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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 2 November 1897

Tuesday · Day of the Dead

Lunar date
农历丁酉年十月初八
丁酉 (Dingyou) · Year of the Rooster · 庚戌 甲子
Nayin Gold in the Sea
Solar term
Frost's Descent
Pentad · zhé chóng xián fǔ
Next solar term · Start of Winter 1897-11-07
Auspicious

Betrothal gifts · Making agreements · Visiting family and friends · Ritual bathing · Haircut · Cutting cloth for garments · Coming-of-age ceremony · Placing the bed · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Opening a grave for reburial · Moving a coffin · Burial · Preparing one's own tomb

Avoid

Opening for business · Moving into a new home · Travel · Weddings · Repairing tombs · Praying for blessings · Breaking ground · Installing doors · Thanking the Earth God · Raising the ridge beam

Clash
Horse · Sha direction south
Day god
Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Full
Lunar mansion
Wings · inauspicious
Nine star
六白金
Fetus god
占门碓 外东南
Directions
Joy northeast · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
Peng Zu's taboos
甲不开仓财物耗散 子不问卜自惹祸殃
Auspicious stars

tiān ēn · shí dé · mín rì · tiān fú · fú dé · pǔ hù

Inauspicious stars

zāi shà · tiān huǒ · dà shà · guī jì · Heavenly Prison

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59甲子Golden CofferWeddings · Opening for business · Praying for blessings · Burial
01:00–02:59乙丑Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial
03:00–04:59丙寅White TigerWeddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post
05:00–06:59丁卯Jade HallWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
07:00–08:59戊辰Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed
09:00–10:59己巳Black TortoiseWeddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
11:00–12:59庚午Controller of Fate
13:00–14:59辛未Hooked ArrayWeddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Burial
15:00–16:59壬申Azure DragonWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59癸酉Bright HallMoving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Placing the bed
19:00–20:59甲戌Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Burial
21:00–22:59乙亥Vermilion BirdWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
23:00–23:59丙子Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business

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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Roman calendar
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