What's the taboo of thanking soil?

In our lunar calendar, there will be the word "thank you for your soil". Many friends may be familiar with these two words, but they don't know much about their meaning. Generally speaking, soil-thanking is a sacrificial ceremony held after the new house is built, and the time for soil-thanking can't be chosen at will. We should also invite Feng Shui masters to see the auspicious day of the zodiac in advance. There are also some taboos that need to be paid attention to in the ceremony of thanking the soil. Next, let's take a good look at the taboo of thanking the soil.

1. What are the taboos for thanking the soil?

thanking the earth means rewarding the land god. In the past, every household in rural areas would worship the land god, and villagers would generally call it the land god or the land god. On holidays, villagers would make sacrifices and put on good food that they could not bear to eat, and then give it to the land god first. Soil is the first of the five elements, whether building a house or repairing a road, it is a kind of destruction to the land, which will not only destroy and disturb the natural environment such as visible vegetation and animals, but also cause disaster to many young creatures, which will break the harmony in this area. Therefore, the ground-breaking ceremony in advance is equivalent to putting forward an application and obtaining the consent of the land god, while afterwards thanking the land god is to apologize to all parties and thank the land god for his tolerance, which is a kind of expression of people's desire for natural harmony.

second, what does it mean to thank the soil?

1. Source

Ancient houses were built as a form of offering sacrifices to the gods who thanked the earth later. Ming Li Zhi's "Notice on Moving to the Upper House": So far, the Buddha has not been sculpted, and he has not dared to live in the main room, and he has not dared to thank the soil. A ceremony held when a modern building is completed or a tomb is completed.

2. Form

After the building is completely completed, a ceremony to thank the earth will be held on another day. At that time, the plasterer will take the eight-foot mirror invited in advance and wrap it with red cloth, and then bury it in the construction site on the same day to prepare a cement pit for the eight-foot mirror. Generally, the pit will be in the middle of the construction site, with a depth of 1 meter or more, and the length and width of the pit are better. The process of putting the eight-foot god into the cement pit in the mirror is called sieve circle. After putting it in, you can put some tributes, such as copper coins and some grain and rice notified by Chongning in the Song Dynasty, and scatter them in the four directions.