What do you mean you didn't read the almanac when you went out today?

I didn't read the Gregorian calendar when I went out today, which means that something bad happened to me today. In modern times, the main contents of the Gregorian calendar include three calendars: solar calendar, lunar calendar, and dry calendar. Good luck should be avoided, washed away, auspicious, evil, combined harm, singing, dry branch, twenty-four solar terms, twelve gods, duty, fetal god, Peng Zu Bletilla, Liu Yao, nine planets, fleeting time, prince, three yuan and nine luck, nine planets in Kong Xuan, and the god of wealth. That is, people in ancient China recorded their daily likes and dislikes on the calendar as a guide to action.

contemporary era

For thousands of years, the almanac has been the best-selling book among the people in China! There is no sign of being eliminated by the times. Even after the Republic of China, under the impact of scientism, ordinary books continued to be published, which is really a big difference in the history of publishing. For example, Taiwan Province Province prints about five or six million yellow calendars every year. About two-thirds of the almanac and general books in Taiwan Province are claimed to have inherited the "Jichengtang" general books in Hong Chao and Fujian two hundred years ago; The source of Hong Kong's popularity is Shu Tong of Luo Chuanlie, the "Taoist Temple" in Guangdong.

Many modern people have a deep dependence on the Gregorian calendar. Scholars believe that the popularity of the Huangli calendar for thousands of years reflects the uncertainty of people's lives in China. Generally speaking, this book contains many contents related to good or bad luck or life customs. Although it is an unpretentious popular publication in every era, China people's belief in the concept of choosing auspicious dates has long restricted many social activities (such as land reclamation, funeral celebrations and even election registration).

Therefore, the study of Shu Tong or the Yellow Calendar will not only help us to know more specifically the spread mode and influence of counting in society, but also have a good opportunity to turn it into a key to understand ancient popular culture and daily life, which deserves more attention from academic circles and civil authorities.