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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 16 May 1939
Tuesday
Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Installing machinery · Visiting family and friends · Consecrating sacred images · Seeking a doctor · Medical treatment · Roofing · Laying foundations · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Setting column bases · Erecting pillars · Raising the ridge beam · Installing doors · Building a stove · Draining water · Building a privy · Digging ponds · Planting · Raising livestock · Building livestock pens · Breaking ground for a grave · Burial · Erecting a tombstone
Weddings · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Moving house · Moving into a new home
- Clash
- Goat · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Jade Hall · Yellow Path (auspicious)
- Day officer
- Success
- Lunar mansion
- Turtle Beak · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 八白土
- Fetus god
- 房床厕 外东北
- Directions
- Joy southeast · Wealth south · Fortune west
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 癸不词讼理弱敌强 丑不冠带主不还乡
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
tiān ēn · sān hé · lín rì · tiān xǐ · tiān yī · liù yí · Jade Hall
yàn duì · zhāo yáo · sì jī · guī jì · bā zhuān · chù shuǐ lóng
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 壬子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 癸丑 | Vermilion Bird | |
| 03:00–04:59 | 甲寅 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial |
| 05:00–06:59 | 乙卯 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 07:00–08:59 | 丙辰 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 丁巳 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
| 11:00–12:59 | 戊午 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial · Seeking wealth |
| 13:00–14:59 | 己未 | Black Tortoise | |
| 15:00–16:59 | 庚申 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 17:00–18:59 | 辛酉 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Roofing |
| 19:00–20:59 | 壬戌 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 21:00–22:59 | 癸亥 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 23:00–23:59 | 甲子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
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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