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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 31 August 1897
Tuesday
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Cleansing and exorcism · Demolition · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Laying foundations · Raising the ridge beam · Placing the bed · Installing doors · Digging channels · Digging ponds · Encoffining · Breaking ground for a grave · Opening a grave for reburial
Weddings · Travel · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Building a stove · Moving into a new home · Moving house · Planting · Taking up a post
- Clash
- Rabbit · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Black Tortoise · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Remove
- Lunar mansion
- Turtle Beak · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 六白金
- Fetus god
- 厨灶门 外东南
- Directions
- Joy southwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 辛不合酱主人不尝 酉不会客醉坐颠狂
yīn dé · guān rì · jí qī · chú shén · míng fèi
dà shí · dà bài · xián chí · jiǔ kǎn · jiǔ jiāo · wǎng wáng · wǔ lí · yuán wǔ
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 戊子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 01:00–02:59 | 己丑 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 庚寅 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 05:00–06:59 | 辛卯 | Bright Hall | |
| 07:00–08:59 | 壬辰 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 癸巳 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 11:00–12:59 | 甲午 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 13:00–14:59 | 乙未 | Heavenly Virtue | Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building and repairs · Building a stove |
| 15:00–16:59 | 丙申 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 丁酉 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 19:00–20:59 | 戊戌 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 21:00–22:59 | 己亥 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Burial |
| 23:00–23:59 | 庚子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · 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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