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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 March 1978
Monday
Consecrating sacred images · Sculpting and painting deities · Praying for children · Betrothal gifts · Cutting cloth for garments · Hanging bed curtains · Coming-of-age ceremony · Installing machinery · Making beams · Drilling post holes · Installing doors · Placing the bed · Building a granary · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Visiting family and friends · Praying for blessings · Setting up the loom · Receiving wealth · Opening for business · Signing contracts · Trading · Starting school · Haircut · Setting up carpentry trestles
Travel · Fasting and Taoist rites · Burial · Weddings
- Clash
- Pig · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Vermilion Bird · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Full
- Lunar mansion
- Rooftop · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 六白金
- Fetus god
- 厨灶床 外正西
- Directions
- Joy southwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 辛不合酱主人不尝 巳不远行财物伏藏
- Folk taboo days
- Four Separations (eve of equinox or solstice)
tiān ēn · xiàng rì · yì mǎ · tiān hòu · tiān wū · fú dé · shèng xīn
wǔ xū · tǔ fú · dà shà · wǎng wáng · chóng rì · Vermilion Bird
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 戊子 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
| 01:00–02:59 | 己丑 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 03:00–04:59 | 庚寅 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 05:00–06:59 | 辛卯 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Opening for business · Burial |
| 07:00–08:59 | 壬辰 | Controller of Fate | Building and repairs · Building a stove |
| 09:00–10:59 | 癸巳 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Burial · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 11:00–12:59 | 甲午 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 13:00–14:59 | 乙未 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 丙申 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 17:00–18:59 | 丁酉 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 19:00–20:59 | 戊戌 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial |
| 21:00–22:59 | 己亥 | Heavenly Virtue | |
| 23:00–23:59 | 庚子 | Golden Coffer |
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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