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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 16 August 1973
Thursday
Lunar date
农历癸丑年七月十八
癸丑 (Guichou) · Year of the Ox · 庚申 甲申
Nayin Water in the Spring
Solar term
Start of Autumn
Pentad · bái lù jiàng
Next solar term · End of Heat 1973-08-23
Auspicious
Weddings · Coming-of-age ceremony · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Ritual bathing · Rites for wandering spirits · Travel · Receiving wealth · Cleaning the house · Acquiring livestock · Taking up a post
Avoid
Opening for business · Breaking ground · Breaking ground for a grave · Placing the bed · Opening granaries · Raising the ridge beam
- Clash
- Tiger · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Establish
- Lunar mansion
- Legs · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 一白水
- Fetus god
- 占门炉 外西北
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 甲不开仓财物耗散 申不安床鬼祟入房
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars
wáng rì · tiān cāng · bù jiàng · chú shén · míng fèi
Inauspicious stars
yuè jiàn · xiǎo shí · tǔ fǔ · wǔ lí · Heavenly Prison
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | Heavenly Punishment | |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Burial |
| 09:00–10:59 | 己巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Closing the roof ridge |
| 11:00–12:59 | 庚午 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Black Tortoise | Thanksgiving to the gods · Seeking wealth |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 21:00–22:59 | 乙亥 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 丙子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
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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