Calendars · Find auspicious days
Chinese almanac (Huangli), 21 October 1888
Sunday
Lunar date
农历戊子年九月十七
戊子 (Wuzi) · Year of the Rat · 壬戌 乙丑
Nayin Gold in the Sea
Solar term
Cold Dew
Pentad · jú yǒu huáng huā
Next solar term · Frost's Descent 1888-10-23
Auspicious
Cleansing and exorcism · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Decorating walls · Repairing roads · Building livestock pens · Avoid everything else
Avoid
Weddings · Opening for business · Trading · Moving into a new home · Starting school · Burial
- Clash
- Goat · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Black Tortoise · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Balance
- Lunar mansion
- Room · auspicious
- Nine star
- 五黄土
- Fetus god
- 碓磨厕 外东南
- Directions
- Joy northwest · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 乙不栽植千株不长 丑不冠带主不还乡
Auspicious stars
tiān ēn · mǔ cāng · fú shēng
Inauspicious stars
tiān gāng · sǐ shén · yuè shà · yuè xū · yuán wǔ
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 丙子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 丁丑 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 戊寅 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 己卯 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 庚辰 | White Tiger | |
| 09:00–10:59 | 辛巳 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Opening for business |
| 11:00–12:59 | 壬午 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 癸未 | Black Tortoise | |
| 15:00–16:59 | 甲申 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings |
| 17:00–18:59 | 乙酉 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 19:00–20:59 | 丙戌 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 丁亥 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 23:00–23:59 | 戊子 | Azure Dragon | Travel · Taking up a post · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Thanksgiving to the gods |
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
- 21 October 1888
- Julian calendar
- 9 October 1888 (Julian)
- Chinese calendar (Nongli)
- Wuzi year (Rat), month 9, day 17
- Korean calendar (Dangi)
- Dangi 4221, month 9, day 17
- Hebrew calendar
- 16 Heshvan 5649 AM
- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
- 15 Safar 1306 AH
- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
- 30 Mehr 1267 SH
- Ethiopian calendar
- 12 Tikimt 1881 EC
- Coptic calendar
- 12 Paopi 1605 AM
- Indian national calendar (Saka)
- 29 Ashvin 1810 Saka
- Japanese era calendar
- Meiji 21, October 21
- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
- 21 October BE 2431
- Minguo calendar
- 21 October, 24 before Minguo
- Maya calendars
- 12.13.14.0.9 10 Muluk 12 Ch'en
- Aztec calendars
- 10 Atl (water), 11 Tititl
- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
- 5 Mechir, Peret (growth), year 2637 of Nabonassar
- Roman calendar
- a.d. VII Id. Oct., 2641 AUC