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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 September 1897

Monday

Lunar date
农历丁酉年八月廿四
丁酉 (Dingyou) · Year of the Rooster · 己酉 辛巳
Nayin White Wax Gold
Solar term
White Dew
Pentad · qún niǎo yǎng xiū
Next solar term · Autumn Equinox 1897-09-23
Auspicious

Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Hanging a signboard · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Consecrating sacred images · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Demolition · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Planting

Avoid

Weddings · Erecting a tombstone · Travel · Felling trees · Burial · Funeral procession · Moving house · Acquiring livestock

Clash
Pig · Sha direction east
Day god
Vermilion Bird · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Success
Lunar mansion
Rooftop · inauspicious
Nine star
四绿木
Fetus god
厨灶床 外正西
Directions
Joy southwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
Peng Zu's taboos
辛不合酱主人不尝 巳不远行财物伏藏
Auspicious stars

tiān ēn · sān hé · lín rì · tiān xǐ · tiān yī · bù jiàng · pǔ hù

Inauspicious stars

fù rì · chóng rì · Vermilion Bird

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59戊子White TigerWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading
01:00–02:59己丑Jade HallWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
03:00–04:59庚寅Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings
05:00–06:59辛卯Black TortoiseWeddings · Moving house · Opening for business · Burial
07:00–08:59壬辰Controller of FateBuilding and repairs · Building a stove
09:00–10:59癸巳Hooked ArrayWeddings · Moving into a new home · Burial · Thanksgiving to the gods
11:00–12:59甲午Azure DragonWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
13:00–14:59乙未Bright HallWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
15:00–16:59丙申Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings
17:00–18:59丁酉Vermilion BirdWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
19:00–20:59戊戌Golden CofferWeddings · Opening for business · Burial
21:00–22:59己亥Heavenly Virtue
23:00–23:59庚子Golden Coffer

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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