On birthdays and anniversaries, relatives and friends of the deceased will buy sacrifices to pay homage to the deceased to show their respect, remembrance and commemoration. These two terms are popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and Macao.
The tradition of the two is based on the lunar calendar, but now it is based on the solar calendar, and the national commemoration of party and government dignitaries and celebrities is based on the solar calendar; If you want to calculate the time according to the lunar calendar, you can.
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Birth taboo and death taboo are taboo days, but "anniversary" and "taboo day" are different:
1, anniversary
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people say that "the day of sacrifice" refers to "the day of sacrifice or commemoration". But the "sacrifice to the sun" in China's ancient books is different. "Sacrificing to the Sun" is one of the important ceremonies in ancient China. Every spring equinox, the son of heaven set up a big altar to worship the sun god.
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people say that "offering sacrifices to the sun" is a biased structure, in which "offering sacrifices" is an attribute; In ancient times, "offering sacrifices to the sun god" was a verb-object structure, in which "offering sacrifices" was the dominant verb.
2. Deathday
"Death Day" refers to the day when our ancestors died. According to traditional customs, banquets, drinking and all kinds of entertainment activities are forbidden on this day, so it is called "No People's Day". Tomorrow is the anniversary of my father's death I am going to visit the grave with my wife and daughter. (2) March 12 is the anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death. "Death Day" used to be called "Death Day". There is another meaning of "death day", which refers to a day that is not suitable for doing something according to past superstitions.
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