How are children born in the ghost month of July? What is the significance of people born in the ghost month?
There are two opposite opinions among the people about people born in the seventh month of the lunar calendar.
1. Happy birthday to boys on the first day of junior high school and girls on the 14th and 15th.
2. Boys must not be born in the first year of junior high school and girls must not be born in the fifteenth (fourteenth) year of junior high school, otherwise there will be trouble.
It is also said that people born in the Ghost Moon have a hard life. People think that a hard life means they are not good to the people around them. Therefore, many children seek a godmother because of a hard life.
One is that one is determined but cannot overcome it. Most of these are talismans. In other words, people around him will be protected from some potentially bad things, such as car accidents, because of his hard life.
One kind is to suppress people. You may have a hard life, but it will affect the people around you, usually your parents.
These opinions all come from the folk. To determine whether a child's life is good or not, it is necessary to combine each baby's birth date. You cannot judge a person's fate just because he was born in the seventh month of the lunar calendar.
Why are people born in the seventh month of the lunar calendar called ghosts
In ancient China, most people believed in the existence of ghosts and gods, and believed that the seventh month of the lunar calendar was the time when the gates of ghosts opened. Therefore, those born in the seventh month of the lunar calendar were People are called "ghosts".
It is said that anyone who dies normally can be reincarnated. Those who committed serious sins and died unexpectedly became lonely ghosts after their death. These ownerless souls, waiting for food, wander around the world. Some evil spirits will also take the opportunity to harass living people in the world, causing people to suffer dangerous accidents and die. Therefore, people who die unexpectedly during this time of year are often said to have been "captured by ghosts."
People believe that holding a "Pudu" ceremony for these ghosts can, on the one hand, free them from the suffering of hell as soon as possible, and on the other hand, hope that they will no longer harass living people in the world. Therefore, in addition to performing the "Pudu" ceremony every July, more ghost papers are burned on the roadside to bring blessings to the dead. Later, it evolved into the custom of "setting off fire lanterns" and "respecting good brothers".
Do people born in the seventh month of the lunar calendar have a hard life?
Whether a person born in the seventh month of the lunar calendar has a hard life depends on the specific horoscope information. You cannot judge a person just by looking at the month of birth. Whether people have a fixed destiny or not is contrary to common sense in numerology.
Having a hard life means that you have a hard life and will not be easily overcome by others, but you can easily overcome others. People with particularly hard lives have a rough fate. On the other hand, people with weak fortunes are easy to be controlled and easy to listen to others.
Judging from the horoscope, if a person’s horoscope is too prosperous in the Heavenly Stems and Five Elements, he or she has a hard life. For example, if a person’s five elements belong to gold, and the metal in his fortune is extremely strong, this is considered a bad horoscope.
People with hard lives are destined to be different from ordinary people. The fate of poverty and lowliness is hard, and it is difficult for parents and brothers to survive until the day when they are young, and they die poor and alone. And most of those who have a tough destiny to be rich and noble also have the phenomenon of overcoming their parents and brothers, which is detrimental to the family. Since ancient times, the sages have been lonely, only the drinkers leave their names. Everyone who is able to achieve great achievements and control the power of life and death mostly controls his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers, his sisters, this and that. Looking at how many powerful figures there are in modern times, who can have a complete family and enjoy family happiness? Therefore, having a hard life is not a bad thing and cannot be generalized.
The seventh lunar month is the origin of the Ghost Month
In ancient China, most people believed in the existence of ghosts and gods. Legend has it that anyone who dies normally can be reincarnated. Those who committed serious sins and died unexpectedly became lonely ghosts after their death. These ownerless souls, waiting for food, wander around the world. Some evil spirits will also take the opportunity to harass living people in the world, causing people to suffer dangerous accidents and die. Therefore, people who die unexpectedly during this time of year are often said to have been "captured by ghosts."
People believe that holding a "Pudu" ceremony for these ghosts can, on the one hand, free them from the suffering of hell as soon as possible, and on the other hand, hope that they will no longer harass living people in the world. Therefore, in addition to performing the "Pudu" ceremony every July, more ghost papers are burned on the roadside to bring blessings to the dead. Later, it evolved into the custom of "setting off fire lanterns" and "respecting good brothers".
Since this kind of Purdue has the meaning of praying for peace, in addition to worshiping "good brothers" with rich offerings on July 15th during the Ghost Festival, people also invite theater troupes to perform plays to entertain the gods. , and feasted the guests with running water, which cost a lot of money. Nowadays, conservation and improvement of folk customs are advocated. Although there are still Pudu activities, they are much more streamlined.
The cultural custom that everything is not appropriate in the seventh month of the lunar calendar is formed because July in previous years was a period of frequent natural and man-made disasters, which can easily make people fear this period. In today's society, there are many taboos It has gradually become unable to withstand the test of the times, but there are still some things that science cannot explain.