is featured in it.

To illustrate, there is the 28 constellation method. Although useful for multiple purposes, it is out of date as it had not been calibrated to reflect the changing axis of the earth’s revolution around the sun since it was first observed and then the standard formula for calculating the division of time was established with their respective deviation. throughout the 28 patterns of constellation progression. The good news, however, is that such updates are made by NASA (National Agency for Aeronautical Sciences) and provide a five-year review to ensure that all navigation and communication are in sync to compensate for the changing axis of Earth’s revolution in relationship with the Sun. position. Updates to this planetarium are available from NASA, but must be incorporated into the calculation methodology to obtain the actual local time.

In modern times, people have entered daylight saving time during the summer period and then back to normal standard time in the winter period. Additionally, the entire world has been divided into 24 different time zones for standardization purposes or to average time within each time zone for convenience and ease of communication.

For political and economic reasons, countries have even advanced or delayed their time to guarantee a level playing field and / or ensure their competitive advantage if the end justifies its means. For example, Singapore had moved into the same time zone as Hong Kong by artificially moving forward in one zone, although the true local time remains, as the Sun will not cooperate with any country for that matter or for a particular country to intrude on your true local environment. hour. So if your watch says 12 o’clock noon, look up into the sky to see if the Sun is actually over your head at the time. A good possibility is that it is not synchronized with the artificially calibrated clock / clock time.

Since the Chinese Almanac is intended for general purpose use, it is not your primary focus to adopt it for individual personalized use. An analogy of its general use as presented in the Chinese Almanac is: One man’s flesh is another man’s poison. In order to get a custom application, a greater appreciation of the different date selection methodology and its merits and disadvantages of each system must be fully understood to achieve the desired results as intended.

Experienced Feng Shui practitioners will know what methods are available to them, such as renovating a house, putting a nail in the wall to hang a picture, rearranging the home’s interior landscape and furnishings to harness thriving energies, implementing water features. in auspicious places. , the installation of auspicious Feng Shui cures will require an auspicious date and time to implement them properly and auspiciously.

In my opinion, the selection of auspicious dates is a science to be mastered, but it is also seen as an art because the result varies from one individual to another and the different methods adopted will produce a variant of the result that in turn depends on the auspicious. of the site. and the desired action under consideration plus the influence of the current destiny of the person seeking benefits from its implementation.

Garrett lee

Founder

Ancient feng shui