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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 May 1862
Tuesday
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Consecrating sacred images · Travel · Cleansing and exorcism · Sculpting and painting deities · Cutting cloth for garments · Encoffining · Moving a coffin · Breaking ground for a grave · Opening a grave for reburial · Burial · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes
Weddings · Raising the ridge beam · Building and repairs · Demolition · Setting up carpentry trestles · Moving into a new home · Felling trees · Breaking ground · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Drilling post holes
- Clash
- Dragon · Sha direction north
- Day god
- Golden Coffer · Yellow Path (auspicious)
- Day officer
- Initiate
- Lunar mansion
- Encampment · auspicious
- Nine star
- 五黄土
- Fetus god
- 占门栖 外西南
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 甲不开仓财物耗散 戌不吃犬作怪上床
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
yuè kōng · bù jiàng · yù yǔ · jiě shén · Golden Coffer
xiǎo hào · tiān zéi
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Azure Dragon | |
| 09:00–10:59 | 己巳 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 庚午 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Opening for business · Taking up a post |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Heavenly Virtue | Travel · Taking up a post · Seeking wealth |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 21:00–22:59 | 乙亥 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 丙子 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Taking up a post · 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.
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