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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 26 December 1840

Saturday

Lunar date
农历庚子年十二月初三
庚子 (Gengzi) · Year of the Rat · 戊子 己未
Nayin Fire in the Sky
Solar term
Winter Solstice
Pentad · qiū yǐn jié
Next solar term · Minor Cold 1841-01-05
Auspicious

Placing the bed · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Coming-of-age ceremony · Felling trees · Setting up carpentry trestles · Breaking ground · Digging ponds · Building a privy · Making nets · Encoffining · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes

Avoid

Installing doors · Planting · Building a stove · Medical treatment

Clash
Ox · Sha direction west
Day god
Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Danger
Lunar mansion
Girl · inauspicious
Nine star
五黄土
Fetus god
占门厕 外正东
Directions
Joy northeast · Wealth north · Fortune south
Peng Zu's taboos
己不破券二比并亡 未不服药毒气入肠
Folk taboo days
Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars

yào ān

Inauspicious stars

yuè shà · yuè xū · yuè hài · sì jī · bā zhuān · Hooked Array

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59甲子Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial
01:00–02:59乙丑Vermilion Bird
03:00–04:59丙寅Golden CofferWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
05:00–06:59丁卯Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home
07:00–08:59戊辰White TigerWeddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
09:00–10:59己巳Jade HallWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading
11:00–12:59庚午Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Travel · Burial · Praying for children
13:00–14:59辛未Black TortoiseWeddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Burial
15:00–16:59壬申Controller of FateWeddings · Moving house · Burial · Building and repairs
17:00–18:59癸酉Hooked ArrayWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
19:00–20:59甲戌Azure DragonWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings
21:00–22:59乙亥Bright HallWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Opening for business
23:00–23:59丙子Azure DragonWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings

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
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Julian calendar
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Hebrew calendar
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Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
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Ethiopian calendar
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Coptic calendar
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Minguo calendar
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Aztec calendars
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Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
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Roman calendar
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