Calendars · Find auspicious days
Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 January 1956
Friday · Laba Festival · Timkat (Epiphany)
Lunar date
农历乙未年十二月初八
乙未 (Yiwei) · Year of the Goat · 己丑 丙戌
Nayin Earth on the Roof
Solar term
Minor Cold
Pentad · zhì shǐ gòu
Next solar term · Major Cold 1956-01-21
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Cleansing and exorcism · Avoid everything else
Avoid
Nothing is favourable
- Clash
- Dragon · Sha direction north
- Day god
- Azure Dragon · Yellow Path (auspicious)
- Day officer
- Receive
- Lunar mansion
- Ox · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 五黄土
- Fetus god
- 厨灶栖 外西北
- Directions
- Joy southwest · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 丙不修灶必见灾殃 戌不吃犬作怪上床
Auspicious stars
shèng xīn · Azure Dragon
Inauspicious stars
tiān gāng · yuè xíng · wǔ xū
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 戊子 | Heavenly Prison | Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Thanksgiving to the gods · Seeking wealth |
| 01:00–02:59 | 己丑 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Building and repairs |
| 03:00–04:59 | 庚寅 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 辛卯 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 07:00–08:59 | 壬辰 | Azure Dragon | |
| 09:00–10:59 | 癸巳 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 11:00–12:59 | 甲午 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 乙未 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 15:00–16:59 | 丙申 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 丁酉 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Burial |
| 19:00–20:59 | 戊戌 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 己亥 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 庚子 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Opening for business |
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
- 20 January 1956
- Julian calendar
- 7 January 1956 (Julian)
- Chinese calendar (Nongli)
- Yiwei year (Goat), month 12, day 8
- Korean calendar (Dangi)
- Dangi 4288, month 12, day 8
- Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
- Rabjung 16, Wood Goat year, month 12, day 7
- Hebrew calendar
- 7 Shevat 5716 AM
- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
- 7 Jumada al-Akhirah 1375 AH
- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
- 29 Dey 1334 SH
- Ethiopian calendar
- 11 Tir 1948 EC
- Coptic calendar
- 11 Tobi 1672 AM
- Indian national calendar (Saka)
- 30 Pausha 1877 Saka
- Japanese era calendar
- Shōwa 31, January 20
- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
- 20 January BE 2499
- Minguo calendar
- 20 January, Minguo 45
- Maya calendars
- 12.17.2.4.10 1 Ok 18 K'ank'in
- Aztec calendars
- 1 Itzcuintli (dog), 12 Huei Tozoztli
- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
- 21 Pachons, Shemu (harvest), year 2704 of Nabonassar
- Roman calendar
- a.d. VII Id. Ian., 2709 AUC