When is the best time to erect a monument? Is it necessary to erect a monument?

Tombstone is equivalent to the gate of the yin house, and it is the throat that absorbs the breath of the outside world. Its orientation is related to good or bad luck, so the direction cannot be arbitrary when erecting a monument. The plain land (called Pingyanglong in Feng Shui) is scarce, and the external atmosphere is generally weak. The power of setting up a monument to change good or bad is also small, and the good or bad effect of setting up a monument is far less obvious than that in mountainous areas. Let's take a look at it with me!

When is the best time to erect a monument?

The time to set up the monument is mostly during the Qingming Festival and when the monument is set up, and it is best to set up it three years later. Because these three years, like living relatives, from birth to being able to walk independently and get rid of their parents' arms, they all need parental support. It takes three years. Our parents have lost three years. We should repay our parents for their kindness in these three years, and we need to be as grateful to them as our parents took care of us. There is a similar saying in Disciples' Rules: "After three years' mourning, you often grieve, your life changes, and there is no wine and meat. In particular, the last sentence expresses that in the past three years, we should treat our dead parents like living parents.

Is it necessary to erect a monument to the grave?

Pay attention to the place, but most areas need to erect monuments, because tombstones are an important part of Yin House, the head of a tomb, the carrier to record the owner's information or merits, and the memorial carrier for people to bury the dead. Generally speaking, tombstones are made of stone, and some are made of wood, metal and other materials. The color of the tablet surface should be black or gray, which has a dignified feeling and is cold and turbid, and is also suitable for yin houses. You can't use bright colors. Flat plates have bright colors and dirty colors. Among them, according to the direction (front) of the monument, the south should be gray but not black, and the east and southeast should be black but not gray.

Do you usually choose a date to erect a monument in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

There is no need to choose a date to erect a monument in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and everything related to haunted houses before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day is not taboo.

There are two periods in a year when you don't need to choose a date, one is Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the other is the winter solstice. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional auspicious day for China to pay homage to his ancestors. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, all matters related to burial sites, such as adding soil, erecting monuments and planting trees, were avoided, which is why people concentrated all matters related to burial sites in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Of course, Tomb-Sweeping Day's monument should not be too far away from Tomb-Sweeping Day, but within the week before Tomb-Sweeping Day and the second half of Tomb-Sweeping Day. If you want to set up a monument at another time, you must choose an auspicious day, and don't compete with the deceased who set up the monument to prevent it from bringing disadvantages to your loved ones and burying future troubles.