Steps to replace ancestral graves with new monuments

Steps to replace ancestral graves with new monuments

The step of replacing ancestral graves with new monuments, after the ancestors died, future generations will find a treasure house for them to bury their ancestors and set up tombstones, but in modern times, many people have gradually diluted the concept of setting up monuments. Let's take a look at the steps to replace the ancestral graves with new monuments.

Steps to replace ancestral graves with new monuments 1 1. Choose an auspicious day and burn incense and bow down before replacing it.

2. In order to be consistent with the previous monument.

3. After changing, burn incense and bow down.

The old monument should be broken and filled.

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In ancient China, "replacing graves with tombs" was only buried underground, and there was no sign on the surface. Later, there was a grave and a tombstone with mud on the ground.

After death, if you want to build a tomb, most of them must have an epitaph. Epitaphs generally record the name, place of birth, achievements, date of death, the name of the person who built the monument and the relationship with the deceased. Writing inscriptions should be full of respect and affection for the dead. In 22 years of the Republic of China, Yuan Keli Tombstone, an interview manuscript of Henan Tongzhi Suixian County, said: "Yuan Shangshu can set up a tombstone, which is located in the south of Suizhou and the east of Liudian Village." The monument is eight feet high. It is still called the system, and it is about ten feet high.

For the graves of funeral relatives, you can clearly remember them for one or two generations, but you can't remember three generations, especially after the migration and war, you don't know where the ancestral graves are. People have come up with many ways to solve it. At first, people buried the dead. Inspired by the wooden stakes used to maintain the coffin rope, they inserted wooden stakes and bamboo poles in front of the tomb and tied fiber (paper or silk, etc.). ) to indicate the date and time of birth and death of the deceased, which is called "Ming Jing" (or "Ming Jing"). But it is easy to be damaged, so people try to find another way: the rich use stone pillars instead of wooden pillars, and engrave the name, birth time and official rank of the deceased on the stone pillars.

Step 2 of changing ancestral graves into tombstones. Pay attention to and avoid replacing tombstones.

Setting up a monument is a very important link in the geomantic omen of the Yin House, because the only life introduction of the deceased is engraved on the stone tablet, and only through the stone tablet can others understand the life of the buried person. Moreover, the stone tablet also affects the geomantic omen of the yin house. Then, do you know what are the stresses and taboos of changing tombstones in Feng Shui? Let's look at the following five points:

1, Qingming change or auspicious day. However, this day must not conflict with the lives of those who changed the monument and those present. It is better to find a Japanese teacher to pick an auspicious day.

2, when changing, you must burn incense and make it clear to your ancestors.

3. Before replacing the tombstone, it is very important to measure the exact orientation of the tombstone, so that the new tombstone can be consistent with the previous grave orientation, otherwise it will have an impact on Feng Shui.

It is also very important that the old monuments that have been replaced must be broken and buried.

When finished, just burn the paper and say goodbye.

Generally speaking, the custom of changing tombstones varies from place to place, so you can change tombstones according to your local customs. If you don't know, you can ask the local elderly for details.

Explain seven feng shui taboos about setting up tombstones.

Tombstone is equivalent to the gate of the yin house, and it is the throat that absorbs the external atmosphere. Its orientation is related to good or bad luck, so the orientation of the monument when it is erected cannot be arbitrary. But in the plain (called Pingyanglong in Feng Shui), there are few real landscapes and the external atmosphere is generally weak. The power of setting up a monument to change good or bad is also very small, and the role of setting up a monument is far less obvious than that in mountainous areas. There are several elements in building a monument.

First, choose a date.

Choose auspicious time according to the mountain situation of the monument. If the monument is erected in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it should be erected in the first week and the second half of Tomb-Sweeping Day. If the monument is erected at other times, the time must be chosen accurately. Why didn't Tomb-Sweeping Day choose the exact time to erect a tombstone before and after? There are two periods in a year to choose the date of feng shui. During one period, around Tomb-Sweeping Day, all matters related to burying haunted houses, such as adding soil, erecting monuments and planting trees, were not taboo, which is why people concentrated all matters related to burying haunted houses in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Second, the positioning is reasonable.

This operation is very professional, and it needs to be accurately positioned with a compass according to the position of running water, the position of high and low terrain and the position of pits and ponds.

Third, the texture and color of the tablet surface.

The stone tablet is the best material and can withstand long-term weathering. The color of the tablet surface should be black or gray. Black and gray have a dignified feeling, and the colors are cool and turbid. It is also suitable for dark houses, not bright colors. This tablet is brightly colored. Among them, according to the direction (front) of the monument, it should be gray but not black to the south, and black but not gray to the east and southeast.

Fourth, the size and shape of the stone tablet.

It shouldn't be too high or too short. Generally it should not be too low, but the abdomen is too high and the neck is too high. The higher the better. The graves of ordinary people are not too big, unlike the tombs of emperors. Tall monuments stand in front of caves, which puts pressure on the graves, but affects the future of future generations, and their descendants are not prosperous. The shape of the tombstone is rectangular and regular, neither too narrow nor too wide. If the tombstone is short and wide, people will be short and fat.

