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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 16 December 1912

Monday

Lunar date
农历壬子年十一月初八
壬子 (Renzi) · Year of the Rat · 壬子 丙寅
Nayin Fire in the Furnace
Solar term
Major Snow
Pentad · hǔ shǐ jiāo
Next solar term · Winter Solstice 1912-12-22
Auspicious

Betrothal gifts · Making agreements · Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Travel · Visiting family and friends · Installing machinery · Erecting pillars · Raising the ridge beam · Repairing roads · Felling trees · Demolition · Roofing · Laying foundations · Placing the bed · Installing doors · Cleansing and exorcism · Burial · Opening a grave for reburial · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Repairing tombs · Erecting a tombstone · Moving a coffin · Encoffining

Avoid

Weddings · Breaking ground · Breaking ground for a grave · Praying for blessings · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Moving into a new home

Clash
Monkey · Sha direction north
Day god
White Tiger · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Full
Lunar mansion
Heart · inauspicious
Nine star
三碧木
Fetus god
厨灶炉 外正南
Directions
Joy southwest · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
Peng Zu's taboos
丙不修灶必见灾殃 寅不祭祀神鬼不尝
Auspicious stars

yuè kōng · tiān ēn · shí dé · xiàng rì · yì mǎ · tiān hòu · tiān mǎ · tiān wū · fú dé · fú shēng · wǔ hé · míng fèi duì

Inauspicious stars

wǔ xū · guī jì · White Tiger

Hours of the day

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

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