Calendars · Find auspicious days

Chinese almanac (Huangli), 27 October 1940

Sunday

Lunar date
农历庚辰年九月廿七
庚辰 (Gengchen) · Year of the Dragon · 丙戌 癸卯
Nayin Gold Leaf
Solar term
Frost's Descent
Pentad · chái nǎi jì shòu
Next solar term · Start of Winter 1940-11-07
Auspicious

Weddings · Making agreements · Betrothal gifts · Travel · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Breaking ground · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Breaking ground for a grave · Burial

Avoid

Opening for business · Taking up a post

Clash
Rooster · Sha direction west
Day god
Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Initiate
Lunar mansion
Hairy Head · inauspicious
Nine star
九紫火
Fetus god
房床门 房内西
Directions
Joy southeast · Wealth south · Fortune west
Peng Zu's taboos
癸不词讼理弱敌强 卯不穿井水泉不香
Folk taboo days
Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars

sì xiāng · liù hé · bù jiàng · shèng xīn · wǔ hé · míng fèi duì

Inauspicious stars

dà shí · dà bài · xián chí · xiǎo hào · wǔ xū · Hooked Array

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59壬子Controller of FateWeddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial
01:00–02:59癸丑Hooked ArrayWeddings · Burial · Praying for children
03:00–04:59甲寅Azure DragonWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
05:00–06:59乙卯Bright HallWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
07:00–08:59丙辰Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
09:00–10:59丁巳Vermilion BirdWeddings · Travel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings
11:00–12:59戊午Golden CofferWeddings · Opening for business · Burial · Building and repairs
13:00–14:59己未Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
15:00–16:59庚申White TigerWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post
17:00–18:59辛酉Jade Hall
19:00–20:59壬戌Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed
21:00–22:59癸亥Black TortoiseWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed
23:00–23:59甲子Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · 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.

This day in other calendars

Gregorian calendar
27 October 1940
Julian calendar
14 October 1940 (Julian)
Chinese calendar (Nongli)
Gengchen year (Dragon), month 9, day 27
Korean calendar (Dangi)
Dangi 4273, month 9, day 27
Hebrew calendar
25 Tishrei 5701 AM
Ethiopian calendar
17 Tikimt 1933 EC
Coptic calendar
17 Paopi 1657 AM
Japanese era calendar
Shōwa 15, October 27
Minguo calendar
27 October, Minguo 29
Maya calendars
12.16.6.14.7 2 Manik' 10 Yax
Aztec calendars
2 Mazatl (deer), 4 Izcalli
Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
23 Mechir, Peret (growth), year 2689 of Nabonassar
Roman calendar
prid. Id. Oct., 2693 AUC