Calendars · Find auspicious days

Chinese almanac (Huangli), 17 September 1948

Friday · Mid-Autumn Festival · Chuseok

Lunar date
农历戊子年八月十五
戊子 (Wuzi) · Year of the Rat · 辛酉 乙巳
Nayin Lamp Fire
Solar term
White Dew
Pentad · xuán niǎo guī
Next solar term · Autumn Equinox 1948-09-23
Auspicious

Weddings · Betrothal gifts · Making agreements · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Consecrating sacred images · Cleansing and exorcism · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Moving into a new home · Moving house · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Placing the bed · Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Hanging a signboard

Avoid

Burial · Acquiring livestock · Travel · Funeral procession · Felling trees · Planting · Building temples · Building bridges

Clash
Pig · Sha direction east
Day god
Vermilion Bird · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Success
Lunar mansion
Bond · auspicious
Nine star
七赤金
Fetus god
碓磨床 房内东
Directions
Joy northwest · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
Peng Zu's taboos
乙不栽植千株不长 巳不远行财物伏藏
Auspicious stars

yuè dé hé · sān hé · lín rì · tiān xǐ · tiān yī · pǔ hù

Inauspicious stars

chóng rì · Vermilion Bird

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59丙子White TigerWeddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial
01:00–02:59丁丑Jade HallWeddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home
03:00–04:59戊寅Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Moving into a new home · Burial
05:00–06:59己卯Black TortoiseWeddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
07:00–08:59庚辰Controller of FateWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post
09:00–10:59辛巳Hooked ArrayWeddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Roofing
11:00–12:59壬午Azure DragonWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed
13:00–14:59癸未Bright HallWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
15:00–16:59甲申Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59乙酉Vermilion BirdWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
19:00–20:59丙戌Golden CofferWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
21:00–22:59丁亥Heavenly Virtue
23:00–23:59戊子Golden Coffer

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
17 September 1948
Julian calendar
4 September 1948 (Julian)
Chinese calendar (Nongli)
Wuzi year (Rat), month 8, day 15
Korean calendar (Dangi)
Dangi 4281, month 8, day 15
Hebrew calendar
13 Elul 5708 AM
Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
13 Dhu al-Qaʿdah 1367 AH
Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
26 Shahrivar 1327 SH
Ethiopian calendar
7 Meskerem 1941 EC
Coptic calendar
7 Thout 1665 AM
Japanese era calendar
Shōwa 23, September 17
Minguo calendar
17 September, Minguo 37
Maya calendars
12.16.14.14.9 11 Muluk 12 Mol
Aztec calendars
11 Atl (water), 11 Atemoztli
Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
15 Tybi, Peret (growth), year 2697 of Nabonassar
Roman calendar
prid. Non. Sept., 2701 AUC