What should you pay attention to when the ghost gate opens
Taboos 1. Legend has it that at midnight on this day, the yin energy is particularly strong. If you stay in the wilderness, you will see the spectacle of a hundred ghosts walking at night. So everyone should go home early and stay there during the Ghost Festival.
Taboo 2. Do not insert two chopsticks in the middle of the rice. This is like inserting incense on the incense burner. It is the mode of worship. The other person will think that you are inviting him to share the food.
Taboo 3: Do not play in dangerous waters. According to legend, water ghosts will find people to be their dead ghosts in order to reincarnate.
Taboo 4. Don’t pick up money on the roadside. This money is used to buy naughty horses. If you infringe on their things, you will be easily punished by them.
Taboo 5. Don’t look back easily. When walking in the wilderness or a sparsely populated place, you feel as if someone is calling you. Don’t look back easily. It might be that person.
Taboo 6. Don’t stay up late. It’s late at night when human Yang Qi is at its weakest, and ghost Yin Qi is at its strongest late at night. Staying up late can easily lead to the invasion of discouragement.
Taboo 7. Don’t eat the sacrifices secretly. These are the foods that belong to that person. Using them without their consent will only bring you unsolvable bad luck.
Taboo 8. Avoid bringing red ropes, bells, wind chimes and other things that attract ghosts, and try to avoid going out.
Where does the ghost door open?
The direction of the ghost door
In the Feng Shui theory, the ghost door occupies a very important position. During the field survey of home feng shui, The direction 45 degrees northeast is the outer ghost gate, and the direction 45 degrees southwest is the inner ghost gate. The place in the house where the sun never shines, or where it is difficult to get enough sunlight, is the 45-degree area between the northeast corner and the southwest corner. This is considered a cold and humid area. There are many Feng Shui taboos in this area. If you don't pay attention to it, The evil spirits are everywhere, rather than being said to be unlucky, it is more appropriate to say that it is a great disaster.
Southwest
The "Xun" hexagram in the innate Bagua is in the southwest, and the "Kun" hexagram in the acquired Bagua is in the southwest. The "Kun" hexagram is a pure Yin hexagram, and the "Xun" hexagram is in the southwest. The hexagrams also belong to Yin. When two Yin hexagrams meet, it is a place of heavy Yin, so the southwest is the direction with the heaviest Yin energy. In folklore, after death, the soul of a person returns to the southwest. Soul-calling rituals in ancient funerals were held in the southwest. The Fengdu ghost town is also in the Sichuan and Chongqing region in southwest my country. In Qimen Dunjia, the southwest Kun position is directly Defined as the door of death.
Can you see your deceased relatives when the ghost gate opens?
You cannot see your deceased relatives when the ghost gate opens.
The ghost gate is just a legend passed down orally by the old people in ancient times. There is no scientific basis to prove it. The theory of ghosts has not been confirmed, and it is impossible to see relatives. Of course, the folk saying is that as long as people are upright, they will not encounter ghosts. Most ghosts are the product of human psychology.
In addition, folklore says that people are more likely to get sick in the seventh month of the lunar calendar because many places have begun to enter the season change phase between summer and autumn at this time, and the temperature begins to slowly turn cooler. If you do not adjust your clothing and diet in time, If you don’t work well enough, you will easily get sick.
Why burn paper money when the ghost gate opens
Modern people believe that paper money is "banknotes" burned by living people to the spirit world. Those given to gods are covered with gold foil, so they are called "money". The deceased's body is covered with silver foil, so it is called "silver paper" or "underworld paper".
According to research by relevant scholars, the Han people have the custom of using objects for burial. In ancient times, living people and real objects were often buried with them. Later, because it was too cruel and wasteful, some were buried with earthen imitations, called "figurines", such as the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang. But of course, ordinary people cannot afford the cost of making figurines, so they use paper and burn the paper. The original appearance of paper money was cut into round coins and scattered or burned to the spirit world. It can be seen that the principle is the same.
According to the "Dialect of Du Shi": "Hunhou of Qidong was fond of ghosts and gods. He cut paper into paper and used it to bind silk. This became popular in the Tang Dynasty." "Qing Yi Lu" written by Tao Tuan of the Song Dynasty said: On the day of Zhou Shizong's funeral, Chai Rong was burned with symbolic gold and silver. The paper money was shaped like the mouth of a bowl and had seals on it. The yellow seal was called "Quantai Bao", and the white one was called "Quantai Bao". The name of the paper "Mingyou Yabao" shows that paper money was mass-produced by engraving printing during the Five Dynasties.
Procedure for burning paper
When the incense burns to one-third, you can burn paper money. First, pick up the paper money placed on the altar table and report your name, birthday, address, and thank God to the god. Well, after writing your personal information on the paper money, you can go to Jinting to have it incinerated. When incineration, start with the larger ones, because the larger ones are given to gods with higher ranks.