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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 16 March 1978
Thursday
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Making agreements · Betrothal gifts · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Praying for blessings · Sculpting and painting deities · Fasting and Taoist rites · Ritual bathing · Demolition · Laying foundations · Moving into a new home · Installing the household altar · Building temples · Moving a coffin · Thanking the Earth God · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Starting school · Learning a craft · Travel · Erecting pillars · Raising the ridge beam · Digging wells · Praying for children · Cleansing and exorcism · Felling trees
Building a stove · Burial · Opening for business · Roofing
- Clash
- Goat · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Open
- Lunar mansion
- Dipper · auspicious
- Nine star
- 二黑土
- Fetus god
- 仓库厕 外正西
- Directions
- Joy south · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 丁不剃头头必生疮 丑不冠带主不还乡
yuè ēn · sì xiāng · shí yáng · shēng qì · bù jiàng · jìng ān
wǔ xū · bā fēng · jiǔ kōng · jiǔ kǎn · jiǔ jiāo · Hooked Array
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 庚子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 辛丑 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 03:00–04:59 | 壬寅 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 癸卯 | Heavenly Virtue | Building and repairs · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 07:00–08:59 | 甲辰 | White Tiger | |
| 09:00–10:59 | 乙巳 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
| 11:00–12:59 | 丙午 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 13:00–14:59 | 丁未 | Black Tortoise | |
| 15:00–16:59 | 戊申 | Controller of Fate | Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building and repairs · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 17:00–18:59 | 己酉 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 19:00–20:59 | 庚戌 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 辛亥 | Bright Hall | Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 23:00–23:59 | 壬子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial · Seeking wealth |
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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