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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 17 May 1931
Sunday
Lunar date
农历辛未年四月初一
辛未 (Xinwei) · Year of the Goat · 癸巳 壬申
Nayin Gold of the Sword Edge
Solar term
Start of Summer
Pentad · wáng guā shēng
Next solar term · Grain Buds 1931-05-22
Auspicious
Ritual bathing · Repairing roads · Cleaning the house · Encoffining · Moving a coffin · Breaking ground for a grave · Opening a grave for reburial · Burial · Avoid everything else
Avoid
Nothing is favourable
- Clash
- Tiger · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Heavenly Punishment · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Balance
- Lunar mansion
- Emptiness · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 三碧木
- Fetus god
- 仓库炉 外西南
- Directions
- Joy south · Wealth south · Fortune northwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 壬不泱水更难提防 申不安床鬼祟入房
Auspicious stars
xiàng rì · liù hé · wǔ fù · xù shì · chú shén · míng fèi
Inauspicious stars
hé kuí · sǐ shén · yuè xíng · yóu huò · wǔ xū · xuè jì · wǔ lí · Heavenly Punishment
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 庚子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 辛丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 03:00–04:59 | 壬寅 | Heavenly Punishment | |
| 05:00–06:59 | 癸卯 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Burial · Building and repairs · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 07:00–08:59 | 甲辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 乙巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 11:00–12:59 | 丙午 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 丁未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 15:00–16:59 | 戊申 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 己酉 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 19:00–20:59 | 庚戌 | Controller of Fate | Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 21:00–22:59 | 辛亥 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial |
| 23:00–23:59 | 壬子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial |
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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