Calendars · Find auspicious days
Chinese almanac (Huangli), 16 August 1955
Tuesday
Lunar date
农历乙未年六月廿九
乙未 (Yiwei) · Year of the Goat · 甲申 己酉
Nayin Earth of the Highway
Solar term
Start of Autumn
Pentad · bái lù jiàng
Next solar term · End of Heat 1955-08-24
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Cleansing and exorcism · Ritual bathing · Haircut · Trimming nails · Encoffining · Moving a coffin · Breaking ground for a grave · Burial · Cleaning the house
Avoid
Weddings · Visiting family and friends · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Travel · Moving into a new home · Moving house · Taking up a post · Building a stove
- Clash
- Rabbit · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Black Tortoise · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Remove
- Lunar mansion
- Turtle Beak · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 九紫火
- Fetus god
- 占大门 外东北
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth north · Fortune south
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 己不破券二比并亡 酉不会客醉坐颠狂
Auspicious stars
tiān ēn · yīn dé · guān rì · jí qī · chú shén · míng fèi
Inauspicious stars
dà shí · dà bài · xián chí · jiǔ kǎn · jiǔ jiāo · wǎng wáng · wǔ lí · yuán wǔ
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Bright Hall | |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 己巳 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 11:00–12:59 | 庚午 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Opening for business · Taking up a post |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Burial · Building and repairs |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 21:00–22:59 | 乙亥 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 23:00–23:59 | 丙子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · 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
- 16 August 1955
- Julian calendar
- 3 August 1955 (Julian)
- Chinese calendar (Nongli)
- Yiwei year (Goat), month 6, day 29
- Korean calendar (Dangi)
- Dangi 4288, month 6, day 29
- Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
- Rabjung 16, Wood Goat year, month 6, day 29
- Hebrew calendar
- 28 Av 5715 AM
- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
- 27 Dhu al-Hijjah 1374 AH
- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
- 24 Mordad 1334 SH
- Ethiopian calendar
- 10 Nehase 1947 EC
- Coptic calendar
- 10 Mesori 1671 AM
- Indian national calendar (Saka)
- 25 Shravana 1877 Saka
- Japanese era calendar
- Shōwa 30, August 16
- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
- 16 August BE 2498
- Minguo calendar
- 16 August, Minguo 44
- Maya calendars
- 12.17.1.14.13 13 B'en 1 Yaxk'in
- Aztec calendars
- 13 Acatl (reed), 20 Quecholli
- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
- 14 Choiak, Akhet (inundation), year 2704 of Nabonassar
- Roman calendar
- a.d. III Non. Aug., 2708 AUC