Calendars · Find auspicious days

Chinese almanac (Huangli), 28 August 1953

Friday

Lunar date
农历癸巳年七月十九
癸巳 (Guisi) · Year of the Snake · 庚申 辛亥
Nayin Hairpin Gold
Solar term
End of Heat
Pentad · tiān dì shǐ sù
Next solar term · White Dew 1953-09-08
Auspicious

Building a stove · Ritual bathing · Decorating walls · Repairing roads · Avoid everything else

Avoid

Nothing is favourable

Clash
Snake · Sha direction west
Day god
Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Balance
Lunar mansion
Neck · inauspicious
Nine star
七赤金
Fetus god
厨灶床 外东北
Directions
Joy southwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
Peng Zu's taboos
辛不合酱主人不尝 亥不嫁娶不利新郎
Auspicious stars

tiān ēn · xiàng rì · pǔ hù

Inauspicious stars

tiān gāng · sǐ shén · yuè hài · yóu huò · sì qióng · jiǔ hǔ · wǔ xū · chóng rì · Hooked Array

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59戊子White TigerWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading
01:00–02:59己丑Jade HallWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
03:00–04:59庚寅Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
05:00–06:59辛卯Black TortoiseWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed
07:00–08:59壬辰Controller of FateWeddings · Moving house · Burial · Building and repairs
09:00–10:59癸巳Hooked Array
11:00–12:59甲午Azure DragonTravel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings
13:00–14:59乙未Bright HallWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading
15:00–16:59丙申Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59丁酉Vermilion BirdWeddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial
19:00–20:59戊戌Golden CofferWeddings · Opening for business · Burial
21:00–22:59己亥Heavenly VirtuePraying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods
23:00–23:59庚子Golden CofferWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home

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
28 August 1953
Julian calendar
15 August 1953 (Julian)
Chinese calendar (Nongli)
Guisi year (Snake), month 7, day 19
Korean calendar (Dangi)
Dangi 4286, month 7, day 19
Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
Rabjung 16, Water Snake year, month 7, day 19
Hebrew calendar
17 Elul 5713 AM
Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
18 Dhu al-Hijjah 1372 AH
Ethiopian calendar
22 Nehase 1945 EC
Coptic calendar
22 Mesori 1669 AM
Japanese era calendar
Shōwa 28, August 28
Minguo calendar
28 August, Minguo 42
Maya calendars
12.16.19.14.15 10 Men 13 Yaxk'in
Aztec calendars
10 Cuauhtli (eagle), 12 Panquetzaliztli
Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
26 Choiak, Akhet (inundation), year 2702 of Nabonassar
Roman calendar
a.d. XVIII Kal. Sept., 2706 AUC