WARNING: YOG Starts On The 5th Day Of CHINESE 7th MONTH.

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Read frm papers...Tiger and Monkey mus take xtra care dis cuming 7th mth...

Why?

Can elaborate?

 

[Ramseth]

You Christian how can you believe this kind of shit?

This is not superstition. This is chronography to keep track of time, days, months, seaons, tides and years for generations before the Gregorian calendar and clock were invented.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

so can anyone tell me why is this particular yr's 7th month so bad?

Also what precautions should anyone take?

 

[Microsoft]

Why?

Can elaborate?

Har?? dis kinda thing how to elaborate? If u believe...they say the strong negative force will affect those who are born in de yr of Tiger n Monkey most...:p

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Har?? dis kinda thing how to elaborate? If u believe...they say the strong negative force will affect those who are born in de yr of Tiger n Monkey most...:p

I apologise just that i want to read any article that's in english if that's possible.

 

[Microsoft]

I apologise just that i want to read any article that's in english if that's possible.

Dun think so there are any english article on this...i read tat in chinese evening papers...

 

[Ramseth]

The 7th lunar month has nothing to do with ghosts. It's midsummer festival or summer solstice when harvests were shared among farmers of same village communituies (hence the 7th lunar month associations in which contributions are collected and shared, traditionally with a feast and opera to celebrate).

The ghost story came later as ancient Chinese practised ancestral worshipping religiously. What better time to burn offerings to ancestors than at harvest time? So the ghost story that ghosts come out on the 7th lunar month to feast started.

The concerns and myths against swimming during the 7th lunar month had to do with river tides and drinking with the feasts. They're no river ghosts of course. Just drunkards who fell into rivers and swept away by outflowing tides on their way home.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

The 7th lunar month has nothing to do with ghosts. It's midsummer festival or summer solstice when harvests were shared among farmers of same village communituies (hence the 7th lunar month associations in which contributions are collected and shared, traditionally with a feast and opera to celebrate).

OMG he strikes again!!!

Yeah that's true ghosts don't exist. So why not you prove yourself correct by kicking over the offerings and swim around sentosa or any pools late at night during the 7th month?

 

[Ramseth]

Yeah that's true ghosts don't exist. So why not you prove yourself correct by kicking over the offerings and swim around sentosa or any pools late at night during the 7th month?

I grew up learning to swim in Pulau Ubin and Kallang River, not swimming pool. I gave it up one day when I saw a crocodile there. It's swimming pool for me nowadays, regardless of months.

 

[championplug]

The 7th lunar month has nothing to do with ghosts. It's midsummer festival or summer solstice when harvests were shared among farmers of same village communituies (hence the 7th lunar month associations in which contributions are collected and shared, traditionally with a feast and opera to celebrate).

The ghost story came later as ancient Chinese practised ancestral worshipping religiously. What better time to burn offerings to ancestors than at harvest time? So the ghost story that ghosts come out on the 7th lunar month to feast started.

The concerns and myths against swimming during the 7th lunar month had to do with river tides and drinking with the feasts. They're no river ghosts of course. Just drunkards who fell into rivers and swept away by outflowing tides on their way home.

Harvest celebrations or thanksgivings are not commemorated during 中元节 but on 中秋节 in China. In anyway, your so-called mid-summer celebration or summer solstice is based on solar calendar, whereas the farmers in ancient china relied on the lunar calendar.

Also ancestor worship practiced by Chinese for thousands of years has a special day known as qingming 清明节, yearly around the the 3rd lunar month, not a harvesting period either.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Harvest celebrations or thanksgivings are not commemorated during 中元节 but on 中秋节 in China. In anyway, your so-called mid-summer celebration or summer solstice is based on solar calendar, whereas the farmers in ancient china relied on the lunar calendar.

Also ancestor worship practiced by Chinese for thousands of years has a special day known as qingming 清明节, yearly around the the 3rd lunar month, not a harvesting period either.

omg ramseth is actually wrong!!!

kenna pawned.

