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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 October 1956
Saturday
Weddings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Consecrating sacred images · Travel · Cleansing and exorcism · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Hanging a signboard · Receiving wealth · Moving into a new home · Moving house · Planting · Breaking ground for a grave · Thanking the Earth God
Placing the bed · Burial
- Clash
- Tiger · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Golden Coffer · Yellow Path (auspicious)
- Day officer
- Open
- Lunar mansion
- Root · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 一白水
- Fetus god
- 碓磨炉 外东南
- Directions
- Joy northwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 庚不经络织机虚张 申不安床鬼祟入房
yuè ēn · wáng rì · yì mǎ · tiān hòu · shí yáng · shēng qì · liù yí · jīn táng · chú shén · Golden Coffer · míng fèi
yàn duì · zhāo yáo · wǔ lí · bā zhuān
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 丙子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 01:00–02:59 | 丁丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 戊寅 | Heavenly Punishment | |
| 05:00–06:59 | 己卯 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 庚辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 辛巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 壬午 | White Tiger | Thanksgiving to the gods · Seeking wealth |
| 13:00–14:59 | 癸未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 甲申 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial |
| 17:00–18:59 | 乙酉 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 19:00–20:59 | 丙戌 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 丁亥 | Hooked Array | Moving into a new home · Burial · Building and repairs |
| 23:00–23:59 | 戊子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · 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.
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