When the ancestor is for the ancestors, why should the Baxian table be changed?

Eight Immortal Table, we are most familiar with it, especially for those who grew up in the countryside, the Baxian table has witnessed our growth. The eight immortal tables are generally on the central axis of each house, and close to the middle hall. Even if they move occasionally, they just move up and down or left and right, and will never change the direction, unless the ancestor is for the ancestors.

In the impression, only when the Qingming Festival, the Zhongyuan Festival, the Spring Festival, etc. need to be used for the ancestors at home, my father ordered me and the little brother to raise the eight immortal tables and rotate the table in place to let the table rotate 90 90 Degree (casual time to time). After the ancestors, my father ordered us to lift the Eight Immortal table again and turn 90 degrees in place (free to time), which is equivalent to recovering from the Eight Immortals table.

I remember that one year after the Spring Festival, after I turned with my brother and I turned to the table, my father began to burn paper money at home. After finishing, we did not tell us to "turn the table", and we ignored the tradition of the past, thinking that it was not necessary to operate. After cleaning up the tools for the ancestors, the Eight Immortals table was put on the meal for meals, so I was going to sit at the table for dinner. Inadvertently, I found my father glanced here.

Suddenly, my father yelled, scaring me. He said sharply: "There is no restoration of the table, you are going to sit down? That was the dead." I was afraid of ghosts when I was young. When I heard my father said, I hurried away and fled outside the house. Later, he was chased back by his mother. Of course, when they came back, they had restored the table, but I still dare not sit over.

I was ignorant at an early age. After I grew up, I knew that the placement of the Baxian table was strictly particular. On weekdays, the table seam of the Baxian table (the desktop is generally stitched from several plates, and there is a seam between the board and the plate) parallel to the axis of the hall. Only when the ancestor is provided, the table will rotate 90 degrees to let the table seams and and the tables and the tables and the tables and the tables seam. The middle axis of the hall is vertical. Once the ceremony for the ancestors was completed, the Baxian table immediately returned to its original position.

As for the reason, no one could understand in ancient times. But from the phrase "that was sitting by the dead", I pondered that the placement of the Baxian table may be related to "good and bad". Chinese people respect ghosts and gods, and they are also afraid of ghosts and gods. They are afraid of those unknown fields, fear, and looking forward to, looking forward to them to bring us auspicious elephants, protect wealth and peace. On the other hand, you are afraid of avoiding it. You must avoid dealing with them. Therefore, they certainly cannot sit.

However, I always feel that I think about it. Perhaps, at the beginning of this tradition, the ancients simply used it as a ritual of sacrifice. There was no suspense, but it was used to distinguish between usual. In today's words, it is the sense of ritual. However, with the long circulation of this ritual in the long river, more and more future generations have joined "personal speculation". To this day, it becomes a god.

Or, in the traditional Chinese culture of yin and yang in China, everything is inseparable from the word yin and yang. Even if life and death, there is also the statement of yang and yin. The ancients lived in the land, and the houses were usually north to the south, and the south was fire, which belonged to the yang, so the eight immortal tables were sewed to the sun when they were placed on weekdays. When the sacrifice is, in order to distinguish it, the central axis of the setting of the table is overcast.

However, the more the times develop in the future. When people are under construction, it is no longer possible to sit north and south due to the venue and environment. At this time, how should I put the Eight Immortals table in such a house? It is easy to handle, people still use the axis of the house as the benchmark, parallel to the axis to the sun, and vertical to the yin. Then, until now.

I still stubbornly think that it is just the "sense of ritual" that has been passed down all the way, rather than any landlord ghost. As for "that dead people are sitting", but because in the process of circulating Keeping his initial "ritual", there was such a word that was enough to scare children.

Many traditions and customs, in the slow flow of time, were joined by later generations to join "personal thoughts", and then circulated and joined ... Finally, it is an infinite loop, which has become what we see today. After all, many simple starts have become complicated now. It seems that many people are "simple and complicated", and they especially like to leave their own strokes.

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