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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 November 1917
Tuesday
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Making agreements · Betrothal gifts · Cutting cloth for garments · Demolition · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Laying foundations · Placing the bed · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Installing the household altar · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Encoffining · Moving a coffin · Burial · Thanking the Earth God · Taking up a post · Visiting family and friends · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Travel · Erecting pillars · Raising the ridge beam · Setting up the loom · Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Receiving wealth · Opening granaries
Building a stove · Medical treatment · Felling trees · Making beams
- Clash
- Monkey · Sha direction north
- Day god
- Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Balance
- Lunar mansion
- Encampment · auspicious
- Nine star
- 四绿木
- 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
tiān ēn · shí dé · xiàng rì · liù hé · wǔ fù · jīn táng · wǔ hé · míng fèi duì
hé kuí · sǐ shén · yóu huò · wǔ xū · Heavenly Prison
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 戊子 | Azure Dragon | Travel · Taking up a post · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 01:00–02:59 | 己丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 03:00–04:59 | 庚寅 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 05:00–06:59 | 辛卯 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 壬辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial |
| 09:00–10:59 | 癸巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial |
| 11:00–12:59 | 甲午 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 乙未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 丙申 | Heavenly Prison | |
| 17:00–18:59 | 丁酉 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 19:00–20:59 | 戊戌 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 21:00–22:59 | 己亥 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 23:00–23:59 | 庚子 | Controller of Fate | Praying 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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