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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 December 1884
Saturday · Yalda Night
Praying for children · Fasting and Taoist rites · Sculpting and painting deities · Making agreements · Betrothal gifts · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Demolition · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Building bridges · Installing machinery · Planting · Acquiring livestock · Raising livestock · Encoffining · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Moving a coffin · Breaking ground for a grave · Burial
Opening for business · Weddings
- Clash
- Dog · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Stable
- Lunar mansion
- Root · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 二黑土
- Fetus god
- 占门栖 房内东
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 甲不开仓财物耗散 辰不哭泣必主重丧
- Folk taboo days
- Four Separations (eve of equinox or solstice)
yuè ēn · sì xiāng · sān hé · lín rì · shí yīn · tiān cāng · shèng xīn
sǐ qì · Heavenly Prison
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 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 · Moving house · Opening for business · Burial |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | White Tiger | |
| 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 · Praying for blessings · Burial |
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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