Fifth, the location of the tombstone.

Tombstones stand at the head and foot of the coffin. Standing at the head of the coffin, known as the yin tablet, is beneficial to Ding Yanshi and standing at the foot of the coffin, which is beneficial to family wealth. However, it should be noted that the distance between the tombstone and the grave should not be pressed to the coffin, but to the head of the coffin. Later head diseases, such as headache, stupidity and mental illness, will be pushed to the bottom of the coffin, and later people will suffer from foot diseases and leg diseases. In addition, the foundation of the tombstone should be firm to prevent the tombstone from tilting due to soft subsidence in the future, otherwise it will be violently dismissed from office and leave home, and future generations will walk askew.

Sixth, the monument.

Generally, tombstones have a pedestal. After the rammed base is seated, a monument can be erected. If there is an incense table, it must be placed in front of the memorial tablet. Never use the incense table as a memorial tablet. If you put the tombstone on the incense table, you will fail.

Seventh, the inscription

Stone tablets are generally engraved with the name of the owner of the tomb, the name of the person who set up the monument (usually descendants), the date of setting up the monument, etc. Stone tablets must be carved in a concave way, not in a convex way. Secondly, the number of words should be over the ecliptic. The ecliptic originated from Taoism in Zhang Ling, which coincides with the date of 12. According to the calculation, the single digits of the total number of words are 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 9. It is better to cross the white road. According to the calculation, the single digits of the total number of words are 1, 2, 6 and 7. But there is no need to stick to the number of words. Furthermore, the font should not be running script or cursive script, but solemn Wei Bei, official script and regular script. In the mountain grave, if the image of drinking water (the image of drinking water refers to the mountain around the cave site like an animal shape, such as ant land, centipede land, tiger land, cow land, civet cat land, tiger mountain, dragon playing with pearls, phoenix spreading its wings and so on. Drinking water is a special content in geomantic omen), so it is not appropriate to set up a monument. There should be special content when offering sacrifices, such as tiger land and meat when offering sacrifices.

The third step is to replace the ancestral grave with a new monument. If there is no monument, will it affect future generations?

Before deciding whether to erect a monument, let's know what a tombstone is. Tombstone can be simply understood as the head of the grave, which is the carrier to record the owner's information or merits, and also the memorial carrier for people to bury the dead. Usually, tombstones are made of stone, but there are also wood, metal and other materials.

In geomantic omen, gravestones, like the gate of a Yin House, are an important part of the Yin House and the throat of the Yin House cemetery.

It can be seen that the monument is one of the important links in the geomantic omen of the Yin House, so it is very necessary to erect a monument, which is an indispensable link in a complete burial procedure.

There are many points for attention in the geomantic custom of setting up a monument, such as the date of setting up a monument, the materials of setting up a monument and the inscription on the tombstone.

If a cemetery does not erect a monument, it will easily lead to the saying that there is no grave, which will have a bad influence on the fortune of future generations of the family.

In addition, in fact, the original intention of the tombstone is to play the role of a marker. Generally speaking, the graves of deceased ancestors can be clearly remembered by one or two generations, and it is difficult to ensure that they can be clearly remembered after three generations, especially after migration, war and other turmoil, they don't know where their ancestral graves are.

So people have come up with many ways. At the beginning, people buried the dead, and the garden stakes used to maintain the coffin ropes were inspired. In front of the tomb, stakes and bamboo poles are inserted and tied with paper or silk to indicate the date and time of birth and death of the deceased. In ancient times, it was called "Ming Jing" or "Ming Jing".

However, this kind of mark is easy to be damaged, so people try to find another method. Some wealthy families use stone pillars instead of wooden pillars to carve the name, birth time and official rank of the deceased on the stone pillars, and then gradually evolve into tombstones.

Therefore, generally speaking, erecting a monument to the grave can also remind future generations of the need to worship their ancestors here, which is also a memorial to their ancestors and is also conducive to the fortune of future generations.

Therefore, if the monument is not erected, it will have an impact on future generations, including health, wealth and family luck.

Under what circumstances can't a monument be erected?

In geomantic omen, it is impossible to erect monuments in all cases. Under some special circumstances, it is impossible to erect a monument. In feng shui, it is not appropriate to erect a monument in the following situations.

1, it is not appropriate to erect a memorial to the dead.

If a person dies unexpectedly or suddenly, such a person should not erect a monument after his death, otherwise it will have a bad influence.

2. It is not appropriate to set up a monument when you die young.

If a newborn baby dies, or a person dies in adolescence, a tombstone should not be erected. Generally speaking, untimely death refers to those who died before 18 years old, including those who died due to physical reasons. This situation is not suitable for setting up tombstones.

3. Without the latter, it is not suitable to erect a monument.

In geomantic omen, it is usually inappropriate for people without descendants to erect monuments.