Calendars · Find auspicious days
Chinese almanac (Huangli), 8 May 1840
Friday
Lunar date
农历庚子年四月初七
庚子 (Gengzi) · Year of the Rat · 辛巳 丁卯
Nayin Fire in the Furnace
Solar term
Start of Summer
Pentad · lóu guō míng
Next solar term · Grain Buds 1840-05-21
Auspicious
Making agreements · Betrothal gifts · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Breaking ground · Breaking ground for a grave · Trading · Signing contracts
Avoid
Weddings · Burial
- Clash
- Rooster · Sha direction west
- Day god
- Black Tortoise · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Open
- Lunar mansion
- Neck · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 七赤金
- Fetus god
- 仓库门 外正南
- Directions
- Joy south · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 丁不剃头头必生疮 卯不穿井水泉不香
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day) · Master Yang's taboo day
Auspicious stars
tiān ēn · mǔ cāng · yīn dé · shí yáng · shēng qì · pǔ hù · wǔ hé · míng fèi duì
Inauspicious stars
zāi shà · tiān huǒ · yuán wǔ
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 庚子 | Controller of Fate | Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 01:00–02:59 | 辛丑 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving house · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 03:00–04:59 | 壬寅 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 05:00–06:59 | 癸卯 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 甲辰 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 09:00–10:59 | 乙巳 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
| 11:00–12:59 | 丙午 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 丁未 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 戊申 | White Tiger | Moving into a new home · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building and repairs |
| 17:00–18:59 | 己酉 | Jade Hall | |
| 19:00–20:59 | 庚戌 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 辛亥 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 23:00–23:59 | 壬子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
The almanac (huangli) is a Chinese folk tradition. Its rules come from historical texts such as the Xieji Bianfang Shu (1739); it is shown here as cultural heritage, not as a prediction or advice.
This day in other calendars
- Gregorian calendar
- 8 May 1840
- Julian calendar
- 26 April 1840 (Julian)
- Chinese calendar (Nongli)
- Gengzi year (Rat), month 4, day 7
- Korean calendar (Dangi)
- Dangi 4173, month 4, day 7
- Hebrew calendar
- 5 Iyar 5600 AM
- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
- 6 Rabiʿ al-Awwal 1256 AH
- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
- 18 Ordibehesht 1219 SH
- Ethiopian calendar
- 1 Ginbot 1832 EC
- Coptic calendar
- 1 Pashons 1556 AM
- Indian national calendar (Saka)
- 18 Vaishakha 1762 Saka
- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
- 8 May BE 2383
- Minguo calendar
- 8 May, 72 before Minguo
- Maya calendars
- 12.11.4.15.11 5 Chuwen 19 Kumk'u
- Aztec calendars
- 5 Ozomahtli (monkey), 13 Huei Tecuilhuitl
- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
- 12 Mesori, Shemu (harvest), year 2588 of Nabonassar
- Roman calendar
- a.d. VI Kal. Mai., 2593 AUC