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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 9 August 1879
Saturday
Weddings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Travel · Consecrating sacred images · Cleansing and exorcism · Demolition · Building and repairs · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Installing the household altar · Trading · Signing contracts · Moving into a new home · Moving house · Placing the bed · Breaking ground · Breaking ground for a grave · Thanking the Earth God · Burial · Encoffining · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes
Fasting and Taoist rites · Opening for business · Opening granaries · Building a stove · Building boats
- Clash
- Horse · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Azure Dragon · Yellow Path (auspicious)
- Day officer
- Stable
- Lunar mansion
- Root · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 三碧木
- Fetus god
- 占门碓 外东南
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 甲不开仓财物耗散 子不问卜自惹祸殃
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
tiān ēn · shí yáng · mín rì · sān hé · lín rì · shí yīn · fú shēng · Azure Dragon
sǐ qì
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Opening for business · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 09:00–10:59 | 己巳 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 11:00–12:59 | 庚午 | Controller of Fate | |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Bright Hall | Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Burial |
| 21:00–22:59 | 乙亥 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 丙子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
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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