What are the folk customs when building a house?

China is located in the northern hemisphere. In order to facilitate lighting and avoid direct sunlight on the house, it is better to face the north and south.

When choosing the location of the house, you need to ask a Feng Shui master to help you choose, and also determine the time for groundbreaking, etc.

When building a house or erecting a tree in rural areas, cannons are fired and red cloth strips are hung. If conditions permit, a banquet can be held to celebrate the completion of the new house after the house is built.

When raising the beam, couplets should be pasted. There are many kinds of content in the couplets, usually words such as "the material of the pillars" and "the auspicious star shines brightly".

Extended information:

During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the first thing that wealthy households had to do when building a house was to adjust the feng shui of the residence to control the future destiny of the person and the disaster of future generations. Happiness is closely linked to the environment. When performing fortune-telling activities when looking at the ground, most of them follow the "Huangdi Neijing" "Take the situation as the body, use the spring water as the blood, use the land as the skin, use the vegetation as the hair, use the house as the clothes, and use the door as the crown. If so, the matter is strict and elegant, and it is handled by the overall system principle of Feng Shui of "Shangji".

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Building Customs