 

[Ramseth]

Harvest celebrations or thanksgivings are not commemorated during 中元节 but on 中秋节 in China. In anyway, your so-called mid-summer celebration or summer solstice is based on solar calendar, whereas the farmers in ancient china relied on the lunar calendar.

The Chinese calendar is more accurate on the seasons than the Gregorian. The 1st lunar month mark the end of winter and spring accurately whereas January does not. The 15th day is always full moon, whereas the Gregorian months are inconsistent. The 7th month marks midyear, hence 中元。Mid-autumn is mid-autumn, a time to enjoy the cool weather and prepare for the coming winter.

Also ancestor worship practiced by Chinese for thousands of years has a special day known as qingming 清明节, yearly around the the 3rd lunar month, not a harvesting period either.

Ancestral worshipping has been in practice for thousands of years. It was done in family ancestral temples for the rich and nobility, and shared village ancestral temples for the not so rich and noble. The Qingming practice of visiting cemetries is hardly a few hundred years old. It has nothing to do with harvests, just visiting and cleaning up cemetries after the new year (spring) festivities are over and summer is coming.

 

[championplug]

First you say this,

The ghost story came later as ancient Chinese practised ancestral worshipping religiously. What better time to burn offerings to ancestors than at harvest time?

then you say this.

Ancestral worshipping has been in practice for thousands of years. It has nothing to do with harvests, just visiting and cleaning up cemetries after the new year (spring) festivities are over and summer is coming.

Can you make up your mind?

 

[championplug]

The Qingming practice of visiting cemetries is hardly a few hundred years old.

The QingMing Festival has been around for more than 2500 years! It has been since the Chou dynasty!

 

[wikiphile]

The 7th lunar month has nothing to do with ghosts. It's midsummer festival or summer solstice when harvests were shared among farmers of same village communituies (hence the 7th lunar month associations in which contributions are collected and shared, traditionally with a feast and opera to celebrate).

The ghost story came later as ancient Chinese practised ancestral worshipping religiously. What better time to burn offerings to ancestors than at harvest time? So the ghost story that ghosts come out on the 7th lunar month to feast started.

The concerns and myths against swimming during the 7th lunar month had to do with river tides and drinking with the feasts. They're no river ghosts of course. Just drunkards who fell into rivers and swept away by outflowing tides on their way home.

I supposed the priests 'opening' the gates of hell at Lim Chu Kang every year on the 1st of lunar July is just there because they have nowhere else to go and like to perform an elaborate ceremony in the middle of nowhere because they are bored?

 

[Ramseth]

First you say this,



then you say this.



Can you make up your mind?

I don't know what's wrong with having a cemetry visit festival and a burn offering festival. Must it be one or the other? Some have three festivals for ancestral worshipping, including the death anniversary.

 

[Ramseth]

The QingMing Festival has been around for more than 2500 years! It has been since the Chou dynasty!

I'm not always right and could be wrong. Don't just believe me. Check it out.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

I'm not always right and could be wrong. Don't just believe me. Check it out.

What's the use of posting these "facts" if you're not actually sure about them?


Shouldn't you at least attempt to look it up before even posting?

 

[Ramseth]

What's the use of posting these "facts" if you're not actually sure about them?

Shouldn't you at least attempt to look it up before even posting?

Discussion, to be corrected. If I go Wiki or Google, I'd be accused of cut-and-paste anyway. I say what I think I know in good faith, maybe not be necessarily correct or accurate. You don't have to read it or believe it. But then, you're one of my biggest fans around.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Discussion, to be corrected. If I go Wiki or Google, I'd be accused of cut-and-paste anyway. I say what I think I know in good faith, maybe not be necessarily correct or accurate. You don't have to read it or believe it. But then, you're one of my biggest fans around.

Jeesus christ, the master twisty turner here.


Yeah now i'm one of your fans.