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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 16 October 1890

Thursday

Lunar date
农历庚寅年九月初三
庚寅 (Gengyin) · Year of the Tiger · 丙戌 庚午
Nayin Earth by the Road
Solar term
Cold Dew
Pentad · què rù dà shuǐ wèi há
Next solar term · Frost's Descent 1890-10-23
Auspicious

Weddings · Betrothal gifts · Making agreements · Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Hanging a signboard · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Consecrating sacred images · Making carts and tools · Travel · Moving into a new home · Moving house · Placing the bed · Installing doors · Demolition · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Planting · Burial · Breaking ground for a grave · Opening a grave for reburial · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Encoffining · Erecting a tombstone

Avoid

Visiting the sick · Acquiring livestock · Felling trees · Laying foundations · Making beams · Roofing

Clash
Rat · Sha direction north
Day god
Heavenly Punishment · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Success
Lunar mansion
Horn · auspicious
Nine star
九紫火
Fetus god
占碓磨 外正南
Directions
Joy northwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
Peng Zu's taboos
庚不经络织机虚张 午不苫盖屋主更张
Folk taboo days
Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars

yuè ēn · sān hé · tiān xǐ · tiān yī · tiān cāng · bù jiàng · yào ān · míng fèi

Inauspicious stars

Heavenly Punishment

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59丙子Golden Coffer
01:00–02:59丁丑Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial
03:00–04:59戊寅White TigerWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
05:00–06:59己卯Jade HallWeddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home
07:00–08:59庚辰Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings
09:00–10:59辛巳Black TortoiseWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
11:00–12:59壬午Controller of FateWeddings · Moving into a new home · Burial · Building a stove
13:00–14:59癸未Hooked ArrayWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed
15:00–16:59甲申Azure DragonWeddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
17:00–18:59乙酉Bright HallWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading
19:00–20:59丙戌Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
21:00–22:59丁亥Vermilion BirdWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Burial
23:00–23:59戊子Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home

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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