Deathday:
1. It used to refer to the day when parents and other relatives died. Because drinking and having fun are forbidden, it is called.
The Book of Rites: "A gentleman has a lifelong loss, and it is also called a death day." Zheng Xuan's Note: "The day of death is the day of death." "Biography of Shen Tu Pan in the Later Han Dynasty": "When I lost my father at the age of nine, I mourned and ruined the ceremony ... I didn't eat for three days every day I died." "Surprise at the First Moment" Volume 6: "On the second day after the death of my dead brother, I will come to the courtyard to make a fast." Lu Xun's "Quasi-romantic Talk about Rites": "Of course, you should be filial to your relatives, but the way after your death has been included in the sacrifice ceremony, and each has its own instrument, that is, the present day of mourning, celebrating your birthday and so on."
2. The birthdays, death dates of ancestors and the death dates of emperors and queens are collectively referred to as death dates. It is also used for ordinary people today.
Yu Yue's Essay on Spring in the Hall (Volume 7) quotes from the Three Old Monuments in Han Dynasty: "Three old people are taboo, and the words are less than their fathers, and the day is forbidden in Geng Wu; Grandmother lost her virginity, and the word Zongjun, she did not avoid the day. " Biography of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi and Qi Wangfang: "Emperor Liezuming abandoned the world in the first month, and his courtiers always mourned the death of the day." Qing Gu Yanwu's poem "Pay homage to the Xiaoling Mausoleum on May 1th": "The anniversary of death is still a leap, and the stars are still a week."
3. Superstition calls it an unlucky day.
The Biography of Wang Mang in the History of Han Dynasty: "Take Wuzi as the Yuan Day, and the Ten Days of Wuyin as the Death Day." Jia Sixie's "Qi Min Yao Shu Planting Valley" in the Northern Wei Dynasty: "Where there is a taboo in nine valleys, if you don't avoid it, you will be hurt more."
What's the difference between "memorial day" and "memorial day"
Memorial day:
When people in Tomb-Sweeping Day said "memorial day" means "a day of sacrifice or memorial".
But "offering sacrifices to the sun" in Chinese ancient books is different. "Sacrifice to the Sun" is one of the important ceremonies in ancient China. The son of heaven set up a big altar to worship the sun god every spring equinox.
For example, it is said in Guan Zi: "When winter ends and spring begins, the son of heaven left his country for forty-six miles and went to the altar, dressed in green and jade, and took a jade supervisor, followed the people, and called the memorial day." Another example is: "The Book of Rites Sacrifice Law" says: "Buried in Taizhao, it is also a time to sacrifice; Close to the altar, offering sacrifices to the cold and heat; The palace is also a sacrifice to the sun. "
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people said that "offering sacrifices to the sun" was a biased structure, in which "offering sacrifices" was an attribute; In ancient times, "offering sacrifices to the sun god" was a verb-object structure, in which "offering sacrifices" was the dominant verb.
death day
"death day" refers to the day when the ancestors died. According to traditional customs, banquets, drinking and various entertainment activities are forbidden on this day, so it is called "no day".
For example, in The Biography of Shen Tu Pan in the Later Han Dynasty, it is said: "I lost my father at the age of nine ... I don't eat for three days every day I die." Another example is: Lu Xun said in "Quasi-romantic Talks and Rites": "Of course, you should be filial to your relatives, but the way after your death has been included in the sacrificial ceremony, and each has its own instrument, that is, the present day of mourning, celebrating your birthday and so on."
another example: (1) Tomorrow is the anniversary of my father's death, and I'm going to visit the grave with my wife and daughter. (2) March 12th 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 the day when it is not suitable to do something according to the superstition in the past.