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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 January 1966

Thursday · New Year's Eve (Chuxi)

Lunar date
农历乙巳年十二月廿九
乙巳 (Yisi) · Year of the Snake · 己丑 己卯
Nayin Earth on the City Wall
Solar term today
Major Cold
Pentad · jī shǐ rǔ
Next solar term · Start of Spring 1966-02-04
Auspicious

Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Receiving wealth · Digging ponds · Repairing walls · Weddings · Betrothal gifts · Acquiring livestock · Fishing · Placing the bed

Avoid

Building and repairs · Raising the ridge beam · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Visiting the sick · Digging wells · Breaking ground · Installing doors · Burial · Building a stove

Clash
Rooster · Sha direction west
Day god
Heavenly Virtue · Yellow Path (auspicious)
Day officer
Full
Lunar mansion
Well · auspicious
Nine star
七赤金
Fetus god
占大门 外正西
Directions
Joy northeast · Wealth north · Fortune south
Peng Zu's taboos
己不破券二比并亡 卯不穿井水泉不香
Auspicious stars

tiān ēn · mín rì · tiān wū · fú dé · tiān cāng · bù jiàng · jīn táng · wǔ hé · bǎo guāng

Inauspicious stars

zāi shà · tiān huǒ · fù rì

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59甲子Controller of FateWeddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial
01:00–02:59乙丑Hooked ArrayWeddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings
03:00–04:59丙寅Azure DragonWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
05:00–06:59丁卯Bright HallMoving into a new home · Burial · Building and repairs
07:00–08:59戊辰Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings
09:00–10:59己巳Vermilion BirdWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
11:00–12:59庚午Golden CofferWeddings · Travel · Opening for business · Taking up a post
13:00–14:59辛未Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
15:00–16:59壬申White TigerWeddings · Burial · Praying for children
17:00–18:59癸酉Jade Hall
19:00–20:59甲戌Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings
21:00–22:59乙亥Black TortoiseWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
23:00–23:59丙子Heavenly PrisonWeddings · 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.

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